all next month we're going to be dealing with various topics, dealing with the Reformation. So I'm very excited about that. And why I'm really excited about it, we've got some great speakers lined up, but Jimmy Federley has asked me to close at the end of the month on a topic of my choice. So that really made me happy. But this morning, we're taking a break from our normal Sunday school sessions to bring to you our desire to plant a church in the Choctaw area right next to Clinton. I think it's a couple miles south of Clinton. I call it the Clinton Church Plant because you can see, when I get to the location, I can see the Clinton city limit sign. So, okay, that's Clinton. We've been wanting, our church is 23 years old, we're about to be 24 years in the making, and probably for the last five years, we've been talking about, praying about to some degree, some measure, about church planting. And for me, who was here when this church was planted, our church was planted in my living room, And then we quickly moved to Greg Stephens' living room. To think that our church could put out another church or plant another church is kind of like having a grandchild. It's amazing. It's like, it's a, you know, the most wonderful thing about grandkids is somebody else's have to raise them. No, I'm just, that's a joke. Joke, truth, kinda. But no, think about that, to be in a position, to be in a position to plant a church, and I've prayed a lot about this, and we've been talking about church plants, but you know, you can't, you can't, I guess you could have a franchise system, like, okay, this is what we're gonna do, we get this, and it's just all mechanical. But you know, most church plants don't make it. The successful rate of a church plant is pretty, I think 10 to 20% of church plants survive the first five years. So church plants are very difficult, and those who get involved in a church plant must have some resilience and steadfastness and understanding that the first year will be a honeymoon. people leave and the problems come and the excitement wears off and the real work of the ministry begins and it's tough, it's tough. But at the same time we want solid churches where there's no solid church and Clinton is a wonderful area, it's a beautiful city, it's a beautiful town. And we know that there's no solid church that we can recommend for people that live in that area. And what I like about it, we have several families already transporting themselves from the Clinton area, even from north of Clinton, traveling many miles to come to be with us here. And so since we already have an organic group in the area, we think it's a wonderful opportunity to use that organic group to plant a church. We are in a position that it would be several families from our congregation who have agreed to do this, they're eager to do this, and we as elders, the elders have met and talked several times, but this last week we have As an elder group, 100% approved, excited, and not just approved, raise your hand, do we want to do this? No, we're excited about this, but we don't want to do it outside of the collective approval of the congregation. We want this to be a congregational church plan. And when we want you to be involved, we don't want this, it's not a split where church just does this. We want to plant this and we want to have an ongoing relationship with this church and we want to be helping that church in every way and be sister churches. And there's various ways that you could help, that you want to help. So how can I help? Preston's going to come up. Preston will be overseeing this church plant with some of the men that have agreed to be a part of this. But just as you listen to this, pray. Say, is this something that I can approve of? Is this something we believe is of the Lord? And just hear from my perspective, and I'm trying to persuade you to some degree. My perspective is that this seems to be of God and not just a decision we're making. It's more of a we see that God is walking ahead of us and we're just acknowledging, if you would, what God seems to be doing. So Preston come up. I told Preston I get the fun job introducing him and talking about the exciting part of it. He's got to come up here and get into the nuts and bolts of how it would work. He has going to leave time for questions. And then after that, we're going to have a time of our prayer time. We'll be praying. for this very thing. All right, good morning. I can have fun up here whether Jeff says I can or not. And I plan to enjoy myself while I'm up here. I am really excited. I want to share with you just for like two minutes what I think of, kind of what I internalize when I think about this church plant. Now I've known Jeff longer than I've been a part of GBC. I've known Danny Thursby longer than I've been a part of the church here. I've known several people, several families from the church here for a long time. And something that I've remembered hearing Even going, like I'm almost embarrassed to talk about how long it's been now since I was at CBC in college with Danny, it's been a while. Even back at that stage, knowing about and hearing about the work of Grace Bible Church. And what are the distinctives of the church? What is it really? Well, it's a confessional Reformed Baptist church. It's not a place where the pastor holds loosely to three of the five points of Calvinism and so they call themselves a Reformed church. This is a confessional Bible teaching and believing church in the Reformed tradition. And it's a church that's passionate about sending out missionaries and someday planting churches. And I don't have to explain or remind, and many of you have been here, you know, a lot longer than I have, and know that this has been a part of the fabric of GBC, is that the gospel is not just here, but it's to the ends of the earth, that the gospel will go forth everywhere. So, I remember And now when I was first kind of approached about this and about this work, my initial instinct was to say no, because I love this church so much. I can't imagine waking up on Sunday morning and not being here with all of you. I've actually shed tears, like I'm not a real emotional guy, but I've cried at the thought of not being here on a day-to-day, you know, or Sunday-to-Sunday basis. But here's the thing that convinced me that this was of the Lord, was setting and thinking about this work, thinking about how nobody has tried to force doors open. There was no door-knocking to try to find a building. There was no trying to strong-arm families into being a part of this. Just seeing the Lord organically bring this about, organically bring this to pass, and sitting there thinking, this is something that I can help with. This is a way the Lord can use me. And how am I, in a good conscience, not going to go and do what I feel so strongly that the Lord has called us to and has called us to do? And I thought about my young family, about my young wife and my children, and I thought about what it was like for us to find Grace Bible Church, how it changed our whole lives, how this place is the most important place to us on earth other than our home. and you've all become our family and I thought about how amazing it was to find this place and to be here and be involved and to think of the opportunity for a family in Marshall or Leslie or Clinton or Shirley or Springfield or Center Ridge up in that area For a family up there that's looking for a church, that preaches the Bible, that's convictional, that teaches sound doctrine, that believes in shepherding the flock and believes in church discipline, that believes in fellowship and caring for one another, I don't want to withhold that opportunity from them, for them to have a church like the church that we've grown to know and love here in Conway. And so it's really exciting, it's really humbling. If you had asked me 60 days ago about any of this, I wouldn't have even known what you were talking about. The Lord has sort of brought this to us in a really organic way, and so I'm excited about it. So Jeff, that's all the fun. I'm not going to have any more fun up here, but I did want to share that. I did want to share that we were excited and humbled to be a part of this. So I just want to share with you some basic things about kind of about Choctaw, Clinton, the work. I want to share with you, you know, what some of the needs would look like. Like you need to know if the congregation is going to get behind this and say, we believe the Lord is in this. We've prayed and we have sought the face of the Lord and we want to plant this church. We want to make this effort go forward. I want you to know that there are going to be needs. And you need to know what those needs are now, not later on in the process where you get the work started, you commit to it, but now you've gone out to build a tower and you didn't count how many bricks you had before you went to build the tower, or you've gone out to war and you didn't count your soldiers, that kind of thing. So Jeff is right, Clinton is just south of Choctaw, where the actual building that we have in mind is, is in Choctaw. And if you're driving up Highway 65 toward Clinton, before you get to the Clinton metropolitan area, if you will, you get to the town of Choctaw. which by Choctaw, the town, I mean Choctaw, the intersection of Highway 65 and Highway 9, there's a couple gas stations on the corner there. I think there used to be a Mexican restaurant. Maybe there still is. If we're going to have a Baptist church there, there will be a Mexican restaurant across the street again. And it's a small community there, but it's just on, just at the foothills of Clinton. And the facility that it seems like the Lord has brought to us is really a gift from God. I'm not going to sit up here and sell it like it's some kind of extravagant building, but it's more than adequate for everything that we would need as far as space and parking. It's in a great location right on the highway. As a matter of fact, the person that we would be leasing it from really has in mind to sell the lot because it's a really valuable piece of land. But when they were approached about the potential of a church being there, they decided that would be something they would be glad to be a part of, was actually having a church at that location. And so it's just south of Clinton. It's about 34, 35 miles from here. It's in a place where the gospel needs to go forth. where it's hard, like Jeff had mentioned, it's hard if you have a family member in Clinton or in Choctaw or Leslie, and they're looking for a sound church, it's hard to say, go to this place. Now, I'm not disparaging all of the churches up there, there are good people there, and I know some of the people and the pastors in that area, but there's not a church that's GBC in Clinton and in that area. And we want the people of that area, and that includes families from some of the families here and friends and people that we know. We want them to have a sound church in their community. And so Clinton is an area where that need has sort of been identified. It seems like the Lord has opened up through a lot of different avenues that opportunity, and he's put that same area on the minds and on the hearts of multiple different people who weren't talking together about this, But as the process has sort of been birthed, have all said that's an area that we've been looking to for a gospel church for some time. And I think that that is one of the ways that the Lord is sort of confirming this to us. To give you an idea of kind of the basic operations of the church to start out, We have several families that are from that area now, some that have been living there for a time and have been traveling to GBC, some that have moved to that area but are still traveling to GBC, and so there's this organic church that's there already, so to speak. There's a group of gospel-believing people, you know, there's disciples of Jesus there. which is a great thing and an encouraging thing. But to have a church plant that's going to be successful, it needs to be supported. You need help. You can't just send people some money or give them a church building and say, OK, we're going to support you. We're going to pray for you from a distance. But you just kind of throw them out there to go and do the work. You really need to be involved hands on with the work that's going on to build a stable, long term, healthy church. And in the minds of these families in Clinton, the way they voiced it is if this works and the Lord's in it, they want this to be their church for the rest of their life. So this isn't some short term thing. This is this is important work. And so families from GBC have committed to go up and help these families that are already in Clinton and Marshall and that area. That would include me and my family going up for a time to just provide preaching for the church, provide some teaching, and that way there's just stability as the church seeks out a pastor. and is praying for the Lord to send them, you know, eventually, hopefully a plurality of elders, but even one pastor to begin with. We want the church to have stability. And you don't have stability when you have a guest preacher coming in every week, and they come in and they preach, you may or may not ever see that guy again, and you have kind of a rotation. We want to just give stability. And so we're going to preach expositionally through the Bible just like we do at GBC. That way the church is being fed by the Word of God as they are waiting on the Lord to provide whoever that man will be that will pastor the congregation long term. And then we feel that we've got, we have sufficient people and families that will be there to be able to support the church financially so that it won't be wholly dependent on GBC. We believe that we've got capable men who will be able to shepherd the congregation, who will be able to take care of pastoral care needs of counseling and shepherding people and attending to the needs of the congregation as it grows. Really, in one sense, and I don't know if this can ever be said about a church plant, and likely or maybe will never be able to be said again about a church plant. When I really sit down and think about this, I find that it's lacking for nothing. Of the essentials that it needs, it really lacks none of them. And that's an amazing thing. And we shouldn't be surprised. I mean, the Lord provides. If there's any place on earth that shouldn't be surprised at the Lord's provision, it would be Grace Bible Church and how He's blessed this church here. But when you sit down, and I'm prone to be analytical sometimes, and I sit down and I think through things, I look at it and go, well, yeah, we could really use this or that thing. But the Lord has given us people who love the Lord Jesus. And he's given us a potential facility. And he's given us a heart to reach that community. And he's given us a burden to go out and minister the gospel in this place. He's given us people that can teach and preach. He's given us people that can shepherd and serve. The Lord has brought these things. And so we find ourselves saying, wow, we really lack for nothing in the essentials of this church plant. Now, that's not to say we don't lack anything at all. There are needs. And as a congregation, before you go into this and you tell Jimmy or Jeff or Pastor Danny or Tommy Walsh or Drew Hargrave here, you tell these men that you feel you've sought the face of the Lord and he's in this, you need to know what some of the needs are. So one of the things that you have to do when you meet is you have to sing, right? That's commanded in scripture. We've been trying to recruit Danny Patterson to sing for us for some time, and we understand he has an angelic voice. But maybe Danny doesn't want to lead the singing every single week. And there may be somebody here who's gifted and called in leading corporate worship. And by the way, keep in mind, all these ideas are nebulous. I'm not up here asking to sign somebody to a three-year contract. I want to at least hear you sing once before we sign you to a long-term contract. I want to know that you can drown me out while I'm back there trying to sing. But that's going to be a need in the church. We don't know of anybody right now in our congregation that can play piano We don't for sure have a piano located yet. So maybe one of you knows of a piano that would be available. The space is probably suitable for like a baby grand type piano. Something maybe a little bit smaller than this that's behind me. I know nothing about pianos, but I'm just speculating up here. But if somebody feels that they can play piano, that they have one that's available, that they can lead singing, that's gonna be a need and we want Man, we want the walls of that church to echo with the singing of psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. We want it to be a place where corporate worship is emphasized, not in an entertainment kind of way, not in a show kind of way. We want people to come and say, wow, these people love to sing unto the Lord. We're also going to need help if, you know, should we secure this facility and the church goes forward with this. We're going to need help with the location itself. Now, like I said, it's a nice facility. When you're driving into Clinton, there's, like I said, the intersection of 65 and 9 there. There's a building on the left that was most recently, I think, a flea market. Years and years ago, I believe it was a bar, is what Ms. Jennifer Patterson was telling us. So it was a bar. We've reclaimed this for the kingdom. We've gone in, expelled it. Actually, the flea market expelled them first, or probably Van Buren County, if we're being honest, expelled them first. But then the flea market claimed it. Now we want to claim it. And we're probably the only Baptist history in the world that will have a dance floor right there in the church building. But it's a really nice facility. But it needs some work. It needs work hauling old stuff out, painting walls, washing walls, getting things ready to paint, getting ready for some of the trim work to be done. There's probably more technical things that'll be needed later on. But right now, we really just need laborers. We need hands. And if the church is consenting to this, then we're hoping a week from Saturday, we could have our first work day where we'll be able to go up there. I don't have a lot of details on that yet. Probably Tim Flynn again, or maybe Perry McChesney back there could get you better, like more ironclad details on it. But what we would hope to do is a week from Saturday have the first work day there to begin cleaning things out and getting the building ready to be presentable to the community. Real quick, just a couple other needs that we want you to have in mind. If you want to financially give to the work, you're certainly welcome to do so. I'm not up here to solicit donations, but we are set up, probably through Ms. Dina Flanagan would be the best person to talk with about that. We want you to be able to give to the work. You can also give to the work through GBC, so you can approach the elders and give through them as well. But that would be appreciated. If there's people here that have a little bit of tech savvy, that could help us with maybe setting up a sound system and we get further down the road and we need to have some sort of sound equipment set up in the building, we would probably recruit you for that help. So just be thinking about that. And if you're somebody that thinks, hey, I've got the skills to do that, this is kind of like the singing. If you don't know how to set up a sound system, you know, don't volunteer to do it. But if you know how to set up the sound system, come let us know. And that would be a great help because I'm thinking we're all a little bit tech challenged as we were kind of looking around the building trying to think of how to set it up. I want to kind of stop there and just open it up for questions. If you have really good questions, I'm just going to do like a White House press secretary and bounce it over to somebody else and say, well, I'll refer you to so-and-so. But I wanna hear, I wanna hear, the elders wanna hear your questions. I know the families that would be involved in the church plant. We want to know your questions. And while somebody's waiting to raise their hand, I just wanna mention one more thing. It was really, I had somebody approach me several weeks ago that asked about this work. This may be too personal, maybe I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to, I've already started. And they kind of said, you know, we heard about this work, but we're curious. Is this just like a split off from GBC, like a few families that are doing their own thing? And I was actually I took almost some personal offense to that. Knowing how deeply all of these families love GBC. Knowing how much we owe to this church and how much we love this church. I want to be crystal clear. that this is not a splitting off from GBC, this is a going out from GBC if the congregation approves and if the elders give their blessing for this work to go forth. Really shame on anyone who would imply otherwise, especially if they're not here this morning to hear the questions. If they're not here this morning to ask the questions, you need to hear directly that what this is, is this would be a going out from GBC only if the congregation and the elders are approving of it. There won't be any pushing this through otherwise. So, with all of that, that wasn't the most exciting note to end my presentation on, but I wanted it to be said and be said crystal clear. What questions do you have for the church plant? Yes, I'm glad you asked. It's at the very top of the list that they gave me of things to announce. Trinity Reformed Baptist Church will be the name of this church plant. I love the thought of Trinity particular Baptist Church, but Jeff shot it down quick. I don't blame him. So Trinity Reformed Baptist Church will be the name of this church plant in Clinton. Yes, sir. Well, I would say right now for, like I said, there's two categories. There are categories of families that are already in that area. And I would feel confident saying there's somewhere between five and seven that right now we could point to. And then there are three, three to five families from GBC as well that will be for a period of time helping the church plant. So I would expect, you know, if the first Sunday that the church meets is in November, that there would be 12 or 15 families represented altogether. My mix of 70% families from that area, 30% from here. Yes, ma'am. So if you mean like, are you talking like Sunday events, Wednesday events, that kind of thing? Yes, the plan right now is for our operations to basically mirror GBC. So like our order of service on Sunday mornings is gonna look very similar. I don't know that the time, like we know we start at 9.30 here, we end at a certain time, usually around two o'clock when Jeff's done preaching. And... And we will, we'll do something similar to that, but we're planning to meet Sunday mornings, not Sunday nights. Wednesday nights, we'll be meeting, and we don't know that we're far enough along to have care groups, so we'll just be planning to meet at the church every Wednesday evening for the time being. Right, like a care group, and then as that grows, we'll maybe look at doing something different. Yes, sir. We don't have a long-term pastor yet. I hear you, that so many of the pieces and parts are coming together. To me, that's so important, to have a man who is faithful. I've been, I've seen a lot of church events happen, and generally the church I came from, there was a man who we trusted, who had served the church for a long time, who we knew loved, or loved people, would be a good pastor, and families would come around him to make plans. And this is different. can you help me understand, I want to make sure that as I'm supporting this and praying for it, et cetera, how is that going to look to be certain that we have a man who loves, I mean, I guess we have a seminary, right? But can you talk to us a little bit about that? Yeah, and I think it's a great question. And that's something that we've talked about a lot is kind of that process. So I think this will end. I'm going to try to stay on point here, because there's a lot that could be said about it. But here's what I feel like the plan is, so to speak, and what the process has been. From the beginning of this kind of effort, as the Lord's putting this in different people's minds to plant a church, one of the questions is, OK, what is the church leadership going to look like? And there is a model of this where sometimes the church will identify a need. They have an elder in the congregation already and they say, we're going to send this elder out. He's going to go and pastor this congregation. And so for him, it's like a mission field. It's a going out and they're sending him out. And that wasn't exactly the case that we had here. And so as we've kind of talked about it, the first criteria is letting the elders approve of who, you know, is sent to the church initially to do the teaching and the shepherding and that kind of thing, and they've consented to send me to do that along with these other men. But then it's also the place of that local congregation to identify and call for itself leadership if there's not like an elder of the planting church being sent out with that church as its pastor. And so the thought is, if we're faithful to this work and we can give it stability to where you don't have to worry about who's going to be preaching on Sunday or who's taking care of a pastoral care need, those things are already sort of spoken for. then the church will have an opportunity then to identify men. And this can come from different places. There may be somebody in that community already that we don't know that the Lord brings to the church. There may be somebody that the Lord calls out of another community. He may call somebody out of GBC. He may call somebody out of another church that goes to pastor that congregation. There's different ways that this could work out. But ultimately, we feel we want the church to identify and select its own leadership, because it will be a truly autonomous congregation. And so we're trusting the Lord with that. We feel like he's provided for us to have stability, you know, initially so that there's no floundering in the beginning. And we're able to give the church the support it needs to identify a man as the Lord brings him. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah, this this is one of those White House press secretary questions where I'm going to say I'll defer you, you know, to so and so. And I say that because I don't really feel, I don't feel like I can speak to GBCs. That's a very good question and that we had to go through our budget because the families that we would be planting with would be taking their offerings with them. Well, the good thing is, is that it was sufficient amount of offering. So the collective families, we will be, When that does, if that happens, we will be losing offerings. And it's substantial, just so that you know. The positive things is, that's wonderful for the church plant. I mean, because I think of this church plant, they would be in year 10 when we were in year one. I remember for 10 years, as a pastor, there was no money to even take care of me. And I think collectively all of our offerings was less than $1,000 a month at our church plant, maybe even $500 a month. And so we were so poor. And so I'm so thankful for this plant that it doesn't have to have that. So that's a positive. That's something to give God thanks for with this church plant. But we need to recognize that will be a vacuum on our side. And we do have this debt of this building on our heads. And so that is a pause. We did the math, and just so that you may know, our offerings are about the same as they were last year, even with the growth that we've had. But we can do it. We can make up all of our bills. We're not gonna be having to let go of anybody to do this. So just be mindful of that. If we do this, be mindful of that. Sometimes you can think of a church that gets big and go, okay, they got plenty of money. There's money just floating around in a big church. It's really not the case. And so we believe financially we can count the costs, count the bricks, we can do this. We don't believe the finances should be the thing that's, you know, if it was the point that we couldn't make our bills, then we would really make that announcement. But we see this as a, the offerings we'd be losing is our primary financial support because most churches that plant churches are going to be sending, you know, $10,000 a month or $10,000 a year or $20,000 a year, and they're going to be budgeting in that. We may not be budgeting an amount to give them, on a monthly basis, but we are sending that offerings that we'll be losing as our support, if that makes sense. But we can do it, but also as a church member, being mindful that, and we never pass an offering box around, our offering plate around, we never make money a big thing here. but our church needs finances too and so just keep that in mind and that it's my desire to get this facility paid off as soon as possible to get the debt out of our heads but I don't want to have to I'm thankful we're not so much overhead and debt that we can't support missions, we can't support church plants. And so I think, according to John Wynnum, who looks at all the numbers and pulls the rocks, looks underneath the rocks, he tells us that we can do this. And when we look at the budget, we believe we can. Back to you. And one thing I want to add to what he said that I think will be some encouragement to that question, too, is we really feel like we have done our diligence to sit down and look at our expenses in a very, I mean, I would say very realistic way. We've probably overestimated expenses slightly. And we think, and I mean this very humbly, I don't want this to, don't misinterpret this, but the church plant can be totally self-sufficient financially. It would be great to have help initially with big overhead costs, maybe adding an AC unit, stuff like that at the beginning. But the Lord has already provided in such a way that we can, we could be self-sufficient financially. So that's a great, that's a great blessing for GBC and for the church plant. I don't want to miss anybody's questions. Yes, ma'am. That's a great question, but I don't know. I don't know. So like our church center app, can we still use that to stay connected to the people of this church? And I haven't gotten that far along. I just talked this week with Hoyt about the website. I will ask him about that because he's one of those tech guys that will probably know. And I think that would be great. I would think that would be a great way. And we hope to the subject of staying in touch. We hope that these churches will continue to be close-knit. Like, when we have events in Clinton, we want people from Conway there, not on Sunday morning, but on events outside of that. And when you have a conference here, our people want to be there. And I know that there's some of the ladies in our church, or the church at Choctaw or Clinton that are you know, still planning to be a part of Ladies Bible Study at GBC if this all goes forward. So we want to keep that relationship very close. And that's another great tool and great way to do that, so thank you. Yes, sir? We do. So we've proposed that the church would adopt the distinctives of Grace Bible Church. The church plant families, it's a funny way to refer to the people, but the people have sat down and we've talked through those distinctives kind of privately to kind of affirm them. to make sure that we understand exactly what they mean and don't mean. And that's something that like Jeff Johnson's been adamant, he's reminded us time and time again to maintain these distinctives. And so from a distinctives and bylaws and constitution and the 1689 is our doctrinal statement, those things would mirror at this church plant what they are here at GBC. Yes, sir. You know, I don't know. There's just this kind of colloquial sense of having grown up in the area and lived here in central Arkansas forever, where you know that the area has churches on every corner but is largely unchurched. Like, I can't think of a church in Clinton that's more than 50 people. Maybe, you know, the biggest Baptist church there might be. But most of them are churches where you have 10 or 12 people, you know, meeting on a Sunday morning. And it's a fairly large area. Clinton's not much smaller than Greenbrier. And then when you take Marshall and Leslie and Shirley and all the surrounding area, you know, you're talking 5, 6, 7,000 people. And I don't know of a church, probably in either county that it sits close to, that has more than 50 people on a Sunday morning. So I imagine it's a large population of unchurched. And then there are quite a few, there are quite a few... Churches that are just gonna be very different from us distinctively. Free Will Baptist, for example, or United Methodist. We're still calling those churches in the most technical sense. There's even a couple Catholic churches and Church of Christ churches in the area. So from our perspective, very unchurched would be my answer. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, yeah, good, good question about like the families that go for a time and then return. Well, you'll be excommunicated first if you leave. Then everybody, you know, I don't have a good like long form answer for that up here right now because I think that's something that needs to be deliberated with the elders here. to make sure that the leadership at both churches are on the same page about that. So don't let me forget sharing that question, but I don't know if I can answer it. I don't wanna answer it for them up here this morning. Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah. Hey, thank y'all for giving me some time. This was fun. You told me it wasn't gonna be, but I enjoyed it. As far as that answer, a lot of churches that plant churches, they're sending families to go do that. There's a grace period. Let's say there's a family that's members of GBC that says, I want to be a part of that. I live kind of in that direction. I want to support that. And then after six months to a year, they're just like, okay, that was great. I'm glad I helped. I'm ready to get back to GBC. They just integrate right back in. They don't have to go through the membership process again. That's just kind of the normal process of church planning. So if you are one of the families that are going to be a part of that, it's not like you get to go and say, I don't want you to have the mindset. I'll just go there and try it. And if I don't like it, I'll come back. But you're still part of us. This is our church plant. And so if you end up in a year back with us, we know you, we know your testimony. There's no need to have to work through that process. So let's take the time that we have left, which was nine minutes, and let's commit this to prayer. I'll ask Dr. Moore to start us, and I'll come up and close us. And we just got a few minutes. That you are a God who longs to make your name known.