There we go. Good morning Erica. How are you? Hold on a second. I can't really hear you. Okay. Okay. There we go. My computer volume. I could barely hear you I'm good. How are you? Good. Good. Great to have you on the call this morning. Thank you Alrighty. Well, we'll have folks just getting on the call. It's it is seven o'clock and I do want to get started Well, good morning everyone My name is rich block and you are on the hyperlature health care special inches group general meeting call This call happens every other week at seven o'clock Pacific you should have in front of you our agenda for the day and Just as always the first thing that we'd like to do is Remind everyone about our antitrust policy and so I'll show you our policy here It Effectively it says in so many words be a good person and that's what that's really all about But please feel free to read through this document as well as the fully antitrust link Here if you want to get into the details of that Normally I'll ask folks to I'll ask someone to do no taking today is kind of a light agenda. So I think I'll cover no taking myself But for those that haven't taken notes for for us in the past. Thank you very much So What usually what we we like to do is if you're new on the call to introduce yourself talk a little bit about your interest in Blockchain technologies and healthcare and maybe a little bit about your company and where you're calling it from Is there anyone on the call that would like to introduce themselves? Hi rich, this is Susan Ramanat see of Spiritus partners. I'm joined by my CTO Bob Clint we've been active in Blockchain and healthcare for the better part of three years. We are concerned with The safety quality and compliance and medical devices over their operating life Quite active in the community internationally and happy to join the group today. Oh good morning. Great And where where is spirits is located? We're outside of Philadelphia, although we just spent two years living in Edinburgh Working with the National Health Service over there We have a development center in Edinburgh with grants provided by the Scottish government. So back in the States pursuing strong agendas with some leading US health systems as well as up in Ontario, Canada. Oh Outstanding. Oh great to have you Susan. You don't have a Scottish accent. So No more Philly Exactly East Coast exactly Well, great to have you and Bob on the call Thanks very much for joining us today and just as a kind of a kind of a quick quick overview If you're not familiar with the HC SIG We're an international organization of over a thousand members with interests in professional interests in the healthcare space and then sort of I always like to say we're sort of pre-filtered again With interests in using black chick technologies in healthcare And so as a member of this group and it is an open Because Hyperledger and Lenox Foundation are all open source. We're also open community Which means that those over a thousand members are certainly available to you and your organization As a resource to see fit and so feel free to communicate with them However, we may want usually we go through either email or rocket chat, which is Sort of a real-time chat similar to gosh, and I just forgot what it's called It's a Slack yes, thank you. I saw it there and I just couldn't couldn't remember. Yeah, exactly. It's just like slack So so yeah, absolutely and again, thanks for joining us on the call today Great to have you. Thank you, and I see Adrian on the call. So hi Adrian And yeah, and Adrian is one of our one of our regulars more or less. So good morning Adrian. Glad to have you on the call already been mostly Yeah, yes Alrighty Any anyone else want to introduce themselves? The rest of the folks on the call are more or less folks that I'm familiar with or our regulars certainly So if that said, let's let's move forward So we do want to go through a little bit on community. Excuse me on community announcements. I Just recently and this is a very new Received a note through LinkedIn There's an organization on these coasts that is looking for a full-time or contract position with someone capable of doing sawtooth development and the the only real stipulation is they it has to be us based and Really that's the extent of it. I don't know particularly if this is within the health care space or not And it just came to be I think it was yesterday afternoon. And so I I offered to sort of post that here And so if you are interested, please feel free to contact me either via email or through the rocketjack channel I'd be happy to sort of redirect you and connect you with that that person The reason why I post this through community announcements is it's an it's an interesting opportunity with a very specific need Looking for someone with sawtooth development experience and for those folks that aren't necessarily familiar with sawtooth in the hyper ledger sort of Spectrum of frameworks most of us are familiar with fabric Generally speaking the sort of the next full-stack Implementation would be sawtooth sawtooth being provided by Intel Mostly worked by Intel and sort of donated to the hyper ledger group and just as an aside initially sawtooth had a Dependency on the Intel chipset SGS chipset functionality Which is since been removed. So you do not need to have Intel chipsets to use sawtooth And again if you you or anyone is interested in sort of pursuing this feel free to contact me after the fact And I'd be happy to make introductions Does anyone else have any community announcements that they'd like to talk through all righty Well, I have a question for the group this Adrian I'm I'm as you guys may know, I'm heavily involved in self-saving identity work particularly as it relates to credentials and for clinicians and agents that are controlled or have a fiduciary relationship to patients and There are two Two industry consortia One of them would be the centralized identity foundation and the other one the hyper ledger indie groups With a lot of overlapping membership Lot are in these two industry consortia are both implementing Common standards that that we work on, you know from W3C Specifically and As you guys Probably know, you know, my my work is uses the health care use case to sort of inform the standards and interact with the Hyperledger in the and the IF and this this groups, so My question was just broadly The reason I joined the call partly is To see if that has come up here if any of this stuff that I just mentioned having to do basically blockchain identity and credentials for patients and for clinicians if that is Something of interest and in particular to tell people here that There is a very active discussion right now in terms of what's the difference between a hub and an agent and and Yes, and it sort of has to do with the kind of code and Practices that the two blockchain groups Are promoting again, you know, very friendly and cooperative way. This is not really a competition so much as a Search for understanding, you know, how do we want to use blockchain identity? You know commercially Yeah, so so You bring up a good point regarding a self-serpent identity, of course within the Hyperledger Indy is sort of considered the the you know the the Framework of choice for that Indy is provided by The Okay, goodness. I am I am not Sovereign foundation. Thank you very much and in in fact We do have occasionally projects come through that are exercising SSI I could tell you one of the subgroups Which is a healthcare interoperative subgroup that is getting spun up through Steven Elliot. There has been some discussions about Making use of SSI within the use cases that they're developing So that may be a sort of a consideration they may want to look at I also Since we don't really have a subgroup that is a hundred percent focused on SSI, you know It's the other option to consider would be if you're interested We could we could put a request out to the full membership and try to culminate a subgroup around SSI use cases And develop, you know develop a project that that really focuses on exercising SSI fully And again, like I said, I know that our HIS subgroup Our healthcare interoperability subgroup really has that is considering that peripherally, but I don't think that's going to be a focal As well and Wendy will can talk a little bit about this where we have a Development team that's looking at use cases and so it might also be an opportunity for for us to think about how SSI might be used as we develop our use cases and And I'll have Wendy talk a little bit later as we get through some of our ad hoc team updates But that may also be a way that you might want to find a way to sort of interact and develop out SSI thoughts as well Hey, rich. This is Wendy and I'm happy to talk about that later I wanted to add a community announcement There will be a hymns 20 Blockchain symposium. I think it will be in February of next year and There will be an opening for calls for proposals for presentations That will start Monday, August 26 and close on Monday, September 23rd And it would be lovely to see submissions from this group. Oh Outstanding so so when a you and I let's let's craft email to go out to the full full membership So that we can sort of document that and and get that out to everybody And just as an aside, I I think I think I'm I was sort of roped roped into speaking at hymns for next year Okay, and I don't know the details yet So I just I think I I'm somehow committed to doing that I and I don't know details honestly I don't obviously I'll be speaking on the topic of health care and blockchain healthcare But but what you're describing I'd like to find a way to see if there's a way we can sort of interleave that as well And that would be a good way to sort of make double use of my time there So I'm not sure that this symposium is going to take place at the global conference or not Okay, so I that last year well earlier in 2019 there was a separate symposium For blockchain, I'm not sure exactly how it will be structured But I do know that there is a call for proposals coming up and I just wanted to get everyone Start thinking about that so that they would be ready to submit a proposal Okay. Yeah, because this past year we had sort of the day preceding was was a full day of blockchain Events and it was outstanding David. Okay, as you know David holding Microsoft I thought I think chairs that or coachers And yeah, they did yeah, they did a fantastic job and I boy I'd love to see that happen again But I don't I honestly don't know details and again, I know I am I'm somehow participating that I just don't know the details of it So far fair enough. Okay. We'll talk offline awesome Alrighty any other announcements anyone would like to make Okay, well, let's move into subgroups and then for those of you that are new to the call So the way that this organization works is Our SIG is structured in tiers And so the top tier is general meeting which is really at governance In an administration and that's kind of what we're talking through today It's sort of a roll-up of the work that's being done sort of boots on the ground and from that perspective we have subgroups and ad hoc teams subgroups are effectively formalized around Areas of interest and in health care We generally think about sort of the triad where we have payer patient provider and that's sort of spin outs from there Where where the focal for those use cases Get exercised in in a smaller team of people that are very focused on on specific use cases And then ad hoc teams generally are where we have Sort of the genesis of ideas Come come forward Sometimes they will spin into a subgroup sometimes they are very specifically directed actions And so it's it's a little bit more again. It's a focus team out of the larger membership group And they are tasks with some very specific activities So as far as our subgroups go updates go for patient members subgroup that's led by Dennis Koskin out of Switzerland He's on vacation. I think he's in Turkey at the moment and I wished him well He did pass along an update and so that update is in the agenda So last week their meeting they talked about the permissions layer in their data and process side and they're sort of Rescoping their patient recruitment component And I'm planning to move forward with their solution So for anyone that's interested in in that patient member subgroup Dennis is doing a great job of sort of reinvigorating and Pivoting that subgroup away from a little bit different work that we had done earlier this year in late last year and There they meet every opposite week that we meet so we meet every Friday at seven They meet an alternate Friday at I believe nine o'clock in the morning Pacific So feel free to other contact me for details or go up to or it's up to the website in the wiki You'll find the patient member subgroup details for for for dialing it through that subgroup as well Anyone from the patient subgroup on the call today that I would like to add to that Hello, I joined a little bit late. This is Patricia Hi, how are you? I don't have a lot to add to that but I know I saw my name there pati. That's People call me Okay, I go but pati and he wrote it right even though it looks weird So I was actually I just came back from vacation. So I have been communicated with the knees via email and He gave me some assignments. So we're we're working on on this together And but at this point I did miss the last week's meeting. I was with family Somewhere in Europe Copenhagen and I Will I don't have a lot to report except that we as he wrote there. I think he wrote it here that we are looking at the Clinical trials did he write that? We did not write that there. No, no, but that's good. Thanks for that. Yeah, thanks for the update on that Looking at a use case involving clinical trials and patient recruitment Excellent, okay. Well, thanks, Patricia or our patty I'm gonna rename it here All right. Thank you so much. Well, great to have you back from vacation and thank you for the update as well So for our payor subgroup which is focusing of course on the payor side of the equation Rumi's Devon And I believe he's out of the East Coast Is I did not receive an update from him. They they met recently And of course their focus has been on developing Something of a of a white paper as it relates to Trying to understand where blockchain technologies in health care sort of fits in sort of a Flow chart of sorts So that's the work that they've been they've been working on And then for the health care interoperability subgroup Steven's usually on our call and I don't necessarily see him this morning but they this is our newest subgroup and Steven is in process of Building that out the our intent is to get that spun up very soon. I do know that Steven is currently working a Cyber SBIR activity and actually it's just done down an old business. We can get to that in just a moment So I know he's been sidetracked a little bit on another health care opportunity so we'll continue to give you updates on availability for Getting more involved in that subgroup again if if you see interest in Participating in in sort of this interoperability subgroup. Let me know and I could redirect you to Steven make introductions As that gets built out. I'm particularly excited about Steven's work in the subgroup particularly because this is Generally speaking our subgroups are top-down or we're looking at sort of application level solutions Steven's looking at working this bottom up, which is providing services so that other Organizations can make use of these layers on top of Hyperledger frameworks, so these are abstraction layers that will make it a lot easier for the sake of interoperability across a much broader spectrum of use cases And so so I'm really excited to see this move forward Any other comments or questions about our subgroup updates? Okay, well, let's get into our updates for our ad hoc teams So Ravish also leads our wiki redesign team So the wiki that we're looking at working at right now is is confluence This is which we made a transition within hyperledger earlier this year And I this is just this is just an ongoing thing. And so I always want to express this to to membership I'm always very interested to find someone within our membership team that has an interest in design and has some expertise in using confluence Which is which is the wiki tool of choice here to help us continually sort of refine our wiki and And the value to that goes to if you're interested really is looking at not only redesigned for For for our SIG, but this is an open sort of invitation to help look at Working across multiple SIGs and work groups within hyperledger or dot org proper And the reason for that is we are growing at a phenomenal rate Understandably and we're always looking for ways to improve member engagement particularly new members who are new to the community That may come to us by way of the health care SIG or maybe some of the other SIGs My personal interest is that they have the opportunity to sort of move across the special interest groups or across the working groups In a very fluid and facile way without having to sort of re-understand or reinterpret The structure of each an individual SIG And so that's kind of it's a very tall order And so I keep this sort of question open to anyone that is in our community that has the interest in helping to develop that It's a very it's a very large ask And ravish to date has has been helpful in making that happen. Of course, you know, we're still sort of You know grasping for that brass ring. And so so that's open to anyone on the call who would like to participate in that So as well are we have an academic research team? that Sort of moves forward and fits and starts just depending on where our Sort of priorities happen to be and where our resources are Adrienne Berg is our lead on this Adrienne has been off on sabbatical I think he's back as of maybe a week or so ago But the purpose of our academic research team is really to focus on understanding how we can engage academia and really understanding How to how to sort of Communicate or educate the health care community In the use of black tank technologies in a way that is done objectively and through Through more of a peer-reviewed Mechanism, which is what health care expects and the rationale behind that is health care and academia so are so tightly wedded That in a lot of health care communities and health care systems what what they look for is real evidence that Whatever the technology or or new mythology would be that it's it's already sort of it's been proven to some degree or exercised and in a very very sort of methodical and proven way And of course that's done usually typically through peer-reviewed journals Academic or scholarly articles and so forth, and that's the really that's sort of the genesis for this academic research team I'll also mention that this The notion of academic involvement is something that's happening at a much higher level for the the organization and proper and so I'm Excited to see that some of the work that we did sort of preliminary early here through this research team has sort of propagated up Into into into the hyperledger leadership group and so I suspect we'll continue to get some traction going forward in that respect Okay, Wendy. Do you want to talk a little bit about the use case development team? Sure, and I am pleased to see some of our members on the call today so We had a fantastic kickoff meeting on July 11th and determined how we would approach use cases. I think it's important to establish to the larger community that the term use case Means different things to different people and it's important to be precise in the way that we describe the activities that we're working on so Yes, and thank you for pulling up that paper I have read it several times now and I really think it's a must read for anyone who would like to describe their activities in a particular case So, so yes, you know, I'll just I'll I'll Underline that with a giant highlighter. This is an outstanding paper and I mean absolutely It's a great read and it really is absolutely educational for anyone and this is even outside the context of blockchain It's just it's a great story a great way to sort of understand what what use cases really are all about Excellent. Yes, and thank you for emphasizing that so after we met and determined that we talked through the differences between use cases and case studies and Determined that we would write up descriptions of use cases which is more based on potential than reliance on actual evidence I Reached out to the hyper ledger leadership because I realized that it probably isn't appropriate for us to Just start out and create something on our own Since we're part of the hyper ledger group I wanted to find out from the leadership whether there was a particular template. They wanted us to use a particular format Where we could capitalize on some of the hyper ledger Publications and exposure in order to get the word out about the work that we're doing and about any end products that we have and they Have responded but I've been out of the office for a few days and since I emailed So I am now catching up with them to find out more. I think it will be important for us to integrate a hyper ledger expectations again to maximize the use and so I hope to get more and then Submit that information back to this team as well as let the larger Special interest group know what we're working on to see if we can get some additional interest and support for writing these products Yeah outstanding job Wendy and thank you for for driving this and the meeting was really well done And you did a great job facilitating So for anyone that's interested, you know that the sort of stepping back the bigger picture here is We've we've come to come to the realization that there are folks in the health care community that are very new to understanding hyper ledger technologies and and as it may turn out use cases are a great way to sort of learn how How these technologies may be implemented and I always think in terms of You know that the notion there's a real there's a real power and strength and learning in context and use cases In some cases serve that purpose very well So so yeah, so this is a great team that's coming together and thank you Wendy for making that happen I imagine this is going to be a good fit going forward because this will be sort of a Very likely in some cases sort of that first level experience for for folks in the health care space Just trying to understand answer the question. What are these blockchain technologies that everyone's talking about? And this is this may certainly be that sort of a very initial learning effort And so I'm thrilled to be able to have us provide those sorts of resources to to folks new to the technology suite Great, and thank you for adding to that discussion Yeah, and and again that the paper that really is an outstanding paper and that the black chain Case studies paper that really is very valuable and thanks for sort of down selecting that because that was an excellent read Any other comments or questions about our updates for our ad hoc teams and again if there's you know, if you have an idea Again, we could crowdsource this within the community here And so if you know, you have a thought or an idea about how Something that you want to sort of pursue and you're sort of thinking independently like well, gee This might be an interesting idea for myself, but I don't know anyone else that that has the same sort of Sort of passion around it. It's very likely that out of those over a thousand folks or so that you you Probably are not alone. And so please feel free to just bring up the notion and we could find a Sort of crowdsource it fine find folks to work with you on your ideas Okay, any thoughts or comments going forward, okay? Well, let's get into some old business and new business and we really don't have a whole lot of information To go over But in short, I think I had mentioned this before when I was talking about Stephen Elliott's work with the healthcare and operation subgroup We have and it's just coming to a close. So it's this is probably the very tail end But we did have do have an HHS and it's a it's a cumulative HHS NIH grant opportunity utilizing blockchain technologies in the healthcare space and this is I Think it's it's a sttr What I call a sitter and also a cyber SB IR these are generally speaking the small business opportunities and I believe small businesses limited to 150 persons or less It is us-based and a sitter sttr is is a very similar mechanism, but it also needs to incorporate an academic institution So a cyber is a small business opportunity a sitter is a small business opportunity in collaboration with an educational institution generally speaking, it's a university or or college and I could tell you I've worked many of these that the timeline for these are always incredibly short And so the notion generally speaking is that if you happen to be working in this space where the opportunity comes up You're good to go particularly if you already have academic sort of ties with folks that are doing similar work You're doubly good to go Otherwise, it's just very hard to respond To particularly a sttr a sitter Sibbers are a little bit easier because they're they're a little more independent but anyway I'm hoping to get some feedback from Steven because I know they're working through his organization. They're working This as a cybers cyber opportunity and so Yeah, like I said, I I think he's probably heads but heads down even today working this issue So we're gonna kind of loop them back in I'll just say rope them back in and have them report out on the work that they've done against this As far as any new business goes we did report out so so we're obligated through the special industry to report out on a quarterly basis Just sort of the overall health and direction of our special interest group That's publicly available. And so our quarterly report is available here if you feel free and feel free to read through it We've had a great opportunity to sort of grow again this organization. I do always like to call out a special area of merit and I'll just I'm gonna put poor Wendy on the spot here special merit goes to Wendy Charles for helping to really move this the special interest group forward For those of you that aren't quite familiar yet with Wendy's blockchain article citations document she she very very Thankfully provided an amazing resource for blockchain articles. It's it's well over a hundred physical pages And it's a great resource for this special interest group As well as and you heard from from Wendy just a little while ago that she also kicked off our use case team for For the HC SIG as well And and we also were very lucky to have quite a number of speakers come and speak for in front of general membership And I'm very much thankful for those folks as well So feel free to read through this we do this on a quarterly basis It's an obligation that we have Happy to do it and it really gives us a sort of a running status and of course we keep we keep all of our quarterly reports I'll sort of point it out over here Cued so that you could sort of get sort of a continuing understanding of where where the special interest group Where the special interest group has been and where it plans to go moving forward And and that's a great segue into really kind of the general roll-up of Where you would like to see the special interest group special interest group go moving forward I always like to open this up and this is an ongoing question And it really speaks to where membership as a whole sees value in moving a special interest group forward If you don't see value in the existing special subgroups You're always welcome to spin one up And I'm happy to facilitate that as as as well as our ad hoc teams Ad hoc teams like generally speaking as I mentioned before a little bit more lighter weight They don't have the kind of overhead that subgroups have But can graduate into a subgroup if if if that sort of infrastructure is needed So that that's sort of it for for the week. I'll open it up to discussion conversation if there's anything that people have seen over the past a week or two in in communications or in the media as it relates to Hyperledger or blockchain technologies in general in the healthcare space. I'm opening up for discussion. Oh my it's mighty quiet This is Alicia, yes, so one of the one of the things that I see and I you know as you know, I'm involved in the A lot of the following startups here in Seattle and I kind of help people understand the healthcare system in order to get into Doing startups in in here in the Seattle area and I haven't seen anything Like this or information like for example doing something to inform some of these people that are working on Helping with healthcare in Gambia Grove So a lot of I think that a lot of people are not very familiar with it and Including me, you know as as we talked that we got that I got involved as you invited me And I think that there is a lot of opportunity to actually get a lot of people involved and interested in this space Yeah, so so so you're right. So just sort of as a quick background or at least yeah, and I know know each other by way of Cambridge Grove Which so so what's the best way to describe came your grove other? Of is actually can be a growth is actually actually they come out of insurance Which is a very smart thing to do. They created this healthcare incubator for healthcare To allow entrepreneurs to come in and take Technicians and people in in the software industry and you know computers and things like that to actually come into into there and try to solve They bring they bring panels of all kind of things in healthcare from providers to payers to Regulatory people and they bring them in and actually teach people about health care But a lot of the times they also do startups Competitions where they bring a problem Into the into the space Who presented to entrepreneurs to see how they can come up with solutions? So it's pretty much an incubator. Yeah, that's a great way to describe it I'm just trying to remember Cambridge Grove is is sponsored by it's a fairly large pair and I just don't remember who that pair happens to be yeah They're associated I think with Or providence I'm not I'm not quite sure yeah, and I'm I'm on I'm on my my yeah, I'm on my phone right now gone. Yeah, who are they? Who are they?  It seems to be looking at it is Can be at growth dot com and you can actually look in there and they're I mean over 400 Startups that they can list a lot of people getting into health care Yeah, and you gave you gave a very good description of of the The the facility and it's a wonderful facility here in the Seattle area. I think they're also represented in the Portland area as well and again, I'd have to sort of follow up on that but I do I do know that they're Yeah, they're actually even Starting incubators in other places like Salt Lake City is the next place. They're going to expand and they're okay I think that the intention is to expand to other places. Oh good. Okay. Oh, well, that's good to know very good to know Well, thanks for that at least yeah, yeah It would be great if we can find ways to sort of get ourselves more sort of integrated in other opportunities Both here in the US and elsewhere. I'm in currently in conversation with One of the editors I think it may be the editor-in-chief for a blockchain And health I think it's called black chain and health care today And I think Wendy I may have CCD you on that and so please correct me if I'm wrong And I I believe her name is Rory or Tori Tori Sinash Thank you, Wendy and so we're going to try to get Tori to come and speak in front of a membership in the next few weeks or so and part of that really is to to to expand this special interest group into various other aspects of the community the health care community as it relates to black chain technologies and it's going to be reflexive because that way they can they can also see some value in and and Serving this special interest group because because our our audiences are very very similar and So that's kind of what we're hoping to do is continue to grow into special areas where we maybe haven't had an opportunity to do so in the past Rich this is Susan on that. Yes, Susan wait First I just was named to the editorial board of blockchain and health care today I Start talking with Tori some three years ago Made recommendations to about a variety of academics and others that are on the board So I think that's an important initiative because we're focused on medical devices I have a view to this In terms of overlapping agendas and I don't have a presumption about where things are among your thousand members Who's participating? But we're seeing overlapping agendas and trying to make sure we're introducing folks to one another and Particularly around standards, whether it's standards for blockchain Taking advantage of standards that are already developed in health care around data sharing more importantly initiatives that propose to develop standards for blockchain in health care, so I'm thinking specifically of GS one Which is one of the providers of the unique device identifiers, but more generally a standards entity membership based global that has product Data and standards location standards and like that are widely used across industries very important around supply chain GS one. I know the principles there. They certainly are concerned that Communities take advantage of the standards that they have IEEE has mounted an initiative around clinical IOT in developing standards there. There's participation as you might imagine from manufacturers communities like this one Interested not just around medical devices, but pharma as well Likewise on this the issue of Medical devices and software Amy the association American Association for advanced Medical instrumentation has gotten together with the underwriters labs you L to issue standards around handling of AI and ML and cybersecurity the FDA is keen to have a frameworks and standards there these bodies and our organizations Like yours very decentralized people come and go But very much overlapping agendas and I really think that it's important that the hyperledger community and particularly the SIG Be connected to that as well. So there are specific individuals. I Can provide you names separately You either recognize them as already participating or certainly could provide introductions. Oh Yeah, excellent Susan. Thank you so much for that. Yeah You know, we would love to be able to sort of engage with these other organizations and in part For if for nothing else to make it educational so that our membership has even the understanding that that these standards bodies are in place or in formation I Would argue that probably many people At least our membership are still generally Well, I'll speak for some percentage of many way are still fairly new to the organization as it relates to How these technologies are applied in the healthcare space and you know And I would I would suspect that the notion of standards are probably haven't yet fully been Understood or considered and so it would be great to educate folks or have the opportunity to provide education for folks and showcase different organizations here through Through through this general meeting forum and if people, you know, you know, look forward to finding a way to to work with standards bodies or to it certainly to just understand that they exist This would be a great opportunity for us to do so So I'd love to find a way to connect Susan and maybe talk more about this and and then Hopefully queue up some some speakers. So so we might be able to showcase some of these GS1 has been I think we have GS1 speaking Not in this special interest group, but in another I believe it might be social impact special interest group and I think that's happening next month and They they aren't necessarily talking about healthcare, but I did speak with I Forgot the gentleman who's from GS1 The notion is that we may Be engaging GS1 to come speak to to this special interest group to talk about what they are what they are talking what they were thinking about in terms of Supply chain as it relates to the healthcare community But outside of that, you know, I you know, it would be great to learn more about where other standard bodies Exist and how we might be able to engage them. That would be fantastic Yeah, so happy to provide that I've spoken to GS1's big event the last two years Just a month ago. So I certainly know that key players there and it is a global organization the IEEE Initiative overlaps a bit with something called big. I don't know if you're familiar that that is Subgroup of the IEEE blockchain and healthcare Group against some overlap there, but happy to provide introduction. Oh, that would be great. Thank you, Susan. Absolutely phenomenal This is this is Wendy and I just wanted to share that Erika beer Brower and I are both members of the IEEE Standards Development Working Group for blockchain and healthcare and we would be happy to provide updates as needed Standardization is not just for the technology. It's also for the data points and Each of the major regulatory organization agencies that oversee clinical research has published data standards and so OHRP less There's are mostly for disease registries But I'd be happy for anyone interested to reach out to me offline and I can connect you with some additional resources Awesome and you know and maybe jumping the gun a bit but You know this this this facet of standardization and understanding where our standards bodies exist Maybe something that we develop and ad hoc team around so that we can sort of keep tabs on this with a little bit more Regularity than we have in the past certainly As well, it probably would be great to again to expose that to membership so that you know We would serve as a resource to sort of redirect And make social connections to those folks that that are associated with these different groups You know stepping back a little bit bit a little bit At the moment my my overall sense for where hyperlegia.org sits My my gut is that we are probably less a standards body than a Group of folks developing software solutions Doesn't does not necessarily mean we're doing it without standards considerations but And again, this is just my sort of subjective read on it. I I don't see anything Inherent yet Or native to hyperlegia.org that is that is focused a hundred percent on standardizations And so I it may be just part of sort of the nature of the organization sort of you know That that's just the DNA of the organization Whereas I'll just compare that to IEEE which tends to be more Standards sensitive and so it'll be interesting to see how hyperlegia grows into that If they do decide to grow into that I'll relay a comment that I've heard in the past as it relates to hyperlegia and an aetherium Suggesting that hyperlegia tends to be more the The guys that are developing the software and aetherium tends to be more focused on setting standards And so I don't know if that's entirely accurate, but that may be a kind of a clue to Partly why we we maybe are less sort of aware or open to Existing standards that are out there, but that said Susan I think you're spot-on and I'd love to find a way to sort of move forward on that so that again We can expose membership our membership to to the resource of standard bodies that are out there Well, I hear it Wendy's comment and I understand that she and Erica are much involved and that's that's great I'll put my hand up to the extent you want to create an ad hoc group. Maybe we can convene offline and just explore the connections and bring some Focus to it Yeah, yeah, that'd be great. Thank you, Susan And in fact Yeah, I'm thinking Wendy will probably want to be part of that call and perhaps Erica as well So so so as an aside, I see someone drawing on our screen. Am I the only one seeing that? Alrighty well With that fine notion And and we are kind of close to the top hour. We've got about 10 minutes So I think we'll call it. We'll call it a meeting of thanks everyone for your participation as always a really good conversation and discussion very much appreciated and And feel free to reach out to me and again We we also I always want to talk about the fact that we have our slack like Equivalent which called rocket chats. It's available Please make sure to make sure to use that as a resource to you as appropriate And again, you always have the option to you know contact membership through our through our listserv as well And then if you have any questions always feel free to direct them to me And I'd be happy to to make introductions or redirect as appropriate as well All right, any final thoughts before we close out Alrighty well, thanks again folks. Have a great weekend, and we will see you in two weeks Thank you


It is good to be with you this morning. I wanna extend a special welcome to our family in Portage. It's good to be with you as well. I am excited about today. I have been fired up. I've rewritten this sermon 37 times, maybe 38. I don't know, somewhere in there, but I have the incredible honor today to teach the next installment in our Wind and Fire series. And I have titled today something very masculine, very, very masculine. All the men in the house are gonna get excited about this.  It's called Disciples and Dandelions. Come on, you see? Yeah, you are excited.  Hold up your Bible. Let me see the Bible, because this has encouraged me. Portage, hold it up there too. I love it. I love it. I love seeing you bringing your Bibles to church. Acts 11 is where I will be teaching out of today. Starting in verse 19, it says this. Now, those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen, traveled as far as Penicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except the Jews. But there were some of them, remember that, some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, and you know, I just got to let me pause there. I did not intend on pausing there, but I'm a Bible teacher and I have to stop, because right now in America, we have a major epidemic. We have a major epidemic, and its infection is in the church. I'm not talking about the season that we've gone through, but we're still kind of in, but the tension we don't know how to deal with yet, and all of, like, should we say something? Should we not? Should we talk about this? I don't know. It's the awkward thing in the room, right? Oftentimes. But this says something that I want to point out. It says men of Cyprus, men of Cyrene. Now, I'm not wanting to point this out at the exclusion of anyone, especially women, but I'm wanting to point something out here. We are about to see a major event take place in the book of Acts, a major event that has its effects and recourse on our lives here today. And I believe, I strongly believe that a major reason for the event that we are about to read about, that we are about to see, that we are about to begin praying for, I believe a major catalyst to this event is because there were men of Cyprus and men of Cyrene who stood up in a culture that didn't want men to stand up, and they preached the word of God. And I believe that God is calling us to do that, men.  We've been sitting for too long. We've been hiding in man caves for too long.  If you have one, I'm sorry, I don't like it. I don't like it because you're not called to have your own room separated from your family so you can do what you want when you want to play video games all day. There's a reason why we laugh at the movies where we see a grown man arguing with a 12 year old because it's ludicrous. And some of us are doing that. I believe God is calling us out today, out of the man cave and back to the forefront of our family where we lead well, where we lead strong, where we actually do what Pastor John said, train up our children in the way that they should go when they're 18, go! Like, go!  Their lake house on goal or any, I don't know, just go! Lord, send you! I'm joking, you know, but I believe that, I believe that God is calling men of Richland, men of Portage, men of Kalamazoo, men of Plainwell, Otsego, Battle Creek, Grand Rapids. I believe that God is calling men to stand up. So he says, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, on who coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them in a great number who believed, turned to the Lord. The reports of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he being Barnabas came and saw the grace of God, he was glad. Now I love this because Barnabas was intimidated by what was happening there and not happening where he was in Jerusalem. He wasn't in competition with these people. He celebrated with these people. He didn't know them. They hadn't been in class with him. They didn't go to the Barnabas School of Ministry. He was excited. It said he was glad. He was excited so he celebrated. And so it says, and when he came, he saw the grace of God and he was glad and exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose. Verse 24, for he being Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. Now, I wanna make a special note here. It says he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. Listen, you don't get the Holy Spirit because you are good. Please hear this. You don't receive the Holy Spirit because you are a good person. The Holy Spirit is given to you and he begins to make you good. Goodness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit in the life of someone who follows Jesus. Okay? Galatians 5 verse 22, you should check that out later on. I don't have time. And a great many of people were added to the Lord so Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul. And when he found him, he brought him to Antioch for a whole year. They met with the church and taught a great many people. What was happening there? They began discipling. And Antioch, the disciples were first called Christians and in these days, the prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch and one of them named Agibus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world. This took place in the days of Claudius. So the disciples determined everyone, according to his ability to send relief to the brothers living in Judea. And they did so sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. As a whole, Acts 11 is devoted to a major foundational event of the early church. This is true both ecclesiastically, meaning as it pertains to the church and misceologically as it pertains to the mission of the church. And it starts off, we didn't read it, but it starts off with verses one through 18, okay? With the apostle Peter reporting to the church at Jerusalem what happened in the previous chapter, Acts chapter 10. And that event that the apostle Peter is reporting on and about is an event that actually inaugurated the early church's mission to the rest of the world, to the Gentile world. Immediately following this, we come to verses 19 through 30 and it says, and basically what happens I should say is we are brought to ground zero of the mission that Peter started unfolding and it's unfolding in a city in a place called Antioch. And the way by which we get to Antioch and the way by which this incredible global mission begins to unfold in this place called Antioch is completely providential. It says because of the persecution that arose over the death of Stephen, I'm sorry, yeah, Stephen, disciples of Jesus fled great distances for their lives. And similar to how the seeds of a dandelion are scattered by the wind, disciples of Jesus were scattered by the persecution in their land. Some as far as Cyprus and Cyprus was about 250 miles away and it included a boat ride. Some as far as Phoenicia. Phoenicia was about 190 miles away. I dug in deep and because I'm a Bible nerd and I like to read on this stuff and go deep into it and I like to look at maps and stuff like that. And so I started looking at these distances and then I dug deep into commentaries and most scholars actually conclude and they're almost in full agreement that it took Uber over eight months to get everyone to Phoenicia, okay? And to the island of Cyprus. Uber was built just by this one event. But seriously, really think about this because we read these texts and we are so distant from them and we are so removed from them that we actually don't realize everything that happened and we don't realize all the energy that it took and all of the pain that probably and had to take place when these kinds of things happened. Think about this. Think about how far they fled. Think about how long it took. Think about how arduous it was for these people physically, spiritually, emotionally. Think about the fear, the worry, the uncertainty that these people carried as they scattered as they fled for their lives. And yet, it was in these conditions, it was in these conditions, it was this place and those people and these circumstances that God used to launch this mission. And Antioch was the perfect setting for it. The perfect setting for the early church to begin its mission to the Gentile world. You see, Antioch was the third largest city in the Roman Empire. There were roughly 500 to 800,000 people in the city of Antioch. It was third only to the great city of Rome and to the great city of Alexandria. Antioch was a significant port city along the Orantees River and it had a strong trading and strong commerce market, okay? It had fertile lands. The lands were known to grow great, great product and great groceries, okay? Antioch was influential, it was influenced and it was advanced for its day. And then there's another biblical reality woven into the fabric of Antioch that is nothing less than providential and it is this fact. Antioch had a large established Jewish community present. You see, verse 19, part B said, they spoke the word of the Lord to no one except the Jews. This is how it started. And as I studied this week and as I prepared this week and as I tried to step back from the text and build a panoramic image, if you will, of what was taking place in Antioch, the Holy Spirit kept bringing to the forefront of my mind this one particular verse from Romans. Romans chapter one, one verse 16, the apostle Paul says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is what is the gospel is, for it is the power of God for salvation, for some, no, for everyone. Remember this word, everyone. For everyone, for everyone, for everyone who believes. But this is why I said it's providential because it says to the Jew first, but also to the Gentile. What a wonderful word the apostle Paul used there. Everyone, everyone, everyone. If you look up everyone in every language, it means everyone. It's amazing how that works. Everyone, there's no translation needed. Everyone, everyone. What a wonderful word the apostle Paul used there because what we find happening in Antioch is the gospel is going out to and it is reaching everyone. Jews and Gentiles. It is reaching everyone. But also what a wonderful word for us today. For those of us who feel or think or maybe have been told that there's something about us that actually rules us out that it's for everyone but us. It's for everyone but me. Wrong family, wrong background, wrong history, wrong side of the tracks, wrong education, wrong language, wrong culture, wrong decisions, wrong job, wrong neighborhood, wrong place, wrong skill set, wrong time, wrong insert, the wrong that you have been told or you have felt or you have thought here. But then, but then, like our brothers and sisters in Antioch, we hear the gospel, the good news that says everyone who believes, everyone who believes. I wanna go back to our text and I wanna zoom in quickly on three particular verses, verses 19 through 21. Just to read it one more time to bring it back to our attention it says, now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Venetia and Cyprus and Antioch speaking the word to no one except Jews. Now here's where I really wanna hone in. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. Now this passage it takes us actually back into Acts, to a few, to Acts chapter eight, Acts chapter eight verse one. It brings us back to this because this is what it's speaking about. Acts chapter eight verse one says, and there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria. Now get this, accept the apostles. So let's do a quick recap. Let's put framework around all this real quick. Acts 1120 said, some of them. Acts eight verse one said, accept the apostles. Accept the apostles. I want that to stick out in your mind today and I want you to leave realizing what took place at Antioch today. You see, because I find this interesting. I find it interesting that this great thing takes place. And the apostles aren't even there. The trained professionals aren't even there. They're not even there. What we see happening in Antioch, let me be just a little bit more specific. The revival that took place in Antioch. The church that was started built in Antioch. This was not Peter and John being sent to Antioch to preach the gospel. This was not Philip and James being sent to Antioch to preach the gospel. This was not powerful technical preachers and prolifically trained pastors. Being sent to Antioch to preach the gospel. This was not them. Our text teaches us that this was unnamed men and women of God Christians with no church planning experience. And no cemetery degree. I mean, seminary degree. I say that every time. Seminary degree, I'm sorry. No seminary degree. They had no stage. They had no mic. They had no smoke. They had no place to meet. They had no programs. I mean, they didn't even have an actual plan in place. All they had was Jesus. So they preached Jesus to everyone. To everyone. But why everyone? Why? Because everyone who believes. Everyone who believes. I don't know if you know this, but this goes against every Western church strategy and growth model today. This goes against it all. I mean, if you want to grow a church, or if you want to plant a church today, get a good communicator, some good musicians, a good place to gather, and set some good programs in place, and you're pretty much good to go. You're pretty much good to go. And it doesn't hurt if you get some of those tall inflatable tube guys just sit out front in the parking lot and do this whole thing and you put the name along the sides. It looks like he's wearing merch or something like that. Yet, I don't know. We just read it. None of those things were present at Antioch. None of them were. Understand, church, none of these are bad. None of these are bad. In fact, with the right heart and the right intention, they are all in fact good. They are great. They're awesome. But beloved, I don't want us to miss this this morning. Instead of professionals, places, and programs at Antioch, what we find are some people. Some people. It was just some people, verse 20. Some people who fled for their lives and ended up in a place called Antioch. And these some people were so in love with the person of Jesus. They were so consumed with Jesus. Jesus wasn't actually, he was actually enough for them. They were so in love with Jesus, they would start one of the greatest revivals in churches in the history of Christendom. They were in love with Jesus. Are you getting this, Portage, please help me. Like, we're quiet over here in Richland. Please help me, Portage. Like, Portage, come on, help me. I don't know if you're getting this because I'm talking about ordinary nine to five men and women, disciples of Jesus. Christians, preaching the gospel to everyone. Preaching the gospel to everyone in verse 21 says the hand of the Lord was with them all and a great number of them turned to the Lord because of it. Ordinary nine to five men and women of God who just so much loved Jesus that they wanted to tell everybody they met about Jesus. In other words, the church at Antioch was a church where disciples were making disciples. Disciples were making disciples. You see, they were like dandelions. Dandelions and the fact that wherever they were blown to they planted their seed in the soil and their seed was the gospel of Jesus for it is the power of God for salvation, for everyone who believes it is. Now, this is where Acts 11 confronts the majority of the Western church today. And I don't know if you heard me about two months ago preach, but I mentioned that I have a little bit of a confrontational spirit in me. Like, I confront and you can just make, actually, when you might wanna just look at the person next to you and say he's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. Lord, help me. This may come as a shock to you, but sorry that I'm not sorry. It's not Pastor Lee's job to love your neighbor. It's your job. Please hear me. It's not Pastor Lee's job to reach your neighbor. It's your job.  But make no mistake, as a disciple of Jesus, as a Christian, verse 26, and in Antioch, the disciples were first called Christians. As a Christian, it's your job. God didn't put Pastor Lee on your street. He put you on your street. God didn't put Pastor Lee in your place of work. He put you in your place of work. He put you in your place of work. So as a Christian, it's your job. And just so you don't think fake news, excuse of today, let me just, let's just turn in our Bibles real quickly to the book of Ephesians chapter four. Ephesians chapter four, starting in verse 11, says this, and he being God, being the Lord, he gave. So when it says he gave, what comes next are the gifts that he gave. He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds, also means pastors, and teachers. So he gave them, what did he give them for, Pastor Kerr? I'm about to tell you. To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ until we all, until the pastoral staff. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, until we all, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood. That in the Greek means a full grown bearded man. Bless me, oh Lord, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children. I don't know about you, but I turn on social media and all I see is children today.  Tantrums, children, but here scripture says, he is calling us out of that and into maturity so that we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine. Can you feel the winds of doctrine in our culture today? Can you feel them? Can you sense them? Can you see all of the doctrines blowing about that are carrying our brothers and sisters away and things that have nothing to do with the gospel? Voting according to things that have nothing to do with the gospel? Carried about by every wind and doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful schemes, rather speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up. I hear the spirit of God saying, Radiant, it's time to grow up. It's time to grow up in every way into him who is the head into Christ, from whom the whole body joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped. How does that get equipped? It's equipped when each part is working properly. I don't know about you. Last night I slept on this shoulder wrong and this arm was numb. It wasn't working properly for like the first half an hour. Like I was like, I looked like one of those wavy guys in the shower. I was like, come alive, you know. I feel like we have a lot of parts in the church that aren't working correctly. It makes up the body, it makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Now that we've seen my confrontation, if you will, in scripture, let me just poke a little bit more. I want to be fun, if I didn't. It's not the pastor's job to pray for the city, the church, the nation, and the world for you. Hear that? It's not a pastor's job to pray for you. It's your job. Listen, we will always pray for the city, the church, the nation, and the world here at Radiant. Likewise, we will always pray for you and your situation and your needs and what you're going through and even your cat. Pastor John loves to pray for cats. Bring to him all your cats.  We love it. It's my favorite thing to do. I love to get to pray with you. I love to get to pray for you. We love doing it and we take it seriously, but understand it's not because we are pastors. It's not because it is our gift. It's not because it is our calling, but because we are Christians and it's our responsibility as Christians to pray as Christ prayed. It's for all of us. It's for every single one of us to do. We are to pray just like Christ prayed. The word Christian, I don't know if you know this, when you break the word down, the I-A-N. What that means is it means belonging to the party of, belonging to the party of what preceded the I-A-N, so belonging to the party of Christ. That's what Christian means. I belong to the party of Christ. I am one of his people, okay? And so it is our responsibility as Christians to pray. And this is why we have the Radio City Center. This is why we have a prayer room where we gather Monday through Friday, 8 a.m., noon and 6.30. But listen, make no mistake, this is not a time and a place for pastors to pray. This is a time for us to pray. It's a time and it's a place for us to gather, to cry out to God for a move in this area just like he moved in Antioch. I love what Dick Eastman said. He said, in no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer. There is no greater thing. This is the biggest part. And so I love that you pray at home, but something happens when we gather together in an upper room and we cry out to God. We sing and worship. We fall on our faces and we sow in tears so that we may reap in joy. Something happens. Something happens. And so I want to poke all of you and say, get to the prayer room. Men, get to the prayer room, start leading there. I would love you men to join me Mondays at 8 a.m., every Monday at 8 a.m., join me. Join me, join me, join me. Understand, beloved, like we see happening in Acts 11 with the church at Antioch, radiant church exists to make radiant disciples of Jesus. But please note that we do not exist so Pastor Lee can make or will make radiant disciples of Jesus, but so radiant church, meaning the people of radiant will make radiant disciples of Jesus. That doesn't exclude Pastor Lee from making radiant disciples. That includes all the pastors and all the staff, but it also doesn't exclude you.  It's your job. Beloved, like a dandelion, fills fields with more dandelions, so disciples of Jesus are to fill the earth with more disciples, which should not surprise us, because remember what Jesus' last words were before he ascended in Matthew 28, verse 19. Go, go, go, get on the move, go therefore and make disciples of all the nations. He didn't say, hey pastors, go make disciples of all the nations. He said, no, no, no, go, my disciples, go, go and make disciples of all the nations. But Pastor Garrett, it's great. I like it, I hear ya, but you don't know my neighbor. You don't know my boss, you don't know my coworker, you don't know my uncle Darrell. If you knew my uncle Darrell, they're a mess. And angry, and I'm just gonna be real, they're evil. But Pastor Garrett, you don't know, you don't know my place of work, you don't know my city, you don't know my neighborhood. It's dark, it's difficult, it's evil. You know, that may be true. I may not know all of those facets and all those details and all those inner workings of everything that you have going on in your life. I get that, so I'll give you that one. You can have that one on me, have a participation trophy for the day, okay? Those may be true, but can I tell you something? If not too bad, I'm going to anyways. Antioch was no garden of Eden. Antioch was no garden of Eden. Antioch was a place that was known for literally its dark, luxurious immorality. It was a place that would discuss most of us today without vile it was. And yet, this was the place. And those were the people that God chose to use, the some of them, the some of them to do this incredible work that we marvel at and we named churches after today. So I say to you that this is the place. And these are the people, and these are the circumstances. Let me say it again, this is the place and those are the people and these are the circumstances which I believe God is going to do another incredible work in and with just like he did at Antioch, right here in this place and at this time. But here's the caveat, here's the thing. You, you, you, you have to do it just like some of them did it because the hour that we are in right now is the perfect setting for it. There's this little TikTok thing going around. It's on Instagram too, and it's this voiceover that people put over the workout that they're doing, 75 hard and all these kind of things. It's great, but the voiceover says this. It says, it says, you can never get upset about the results you didn't get by the work that you didn't do. Church, we can't get upset about the results that we're not getting by the work that we're not doing. He said, go into all the world and preach. He said, proclaim the good news. And in the Gospel Mark, the word is proclaim the good news. Proclaim the good news. Proclaim it. Beloved God wants to use everyone. God, I'm sorry, God wants everyone to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. But understand, he is not looking for professionals to help make that happen. He is looking for some of them. He's looking for some of them. He's looking for unnamed, unnoticed, unfollowed on Instagram. Men and women, he's looking for disciples, Christians, to help make it happen. And I believe that when some of them step up here, like some of them stepped up there, what happened in Antioch, it will happen in Richland. It will happen in Portage. It'll happen in Plain and Walat Sego. It'll happen in Battle Creek. It'll happen in Grand Rapids. It will happen in your city. And maybe I didn't name. I live in Augusta. It'll happen in Augusta. It'll happen in your neighborhood. It'll happen with your neighbors. It'll happen in your place of work. It will happen in your family.  It will happen on your campus. Because again, this is the place. And those are the people. And these are the circumstances that God is saying to each and every one of us every single day, go, go, go. So my question for you today is, deep down inside of your heart, are you or are you not ashamed of the gospel? Are you or are you not? Are you scared of the backlash that someone might say to you? Are you scared of someone filming you and putting it up on the internet? Are you ashamed of the gospel? I'm not. I stand with Paul. Because I believe, I don't just think, I believe, I know that it is the power of God for salvation, for everyone who believes. I believe more now than ever that everything that we are going through, everything we are facing, all of the pressure that we are experiencing daily and all of the noise and all of the traffic that's coming into our heads and our minds and consumes us and is pushing us back. I believe that we sit in a perfect environment just like Antioch was a perfect environment. I believe that God is looking to his church saying, will you be some of them? In the midst of all of that, in the midst of all that turmoil and confusion and chaos, will you be some of them? Some of them. Will you stand with me?  I'm not accusing, condemning, but I am drawing a line in the sand saying it's time for us to get back to what we are called to do to begin with. I don't want anyone to feel condemned today, but I want everyone to feel challenged today. And I want everyone to feel convicted today because as I wrote and as I prayed and as I studied, you can ask my wife even 20 minutes before we preached, before I preached, I was in the back going, I hope no one gets like too pushed by this. Like instead of encouraged, the enemy breeze lies onto it. Like, I don't want that. What I want is all of us to stand up and be who we're called to be and do what we're called to do. We are called to make disciples. We are called all of us in this room. If you are in Christ, you are called to make disciples of Christ. You are called and we want to help you. And so if you don't know what that looks like, you don't even know where to start. Let us help you. There's a lot of us around. Let us know. We have a lot of awesome things in place to help you grow and help you walk in the fullness of your calling right where you're at right now. And so let us know, come and talk to us. I want to invite our prayer team and ministry team up to the front and as they begin to come up, if you don't even know the Lord, you just are, you feel far from the Lord that you feel this tug on your heart.  I just, I don't want to, what I want to do is I want to actually to ask you to do me a favor and I want you just to, if you're feeling led by the Lord to say, I surrender my life and I feel the Holy Spirit, this nudge in my heart, this pulling, this gripping of my mind, I feel something happening inside of me. I want you to do something and I just want you, when I just miss in two minutes to come to the front and talk to one of our prayer partners right here, let us pray with you. It will be the greatest decision you've ever made in your life. Also, if you're in this room today and you're saying like, hey, Pastor Garrett, I want to step up, but I need prayer, I need some courage, I'm pretty beat up, I'm pretty defeated, I'm running on empty, let us pray with you. If you have sickness in your body, if you're sick, if you're discouraged, if you just need an adrenaline shot of hope, let us pray with you. Seriously, let us pray with you. Prayer changes everything, changes everything. Let me pray, Jesus, we love you, we thank you for your word today. Lord, I pray that all of us would take this mandate seriously and we would go into all the world, that we would go into all the world where you have us into our city, into the grocery store, into our place of work, that we would take a stand in our families and we would make disciples of all the world, preaching the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Lord, I pray that we, that our lives, as we look back on them, that we would see a field full of disciples, a field full, Lord. We would see family members and we would see coworkers and we would see people that we just met in the store and we would see just tons and tons of people, Lord, for you are worthy of it, Lord, you are deserving of it. So, Jesus, I pray for strength and courage in this room that as we leave here today, that we know that we are not leaving, but we are going. We are being sent as messengers, as carriers, as witnesses of your gospel, of your good news. For it is the power of salvation for everyone who believes. Lord, the grass withers, the flowers fade, but your word stands forever. We rest in that today in Jesus' name, amen.


Archery icon Alan Jackson's taste in real estate is nothing short of extravagant as we can see from photos of his hilltop mansion located just outside Nashville. Set in the upscale suburb of Franklin, Tennessee, the country music hall of famers, former residents boast five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and an expansive square footage clocking in at over 22,000. The mansion is grand as they come, with each bedroom a fully-appointed suite while the formal dining and living areas showcase arched doorways, oversized windows, and intricate woodwork. The stone structure also houses a bar, media room, multiple fireplaces, both indoor and outdoor, and much more. Today we'll be talking about the one and only Alan Jackson. This Georgia boy has been making country music magic for over 30 years now. Alan got his start back in the 80s after his wife Denise's, his high school sweetheart by the way, ran into Glen Campbell in an airport while she was working as a flight attendant. She passed Alan's demo tape along and the rest is history. Campbell got Alan a publishing deal in Nashville and he was off to the races. His first album, Here in the Real World, came out in 1989 and had some real hit tracks on it like the title track Blue-Blooded Woman, but it was his sophomore record Don't Rock the Jukebox in 1991 that really launched him into stardom. Throughout the 90s Alan was cranking out hit after hit and selling out arenas across the country. He was bringing an authentic twangy traditional country sound to the masses. Alan had found the perfect blend of catchy melodies and storytelling lyrics. Of course we can't talk about Alan's legendary career without mentioning his response to 9-11. Where were you when the world stopped turning? That song resonated so deeply with the entire nation. It gave words to all the feelings and perspectives people were experiencing after that tragic day. And it earned him a Grammy to boot. Alan is also just as famous for his love songs like Remember When and Living on Love which brings me to his love life. Alan met Denise when they were just teens in Georgia. It was basically love at first sight for those two. They got married while they were still in high school at age 19. They've been together through it all, the ups, the downs, the fame and fortune. It hasn't always been easy but their commitment to each other is inspiring. When Denise was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, Alan put touring on hold just to be by her side. After over 40 years of marriage, they're still going strong. Alan says the key is taking time to have dinner together, talk and just be a couple when he's not on the road. Let's dive a little deeper into their love story. Alan and Denise met when they were just 15 in their little hometown of noon in Georgia. They caught each other's eye at a school dance and that was it. While they got married when they were still teenagers, getting married so young was still a risk but their love and commitment to each other gave them the strength to grow together. In the early days, money was tight and Alan was trying to break into the music biz. Denise worked as a flight attendant to help make ends meet and that chance meeting with Glen Campbell was actually the big break that launched Alan's career. As the hit started coming and Alan was touring the country, it put a strain on their marriage. Being apart so much wasn't the end. Unfortunately, Alan was unfaithful during this period. When Denise found out she was heartbroken but her fate led her to forgive Alan. She realized they both needed to change if their marriage was going to survive. They separated for a while to work on themselves as individuals. Denise focused on her spirituality while Alan faced his mistakes. For months apart, they reconciled and emerged with a renewed commitment to each other. Alan and Denise's lifelong love proves the true love can stand the test of time. It's not always pretty but if you stick together, you can make it through anything. Now, let's check out some of the stunning places that they've called home. Alan Jackson's lakefront vacation home on Lake Burton in Clarksville, Georgia is peak southern charm. This two-story cedar lake house has five bedrooms and a massive rooftop deck with an outdoor kitchen and a family room overlooking the lake. Its best features are the scenic views with floor-to-ceiling windows in every room.  The property sold for $6 million after being on the market for just a few months. With its blend of rustic charm and lavish details, this lakefront retreat was designed for relaxing and entertaining in luxury with stunning scenery as the backdrop. No wonder it was snapped up so quickly. For the exterior highlights, the property has a traditional cedar lake exterior with a stone facade and is located in an exclusive gated community on Lake Burton. It comes with scenic views of the lake and mountains and is over 1.2 acres of lush landscaping. The stone driveway leading to the home comes with a waterfall pond at the front porch entrance. The property contains a two-story boat house with rooftop deck and outdoor kitchen together with a swim dock perfect for lake activities. There's a patio with stone fire pit and fan screen porch with fireplace and full outdoor bathroom. The lake house contains five beds and 6.5 bathrooms designed with a cozy rustic and farmhouse-inspired decor. There are four stone fireplaces in total and reclaimed oak hardwood floors. It also has vaulted ceilings and exposed wood beams with floor-to-ceiling windows in every room. It's designed for an open floor plan with large gray room and comes with a gourmet kitchen with two islands, formal dining room with lake views and much more. There's a spacious primary suite with study, fireplace and private porch. All suites here have spa-like bathrooms and the home office comes with built-in shelves as well as a finished terrace level with rec room. But that's not Alan and Denise's only home. Set on 150 acres of woodlands, Alan also owned a massive French country style mansion in Franklin which was fit for music royalty. With over 20,000 square feet of living space, this home has seven beds, 13 baths, a home theater and a 15 car garage. This place was ideal for entertaining with a pool pool house and covered patio with stone arches and fireplaces. Inside the grand foyer led to formal living and dining rooms. It had ordinate woodwork and custom details throughout. This stunner sold for $28 million after two years on the market. This magnificent mansion combined luxury details and amenities with old world southern charm. It was truly a one-of-a-kind estate fitting for country music royalty. This sprawling home sat on 150 secluded acres of land with intricate ironwork and stonework throughout the outside. A large motor court driveway at the front also impresses with formal gardens and winding path. There's also a resort style pool and pool house with changing rooms out back. There's also a detached 15 car air conditioning garage. Inside the mansion, there's about 22,000 square feet of living space with seven beds and 13 baths total. There's a grand two-level foyer with an iron staircase with formal living and dining rooms for entertaining beside this. The gourmet eating kitchen has double ovens and there's also a spacious great room. This area of the home has soaring ceilings, a wood paneled library with cozy fireplace nearby. And there's also a home theater with seats for 10 people. If that's not enough, you'll also find a wet bar and wine cellar. The elevator here has access to all three levels. Allen and Denise's former primary suite was pure luxury too. Complete with sitting area and balcony while en suite bathrooms boast marble details all over. Allen Jackson's contributions to country music over the last 30 plus years are undeniable. He's crafted an impressive catalog of hit songs that have become country classics. Through all his success, he's stayed true to his roots and devotion to his high school sweetheart Denise. Their lifelong love stories inspired many even when they faced challenges.  His homes from coast to coast reflect his signature style of traditional charm blended with luxury. As he slows down his touring to manage his health, Allen Jackson has certainly earned the right to kick back and enjoy the fruits of his labor. This country legend has given fans over three decades of music to move them to tears, make them smile and take them back to a simpler time. Before we wrap things up, answer this question for me. Would you want to have a home spanning over 22,000 square feet or is that simply too massive? Let me know in the comments below. Don't forget to hit subscribe and turn on those notifications so you never miss a video. Follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll see you all another time. Bye! I started to get more hands on myself and I started tackling DIY projects at my own house. Being a new homeowner, there are plenty of unexpected things to fix and it's cool to learn what you're doing and hopefully be able to fix it yourself. There are also plenty of DIY projects suitable for beginners like me to do and ones that improve the look of your space drastically. Follow me and I'll teach you what I'm learning and motivate you to join me.  Follow me on FixItWithKara and we can chat.


In today's video, we are going to talk about the top 10 most popular cat breeds. Cats are typically referred to as either domestic or purebred. Domestic cats do not have a pedigree history of their lineage, while purebred cats do. Three main associations recognize purebred cats, the Cat Fanciers Association, CFA, the International Cat Association, Tika, and Federacion Internacional Feline, Fife. The CFA recognizes 44 breeds, Tika recognizes 58, and Fife recognizes 43. The breeds that are not recognized by all three associations are not as commonly seen as some of the recognized breeds, and several factors are taken into account prior to a cat becoming recognized as a purebred. Smaller associations also exist, such as the Southern Africa Cat Council. Here is the list of the top 10 most popular cat breeds. 10. Devon Rex Cat Breed. Devon Rex cats have a wavy, short hair coat and slender bodies. Their fur is also very soft, and their ears very large. The Devon Rex is a playful, active cat and is sometimes described as a monkey in a catsuit. 9. Sphinx Cat Breed. If you are looking for a cat that doesn't shed, then the Sphinx is for you. Sphinx cats look unique due to their lack of fur and are very social, active, dog-like felines. The Sphinx is neither long-haired nor short-haired. It's almost hairless. But it also belongs to one of the most popular cat breeds because of this very distinctive characteristic combined with very wrinkled skin. Sphinx cats do need more care than most cats because they can easily get sunburned or cold. Since their skin tends to oily, they also need regular washing. But having a Sphinx cat is a joy for owners who love energetic felines who will love any opportunity to be close to you. 8. Oriental Short Hair Cat Breed.  Unlike Siamese cats, they usually have green eyes and can come in many color patterns and colors. A long hair variety also exists. Oriental Short Hair Cats are prone to skin cancer and getting cold due to their lack of fur, so they are often seen wearing sweaters. 7. Berman Cat Breed. Bermans are other color-pointed cat like the Siamese and Ragdoll. They have blue eyes and a medium long coat but no undercoat, setting them apart from Persians and Himalayans. Bermans were used for breeding in the development of Ragdolls, so they look very similar but can have slightly different markings and personalities. 6. Abyssinian Cat Breed. Originally from Ethiopia, the Abyssinian Cat has a distinctive red or orange agouti coat. The agouti fur, which actually means it has bands of light and dark coloring on the individual pieces of hair, gives the Abyssinian its unique look. Among the most popular short-haired cats, the Abyssinian Cat has a very special fur that has bands of color for each individual hair. It's very distinct and it's the Abyssinian's elegant look along with the cat's smooth and long body. Abyssinians are very easy to care for because while they love being around their human parents, they are also happy when playing with their toys or with other animals. They have soft, quiet voices and a very active lifestyle full of climbing and jumping. 5. Bengal Cat Breed. Bengals are wild-looking cats, literally. Their markings make them look more like they belong in the jungle than in your home, but they are domesticated cats nonetheless. They are talkative and require a lot of exercises. Many colors are allowed on Bengals, but their approved patterns only include spots and rosettes. Their name comes from the Asian leopard cat's taxonomic name, Pryoniluru's Bengalensis, since Bengals were originally bred from both domestic cats and wildcat. They get their beautiful patterns from the wildcat as well. Though all cats within the breed of different personalities, Bengals are generally active and playful in a kitten-like way, even at an older age. They need pet parents who are willing to keep them busy and entertained, and who are tolerant of a cat who may need a more stimulating, enriched home to thrive. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife, to get 20% off. 4. Ragdoll Cat Breed. Ragdoll cats get their name from their docile temperament. They seem to go limp when picked up, much like a ragdoll. At one time, it was even thought that they couldn't feel pain, but that is of course only a myth. Ragdolls look a lot like long-haired Siamese cats with their pointed color patterns. Cats of pointed breeds have lighter colored bodies with a darker face, legs, tail, and ears. While their coloring can vary slightly, their blue eyes are distinctive. They also have distinctive blue eyes and dog-like personalities, following their owners around the house. One of the more affectionate breeds, ragdolls will often follow their humans around, greet them at the door, and hope for a spot in bed. They're known for being easygoing and not excessively active. 3. Maine Coon Cat Breed. Known for its large stature and thick fur coats, the Maine Coon is a cat that is difficult to ignore. Hailing from the state of Maine and the state's official cat, the Maine Coon is a gentle giant. They are great hunters and were popularized after the CFA recognized them as purebred in the late 1970s. They remain one of the most popular cat breeds. Many Maine Coons have extra toes, a trait referred to as polydactylism, which makes their already large feet even larger. This is a great feature to have when hunting in the snow since large feet act as snowshoes. The classic Maine Coon coloration is a brown tabby, but this breed can come in almost any color. When it comes to personality, these cats toe a line of wanting to be near their humans and needing their own space. They have a reputation for being undeniably attentive and may follow family members around, but like many cats, they can be cautious around new people. Unlike most other cat breeds though, Maine Coons have a dense, water-resistant coat, they may enjoy a water fountain or even playing in the water. 2. Persian Cat Breed. Also lovingly referred to as one of the smushed face cats, Persians have beautiful long fur coats. They can come in almost any color, depending on which cat registry association you're looking at, and have a flat face when compared to most other breeds of cats. Some breed descriptions even state the nose is not allowed to protrude past the eyes when viewed in a profile. Persians have been seen in many movies, art commercials, and homes throughout the years, and have also been one of the most popular breeds of cats for decades. Their coats demand regular grooming, otherwise, matting will result. Like many purebreds, they are prone to a variety of diseases, including renal and cardiac problems. Persians are also known as the Persian long hair, the Iranian cat, and the Shirazi cat, named after the city of Shiraz, Iran, since they were originally imported from Iran. 1. Siamese Cat Breed. Popular since the 19th century, this breed of cat originated in Thailand. The Siamese has helped create many other breeds, including the Oriental Short Hair Sphinx and Himalayan. Siamese cats have distinct markings called points that are the areas of coloration on their face, ears, feet and tail, but some Siamese may not have any points. There are also two varieties of Siamese cats, one with an apple-shaped head and chubbier body and one with a larger head and slender body. The animated Disney film Lady and the Tramp, featured Siamese cats singing a song and demonstrating not only their intelligence but also how vocal they can be. Many Siamese cats that were originally from Thailand had a kink in their tail. This trait was bred out of most Siamese, but you'll still find it in Siamese street cats in Thailand. Siamese cats are very vocal and will love nothing better than to talk with you all day. They demand time, are very smart, and can learn tricks. They are always checking things out, and are known to open cabinet doors and drawers. Get a Siamese cat if you love a busy buddy feline who will be endlessly curious about what you are doing and everything in your house. And also if you like watching TV and want someone to talk with about what you watched. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


The S21 Ultra is known for its crazy camera shots, but that also makes it the biggest problem for its protection. Notice how large a surface area and bump the camera module is. Undoubtedly, the camera bump is the major statement piece of the S21 Ultra and it is this iconic look which makes it stand out from other flagships. However, it also seems to be the most dangerous part of it and which needs to be the emphasis of protection. Ang video na toh ay handog ni CDKoffers.com Marami kang mahanap na ibat-ibang uri ng software dito. May games, apps, activation codes, or Windows 10. Check out our video on CDKoffers in the video description. Mabilis, mura, and siyempre legit dito. Madalil ang mag-order, search for the software you need, add to cart, check out, dan ka sa payment options nila, wala pa isang minuto, finished. May legit working CDK ka na sa software na pinilimo. Gamitin ang aming promo code para makakahuha pa ng extra 20% discount sa purchase mo. Kung naghanap ka ng mura, legit, and original software, check out CDKoffers.com. Our first case is the Spigen Crystal Flex. Spigen is a familiar case maker brand and I have been buying their cases since the iPhone 6 Plus back in 2014 and it is always the first choice I go to after I buy a new phone. Mostly because it is a known brand. I like their cases in general and because they usually make dependable cases for when you've just bought a new phone that needs protection ASAP. The case also comes with a cleaner in case the case comes in contact with something which stains it. I haven't used it and I'm saving it for a rainy day. In keeping with the minimalist approach, innards of the case do not have additional cushioning for the sides of the phone. The Crystal Flex, as the name suggests, is flexible and installation was quite easy. Some phone cases make it difficult for people to install their phones into it but the biggest problem I have always had with cases was taking the phone out. Taking the phone out of some cases sometimes leads to the case either breaking or forces you to work hard for it to release.  However, if you look closely, it isn't really transparent to begin with. It has these white dots which encapsulate the outer layer of the case. They are noticeable enough that it defeated the reason as to why I got this case. It also seems to show an ever-so-slightly blue tint so it isn't 100% white. The buttons are the same material as the case and they fulfill their purpose in protecting the keys. However, they aren't particularly interesting to touch to be honest. The camera bump and the immediate sides of the phone are protected by the lip which is there to act as the first contact between your phone and death. The major problems I have with the case is that it offers no grip whatsoever. If your hands are moist, even with just ordinary claminess, you will definitely feel a form of hesitance that this phone will slide through your hand by mistake if you aren't careful to maintain a tight grip. Most people get a clear case so that the case could vanish. But the layer of tint is heavy and the white dots makes the case even more pronounced. What you also need to watch out for with cases like this is yellowing over time. Some reviews have reported that the case came yellowed out of the box. I myself have a Note 9 case which has begun to yellow but lasted two years but which happily held on before my S21 upgrade. I got this case for 940 pesos complete with shipping. On Amazon and the US, you can get this for $12. I'll leave links in the description below for both. Hey! If you like what you're watching so far, please consider liking and subscribing to Hardware Sugar where we generate regular tech content. Ring K is a new brand to me altogether but it stood out because of their simple but rugged design. This is the Ring K Onyx which comes in black, dark blue, gray and variations of the case with graffiti-style art. The inner layer of the case is encased with rubber padding to provide further protection to the phone while it's inside. Just like the Crystal Flex, the Onyx flexes as well. However, because the sides are made of rubber, I don't think I'll be expecting any yellowing over time. Installation of the phone into the case and removing it are both easy and straightforward. This comes in handy for when I want to clean my phone once a week. Something which I recommend everyone does because dirt and water seep into the case and may leave permanent stains if not cleaned every now and then with a microfiber cloth. The Onyx has excellent grip. The textured dotted sides make me feel as though I just leveled up the feel of an already premium phone. Holding the phone with the Onyx makes the phone feel more substantial, yet more protected. Sometimes, I genuinely pick up the phone when this case is on just so I could feel the heft of the phone. One drawback of these very small cavities, however, is that dirt occasionally gets in and if it's white dirt, it detracts from the look of the case and it takes some effort to remove it because they are nestled in deep. However, I think this is a very minor issue. The matte black finish is a much more welcome color change from the Spigen and the look of the material reminds me of egg carton cardboard. But it is much more pleasing to the touch than that, of course. It also has these three supporting mounds which prop up your phone so as to lessen any possible scratching, you may cause on wood surfaces. It's also a really smart idea to prevent staining or scarring other parts of the phone while it's on top of a surface because the phone is quite literally elevated away from anything which might damage it. Earlier, I mentioned that the camera module is what you want to protect the most and while the Spigen does do that, the Onyx takes it a step further by adding sleek black reflective plastic which refract with light alongside the camera modules. It does makes the case blend more into the phone to the point that you sometimes forget that it is there. In fact, you can even say that the black reflective plastic even augments and makes the camera modules even more impressive. The phone keys are covered by protruding rubber pods which also are nice to touch. Some phone case manufacturers choose to turn these into metal buttons but that would detrack from the already stealthy matte black look that case successfully achieves. There's also a raised lip on the front so that it is what absorbs the impact and not the glass. I got the Onyx for 840 pesos and the whole 100 pesos cheaper than that of the Spigen. Again, I'll leave links in the description below. If it hasn't been there yet, I am very happy with this case and it has been my go-to daily driver case ever since it arrived. Here in Hardware Sugar, Anton and I use our cell phones for all the camera shoots and so cell phone protection is an even more important thing now more than ever. In conclusion, I don't think I'll be using the Spigen case as much because I have naturally gravitated Don't get me wrong though, I'm sure the Spigen case can provide the usual protection is just that because of the much more stealthy design, the mirig plastic around the camera modules, the subtly raised mounds and the textured grip of the Onyx makes this a no-brainer for me. Consider the Onyx as not so much a case which disappears but a case which actually adds to the beauty of the phone and you can't say that about many cases. And I want to give a special shoutout to top fans, IPX addict, Deeprai Shun, John Ochia, Christian Espinosa, Mark Palania and Asher Anima. Thanks guys, we really appreciate it.