Hello and welcome to another AFCB TV Preview Show. We're here in the tunnel where both myself and matchday commentator Chris Temple will be going through everything that's gone on in the last week. Let's take a look at what's coming up. We'll be looking back at that 3-1 defeat to Brighton and the FA Cup last weekend. We'll also be reviewing what's been a busy January already with two new signings through the door. And finally we'll be looking ahead to this weekend's game against everything at Fugitiveson Park. But first we're going to start back at last weekend and that 3-1 defeat to Brighton here in the FA Cup. Chris, what did you make of that one? Oh dear, not a good day was it? Not a good performance. When Pughie scored to bring it back to 2-1 you thought okay well here we go. There's an opportunity to get something back in the game here but it was a flat game all round really. I think you could see it was too much changed teams and there wasn't much atmosphere in the ground. I know that comes from the way the team play. It's reflected in the stands as well. There wasn't much for the fans to shout about and a shame because as we mentioned last week it was an opportunity for a lot of fans who don't often get to come to come to Cup games and they didn't really see the real Bournemouth unfortunately. It just smacked of a team that just needed a I guess a chance to draw a line on the sand and start again really. The FA Cup has not been a good competition three years in a row out in the third round. So from that point of view it was it was all in all a very disappointing day. You know Brighton didn't have to work that hard to win really. They'll probably be thinking that was one of the most comfortable three ones they've had. It was only a game probably for well I don't know the first 15 minutes were okay and then it was a game for a few minutes after Mark Pew scored and then it just pitted out really. So yeah all in all really frustrating but Cup games you know it's great to have a run. We've talked about how good a run would be. It's not to be with the way the squad is at the moment. It's probably not a bad thing to be all guns Premier League now. At least we say I had a golden chance at no no it could have been so different if that had gone and couldn't it. Poor old Leece. I mean the prop we've mentioned before about Leece has had a difficult season. He sort of appears to have gone backwards then he played brilliantly at Chelsea. Unfortunately that that game since has looked like a bit of a freak which is a shame for him because there's obviously ability but it's just at the moment not bouncing for him that you know the one over the bar from six or seven yards. We've said before he needed a goal and that just smacked him a strike who hasn't scored for a while. There weren't many excuses you could make for him in not taking that chance. It just didn't run for him on the day in any capacity. You know right at the end there was one bit of control that the ball ran five yards off his boot and the crowd got on to him a little bit. Just was a really bad day. So you know with the likes of Sam Surridge back in the mix now as well maybe temporarily but he's here at the moment. He's all of a sudden got a possible challenger for you know his spot on the bench. Jermaine's gone so that's opened up a spot on the bench as well. So yeah Leece he's got a I guess a big half a season really to try and prove that he is up there with with Callum and with Joshua King and of course with Dominic Solanke arriving as well. And in terms of Mark Pugh for someone that's not had too many minutes of season he took his goal very well didn't he? Yeah great finish. I think everyone was delighted to see Mark Pugh score. He was very I guess there's an emotional side to his interview after the game as well and you know I know you spoke to him at the club and we spoke to him on BBC Radio Soul as well where he effectively admitted that possibly could be his last game for the club. It's a real shame if it is because it would be nice for people to give him a chance to say goodbye. That sounds you know a bit emotional but I mean that's that's I think he's the leading appearance maker in the club at the moment of the current squad. I think there was I didn't notice at the time but a few fans tweeted me to say he was out there a bit longer at the end sort of applauding the fans and taking a lap of honour. Nobody possibly really knew at the time what that meant but it could be and we gather there is you know quite a bit of interest in him from the top end of the championship. One or two Premier League clubs down the bottom end of the table as well and he'll you know he'll do a great job for somebody but he wants minutes. Eddie Howard said he's not going to stand in his way if someone does come in for him so I think it's almost certain that that he will go during this window. He's out of contract of course at the end of the season as well which makes it slightly more difficult because I think Bournemouth are not so keen for him to to go out on loan until the summer and then he'd be left in limbo so I think they're looking for someone to take him for the for the longer term. So we'll wait and see what happens over the next couple of weeks but I think sad as it is to say that probably is the last we've seen of Mark Pugh in a Bournemouth shirt. Eddie Howard's not massively won for sentiment it would be nice to see him get a run off the bench against West Ham in the next home game but Eddie's not that sort of manager. And just going back to last weekend we saw David Brooks here he was a stand-up performer for the cherry wasn't he? He changed the game actually when he came on it I mentioned about the start of the second half and Mark Pugh getting the goal and that was when it was a contest as soon as David Brooks came on in that central role you know and quite a deep central midfielder role he was back in his own penalty area doing some you know doing some Jefferson Lermotite work as well breaking up attacks. So he was the bright sport really and it says a lot when you have to bring on a player of his inexperience also in that position as well because he doesn't play there very much. I'd be surprised if he's played a sort of a deeper central midfield role than that one but he was making things happen you could see his quality and it's great to see him personally informed because Bournemouth need him to be to be continuing to create sparks. So yeah from his point of view it's a huge sort of feather in his cap that he was able to come on and change the game yeah. And now of course out the cup the focus really has to be the league now doesn't it? It is the league there's nothing else now which is a good in a way. Imagine if Bournemouth had got through to the League Cup semi-finals and had to play this week as well I think you know great as it would have been to be in the League Cup semi-final. The few days on the training ground had done the squad the the world of good. Physically there's been quite a few knocks knocking around mentally draw a line in the sand as well. So yeah it's all systems premier league now which is good and there's obviously a blank weekend coming up later this month with the cup back into international breaks from when is it the start of March as well I think. So yeah there'll be a few blank weekends and now hopefully a bit more opportunity to get players rested between matches. Well of course this time last week we had Dominic Solanke and Nathaniel Klein confirmed as the first two cherry signings of the January transfer window. Let's take a look at what they had to say to AFC BTV. So first things first Dominic big welcome to AFC Bournemouth. Just tell us a bit about your morning because it's been a bit of a hectic morning for you hasn't it? Yeah I was an early one I had to be here for seven a.m. so I was up about six came straight down to to do my medical in the morning met all the medical staff which was good and yeah after that just got to to the signing and stuff. It still happened quite quickly really in the last few days I was going to go out and play and there were there was a few options but I think this it all planned out to to lead into this which I'm very thankful for and I'm very happy to be here. Is it a bit of a hectic time for you as a player because obviously you're at Liverpool and then all of a sudden it's like right that you know let's go how how does that come about you just get a phone call one day? I think there's always unexpected things in football and I think it just comes with comes with it really and you always got to be prepared and I think it's all a learning curve really how quickly things can change and I'm just just showed it. And obviously you're here at AFC Bournemouth why AFC Bournemouth now at this stage of your career? I just think the club's going somewhere over the last few years they've been really good in the Premier League and I've got some good positional finishes as well so I think it's a good club to to be especially for my age as well. Have you been obviously to the side have you met any of the the players or the manager yet? Yeah I spoke to the manager this morning obviously playing in the Premier League watching the Premier League all the time I know the sort of manager he is and yeah I was excited to meet him and I'm really nice guy so I'm looking forward to working with him. And obviously you know some of the lads you know Nathan Ackie, Yasmir Begovic, Lewis Cook did you did you get to speak to them before you came down here or so? No not about about me actually coming so probably be a surprise to them as well but yeah I keep in touch with them and obviously I see Lewis on international duty and I keep up with Nathan Ackie as well so it's nice to see some familiar faces so I'm sure they'll help me set to learn. Well Nathan you're welcome to AFC Bournemouth how pleased are you to sign for the club till the end of the season? Yeah I'm very happy it's a nice club and I'm very happy to be here and as soon as I found out that Bournemouth was you know interested in me I knew to accept straight away because I wanted to be playing football and you know that's what I like doing I like to be out there in the field and there's loads of quality players in the team and you know I'm looking to add to it and help the team to push more forward in the in the league and also in the cops. And tell us a little bit about how you would describe yourself as a player? Yeah I'm a player I like to play you know attacking football I'm also good solid defensively and yeah I'm looking to get forward as much as I can and to help out in attack and also in defense. And beforehand you've obviously you've been a part of England's squad as well is that something you're going to be targeting to get back involved in? Yeah everyone loves to you know play for your country so any opportunity you can you know how well you do for your club is always looked upon everyone's looking so hopefully if I do well I'll call up as lightly maybe. And obviously you've come from you've come from Liverpool what do you think you will have learned from there that can help the team for the rest of the season? Yeah hopefully I could bring my experience on playing at such a big club and you know my Premier League appearances you know I played a lot of games so hopefully I could you know bring my experience and to help the club to do well.  Yeah he's a friend of mine I talked to him before signing and yeah he he told me good things about the club and how well they play and it will suit your your game style so yeah I'm happy and I'm looking forward to it. And earlier today we had Dominic Slanky signed for us did you know much about that while your your move was trying to get finalised? No actually he kept it he kept that one quite quite actually only found out on the on the news like everyone else but yeah I'm glad he signed and you know also a good teammate of mine at Liverpool and now we're doing that at Bournemouth. And you've just met Eddie how what did he have to say to you? Yeah he's I met him he's good yeah he just you know introduced me welcome me into the club world and then you know he's ready for me to go and I'm looking forward to working on doing my like I like the way he plays the team and it suits my style to play so I'm looking forward to it. And do you have any main targets for the season at all for the rest of the campaign? To stay injury free really and just to play most games as I can and just putting good performances and yeah do well for the club. Well there they are the interviews with Dominic Slanky and Nathaniel Klein in full are available on AFCB TV for free. Chris we're going to start with Dominic Slanky it's a really exciting signing isn't it?  I don't think it's a massive issue that they've signed an injured player because you know he's only going to be a couple of weeks away but you know it's an exciting signing because again he's something a little bit different to what they've got already he's a bit more of a physical presence than you know certainly in terms of height he'll be useful at set pieces but he's you know you don't get called up by England for being an average player so one England cap a host of England under 21 caps and goals for them as well so yeah he's you know he's it's a tough squad at Liverpool to get into you know he's been behind Salah and you know Firmino and Mane and all the rest of them at Liverpool so it's no surprise that his options have been limited there I guess Liverpool I guess a bit like Bournemouth have left some players behind as they move forward through the the the spectrum if you like I suppose Liverpool have done the same so from that point of view you know excellent signing lot of money for a guy who scored one goal I think that's the thing that fans will think 19 million pounds he scored one goal but for a lad of his age at 21 I think you're paying a lot for potential as well so there's a I guess a bit of a tax if you like in there of how good he could be I'm sure there are add-ons as well so one thing it is good to get the business done early you know it's two players in now they've got you know they've had a whole week now particularly in Nathaniel Klein's case we'll speak more about in a minute but to get there you know to get used to the surroundings even to learn people's names it's as simple as that and to work out the manager's style and things so but from Salanki's point of view yeah it'll be really good when he's when he's firing and and fit to go which should be hopefully in the next couple of weeks and in terms of Salanki it's a very typical Eddie Howe signing young British player and someone that he can really look to improve absolutely yeah spot on it's yeah look at Lewis Cook and people like that and David Brooks and everybody's from Wales but similar sort of signing similar sort of age you go back to when he signed Ryan Fraser albeit Scottish but you know again young player that he can make a big mark on and Dominic Salanki you know I've got no idea about Jürgen Klopp what he's like on the training ground but I imagine he's probably different to Eddie Howe I think that every manager probably does things differently but again speaking to Dom you know briefly he said you know he's been very impressed by the manager and he says the training set up here that he's seen so far is as good as they had at Liverpool there's nothing behind the scenes it's any different really simply the size of the stadium is pretty much the only difference and probably I guess the spotlight in Liverpool is a bit a bit more glaring than it is walking around Bournemouth but it's nice for him that he's back down south you know he's from Basing Stoke that's where he went to school and you know that's how he had his links with with Chelsea's academy set up so it'd be good for him sort of personally to be back down south among family and friends as well and obviously he knows a lot of the boys he knows Nathan Ackay from Chelsea knows Lewis Cook from England under 21s amongst others so hopefully he'll settle in and I think he does admit that adding more goals to his game is the one thing that he's he really needs to push on with now and you mentioned the likes of Nathan Ackay there Lewis Cook how much confidence will it give him where he's trying to recover from an injury and he's coming into a new place that he already knows a couple of familiar places always useful yeah absolutely it's always more comfortable when you're walking in somewhere and people can show you the ropes and talk about what you know what to look out for and who to look out for and don't upset this guy or do upset this guy Jefferson Lemma but yeah no it's for him it's got to be helpful to to settle in I'm sure and yeah I'd say the only shame for him is that he can't get going straight away on the pitch and show everybody what Bournemouth have paid £19 million for but that time will come will come very soon and hopefully he'll be banging them in and he'll be chomping at the bit to get going obviously having an injury now but also perhaps not getting a game time he would have wanted at Liverpool yeah exactly that's you know he comes here it's not going to walk into the team by the way as well that's that's worth you know flagging up Callum and Joshua King and David Brooks and Ryan Fraser you know the junior let's not forget him as well the way the attacking players have been playing you know and the balls have been going at the other end unfortunately Bournemouth have happened to score three or four to stay in games at the moment which is not ideal um but yeah you see I'm pretty sure we'll see him you know introduced from the bench um as an option first of all um as a bit of cover but I think at the moment the way Callum and Joshua King have been playing Joshua King's just signs that he might be coming back towards his top form so yeah by no means by no means assert in the team and just moving on to Nathaniel Klein we saw him last week what did he make of his performance considering he arrived on Friday night um at about what was it six or seven o'clock I think he arrived met his teammates pretty much in the dressing room on the day of the game just the other side of the camera where we are um I think he did brilliantly yeah um I think Cherry's fans got a little taster of what he's going to add to the team uh excellent going forward really did get forward well um putting the balls in the box that's what Eddie how needs from his full backs he needs you know players who have those attacking capabilities um and he's another one who hasn't had any game times he'll be delighted to have got 90 minutes in straight away and I think you know we'll see a fitter sharper player presumably he's in the team back on Merseyside this weekend at Everton I don't know how much they'll give him stick for being a former Liverpool player but um yeah no he really did settle in well I thought and from a practical point of view as well we've obviously got Simon Francis out we've got Adam Smith out it fills the role of a right back doesn't it certainly does I mean right back was one of the key areas of the team to be to be strengthened that's for sure the good news on Adam Smith is I don't think he's too far away um of course the thing with Adam Smith when he comes back is you know he was playing left back earlier in the season we shouldn't forget left back's been a little bit of a tricky area for the cherries you know Diego and Charlie both had ups and downs informed this season um obviously Charlie said is well documented sort of issues off the pitch as well so um yeah it'd be interesting to see whether Adam Smith comes back you know Nathaniel Klein is presumably going to be ahead of him in the right back pecking order now even though Smithy did brilliantly at the start of the season um so is Adam Smith coming back in as a left back who knows when he eventually does get back in but you can certainly see it as a possibility and at a back four with with Smith at left back and Klein at right back it almost feels like a new back four if you like absolutely well next up for the cherries is a trip to Goodison Park to face Everton it was a dramatic affair earlier in the season so let's take a look at what happened Radio solo his toson on the right side is a plot chance to put in Walcott here and Walcott snuck in beyond that gay is ready to court from him he doesn't need it Theo Walcott puts his finger to his lips and silences the vitality stadium Everton on the counter attack Walcott down the right hand side beat Begavitch it is near post and after 10 minutes the second half it's the 10 men in front 100% record under threat here and the cherries are switched off and all of a sudden Everton had two men spare Sigurdsson to the back post for Keane Powers without the game servant director defender away King's floats the ball in towards Wilson he's pushed over that's a penalty no doubt whatsoever Wilson barged in the back wins the penalty he missed the last one it'll be Joshua Keane who gets the responsibility this time he absolutely right Chris it was a great call to him he was going to take it down on his chest I think you've just seen it again he's definitely barged in the back try and reduce for your ears here for the cherries which he does into the bottom right hand corner picked and went the right way Joshua Keane halved the deficit big 15 to come born with one Everton two well there we go goals from Nathan aka and Joshua Keane rescued a point for the cherries there Chris this weekend it's 11th versus 12th it's going to be a really tight affair isn't it they have been tight games actually between the two teams you know I think back to every time play Everton I think back to the 3-3 and the 98th minute equaliser from junior Stanislas that was a good comeback early in the season actually it was you know tunel down at home and that was a good early I guess marker as to the cherry spirit and mental toughness which some would argue has been lacking maybe in recent weeks but that you know right back at the start of the season bit of drama with a couple of sendings off as well it would be handy to see Rosalis had not played much of a part in the game again because he's obviously Everton's Everton's biggest weapon with his goals this season nine he's got which is an impressive Premier League tally for a guy who cost 40 million pounds so you get what you pay for really but yeah they have been two well matched sides actually born with have lost all three games at Everston in the Premier League two they've been edged out by two goals to one took the lead there last season through Joshua Keane then in the middle was the 6-3 that we won't talk too much about got Lukaku that day but yeah no it has been and two teams probably who will be you know right in the mix to finish in the same areas of the table Everton obviously finished eighth last season changed their manager at the end of the season Marco Silva does have the a bit of an iron fist over Eddie how he's he's played in three times at three different clubs and he's won every single one I think you know sorry hasn't been beaten I should say so Watford Hull and Everton obviously earlier in the season was a draw so yeah Marco Silva and Eddie how they're the two youngest managers in the Premier League so but a youth in the dugout but it's time Eddie how I've got one over him and in terms of Everton's recent form they've obviously lost their last two and just before Christmas they shipped six against Fers so they'll be certainly looking to get points on the border yeah they I mean if Bournemouth thought they had a funny old Christmas then goodness me Everton done six two at home by Spurs and then on three days later on Boxing Day won five one at Burnley so you know this fixture produces and Eddie how I didn't want to hear this earlier on the highest number of goals per game than any other fixture over the course of the last three or four seasons 4.14 I think is the official average number of goals per game between Bournemouth and Everton Eddie how city much rather take an awful 1-0 win than see another 4-3 or 5-4 whatever I think keeping the goals out is the biggest priority this season or in the next few weeks for Eddie and we mentioned defensive reinforcements then maybe that could be one of the key factors but yeah no it's been it has been a funny old a funny old fixture down the years but as I say if we have to commentate on a boring 1-0 win this weekend we'll take any win but a clean sheet would be amazing but Bournemouth don't don't do many low scoring games and you mentioned with Charleston there they've obviously got Sigurdsson Andre Gomez there's quite a few few players in there that need to be kept quiet yeah and they're not they haven't been going well Everton Bournemouth and Everton are in the bottom three in the form table at the moment they've both taken four points in the last six games so you know that actually and you think of Goodison Park as a tough place to go they've lost their last couple there lost to Everton sorry lost to Leicester in their last game by goal to nil made relatively hard work of beating Lincoln in the FA Cup you know by two goals to one albeit with a change squad but then Sigurdsson played with Charleston came on you know they had quite a few of their first teams playing in that game so it wasn't a scratch team so they're certainly looking for a bit of a bit of rhythm to come back as well they found it a bit tough as we've seen they can ship goals as well so yeah who knows we might be in for another three three and in terms of Bournemouth they've obviously threw a horrible set of fixtures over Christmas these are the sort of games they really want to target now aren't they yes funny to think of Everton away as a game to target isn't it but then if you look at the next four games they've got Chelsea and Liverpool coming up in the next four games so it's a bit like where is the break but yeah West Ham at home next then Chelsea here of course and then you're into the likes of Wolves come in so there are some games coming up but I've been Everton away on paper at the start of the season you take a point all day long there absolutely and I'm sure Eddie would take it would be happy with the point he probably wouldn't admit it now but I'm sure he would take a draw and I think Cherry's fans would take a draw a boring 0-0 would be brilliant a clean sheet would be a huge confidence boost as well Everton don't keep many clean sheets Bournemouth don't draw many games I think I think only Tottenham and Man City have drawn less games than Bournemouth and bread in mind they've won most of their games so yeah from that point of view it's it's quite important to get something but it's hard it's hard to say it's a game you need to target because it is Everton away and they're a strong team but a point would be very useful and you've already spoken to Eddie how this morning did he allude to much injury news at all one or two bits one or two hints about player availability he wouldn't he wouldn't put a finger on Adam Smith's timescale he said I'd he said he didn't want to say anything definite because he didn't want to jinx it but he said we hope to have him back by the end of the month really into that what you will there were one or two knocks knocking around Callum Wilson obviously came off in the Watford game with a slight knock towards the end so that he's been nursing that Joshua King had some illness earlier in the week he said he's still been feeling the effects of that for the early part of the week as well so he's not been at full throttle Ryan Fraser had a little bit of a knot but then he's always got a knot we man he seems to he seems to battle on through them but he played in the FA Cup obviously as one they thought could play again and I think he he needed a few days off the training ground probably but apart from that I think no no real other massive massive clues obviously Dan Gosling you know didn't play in midweek he's back in the picture in the central midfield role so we're interested to see what shape he goes with and how many changes there are well it's certainly going to be an absolute crack at 11th versus 12th if you are going to go to St Park then have a very safe journey up there if you're not make sure you follow across all of our social channels for the latest updates thanks for joining us


I'm not okay okay good morning welcome everyone welcome back there's our second lecture on BC 310 church and ministry administration where we've been talking about culture the culture of the organization and congregation um and we're talking about how this culture is shaped how we can be intentional in shaping the culture Srikumar you have a question please go ahead thank you master my question is regarding to the stories um I just want to know that if uh if a man of god is having encounters like you know as you shared about one encounters if you repeat oh the same thing um every time but uh I just want to know that if a servant of god is having multiple encounters you know day to day life or something like that which encourages the congregation and which makes the church to believe that no which defy the faith of faith of the congregation on god and which make them to most of the time um like when they hear a message you know they they know that they they feel that yeah that is this this god is somewhere it's working but sometimes they don't feel it is real but um uh when um these stories are shared that multiple encounters happening a my question is is that is that thing it defy the faith of a congregation uh on god and when it's a wind of god having such kind of encounters uh is it okay to share with the congregation thank you sir that's right um I think um see that there's there's nothing wrong of course there's nothing wrong in a minister of god sharing their personal encounters and experiences and absolutely nothing wrong and they definitely encourage they will definitely encourage the people when we talk about personal encounters and so on but I think the question is or the concern is on what are people being established ultimately we want them to be established in god himself you know in the word of god in the power of god and the working of the holy spirit we don't want them to be established on the leader's personal experiences and in fact that is a big problem in the church today that's a big problem when I listen to people you know I'm taking just generally they they know more about what so-and-so the experience that so-and-so minister had as compared to the word of god itself and that is a very dangerous place to be because all of us need to be established in god and the way we are established in god is by being established in his word and in our personal fellowship with the holy spirit but believers are being they know more about you know what it so and so have a dream so and so had the vision so and so had and the you know the person encounters so and so had and okay there's nothing wrong with it that's beautiful this wonderful but are they established in the word of god do they know the word of god can they fight their own battles with the word of god you know I think that's the concern and so as long as we as leaders as pastors as ministers are you know share I bring forth our there's nothing wrong when sharing our personal encounters with the visions of the dreams or whatever god gave to us nothing wrong with that but the end result should be to point people back to the lord and point established people in god and in their fellowship with god if the sharing of the testimony serves that purpose well and good but the sharing of that encounter is only resulting in people drawing being more established in the individual individual story I think that's a bad thing thank you master thank you okay anything else welcome anything else okay let's go forward so we're just looking at different ways and I can move a little quickly now different ways in which you know we can create intentionally create the culture we talked about rituals and practices and then I think Kennedy shared a nice thing they do which is they celebrate the transition you know and I think that's a nice thing so like this you can create you know you can intentionally create certain practices rituals are repeated that affirm certain things things that you want to value um orientation training so this is very intentional you want to repeat and communicate core values you're reminding people and over again because people tend to forget that you're you know these are our core values so that's something you can intentionally do bring it up over and over again that helps shape the culture affirming and rewarding behavior that's aligned to the culture so you know you reward those who you know the who embody the norms the values and so you not only are rewarding results in terms of numbers or output or work done but you're also rewarding and affirming and rewarding behavior because you understand that that behavior is influencing culture and culture is very valuable in the organization so while we're all used to you know rewarding um output in terms of you know what was accomplished we should also affirm and reward behavior that's that expresses and bodies the culture we want to create you know if somebody did a you know a task to serve somebody so you reward that you affirm that hey so and so did like did like this they served like this you know so you're affirming that and that reinforces and strengthens culture so one of the important things i'm changing so we've talked about you know how do we intentionally shape organizational culture we just shared these five simple things there are there could be more ways in which culture is shaped and we can explore them now one of the important things that we we should try to do is to actually write down what are the values the core you know you can use the word core values or what is the the kind of culture we want to have in the organization if you can write it down that will be very very good right so usually that is expressed in the in in this technical term you know core values so when people say you know core values what are they talking about they're saying look this is what we want this is how we want to describe our culture that's the indirect way of saying it right then there's a core element these are the things we want to embody these are this is the culture we want to create that's what they say and of course technically we call it core values all right but what we're doing is we are capturing the essence of the culture we want to create this is who we want to be as a people so that as we go about doing what we are called to do so try to write it down and so what we did a long time ago is we captured it in this little graphic and then we keep showing this or sharing this graphic at different points you know in our documents in our membership document it's there church membership volunteers and you know our staff guidelines different places we keep showing this again and explaining it and we keep reminding people about it saying this is our core these are our core values in other words we're saying this is what we want to embody as an organization and as a congregation and then our actions have to be aligned to this of course it's no point you know putting it on paper and then not doing it no you put it on paper so everybody understands it but then we have a behavior starting from the leadership on and in all our activities and all our work has to embody or exemplify these core values and if there is a violation of this people have to be held responsible they need to be held accountable right so let's just look at it and this is what we are doing you know you can come up with your own for your church or Christian organization whatever works right so at the very center we say our theme is Jesus that means everything we say and do has to be about Jesus it's not about the pastor it's not about our leader no it's about Jesus Christ so when we tell our graphics people when they do their work say hey don't in your graphics in your promotions in the website and things we do don't make the leader stand out no the leader is you know somewhere in fact for a long time I told the graphics team don't use any picture of me or you know other pastor like just really don't put our picture on anything you do because we don't want us to be the attention you know use any of the graphic that's relevant to the sermon title or whatever you're doing but don't put our picture there so the only place where we have given permission for them to use the picture of the pastor is in the daily devotional so you would see they put something there that's the only place okay you know so fine and that was also after a long time but nowhere else so don't use our pictures anyway because our focus is to be on Jesus our team is Jesus so in all our promotions you know we don't use I mean now I know not everybody will agree on that that's okay but this is our core value we want to keep eyes off of the people off of our leaders focus on Jesus right so it's an intentional thing that we do so in the work we do it's all about Jesus we don't brag on the pastor of the leader now in certain places yeah my name is there more as a sense of responsibility that I am if anything goes wrong hold me responsible so in those situations yeah my name will be there for example on all our books my name is there one because I've worked on it but also if anybody has any grievance with it the content of that book you know whom to blame you know you blame this person or you contact this person so it's more from a sense of moral and social responsibility my name is on the books or so wherever there is you know the name you know we use the name but otherwise we want to keep the focus on Jesus our content is the word so again intentionally in all our preaching our teaching we minimize extraneous information emphasize the word because ultimately we want people to be established in the word so even there you know stories are good but stories are secondary uh other information is good but that other information is secondary the main content must be the word of God our method you want to depend on the power of the Holy Spirit so we have to pray where to seek God be open yes we use tools we use technology and I'll share with you you know next semester uh the different things we do yeah yes we use those things but those are just tools our dependence is on the Holy Spirit because only he can change hearts and only he can change lives then our passion is people so our passion is not building buildings our passion is not uh you know building an organization because we realize that ultimately it's people who are going to go into eternity right that they are what matter so put them first what can we do to serve people what can we do to help people and everything else we do is only serving this ultimate thing of touching people's lives that has to be very clear and what are we all working towards Christlikeness so it's not about numbers yeah as we do count people so we can you know you know how we are progressing yes we manage our finances because we want to keep it in order uh yes you know we do a lot of detailed things but that's not our goal our goal is to help people become like Jesus Christlikeness that's our goal is not to have a name not to have fame not to have you know be glamorous not to have whatever all of the other things that you could look at the real thing that we need to be evaluating all that we are doing is are we helping people become more like Jesus right so this is at the very core the you know theme our content our method our passion our goal and then connected with that in how we practice you know and and this is in order of importance and they're all equally important one is be more to give opportunity to as many people as possible so um uh in every area of ministry it's open anybody who is inclined who has those gifts or whatever's needed they can anybody in the congregation you think you're welcome to come and be a part of it so opportunity it's open for all uh we don't um you know there's no partiality or anything it's just the same thing for everybody opportunities available unity we want to keep us together so anything that disturbs unity is treated with severity right so this is very important we can't disturb the unity of the body integrity again is very important whatever we do you know it's got to be honest it's got to be clean integrity do it right excellence do it well do it to the best that's possible possibly can be done with what we have be excellent in in the work pioneering that means be willing to step out and try new things it's okay if it's not been done before it's okay to experiment it's okay to try it out so you know try something new come up new ideas creative ideas and then relationship that means we value uh relationship amongst ourselves people and so on um so these are our core values right so in our decision making in our planning in our evaluating things we look at things from this perspective if any of these core values are violated in some way we will have to realign ourselves we'll have to correct ourselves and bring us back and say hey that was not right put it here because this is our core value and we need to be doing it like this so this is something we affirm every day on an ongoing basis that means it's not just there you know on paper or some graphic and we forget about it no on a day-to-day basis everybody is being motivated along this and and the fact is it has to be top down that means the leader and the leadership has to be driving this if the leadership doesn't drive it if the leadership doesn't hold people to these core values it will it'll just dissipate it'll water down it'll no longer be there it'll just be on paper so as leaders we need to drive it you know so for example this may seem a little ridiculous but you know excellence so if there's something not done well i give feedback you know i'll tell people you know example if there were typing mistakes in in in in the media that was projected now we give feedback say hey that spelling was wrong or what else what was wrong you know we send it so and we're not doing it because we are we want to in any way make people feel bad or we're not doing this to put people down no we're doing it because excellence is one of our core values or whatever we do let's do it best of course we will make mistakes mistakes will happen but we need to correct it so when you see it that there's a mistake you point it out and it's nothing wrong in pointing it out just do it lovingly and there's nothing wrong in receiving correction because we're all working towards excellence so it just creates that then you know at a different way in different levels for example worship team they have a review every immediately after the worship service what did we do what did we do right what did we do you know what could we have done better the the different teams are given feedback because we are not perfect we can always make improvements but we need to keep checking ourselves somebody else is always good to have somebody else tell us that we need to improve or where we can improve and then you know we have to make those changes so I'm just giving an example where the point is these core values are not just things on paper but it has to be part of our thinking on a day-to-day basis it has to be part of what we do right we give people opportunities to try out new things somebody comes up with an idea it's okay go ahead do it of course you know you need to give some guidance it's okay you know watch out for this and think about this and okay go ahead and try they try it works great if it doesn't work doesn't matter you know at least we tried exploring a new idea or a new new method and it didn't work fine no problem and these ideas can come from anybody you know it can come we just open so you know we welcome those ideas and then we try to do it and see what happens you know and and we're not against well if the idea comes from somebody in the congregation and so on just in the last couple of months we had quite a few ideas that came from people in the church you know just different ones came up shared things so then we tried it out you know some of it involved money like somebody came up with the idea of you know we had recently done a sermon series on leadership and then somebody in the congregation came up with the idea saying why don't we you know create like a desk display a stand and give it to people in the church whoever you know has gone back to the office and they can put it on their office and it could be a conversation starter what have we tried out so sure you know it's it's something new we didn't do that before but uh so we had the graphic maybe at the desk display made about 250 pieces and we're just trying it out and we said people you know take it to your office put on a desk and see you know if it starts conversation and we got feedback you know people have started having conversations saying you know this is what we learned in church you can go to the church website for more information and then now we're making another 50 more pieces to make it available to the congregation so on so it was an idea that just came from somebody in the congregation so like that trying out new things there's no no harm in doing that and and so on okay so let me pause here so I kind of explain this already right and Contra we will talk about next so the point is if for your church or for your organization you can think about um what do you really want to see as part of the culture in your organization or in your church or in your congregation and then you try to forge that you try to create that so and if you can document it and say this is what we want to see happen these are the things that describe or would be descriptors of the culture we want to see created and then you see how you know if you write it down and then you see how you can communicate of course you need to communicate that with the team and then see how to implement that on an ongoing basis you know it takes time to shape these things but it's good if you can write it down share it with your team and then bring it out into practice right so if you get together with your leaders and say hey what is the culture we want to see here in the congregation or in our Christian organization what kind of a culture what would be the descriptors for this you know so you write it down and discuss it think about it and then try to bring it in okay so let me pause here and see if there are any questions or thoughts or anything people want to share please do so any thoughts any questions now just share this one thought and we'll close after that there was a time we had to work through some challenges in church and this happened many years ago so you know when in the early days especially when we had started you know the name of our church is all people's church which means we want to welcome everybody and in those days I noticed a problem we had people who had grown up in among the young people we had people who had grown up in the city urban youth so they were very you know exposed to western ideas and mannerisms and behavior was very urban and then we also had youth young people who were coming into the city from smaller towns some even from kind of villages were moving into the city they'd come for studies they come for jobs mainly they come in come for study and then they come for the education then they start working and so we had both these kinds of youth coming to church so for the people for the young people who had moved into the city from smaller towns and other areas they were still you know they would dress a certain way they would behave a certain way whereas those who had grown up in the city they were very different you know the way they relate would you know very already already very western because they grew up in the city and I began to observe that these young people who had come from smaller towns it was almost like we had two youth groups in the city in our church the urban youth and you know the youth who had just come into the city it was almost like they were you know they would hang out separately they would they didn't you know really feel as one because their behavior the mannerisms think that's so different and so you know as a pastor there's a lot of observing this so you know what can we do to you know help them merge help them be together you know it was it was something that had to be intentionally addressed and so then I had to talk you know I had to talk with the youth especially those grown up in the city and let's explain to them hey this is something I'm observing this is a challenge we want them we want you to welcome be welcoming to them and there are certain changes you need to make to welcome them because they're being put off or they're being turned away because of this certain behavior which they're not accustomed to you know and so we had to you know at that time I'm going back almost so we talk about two thousand six seven something those that range so that's yeah almost 16 years ago 15 16 years ago so I had to intentionally address that and say you know and and speak to this group of young people and say hey you see this this is a difference you can see there are a lot of young people coming in you need to you know be open you need to welcome them you need to be you know you need to modify your behavior a little bit in certain areas in order to be able to welcome them and make them feel comfortable so this is an example where you know you are watching over the culture of what's happening the dynamic of what's happening in the congregation and then you're addressing it you know and now it took a little while and and then you know slowly things change and today even recently when I was discussing with our new youth pastor you know we've transitioned and another young person has taken over being as youth pastor so I spoke to him I said you know you intensely select so and so and so and so as leaders make them part of your your leadership team because of this reason that person comes from that kind of a background so he will be able to relate to people who are coming into the city from smaller towns and so even now you know we're very intense you know pick that person as a leader because he can be a bridge you know two people like that so the point is you are being mindful about the culture that's being shaped in the congregation or in the organization and you're intentionally trying to you know create that unity that sense of belonging and oneness that though we are people we are all people from different parts of the country we come from different backgrounds but when we are part of the church the congregation the community the family of god we should feel you know we belong and and and we need to intensely create that unity that fellowship that sense of belonging right so just wanted to share that okay any questions any thoughts Christopher go ahead please I guess no just to sort of you know listen to what you just now mentioned there is also you know just broadly speaking you know in people who come to churches also have there is a there is a certain difference between you know the the people who are who are financially rich and and the ones who are you know are going to the difficult times and who are possibly you know to define them as poor you know and I was also personally speaking you know given that you know I have come from a denominational church before where they have been I mean I I mean I've actually seen this you know where there are a lot of poor people kind of converged you know to do to that today are the denominational church where they actually seek our arms and you know the arms as indeed they want they want money you know from from people from parishioners in the church I also feel that you know sometimes that the that there is a difference in in the way you are people who are you know well off financially the the way the the the pray and you know the the you know the the difference in you know how how they pray and you know the people who are who are poor who you know sometimes you know they are they are more desperate prayers because you know there are they they need you know some some basic sort of you know basic things in life basically you know basically just getting food on the tables for example so I just wanted to try to get you know I try to understand you know from a from an old people's church perspective from how you know that that is taken care of or how you know sort of works across that you know that sort of you know the the dynamics between you know the rich and the poor and and how you know how that is sort of you know taken care of because um yeah I mean in my is this something that yeah yeah storage I mean I thought of you know when you were talking about the the you know the western culture and the the ones who got from from more locals sort of in Iraq yeah yeah definitely this is another you know cultural divide sort of speak so there are you know as a as a church I think in any part of the world um culture they can be the culture between you know this like you're saying the financial social standing another big culture divide that we had to work on was the age you know the older and the younger the youth and the elders that's again another cultural divide that we have to be very mindful of but just to answer your question on the financial part that is true that you know there are people who come you know who are very rich doing well and then there are those who are not so rich or who just barely you know keeping their life together so um what we've tried to do you know one is to treat everybody equally so and here's some thoughts now just try to be very brief on this one is we try as a pastoral team we try to treat everybody equally and one of the ways we do that is no pastor knows who is giving how much money no pastor knows it so the pastors don't know you know so and so is giving so much and so is giving so much they have no idea on the financial contribution now I know for some extent because I have to work directly with our accountant on many many things to my stomach but in my mind I block out any preferential treatment of any person now I don't know what everybody's giving I don't know that that that information even I don't know but in certain cases I'm things when things are you know escalated and come brought to my attention then I might know but in general none of our pastors know who is giving how much so that means when they minister to people whether people come to prayer ministry there is no bias you know oh this person is giving more versus this no but of course you know by looking at people economically you will know okay this person is doing better and this person but from our pastoral perspective our hearts are to serve everybody equally whether they're you know regardless of where they are in the financial spectrum we serve everyone equally the same way and we treat everybody equally it means when people come the everybody sits on the same chairs everybody and there's no special place for anybody who's rich or everybody comes you find your own place nobody's going to escort the rich person to the front row nobody's going to escort you know we've had this was we've had these times you know when the chief minister you know of a particular state their family was attending church we don't bother you come you're coming because you're coming they come with bodyguards etc but we don't treat them any different they come they sit they listen they go so we don't treat them any different and you know so whether they're politicians whoever they are we all everybody's given the same kind of chair to sit you sit where you want nobody's going to escort you to any place nothing you know so from a pastoral team side from the beginning till today we treat everybody equally now we need to know how to meet the needs of people so what we have set up and we set this up some years ago we set up a generosity fund that means people in the church who have extra money can contribute to the generosity fund and people who have a need can request for money but then we have a process because if you don't have a process to check and verify then it could be abused so we have a form that people have to fill up and we give only for certain things like for buying immediate immediate needs like food groceries you know if somebody's lost a job or something we give towards that we give towards rent housing rents so people have places to stay and we give a lot towards education so a lot a lot of money goes for the education of children and fourthly is medical expenses but people have to fill up a form and they're descendant and every year that happens and it happens very quietly so we don't announce saying oh we gave so much money to this family and so much money to that family we don't announce it people know there's a generosity fund of if people reach out to any other pastors we say hey you then financial help okay you have to fill up this form send it in it'll be reviewed and we give money but we also help them out in terms of getting some financial training so that they can you know manage their money and so on so that's kind of the way we've tried to address it it's not a complete solution but at least in part it addresses the needs of people is it okay all right so we will close for now I just Abraham I see your question there about the age divide and I tell you that was a problem we also faced here at ABC and I just share some things that we did in trying to address that but we'll pick it up in the next class next week is that okay I just had a close for today I just wanted to close about 10 minutes early so I can head out yeah so I'm sorry for rushing away I just want somebody to please pray with us and then we'll close the class for today okay really appreciate all your discussions with questions sharing of ideas it's really good could somebody please pray with us and dismiss us please thank you go ahead thank you so much for your loving kindness Laura I pray right now Lord that as we learn about culture that we need understand it and help it to apply in our lives God thank you so much for everything as Pastor Ashley she's going for a safe journey Lord and you need me to clear that Sam's 91 over his life but he he's protected and shielded with your love God thank you for everything that you're doing you need me to pray thank you everybody thank you so much catch up next week God bless and enjoy the rest of your day and thank you thank you everyone God bless thank you Pastor God thank you thank you


Okay, here is yesterday's inktober is pinktober drawing and we're going to make a new one today and we're even going to do a very quick ink monster after that. So, stay tuned, I'm going to just get my stuff ready, get my mess ready. Hello, Preston. So, as I was saying, this is last night's inktober drawing. As you can see, the white was slightly more white yesterday, but I knew that the pink would seep slightly through. It has seeped through less than I thought it would, but I think this one looks good. And we're going to make another one today or any of you drawing inktober or pinktober or any of the other drawing challenges that goes on this October. Hey, Phoebe. Hey, Roach. Roachin. I'm doing it, but I'm late. Being late is okay. It's not a contest. It is an excuse to draw more than you usually do. Hello. Hello. It's Kimtober time. A name tag. So Roach, what are you using a prompt list or are you just going from your, are you just doing a ink drawing per day or some other type of drawing? So I've started doing ink but drawing, but right now my mind can't make sense of any. It is. Well, I will first draw the inktober drawing and then I will sort of show you what I do when I can't make sense of anything because I'm every day I've been doing this inktober. I've been saying, oh, I'm even more tired than yesterday. And guess what? I'm even more tired than yesterday. I actually have to do the daily ink monster as well today and I want to do it. And I will be extremely exhausted when I do that.  Just wanted to say thank you. Thank you, Naya. You inspired me to do ink art and that really helped while I was surviving in the military and really helped my mental health there. I'm so thankful that you share this with me and I'm so incredibly grateful that I'm in a position where I can do what I love doing, which is drawing, and talk about, you know, whatever meets my fancy that day and people get something out of it. And that is an extremely, I'm extremely grateful to be in that position. Hey, can you draw Indian mythological figures at one point? I will do that at one point. I have a couple of times, but I don't think I made any videos of that. But it's mostly a question of research and trying to, you know, the more people I have watching me and the more I feel more pressure trying to not do things wrong and trying to not misrepresent things because, yeah, because people are watching. And so when it comes to doing something like Indian mythology, I need to know that I am saying the right things, that I'm presenting a perspective that I can stand for. So for instance, today, no, not today, a few weeks ago or maybe something like that, I did the Lucifer drawing and a lot of Christians didn't like what I said in it. I am very much sure of the things I said. There might be some small errors here and there, but the overall thing, I'm extremely certain of. So I don't mind, I don't mind people getting angry at me as long as I know that I can stand for what I said. So if I'm going to do Indian mythology, I need to know it well enough to be able to speak with certainty. But I'm also trying to do more lighthearted videos where I don't really kill myself through the researching that I'm more quicker to make because right now I am working on so many projects that I can't really justify researching a whole lot right now. But I want to research more Indian mythology. I've read a little, but it's a huge expansive field. Especially when you're talking about living religions, it is really hard to double check everything so you know. So I'm not a researcher, I'm not a scientist, I'm not an academic, I'm an artist. My mind makes up stories. And when it comes to trying to speak facts or opinions about someone's belief system, I need to make sure that I'm not making them into a story for people's entertainment and that I'm actually saying things that are in some sense true. Ooh, sub game loves incontent, keep up the great work. Thank you, so cool seeing your images being pulled out of the fog.  Thank you so much. Is that a self-portrait? Yes, I'm actually looking in the mirror going while drawing. It's not going to be a nice self-portrait. I'm loving what's happening with the black now.  I really love your story telling too. Thank you. Left-handed representation, yes. I mean quite a lot of artists are left-handed. It's not uncommon in this field. I think I make it mirror scared, you know. So far, most of my inktober has been self-portraits of some kind. Yes, I think it was, was it last year? Last year or the year before, I think it was... I have no concept of time anymore. I did all self-portraits documenting a bipolar depression through Oktober. That was hard. Do you think you could do nöcken from north and Swedish folklore? I've done nöcken a couple of times. There probably should be some videos around of that. So look for them and yes, I will revisit nöcken because I haven't read... I don't think I've exhausted the topic. But nöcken is fascinating. And there's so many variations of these types of drowning spirits with related names all over Europe, I guess. Hello, I'm glad to see the full process of painting for the first time. Excellent. Hopefully it's entertaining or interesting or both. This might not be a very nice topic, but you've made multiple videos that have some kind of political views in them. What's your opinion on what's currently happening in Israel? I'm very much pro-Palestinian. I think that when you have, regardless of all the details that people argue over, or when did this happen and what happened then and there, when you have two peoples or powers or whatever you'd call them in a constant state of repeated wars or clashes and one side always kills around ten times more than the other side. It is the responsibility of the most powerful side to find a solution. Israel is not doing that. Israel is creating... is a apartheid state. I know people in Israel, I understand that they are in a very stressful and fearful position and with, I'll say extremists in Israeli government, it is strange that a lot of people can't see outside of their own agenda, but as long as one side is killing ten times more than the other. There's no question. Israel should be the one to create a peace solution that Palestinians can live with. That's their responsibility as the most powerful in the conflict. That should be the two-part solution that has been proposed since the 70s and that only Israel and the US has boycotted. That's my general opinion on Israel. I don't know if you wanted anything more specific. I know that there are a lot of new things happening there, but I am not terribly updated right now. What's your favorite movie? Oh, so many movies. It depends on the day. Good evening. Hello, Lenez. Will you ever try works inspired by Kurdish mythology? I would. I don't really have any good sources for that, but yes, I should definitely do tie that in with the situation in Rojava, which I've done way too little on, but which is a very interesting situation, because in Rojava the Kurds have created functionally a successful anarchist state while they've been fighting a war on two or three sides. It is fascinating, but I know way too little about Kurdish mythology, so I need to research that as well. Where can I research Kurdish mythology? I know quite a bit about Iranian mythology and the Avesta, but I don't know much about Kurdish mythology. Sorry. Got to see you again, Mona. Värdag. You draw a lot of folk or a mystical creature, but what could be more mysterious than itself? I draw a lot of myself as well. People often ask, do you ever do self-portraits? And that only shows that they haven't been following my work very much, because yes, I've done a whole lot of self-portraits. I love doing self-portraits. I love drawing myself. This one is a slightly darker variety. Kim is a mystical creature. I'm not that mystical, I'm just... Shamadan is an incredible tale in contrast to many different cultures. For Kurds, snakes are a sign of blessing, unfortunately as opposed to many cultures. I need to check that out. I've heard of it. If you had just said to me, have you read the Samaran? I wouldn't have been able to even identify where it comes from. So I know very little about it. I do remember having some conversations with someone about it one time, but that's too many years ago. Or maybe I just made that up right now. That's the problem with my mind. I never know if I know something or if I made it up on the spot or if I made it up so long ago that I believe it. Loving yourself is the first step to being a jerk-off. I think that's how the saying goes. No, I don't mean that. Do you know a god's snakes are ever in Hinduism too? Yes, there's actually quite a few cultures and religions that revere snakes, including parts of Christianity where you have all this snake handling thingamabobs and stuff. Nobody knows our brains trying to fill the gaps with whatever. Some people have more active imaginations and some people have active imaginations and spend their whole day exercising their imaginations. And that makes for a lot of stories and many of them not true at all. So I need to check and double-check everything I write. Okay, what do I do with this? It came out beautifully down here and here but it needs to be more flowing from here. Yay, stories! Me when I stub my toe. That's what this painting definitely is about. Toe stubbing. I call this one the Toe Stubber. This isn't the happiest Inktober painting I've ever done. Do you have an image of the paintings before they happen or do they appear in the mind at the exact time you're painting them? It is a little bit more complicated than that. It sort of depends. But I think just broadly speaking this idea of artists having a perfect image in their mind and then executing that image that is largely fantasy from people who are either not artists or amateur artists. The more you work with art the more you figure out that you have to figure things out on paper. It doesn't matter if you have the perfect image in your head because most of the time it will not translate perfectly. So you need to figure out things in your head and stuff like sketches and thumbnails and studies and all of that stuff in order to get what you see down and what you feel is more important than what you see in your mind. I think. Now, for instance, with this one I knew what I was going to do. But still, most of the thinking happens on the paper. I know a feeling I want to evoke. I know the symbols I'm going to use to create that feeling and I know the general composition but I leave spots to improvise because for me improvisation is fun. Now, generally with the ink monsters what usually happens is that I see a tiny bit of it at a time. So basically when I'm drawing I'm always penciling or sketching in my mind's eye so that I'm always a couple of steps ahead of where my brush is. But I'm not more than a couple of steps. Once in a while I have gotten very complete images in my mind from the ink plots and that becomes a problem because then I tense up trying to perfectly render what I see in my mind's eye and that is a lot more difficult. Not impossible, but difficult. Personally, most of my ideas come from music. Certain pieces of music can make me see such vivid images of extremely abstract concepts which inspires my own music and writing. Excellent. I don't know if it's intentional but this piece reminds me of the traditional Jesus depiction reminds me of the death and resurrection story. That wasn't intentional. I was thinking about sewing the eyeshadows but I will put this away for a little bit. I will draw a silly ink monster and then I will get back to it once the ink has dried a little bit more. I teach art and engineering, have an architecture background even with something planned out as architecture as technical drafting I ensure students always start with a hand sketch. Good. Are you planning on telling any more stories? I absolutely loved hearing Fölgersven. I'm so happy to hear that. I love to retell the story as best as I can. Excellent. So yes, I'm working on a similar story as Fölgersven or a similar retelling as Fölgersven but I'm going to use the fairy tale of King Ren or the eagle and the Ren about how the tiny little bird, the Ren, became the king of all birds. Hello, how are you today? Happy Saturday, my friend. Thank you, happy Saturday. Yesterday I got very tired and today I'm more tired. It's a very difficult measure but it's a very good measure. I'm drawing a lot of art. Yesterday I was very tired but today I'm very tired. Thank you. More tales. Let's do a quick ink monster and then return to the inktober drawing while it's dry. I said that I would show you what I do when I don't have energy to find anything in the ink plots. Now, even though I haven't made the ink plot I have decided exactly what I'm going to do. Not exactly. There's a lot of room for improvisation but I know because, for instance, in it is an excellent artistic game. Good Spanish skills. How many languages do you speak? Norwegian, English and I'm trying to learn Spanish. I speak English. Hello, Spanish. Hasta la vista, baby. Italian. Mamma mia! French. Je m'appelle Baguette. I speak Japanese. Oi, Canada! And I speak German. Schnell, schnell, Kartoffelkopf. And I speak all the languages. And I speak Danish. I did this joke, I think it was yesterday or the day before yesterday. I really just speak English and Norwegian. Norwegian is my main language, English is. Do you speak Finnish? Of course, Perkele! That's all. Okay. Let's get back to this one. Because I was going to tell you if I'm really tired like I am today, I can see maybe we could start a skull here or maybe we could do something here or I don't know. Do you know any person not outside of a few phrases from the Avesta or a few names established from the Avesta? So, okay, so if I try to draw, let's say skulls are easy to find. I can't find a skull here and I can make this into a skull. That wouldn't be a huge problem but it would require concentration and drawing skills. Which is really hard when you're this tired so I got to figure out something else. And what do I do when I want to figure out something else? I place an eye. Okay. That's good. Now we almost have the same type of skull but with one big eye. Let's give it a little, make it a little cute. That's wrong. That's a nice eye. But it looks a little bit like the skull still so let's place another eye of slightly different size. Okay. There's a highlight and the same play. Now I'm drawing the eyes too well too complicated for my sleepiness. Okay, so how do we combine these? Well of course we do like this. Okay. What's going to happen here? We put in some shade there. Shade there. Then what do we do here? I could draw a body but that would be hard so instead of drawing a body I will draw legs with big toes running and because this has some shading it's actually becoming more difficult than I had anticipated. So I'm failing my own assignment but at least I'm drawing something silly. I should have not gone with that much shading.   It's a toe stopper, it is. Since we've already made things into a silhouette let's just continue with the silhouettes. And yeah. Okay. And then we'll draw a shadow underneath him. It's going to be a lively shadow since he's running. And then we'll add some ink spatter. Well even. I don't often do this with these small silly monsters but we'll go in and fix something. Fixed. And yeah. That's it. Now we've created the ink monster and we didn't have to imagine anything. We just had to start by placing eyes. We could have placed one eye. We could have placed two. We could have placed three. And it would have been something different. The eyes could have been different and it would have become something even more different. And that's all there is to it some days. Now which number ink monster is this? Poor... Oh that's the 1406. So... 1407. And it's called the Tolstubber. And now we've created a monster and it's perfect. And we didn't have to become all precious. Do you like Kittelsen's art? Yes, I absolutely adore Ted Kittelsen and Erik Werdenscholl. I've even made some longer videos where I talk about their influence on art. So check out those longer videos about trolls. They're the last... From the Traveling Companion video where I don't think I talk about them even though they illustrated the fairy tale before. But I talk about Kittelsen and Werdenscholl in a couple of videos after that. So check them out. I have to watch all your videos. Yes, all of you! Watch all my videos and also subscribe, hit the bell button. And if you want to buy my art now we're going to do the whole sales pitch. 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Oh yeah so don't tell me you came out and yeah you did, I'm sorry we will be ending this one I am very satisfied with how this one came out and even more satisfied with this. No I'm most satisfied with this. Thank you all for watching. It's been a pleasure even though I'm very tired and I need some rest. It's been lovely it's great to hang out and talk. Do you know any members of Mayhem in person? I've met a few of them but I don't know them. There are very few people in the black metal scene that I know I know a few of the people in enslaved I know Isham a little mostly these are people I only meet at festivals so yeah It's been a delightful experience. I wish you a wonderful time. Thank you thanks for hanging out in the chat. Okay for the last time go to I'm so good at chilling my wares Let's turn the camera around. I should drink more water today. Okay let's turn this camera around so that has been the live for today. I will be back with another live tomorrow. 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