All right, well, we're so thankful to have these three young men here. If you're coming in, you should have received all the really important details on a card about these guys. Really super important stuff like what's their favorite candy, what's their favorite food, you know, the really important spiritual stuff is all covered in that card. We ask that because actually it wasn't my idea. Some of the ladies in the church thought of it as a way to hopefully be a blessing to them throughout the year. And there is a misprint on there. I've never heard of Vienna, Australia, but I have heard of Vienna, Austria before. And he is not from Vienna, Australia, but he is from Vienna, Austria. But we're going to introduce each of them Of course, you can see their names, Micah and Brendan and Wyatt. We're so thankful for each of them and bringing them this summer. I'm going to let them start by telling us where, well, first of all, who you are by your name and where you're from. But I'll start with Brendan over here and we'll go around. So my name is Brendan Strand. I am from Rush, Colorado, and I attend West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California. I'm Micah Shelton. I'm the one who's from Vienna, Austria, and I'm studying at Bob Jones University. My name is Wyatt Durfee. I'm from Malabar, Florida, and I'm also studying at Bob Jones. I just graduated, actually, in your case. We're so thankful for these three young men. They're varying ages, different years of ministry, training already under their belt. And I told him, we had him all over to our house yesterday with some people from the church and got to know him a little bit better. And I told him a little bit what we're going to do. And we're going to start by asking them to share briefly their salvation testimony. And I'll start with Wyatt this time instead of Brendan. And we'll go Wyatt, Micah, you're in the middle again, and then Brendan. But if you could just share your salvation testimony with us a little bit. Wyatt. Sure. So when I was really young, probably about five or six, I had a conversation with my mom about what it meant to be saved. and I remember praying a prayer with her. I don't remember much detail other than that. I don't remember the words that I said. And later in my life, as I got into my early teenage years, I started to have doubts about my salvation and struggled with that for a long time. But God, thankfully, provided assurance for me through, it was actually a video I was watching of a Christian men's conference where the speaker was talking about how we don't look to our salvation experience for assurance. We look to what God's Word says for assurance. So I found assurance in knowing that God's Word said that if I believed and if I repented, I would be saved. And because I knew I had believed and I had repented, that's where I found my assurance. So I can't give you a day and a time when I trusted Christ for sure, but I found assurance at that time during my teenage years. Yeah, my testimony is decently similar to Wyatt's in the sense that I was son of a pastor, pastor's kid, and so I knew the gospel growing up and got saved at a really young age. Again, I don't remember the day or the time. When I was, I think I was around 10, I also got baptized. But after that, I also struggled a lot with doubts, repeatedly. And I would often go and talk with my dad about it. And my dad told me similar things that Wyatt was encouraged with, which was, you're not trusting in the words you said. We're trusting in Christ. And that helped me remember we are It's not necessarily what you believed then. It's what are you believing now? Are you trusting God with your life right now? And that's really the most important part. Yeah, so I tried to, I was trying to grow in the Lord and I struggled a lot with that also growing up because of the doubts and because I was just a kid growing up. And one thing that really impacted me was actually when I came to Bob Jones and God just helped me open my eyes through the different people there, the ministries there, the sermons and the messages and really gave me a desire to serve the Lord with all that I have. So I'm about the same way as these guys. I got saved when I was about 7 years old. I was sitting at my kitchen table after a Wednesday night service and I told my mom that I wanted to get saved. My aunt led me to the Lord over the phone actually. Then I kind of got away from it in high school. There was actually a guy at a rodeo clinic. He showed me Romans chapter 8. And then the latter part of that chapter talks about that nothing can separate us from the love of God. And I knew that I had put my faith in Jesus Christ and that through that nothing could separate me from his love. And it's just been a long journey from the salvation and then going to all the rodeo stuff and then going to Bible college. And you heard that right, we heard about that last night. We have a real rodeo star here on our team here together for our internships. Brendan, I'm going to have you start again. If you could tell a little bit about your, if you can transition there, a call and heart for ministry. How did God put that desire in your heart? I moved out when I was 16 years old. I moved to Texas and I wanted to be a cowboy, like I said earlier. I went to a team roping clinic, which doubles as a revival camp. The guy there was giving his testimony about how he came from nothing, he was dirt poor, and people treated him like trash. He wanted to show everyone how amazing that he was. And I felt that same way with the whole rodeo situation. I wanted to win that gold buckle and just show everyone how amazing I was. And he said that when he got saved, he realized, as it says in, I believe it's the beginning part of Matthew, where he says, John the Baptist says, here's a shoelatch. I am not worthy to unloose. And it's just, I learned that act of humility of just, you know, Jesus Christ, he saved me and he's my God. And he's the reason that I'm alive and I'm where I am today. And I need to serve him with everything I have. And then I went to Bible college, which I really didn't want to go to, to begin with. I was just fighting God. And Dr. Scott Polley preached a message at Acts 4 about the boldness of Peter and John before the Sanhedrin, and how they were unlearned and ignorant men. And I just realized that those guys were blue-collar men, and that they were fishermen, and that if Jesus can choose them to be apostles, then if God wants me to be a preacher, I can be a preacher. Praise the Lord. Mike, about Sam, too. Yeah. To start, I just want to say that my major at Bob Jones is engineering. It's not a Bible major. And so that has played a part in why I'm here today. So I love math, and I love physics. And I knew that when I went to study that that was the next step God wanted me to take. But it was never about just the engineering. Like I said, my dad is a pastor. My dad's planting a church in Austria. And I've seen his heart growing up and how he has a real desire to serve God, to see people come to know the truth, and to really give up everything he has for Christ. And also the example of the apostles in the Bible also show that, where you think of Paul, who His life got turned upside down, and he just went full thrust into serving God with his whole life, no matter what. That's been a passion in my heart for a while, and it's grown more and more. I enjoy engineering, but like I said, it's not about that. It's about serving God with the gifts you have. So I do want to use engineering perhaps as a tool, maybe in missions, maybe here in the U.S., in any way God can use me on the mission field to help people see Christ better. So I spent my first two years of college at a public university also studying engineering. And after I finished my second year, I got an associate's degree and I intended to continue studying engineering at a private university. But for some reason, the idea of ministry kept popping up in my mind. I thought that maybe I could at least try Bible college and see what would happen. And eventually, after my sophomore year, I decided to go talk to my pastor about it. And my pastor at that time happened to be Caleb Phelps. And so I had a really encouraging conversation with him where he encouraged me to think about coming to Bible college and maybe pursuing ministry. So I decided to come to Bob Jones. my junior year just to try it out and kind of see what would happen. And also that summer before my junior year, I had the opportunity to do a little bit of teaching and serving in the church just to get a feel for it. So during my time at Bob Jones, God has continued to affirm to me that he has gifted me in certain ways that I could use in ministry. And more than that, I've had a desire for ministry grow over the past two years. So the point I'm at now is that I have a burning desire to serve God in full-time ministry, and I'm continuing to pursue that. Yeah, praise the Lord. Wyatt worked at the church as a teenager and helped with setup and vacuuming. And then when he went to college, we replaced Wyatt with a Roomba and called it Wyatt 2.0. So that was there. But Wyatt was in the church for a while. By the way, that was kind of the neat thing we were talking about. Some of you may know Stan and Grace Shelton. Those are his parents They're missionaries in Austria and his dad interned with my dad years ago in New Hampshire So it all comes by its first circle and we got a cowboy to really bring all the flavors In so if you're hosting them for meals, you know, you got you know us Austria food and he can tell you what that is I have no idea, you know, maybe the southern charm of Florida and then some good barbecue down there in Texas I've heard so you can really have some fun with that Now, I want to know, though, what is it that you're looking forward to specifically? I'm sure there's a lot. Is there something that's on your heart as you start the internship program that you're looking forward to? I'm going to let Mike start us this time, and then I'll go Brendan and Wyatt. Yeah, so one thing I'm looking forward to, like I said, being an engineering major, is just the fact to do something more ministry related, to get experience in anything I can get experience in, in speaking and serving in different ways in the church and seeing how the church is run. So I'm really looking forward to that. To be honest, I'm just looking forward to being able to serve y'all. Just this opportunity you've given us to come to you guys and to learn from you guys. It would just be a blessing, I think, to all three of us just to be able to help you guys or serve in any way that we can. And I think that's just kind of a cornerstone for being a pastor in the future is just learning how to serve your people. I think the thing that I'm probably looking forward to the most is the opportunity to serve in the children's ministries and to get more experience in that. That's not somewhere where I've had the opportunity to serve much, and I'd really like to see how God can use me and grow me through that ministry. Well, we all have an opportunity to invest in them. I'm going to speak to that a little bit later, but I will say right now, when you're hosting them for your dinners, I hope that some of the conversation you saw us have tonight, you can have with them. Talk about your call to the ministry, wherever ministry you're at, wherever you're serving is your ministry. Talk to them about that. Give them your salvation testimonies in your home. and let them hear that from you. How has God worked in your own life? We'd love for that. There are only a very few amount of slots left for your meal signups, but we'd love to have you do that. I'm going to let Pastor Fisher come back up and lead us. For me to live is Christ, and I'll let these guys go back down. We put them on the hot seat first now. Now you've seen their faces. You'll see more of them a little bit later, but Pastor Fisher, if you would.