Hi everybody it's Sandy and welcome to my YouTube channel. I'm going to show you today how to color a little white fuzzy bear and we're gonna do that with Copic markers and I'm also going to use some glitter on this card oh my gosh let's get started. This is a new stamp from Purple Onion and I'm going to color him with grays and I went to my hex chart and this is page two of the hex chart and I'm going to use the warm grays because I'm going to give him sort of a brown feel to him and he's just really absolutely adorable so I'm going to start by coloring the gray the way I see a lot of people color it you know if you're going to color something that looks white you think oh I've got to use really light colors and hardly use anything in them and I'm going to show you that you can get a lot of contrast and still have your critter look like he's kind of on the whitish side. This one's going to look a little bit on the dirty white side just because he's going to have some color in him but I think you're going to be really pleased to see these results and how it develops over time so I'm blending my W2 with the W00 just to soften it all out and he looks like he has a little bit of dimension you can see a little bit around this there and that's all well and good but real contrast is going to really make a huge difference with it sometimes you can put some color around it whether it's making a background or whatever I'm going to start by adding color I went to my hex chart for the color of the little stick that he's holding the flagstick flagpole and picked a brown for that and you can already see in contrast to that he's starting to look lighter but I'm going to pick a nice light pink the R20 for the ears because I didn't want something that was going to be really super dark and then I went to my collection of original markers those are the ones with this bullet nib the square-bodied ones because then I can get into all those little lines and color in the little bows around their necks and I like having some of these original markers in my collection for that I decided to go for the end markers and neutrals for the hats because I wanted the hats to look like a little different color than our little bears and those are made of newsprint so I'm going to use two different colors on the left and right side to give the hat some illusion of shading as well as the illusion of some newsprint pattern so I'm just doing some little hash lines and and on both of the the little bear hat and the big bear hat a little bear is just really hard to get detail into but you know it is what it is because he's a little teeny tiny bear and I'm using a lighter color for the newsprint on the right-hand side because if I'd use the same color his whole hat would look like it's the same same thing then I wanted to add a little bit again to our little tiny bear and then I wanted to really start adding some serious contrast so I grabbed my end 7 marker and I added some real serious shadows in a few spots and then I'm going to blend some of that out and soften it with my end 3 which is something that is just going to knock back all of that detail because I don't want the hat to be the focus I'm going to want the bear to be the focus so this will just soften some of that that little text that's on the newsprint so then I wanted to add a little contrast also to the ties so I went to my B2 6 and I'm using just the very very tip of the marker I'm trying to get in those tiny spots and I don't have this color in an original marker and now we're going to start working on the buyer so we used it remember a w00 and a w2 so I'm going to step it up to two numbers and go to a w4 that line under the hat is a varied distance from it you know that you can see it's a little thicker right in that point because that's going to add a little bit so it looks like that point is sticking out in front of him and then I'm leaving a little bit of a white outside and I'm just kind of making the shadow a little bit inside from the edge of the stamp to create some bounce light on the outside of him it's just going to add a little bit of extra interest and you can see already with the w4 I'm starting to get some really nice contrast that's some really strong shadows in here and then I'm going to step back down to the w2 and then I can add little lines or even just some some quick brush strokes to soften some of those areas where the w4 is at and add a little bit more depth to it and I can extend it a little bit further so that those shadows continue all the way in an arc around his face and smooth out that stuff around above his nose if you put shadows above that nose section it'll just make it look like that part recedes and his nose pops out toward the front so just add some extra dimension and I'm adding a little bit of kind of fur around his eyes you look at a teddy bear you can see that the fur goes certain directions and that'll help you to figure out where to put your marker strokes and what direction to make the little lines but again I'm trying to use just the tip of the marker just barely touching the surface of the paper so that I can get really tiny lines this video is sped up about one and a half times so it's not full speed but it's also not like quadrupled line or anything like my videos sometimes are so you're getting a standby realistic just a little faster than normal view of how fast I do this so remember we use it w zero zero w two and w four and now I'm adding just a little bit at the w six you can stop before you get to this don't don't let me freak you out and scare you but I want you to see the difference that the w six can make and who in their right mind would ever think you'd color a white bear and start with a w six but you know when I'm doing this kind of a thing I usually do start lighter and work my way darker because I'm not always sure how far I want to go and if you start with your w six you might feel like you're you know you need to put more in then then you really ought to and doing it this way helps me to just put in a tiny bit so now I'm going to take that w four and I'm going to add more to to blend that w six back in toward the fur and I'm just drawing a little more fur lines and giving them a little more fuzziness and softening a lot of that out a little bit more I'm going to draw his mouth back in I drew it in with a little lighter color before and you can just keep kind of working at it as I go through all these different markers and I am leaving them uncapped just off to the surface off to the side of where I'm working so I can zip back and forth between the colors they're not going to markers are not going to dry out so I'm just going to take my w two and soften everything just add a little bit of that soft color and then if you get too much then you can go in with a zero marker or your w zero zero and I'm going with w zero zero because I'm just going to color over everything and give him kind of an overall very light gray except for on that top part of his nose and like I'm gonna leave just that part and then the top of his arm and that sort of thing and now I can go in with a really nice dark w eight I mean you could keep doing this until you get to black but I'm going to stop at the w eight this is gonna be as dark as I'm gonna go and might even lighten a few areas as we go you never never really know because until I sort of see it done and see it all in context I'm never quite sure how far I'm gonna push it so here I decided to go back in and do a little bit more with the w four to increase that mouth I don't want it full black because the that one corner of his mouth was drawn into the stamp and I don't want to take away the cuteness of having just one corner there a little guy I'm just gonna zip through him really quick he doesn't get nearly as much color just because he's so tiny you can't get that many layers of color in there I'm gonna use w four and w two for the ground for the shadows and a lot of people like you feel uncomfortable with the w four doing these light long strokes but I like the darker colors you could do a w two and a w zero zero no problem I'm going to trim out the flag it's why I haven't colored it yet so I'm using my finger knife which is a really awesome tool to have in your craft drawer and I'm cutting it out and tracing it on to a back piece paper that I put behind it and I'm gonna color the American flag just really loosely and I'm just doing shapes I'm not even a little stars in there and you can put any flag in here I love that that they've designed this so that any country flag can be drawn in here and I'm drawing it bigger than that little window that I drew and I'm gonna take a piece of score sheet this is like score tape but it's score sheet instead press it down and peel off that backer and now I have a sticky surface and all I have to do is take some glitter and I can dump that on there and close it up so I don't make a glitter mess everywhere I have scratch paper under it I'm just gonna press it into the score tape now there's all kinds of videos you can look up on how to do this even color over top of it with markers all different kinds of things I just wanted a really quick look of glitter so I'm gonna clean that off clean my hands and even now you can see that I didn't press it in well enough so it does have glitter that comes off so I'm going to seal it all in on this backer sheet by putting some score tape all the way around all four sides and put a piece of plastic from some packaging over top of it super easy and it's going to just stick there and now I have a little window that I have my little flag showing through next step I'm just going to use my rectangle dies my stitch rectangle dies from Simon says die cut that guy look how fast I am and then I trimmed this backer layer so it fits the right size to place this on top I put my adhesive on the back of the image that I've colored so it'll stick to that plastic then I stamped a purple onion sentiment cheers I stamped it and cut it in a sort of a swirly manner and wrapped it around a star I'll put a power tab on the back so I get a little bit of dimension on the card so I'm just going to stick my little star on there and then I cut out a couple of other tiny stars and I was going to add those as well because I just wanted a little bit of festive look around the corner of the card and I also had a fingerprint there that I was covering up so there you go there's my finished card which is a whole heck of a lot of fun with a little glittery flag in there and I would recommend that you always try to seal in any glitter whether you're doing operation right home cards or not even though operation right home is ending August 1st you have to have all your cards in by then your friends may not appreciate getting glitter all over them when they open their cards so there's tons of techniques for how you can seal in glitter this is just one of many and I hope you will take advantage of watching this video because this one is a little crazy one that I made many years ago and it's just kind of hilarious and I thought you might enjoy it so have a really great Memorial Day weekend remember that it's not all about the barbecues and the mattress sales it's about our service members who have given their all for our country and we want to remember them and give them their due respect alright happy Memorial Day talk to you guys later bye


When we got there, it was amazing to see the coordination that had already happened with the Navy and with other agencies such as the FBI, the Metropolitan Police, and with organizations like the American Red Cross. It was an emerging situation and we went in myself and a couple of other chaplains and a religious program specialist and we went in there and just said we are here to help in any way that we can.


Vettel Alonso Piastri who say with summer break we've got three big news today Vettel retirement from Formula 1 that came in Budapest Alonso signing for Aston Martin it's only the beginning because there's some Alpin story Alpin announces that Oscar Piastri is gonna drive there for them Oscar Piastri goes on Twitter saying that he hasn't signed anything with Alpin we've got my client that has a second seat available I mean we are on to a pretty exciting summer break here we go first part is about Vettel as you may know Sebastian Vettel is one of the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time if you don't know make sure that you click on the video that I've made about the top 10 drivers Formula 1 drivers of all time at the chance to race against him is an incredible driver is an incredible person and I would like to talk about three points about Vettel the first one being pay tribute to his greatest moment of his career so Sebastian Vettel is one of the most successful Formula 1 racing driver with four-time world champion between 2010 and 2013 in the history of Formula 1 only Fangio and Michael Schumacher were four-time world champion in a row Vettel is the youngest Formula 1 world champion of all time he's the third driver with the most victories of all time 53 and third most podium finishes of all time with 122 podiums and fourth of all time for most pole position was 57 I mean those numbers speak for themselves pretty crazy to know that Sebastian in a very short time because that was basically from 2008 his first win and then 2010 with Red Bull to 2013 and then some with Ferrari later so if you remember back 2007 15 years ago Sebastian Vettel was called by BMW Saab to replace Robert Kubica that had a big crash to the Canadian Grand Prix and was not allowed to race at the US Grand Prix and Sebastian from his first Grand Prix looked like he had everything under control like he wasn't new for him but on top of the performance what I remember watching it was just like it was super calm it was super calm for his first time in Formula 1 and that amazed me back then the year after it went to Torrosso 2008 and even though the four first races went bad Belivia 3 times on the first lap when arrived Monza Monza 2008 it was a very wet weekend and Sebastian Vettel won the Grand Prix for Torrosso and that was an incredible performance incredible achievement no one was expecting Torrosso to win a race and I remember seeing him flying under the rain and jumping the curbs and and just having master control of the car that was 2008 then obviously went to Red Bull add that incredible series of four world championship in a row fighting with the top guys like Alonso then after Red Bull 2014 was a tough year for Red Bull Sebastian Vettel a new teammate Daniel Ricciardo I believe the card didn't really fit Sebastian so he went to Ferrari he became Louis's worst enemy he was very competitive which is very impressive he was there pushing the limit trying to always go and fight Mercedes that was very dominating at a time and for a lot of years he was the only one trying to challenge Louis Hamilton for the world championship so I really enjoyed those years obviously I was close to him with Haas and the link that we had with Ferrari but definitely lived in those years you know even though we can say that he didn't never won the championship with Ferrari it's absolutely incredible and then he went to Aston Martin for a fresh new challenge I believe the first year went pretty well 2022 just the car isn't great so it's a bit of a shame to see Sebastian you know out in Q1 such a great driver but it shows you how much you depend on the car you know you can be at the top but if your car isn't good you are at the bottom from his body language we could kind of tell that Sebastian was was going to retire I thought that he was going to retire his last year after his last year at Ferrari because he looked like he was kind of tired of all the duties and the travel but also in the GPDA at the Gombo Diversition he was super involved so it was like a mixed feeling and I believe Aston Martin was a fresh start for him and he was going to go somewhere and have something new which he had in the first year and that year just was the one where the car wasn't working off and I believe he just had enough so he's off what are his plans I don't know I'm sure he can drive anyway he wants to but does he want to you know keep traveling does he want some quiet time have some fun I don't know second part is the third well the memories of the greatest moment of Sebastian day there are a lot of memories that I have with Sebastian obviously the first one is Monza 2008 that win for Toroso that's something very special that he did that day and absolutely stunning another souvenir that I have is when he won the Indian Grand Prix in 2013 which was actually his last world championship I was third on the podium Nico Rosbeck was second and actually celebrated the world championship of Sebastian with him on the podium and that was that was a really cool moment I was very happy to stand on that podium to lift off Sebastian as a world champion I would say that the third memory is not a very good one but Germany 2018 when Sebastian crashed out of the lead in the German Grand Prix on the tricky very tricky condition and you could tell he was you know he was banging on his wheel you could tell he was still into it and absolutely wanted to try to be a world champion that year and win his own race after that I just felt like you know as I say I feel like he kind of had enough at least in his body language yes Formula 1 is absolutely incredible but Formula 1 drains you you know it's traveling the world 2022-23 times per year jet lag all over the place far away from your family and your kids it is an incredible job don't get me wrong and I was very lucky to do it for 10 years but it's also a job that takes a lot out of you and and it's you know you be it's selfish sport is selfish it's not the athletes that are selfish it's sport because it requires you to be all over the place around the world focus on what you have to do recover to get the full energy so when retirement time comes you actually realize that you can have a lot of fun and spend a lot of time with your family well the third part was my opinion on his retirement I guess I kind of gave you already an idea I felt like he he has accomplished more than a lot of drivers will ever do he's in the top 10 of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time does he want to do more does he want to do different does he want to do NASCAR, Indycar, Rallycar, Dakar, Le Mans I don't know he will know inside him what he wants to do and not that's the most important for him you know he's dedicated 15 years to Formula 1 which which is incredible he's just going to do what he wants to be happy and that's that's one of the most important thing in life all right now on to Fernando Alonso the 25 years old man Fernando is 41 years old imagine he started in Australia 2001 that is 21 years ago Fernando is 347 grand prix he could have he's been racing so much in Formula 1 that he could have been around the the first 2.3 times he's a quarter of the way from the first to the moon just driving distance in Formula 1 oh incredible is that and yet you watch Fernando Alonso in every practice session qualifying race he does races like a 20 years old driver I mean I love that passion that dedication that he's got for the racing that's absolutely incredible starting with Minardi went to Renault Ferrari McLaren back to sort of Renault with Alpine and no Aston Martin so that was a bit of a shock move I must say I don't think Alpine was expecting it told them that um well I do I'm Fernando Alonso and I do whatever I want good for him he deserves it I mean he's an incredible driver he's got an incredible charisma an incredible career twice world champion if we look at his stats they're not they're not the greatest of 347 grand prix is 32 wins 301 grand prix louis has 103 wins so you know if you look at the stats they're not they're not their spaceship for Fernando but you know when he was a trainer it was absolutely incredible went Ferrari they had a tough time so he couldn't really achieve what he wanted he went to McLaren and they had issue with the power unit and he wasn't very happy with it but then went to Le Mans won Le Mans 24 hours competed in the Indy 500 and did incredibly well so wherever Fernando goes Fernando is fast and as I say at 41 years old he still has that energy and dedication of a 20 years old driver and I love that and you see it in the way he moves and the way he practices and he slides the car and he's just he just loves it and and it's so cool to see someone like that just just being out there and being happy to be in Formula 1 wants to stay longer as an incredible contract with Aston Martin my only hope here is that Aston Martin comes back a little bit stronger next year because I don't want to see a frustrated Fernando Alonso I want to see a Fernando Alonso that is able to compete at the front able to give us that thrill like the Kennedy and Gump qualifying where you almost went for pole those moments that that a magical moment Fernando can create when you sit on your sofa you're almost like jumping all over the place like come on come on Fernando do it I threw hope that with Aston Martin that's gonna work well for him which brings us through the third being news of the summer break and we're only two days into the summer break it's Oscar Piastri if I'm being honest the first kind of time that I heard about Oscar Piastri was in Formula 3 he was fighting with Logan Sargent and Theo Porcher the Frenchman and the American driver and I thought like he was good but maybe maybe the Sargent or Porcher were a bit better than him the year after in Formula 2 he completely I realized that I was completely wrong and that he was very special in Formula 2 he just dominated it absolutely perfect season fast consistent precise absolutely incredible


Hi, my name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food.  On our channel, you'll find simple and tasty recipes using everyday ingredients. So for dinner tomorrow night, I'm making marinated hot dogs. This is something totally new to me, but I thought, why not? We marinate all different types of meat. So I have a pack of eight hot dogs and I cut them on a bias, not all the way through, but just kind of slits on each side. So I'll just set these to the side. Okay, so in the bowl here, I have some chili sauce and this is chili sauce. It's tomato paste, vinegar, and spices. To that, I'm going to add a tablespoon of brown sugar. And of course, I'll leave the recipe in the description box. I've got some onion powder, garlic powder, salt. I'm only only adding half of the salt that it called for, because we're just trying to watch our sodium, some black pepper, and some mustard. It calls for a tablespoon and a half of mustard. Howard's not crazy about it, so I just added a tablespoon of the mustard. And just going to give it a good stir. All right, so I've got my hot dogs in a Ziploc freezer bag. I'm just going to pour that marinade in and just rub that marinade into the hot dogs. Then I'm just going to seal it and put it in my fridge for about 24 hours, till I'm ready to throw them on the grill. So I forgot to add in two tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce. So I just added that into the bag. Now it's ready to go in the fridge for 24 hours. Okay, so the marinated hot dogs just came off the grill. And they are really good. They have a nice little sticky kind of sweet sauce on them. And here is my plate. I'm just eating it plain just to enjoy the flavor. And I've got some cool ranch Doritos. Howard has the same thing, except he put ketchup on one of the hot dogs. And just in case you're not familiar, these are cool ranch Doritos. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight. And we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight, we are having grilled chicken. And I marinated it in this Tony Sasseries Creole style chicken marinade. And I marinated it for 24 hours and threw it on the grill. And just chicken thighs. And we're also having some rice pilaf in my cabinet, in my kitchen. I've shown you all, it's kind of overrun with food. So still trying to work on that.  And it's honestly, it's not that great. It doesn't have a whole lot of flavor. And then on the side, I decided to fry some purple cabbage. Now normally I eat it raw, but I heard that purple cabbage has a lot more nutrients and antioxidants than just green cabbage, like 10 times more. So I wanted to give it a try. I'm trying to branch out with my vegetables this year. So I just, excuse me, fried it up like I would green cabbage with bacon. And this is how it turned out. Kind of turned off a little bit by the color of it cooked, but I, it tastes exactly the same as green cabbage. So I'm trying to get used to it. So anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys. So for dinner tonight, we are having sauteed shrimp. I actually made this, I guess it's been a couple of months ago on our channel and it was so good.  This time I'm serving it over that leftover pilaf rice from the other day. But all it is is a pound of shrimp, half a stick of butter, and then you sprinkle on some dry Italian salad dressing mix and you just saute it and it's so good, quick and easy. We are having a Caesar side salad and then we are using this Caesar salad kit from Aldi. I don't know why I'm having a hard time talking tonight, but quick and easy dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys. So for dinner tonight, trying out a new recipe in my skillet, I have one pound of breakfast sausage that I cooked and then to it I'm adding in some wild rice that I cooked. I'm just putting it right on in there. Now I'm adding in one can of golden mushroom soup. I don't even know the name of this recipe. I just found it online. Of course, I'll make sure to link it in the description box. I'm hoping it's not too salty and then it calls for two cups of sharp cheddar cheese. I thought I had sharp cheddar cheese, but I don't. So I am using this queso quesadilla shredded cheese instead. I'm just going to mix it all up and then pour it into a casserole dish and bake it for about 35 minutes. Okay. Here is the casserole all plated up, Howard and I tasted it and it does have a good flavor. It is a little salty, which I kind of expected, but it is good. Has good flavor. I'm going to be serving it with a side salad with some olive garden salad dressing. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Hey guys. So for dinner tonight, we are having true Texas barbecue, which is a barbecue restaurant inside of HEB. They just had a new store open up in my area, so I went for their opening specials. I did record a grocery haul and you will see that soon. So Howard got the rib plate, which I actually wanted the rib plate too, but I decided to get brisket so we can try out both meats. But he got a rib plate with brisket baked beans and macaroni and cheese. And then I got mac and cheese greens. They also had potato salad and jalapeno cornbread too, I think. And then I got fatty brisket. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time.


So we're going to be looking today at verses 7 through 10 here in the book of Ephesians chapter 4. And it actually is a foundation as we're going to look at the verses that follow. And so I'm going to lay a foundation with this because those verses that follow will be built upon this. And this is a very important portion of the book of Ephesians. And so I'll begin reading at verse 7. I'll read to verse 10 and we'll look at the study.  So begin reading at verse 7, beginning to read at verse 7, reading to verse 10. Paul writes, But to each one of us, grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. And therefore, he says, when he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men. Now this, he ascended, what does it mean? But that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all things.  As we've been going through the book of Ephesians, Paul had just begged the believers in Ephesus to walk worthy of their calling. God's grace had been poured out on them and had brought them into the family of God. You see, as Gentiles, at one time, they were without Christ in the world. We already saw that in chapter 2, verse 12. But now they have been adopted as God's children through Jesus Christ. He said that in chapter 1, verse 5. They become citizens with the saints, members of the household of God, chapter 2, verse 19. And they are fellow heirs of the same body, partakers of God's promise in Jesus, according to chapter 3, verse 6. So this is all come about because they've received and believed that gospel. And it's the gospel that broke down the barriers and it's the gospel that made the two into one new man. Now the gospel is a message. It's a message that centers on the love and holiness of God. And it's a message that centers on the grace of God. And it's a message that is not to be only proclaimed but also modeled by believers. It reveals a loving and a holy God. And those who serve him are also to be loving as well as live holy lives. This specifically would be seen as Jewish and Gentile believers were living out the message. So they're to walk worthy of the calling with which they've been called. Now that's going to be revealed. And we saw this last time by lowliness, by gentleness, long suffering, by their bearing with one another, and by their endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit. So endeavoring to keep unity spoke of the unity, I mentioned this last time, the unity of the inner person. It speaks of the love that believers should have for one another. It's that love in Christ that actually cements us together. The love of Christ is what joins us and keeps us together. Jews for centuries had distanced themselves from Gentiles. Now because of Jesus, they've been made one and they need to live in this reality. In 1 Corinthians 1 verse 10, Paul said it like this. He said, I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment, that you would dwell together endeavoring to keep the peace and the unity of the Spirit. And this is something that you need to do. And when believers are one in Christ, we can accomplish the great things that he desires us to accomplish in his name. So the enemy knows that unity produces great fruit and works overtime to divide us. He works overtime to encourage schisms and divisions because he wants to divide us and he wants to frustrate the plans of God. Jesus in Mark 3.25 said, if a house is divided against itself, the house cannot stand. And that's why Jesus prayed that we would be united in him. So at this point, Paul is beginning to teach concerning the gifts that Jesus gave to the church and these gifts that Jesus gave to the church are intended to work together. That's because the church is a body and each member of that body has its own function. When Paul was writing about this in 1 Corinthians 12, verses 18 through 20, he said it like this. Paul said, God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. So in verses seven, actually into verse 11, though I'm not going to touch on verse 11 today, Paul shows us three basic things concerning these gifts. One, each believer has a spiritual gift. Two, Christ obtained the right to give these gifts. And then finally, we'll move into this in our next study. Third, that God uses gifted men to bless the church. You may or may not know this or believe this, but when we get to verse 11, and I'll just read it, notice how it says, he himself gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, some pastors, and teachers. He gave some as gifts to the church. We'll look at that. I didn't want to touch that today because I want to build myself up for 45 minutes next time we're together. I just want to give you a deeper study on that. So I'm going to just keep us to verse 10.  Now, as it says in verse seven, to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Notice this, Paul begins by saying, but to each one of us, but to each one of us grace was given. Not only do we have unity with others, but that unity is not extinguished. We still retain, it doesn't extinguish our personal personalities. We still retain our own uniqueness. We're all one in Jesus Christ, but there are places in the body of Christ that are set apart so that we can have our individual gifting. In Romans 12, four and five, it says, as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function. So we, being many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. So God has gifted us with spiritual gifts. We'll look at some of this in a moment, but not all of us have the same giftings. Each one of us are part of the single body of Christ, but we have our uniqueness in Christ also. So I'm not, I'm not supposed to try and form myself into the image of some other believer that I admire. I'm not supposed to try to make myself into something different than God has ordained or designed me to be. Sometimes in ministry there are pastors who greatly covet and desire to have the gifts of another pastor. They may like the way that he speaks. They may like the way that he teaches. They may like the way that he dresses. They may like a thousand and one different things about them. And so they try to model themselves after that. That's not a good idea for a couple of reasons. One is there's there's no reason for that person to try and model themselves after that one whom they admire. They should just appreciate that person for who he is and what he does. But two, I was, I heard a teacher one time ask this question. I'll repeat it. And they said, have you ever wanted to be exactly like somebody else? And he was speaking to us in a pastors conference. And he said, have you ever stopped to consider that if there were two of the same person that one of you isn't necessary? And I thought, oh, that was good. That was good because God only made one Billy Graham. God only made one whomever you may like. He only made one of them. So instead of us trying to be like that person, the Holy Spirit is to form us into the image of Jesus and our individuality remains intact. And so one person may preach in a certain way. And the other is also preaching, but he preaches in a different way. One person teaches in a certain way. Another is teaching, but they teach in a different way. It's unique to their own personalities, though they're exercising the gift of preaching or gift of teaching. And all of this is to realize that that we are individuals in the body of Christ, though there's a unity that we have because of him. And so Paul is making it clear that each believer has through grace received a gift. And the distribution of both the grace and the gift has been measured out by Jesus himself. Now, when he speaks of this word gift, when he speaks of the gift, when it says, to each one of us, grace was given according to the measure of Christ gift. That word gift is an interesting word. That word speaks of a free gift. It's really referring to how Jesus freely gave that gift. So God gives us grace that enables us to minister his free gift that he has given to us. We didn't do anything to deserve it to earn it. We didn't work to have it. It's a free gift that he knowing you and knowing your personality and knowing how what you're going to do with his word, he has gifted you appropriately so that that's all going to work together to bring glory to him. Now notice in verse seven, how he says, according to the measure of Christ gift. So he gives his gifts according to our capacity of faith to receive such gifts. In Romans 12.3, Paul said it like this. He said, I say through the grace given to me, to everyone who's among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. And so we have been gifted according to the capacity of faith we have to receive and operate those gifts. Now various scriptures refer to and describe what are called spiritual gifts. In Romans chapter 12 verses six through eight, let me read to you a few of these gifts. Paul says, having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them. If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith or ministry, which would be administration, let us use it in our ministry. He who teaches in teaching, he who exhorts in exhortation, he who gives with liberality, he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness. In 1 Corinthians 12, eight through 10, for to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit. To the other, the word of knowledge through the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same spirit, to another, the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. In 1 Peter 4, 10 and 11, as each one has received a gift, minister it to one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, once again administrates, let them do it as with the ability which God supplies. Then in all things, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. And he's speaking of the spiritual gifts of the gifts that have been freely bestowed to each one. These gifts are measured out to us in proportion to what is necessary for their operation. And the result will be that God will be glorified as these gifts are exercise. Now I want to give you a little more insight into this because we don't touch on the gifts of the spirit very often and I'm really not going to give you a full teaching on it tonight. But God is the one who determines which gift he bestows on us. You may desire one gift, but he determines which gift or gifts you receive. And sometimes people get caught up with certain gifts. One of the gifts that people get caught up with in the spiritual gifts is the gift of tongues. And I still remember many years ago now we had a Sunday night service and and at the conclusion of the service I had a walk down I was talking to people in Holland and a lady walks up to me and she says this is my first time here and I wanted to ask you a question if I may and I said no I'm off the clock no I I said well of course she said I just want to ask you when does the spirit move here that was she says my first time I just want to know when does the spirit move here and I smiled at her I said when does the spirit move here she said yes I said were you here for the Bible study she said yes I said did you participate in worship she said yes I did I said the spirit was moving did you hear the Bible study today she said yeah I said the spirit was moving through the teaching of the word I said did you see the invitation she said yes did you see people get saved yes the Holy Spirit the gifts of the spirit were moving at that time I said do you look around right now and you see people praying for one another she says yes I said the spirit is moving right now I said what you're really asking me is when do we speak in tongues right she goes yeah when do we speak in in tongues I said Shandala right now no I said she wrote a Honda I said you know I said the gifts and the operations of the Holy Spirit are not limited to one manifestation of gifts if you're looking for for tongues there's a place of course for that but the gifts of the spirit are in operation right now and you need to understand that you see there are those who will will beg God for a particular gift they want this gift for the longest time I had prayed that the Lord would gift me with the with the the ability to to pray for and see healings I I wanted that for a lot of reasons especially many of you would already know because my mother was sick for so long I had asked the Lord please give me the ability to pray for a miracle and see a healing because of my mom for the longest time but I I read the scripture 1st Corinthians chapter 12 verse 11 it says one in the same spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually as he wills so you could desire and you could ask but it's God who determines that you're gifting so spiritual gifts are not given to us for only our own use and spiritual gifts are not given to us for only our own profit they are given to profit the ones who are receiving from the Lord but they're not given to profit the one exercising them in Acts chapter 8 there's an evangelist his name is Philip and the evangelist Philip who by the way is the only person in scripture in the New Testament ever referred to as an evangelist that I find interesting but Philip is called Philip the evangelist and and he had gone to a city in the region of Samaria and while he was there he preached the gospel he was performing signs he was casting out demons people were listening to what he had to say well in the same city was a sorcerer his name was Simon and Simon was one who was greatly honored by the people they actually called this man Simon the sorcerer they called him the great power of God and many followed after Simon the sorcerer well when the people began to listen to Philip Simon began losing his audience and it caused him to begin following after Philip and he was amazed at the things he saw Philip doing he was amazed at the miracles that he was witnessing well during this time Peter and John the apostles were in the seat of Jerusalem and they heard what was taking place there in Samaria there was a revival and when they heard that there was a revival they left and came to Samaria now Simon was watching as these apostles laid hands on people and he saw the people receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit so in Acts chapter 8 verses 18 through 22 it reads when Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles hands he offered them money and said give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit Peter answered may your money perish with you because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money you have no part or share in this ministry because your heart is not right before God repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord and the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart for I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin have you ever heard the term Simon the term Simon is as church related it's trying to purchase an office in the church it's trying to purchase the office of bishop an office of pastor it's called Simon it's called Simon because of what Simon tried to do he tried to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit because he was jealous of seeing his audience dwindle and he wanted to have the same kind of of impact that he saw these other others having and so God's free gifts are not intended to be used for self promotion they're given for the purpose of serving God and man and the result is always intended to be the glory the glory of God in 1st Corinthians 12 7 it says to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good it's not just for the individual who's exercising the gifts we have a tendency in our day to have to actually give so much attention to the person exercising the gifts that we don't give the glory to the one who gifted him with those abilities and what happens is fan clubs begin springing up for that individual and it removes the glory from God and places it on that individual the spiritual gifts are not intended to do that spiritual gifts are not intended to draw attention to the vessels exercising the gifts the gifts are intended to bring glory to God through Jesus Christ now we see this with Peter and John once again at the gate that was called beautiful and a reaction of the crowd you see Peter and John had gone to the temple to pray at the hour of prayer and they had encountered a man who was crippled at the gate this man the scripture tells us would be put there daily so he could beg from those who were entering the temple courts so as Peter and John were about to enter he asked them for money and Peter spoke he said look at us so the man paid attention expecting the scripture says to receive something and it was at this time that Peter said these famous words in the book of Acts chapter 3 verses 6 through 8 Peter said silver and gold I do not have but what I do have I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk he took him by the right hand lifted him up immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength so he leaping up stood and walked and entered the temple with them walking and leaping and praising God we used to sing that as a song when I first got saved walking and leaping and praising God we used to sing that song silver and gold have I none and then we clapped but such as I have give ID in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk walking and leaping and praising God walking and leaping and praising God we sang that when I first got saved because we were raised in a time when we expected God to move and so we would glorify God in our songs for the things that he could do in scripture and so this man was walking and leaping and praising God and as we see the exercise of gifts the gift of faith and miraculous healing Peter was given an opportunity at that time to preach and and as he was sharing because people came and they saw this man and they recognize him for who he was and there he was holding on to the apostles and all and then Peter began preach them he said he said men of Israel why are you looking upon us in this way as if it was through our own goodness and power that we made this man to walk and they began to preach the gospel began to preach to them then it was the name of Jesus it was in his power and he went on to go on so far as to say the one whom you kill the one you crucify this one was raised the third day and and it's through him and oh my god everybody upset when he did that it got upset because they were putting the blame it was felt on those who had crucified Jesus what happened is they got they got arrested Peter and John were jailbirds they had tear drops and everything but God I don't know why he said forgive me it's not in my notes but it got Peter and John arrested but God got all the glory in Acts chapter four verse four many of those who heard the word believed in the number of the men came to be about five thousand so the gifts of the Holy Spirit are intended to draw people to Jesus Christ and bring glory to God and because these are gifts that he's given to us we are to exercise them in faith and we have received gifts individually but we exercise those gifts for the benefit of all and that recognizes our personal individuality while benefiting the entire body of Christ I've had people say but how do I know what my spiritual gift is what is it that you do that you love to do that produces fruit in God's kingdom what is it that's one of the ways to discover the gifts I gave you the chapters in scripture that you could begin to look at and pour over and pray over when I was about 23 just about three years ago when I was 23 we had a church group at my parents house I had just gotten out of the military and this group had come over to my parents house and as they had come to my parents house I was speaking to one of these individuals who was part of the church group in and I was in the kitchen my dad happened to be there standing next to me and this man had made a statement made a question and actually had made an incorrect statement and again I was only three years old in the Lord but I was familiar with scripture enough to know this was incorrect what he just said and so when he said what he said I wasn't thinking I just said well you know that's interesting but that's really not what the bible says this is what the bible says and I quoted a scripture to him and kind of explained to him why what he said was incorrect and why this is what the scripture actually says and I did with them just just in a conversation and the guy looks at me I'll never forget this and he nods his head and he said you know that makes sense thank you so much I said of course and he walks into the front room and starts speaking to the other young people who were there and my dad looks at me and he said to me son I didn't know you could do that I said do what I didn't know that you could explain scripture like that I said really he says I didn't know you could do that I didn't think about it at all but it was that prompting that made me begin to wonder maybe that's what I'm supposed to do and that's how I actually asked my dad a little while later dad would you mind if we have a home bible study here and in September of 1973 I started teaching bible studies to my parents because my father recognized that gift you have gifts too every believer in the body of Christ has at least one you more than likely have more than one you may have what is called the gift mix which means you may have exhortation you may have the ability to communicate preach the gospel you may have the gift of faith you may have a variety exhortation there's so many different gifts that work together my primary gifting is exhortation my primary gifting is teaching and preaching that's what I do but there are other gifts in the body of Christ and every one of you have at least one and when you discover that you see how exciting the Christian life actually is and so the body of Christ is made up of individuals that are still united in one in Jesus Christ and the gifts have been given to us according to the measure of Christ's gift well in verse eight he goes on to say therefore he says when he ascended on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men now this he ascended what does it mean but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth he who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all things and so he begins by quoting a psalm now I want I'm going to develop this with you he says when he ascended on high verse eight he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men this is a psalm psalm 68 psalm 68 is called a victory hymn what it is it's a hymn a celebration of a war victory in this particular psalm 68 it's a picture of a Jewish king who is setting free soldiers who are once prisoners of the enemy and so that's what he's speaking concerning he ascended on high led captivity captive gave gifts to men the context is setting soldiers free who at one time had been captive so here's what the picture is Jesus has defeated Satan and has set those who were at one time Satan's captives free we were once captives of Satan we were prone to sin and open to Satan's enticements but Jesus set the captives free when we when they received his forgiveness and were born again and in that Jesus conquered Satan sin and death and he did it by his own death and resurrection what this is a picture of has been called a triumphal march so I look that up and I'm going to just quote from the source that I use in Rome the conqueror rode along the via sacra in his chariot followed by his troops and prisoners captive kings and princes and trophies of victory fragrant clouds of incense accompanied his march rising from fixed altars or wafted from sensors how at the foot of the capitoline hill some of the prisoners condemned as treacherous or rebellious were led off to execution or thrown into the dungeons of the mammartine prison while others were pardoned and set free we are the ones who have been set free we are the ones who are Jesus's captives because we've been set free from captivity of satan in 2nd Corinthians 214 Paul said it like this thanks be to God who always leads us triumphantly as captives in christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him that's a picture of this roman triumph now the incense that was rising to the captives those who were being set free it was an incense of freedom but to those who were dying it was the fragrance of death and so to us this incense that was he's speaking about there is the freedom that we have in Jesus christ and the bible teaches very clearly that we are the ones who have been set free and are no longer oh god help us understand this we are no longer satan's captives can you rejoice in that for just a moment we are no longer satan's captives thank you Jesus we are no longer satan's captives because he has set us free how did he do it he did it at the cross Colossians 215 having disarmed the word disarmed means to strip the powers strip them to strip the powers of the chieftains so having disarmed having stripped the powers having stripped the the chieftains speaking of those with authority and those authorities who had delegated influence he made a public spectacle he made a show of them triumphing over them by the cross so after his ascension it says here again in verse eight when he ascended on high he led captivity captive gave gifts to men after his ascension he gave gifts to men when Jesus was exalted he sent the spirit and with the spirit comes spiritual gifts in john 16 verse 7 Jesus said nevertheless I tell you the truth it is to your advantage that I go away for if I do not go away the helper the comforter the holy spirit will not come to you but if I go I will send him to you speaks of the coming of the holy spirit and the gifts that come along with him he goes on in verse nine now this he ascended what does it mean but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth now these verses I'm giving to you are controversial not in in the negative sense but in the sense that great scholars over the centuries have debated their meaning and so obviously I'm no scholar so I have to rely on what I think are the most trusted sources for this and I'm going to give to you some insights that different scholars have have over the years come to conclude and so when we look at this and it says again in verse eight after his ascension he gave gifts to men goes on to say now this he ascended what does it mean but that he first also he also first descended so when that's the area of controversy there are different ways of viewing this there are those who would say that this speaking of a descending it speaks of him proclaiming victory over those who rejected their opportunity of salvation it would be speaking according to some it would be speaking of those who rejected Noah's message and perished in the flood why would some say that well first Peter 3 19 and 20 says it like this after being made alive he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built in it only a few people ate in all were saved through water so some will say that this speaks of Jesus's in the three days that he had died that he had gone to the place where the it called Hades where the the spirits of it was divided into two sections of the section of the righteous dead and the section of those awaiting final judgment and ultimately being cast into into the lake of fire there at one time this compartment of the dead the souls who have departed was divided into those two sections you see that in Luke chapter 16 you see the parable or the story of Lazarus and the rich man and so there are those who say that is not an actual parable they say that's really a story that there was an actual man named Lazarus why do they say that they say because in none of the other parables did Jesus ever use somebody's proper name and so there are those who would say that this was speaking of Jesus after he died on the cross that he went into this place of imprisoned spirits and that he took those who were in Hades in the place of the righteous dead and brought them with him to paradise when he resurrected and ascended that's one way of looking at it there's a second way of looking at it the word ascended could refer to the Lord's ascension after his resurrection the word descended would mean his coming to earth in his incarnation into the lower parts could be referring to his death in his burial so that would illustrate just how far Jesus was willing to go for us in 2nd Corinthians 8 verse 9 you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor so that you through his poverty might become rich or rich in him and so they speak concerning his ascending when he was ascended on 40 days after his resurrection or descended could be speaking of his coming to earth in his incarnation I I'm trying not to confuse you I know I am but let's go into a third way and that would be again I already kind of alluded to this that Jesus descended into Hades to release the godly awaiting his victory in order that they might accompany him to heaven that would be what was referred to as the victory parade so I'm no scholar and some are probably wondering well which one of those views do you to you lean towards I lean towards Jesus taking captivity captive that Jesus in those days that that we count as the three days that he was in the bowels of the earth that he actually brought these with him as the first fruits of his resurrection took them to be with him and but all three of these views they're all they're all acceptable so it just depends on the moment that you're considering them I don't want to make light of that but it that's a very difficult portion of scripture the scholars have been arguing over for many many years so let's go on and let's see if I can close with a little more confusion verse 10 he who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all things he who descended is the one who ascended far above the heavens so this is the one who has the right to be exalted above all things in heaven and on earth in revelation in chapter 5 verses 11 and 12 I looked and I heard the voice of many angels numbering thousands upon thousand ten thousands time ten thousand they encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders in a loud voice they were saying worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power wealth wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise the picture of jesus christ receiving receiving all that praise surrounded by thousands upon thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand and and and so much praise and so much worship you know I used to say it in the earlier days of our ministry but it's worth repeating at this moment I would say if you don't like worshiping God here right now heaven's not a place for you because heaven is filled with worship heaven is filled with praise people say i'd be kind of bored there I I don't think so I I have no belief whatsoever that heaven's a boring place um heaven is a place that is filled with with joy heaven is a place that is there is no sorrow there's no pain there are no tears there's no death there's no illness there's no broken hearts there's no sicknesses of any sort there's no children who who who who are dying not don't say no children there are no children who are dying I heard that giggle over there there are no older people who are who are slowly slowly dying Marie and I have have been around for a while now neither one of us are young anymore we laugh about it but it's true there's a joy and there's a sorrow in growing older everybody knows the joy but there's a sorrow too because I have seen friends people I've loved deeply go through so much pain and I've said goodbye to quite a number of people over the years that meant quite a number of things to me that would include a dad and a mom and father-in-law that would include friends in this fellowship because the COVID thing that we as a church went through I don't know how some churches didn't seem to be touched by it but there were many in our fellowship that suffered through that many and we saw a number of people go to heaven we used to come here during the um the first closure and when we had to close down churches because we didn't know what was going on with this disease and one of the brothers would come Marie and I would come John would come some of the other guys on south would come one of the brothers who would come was a guy named Daniel Varela Daniel was very dear to me Daniel when he first started coming to this church I call everybody bro and he'd say pastor David you don't have to call me bro and I so really he says just think of a man in the Bible there's a book named after him and I said and what book is that Daniel so every time I would see Daniel I'd be thinking a book in the Bible hey Daniel how you're doing you know hey Job no Daniel Daniel became dear to me Daniel became dear to me Daniel would come and he'd be here on the on the church grounds and Marie and I John and some of the others would be here and he would come and we'd see him come pulling in in his car and we're always afraid he's going to run into something he was a dangerous Daniel driver but I loved him and he'd get off the car and he'd come and stand next to us and he'd visit with us and and then one day I didn't see him again probably shouldn't tell you these stories because he died he went to heaven he's not he's not sad where he's at but there are people like me that are sad because I miss him and there've been many others many others I could begin naming names I mean we saw many people go home to be with the Lord you may or may not realize this some of you wouldn't but this this fellowship has averaged between 40 and 50 funerals a year that's quite a number of funerals and a good number of people who contacted COVID went home to be with Jesus and that will give you insight into why I wanted to be as careful as I could with all of you to protect you to the best that we could because there were those who were saying that Pastor David is a coward he's not standing up against this but it's because I loved you that I didn't want to put you in a place where am I lose you and so that's a shepherd's heart and I cared because we've seen a lot of pain and so when I read scriptures that speak of the praise and the worship and the glory and the joy they speak to me because that's what I'm looking forward to that's what I as a Christian longed for to be with the Lord to see him face to face to worship him and to just enjoy his presence forever and so when I read scriptures about the thousands upon thousands who are crying out to the Lord worthy as the lamb who is slain to receive power wealth wisdom strength and honor and glory and praise that's something I want to learn to give to him now while I'm on earth I'm all practiced up so I'm ready to give it to him when I see him face to face you see the Jesus who has ascended into heaven is the same one who ministered on earth and the one who loved the outcast the one who ministered to all that one now reigns in heaven and he still seeks the lost he still forgives he still comforts those who are hurt he still heals the sick he still loves his sheep he hasn't left the world but by his spirit is everywhere in these available to all who call upon him he who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all things and John 14 15 through 18 Jesus said it like this he said if you love me keep my commandments and I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you and he went on to say I will not leave you orphans I will come to you this Jesus dwells within us he didn't leave us orphans he's our support he cares for us he is with us he is ascended into heaven but he fills everything so that today even here right now his spirit is with us he has not left us alone Father we bless you


Hello, my name is Isabelle Bartonbeck. I'm an economist. I'm the program leader of livelihoods, gender and impact at Erie, based in in Nairobi. I want to tell you a bit more about how gender has been integrated in the nice-to-can-fish CRP from the start until now, which is we are about to hopefully start the phase two of the CRP work. When the nice-to-can-fish proposal was developed, I think we were really lucky in getting it getting gender well integrated into the proposal from day one. You know, thanks to Mama Juki, who was at that time a gender scientist at Erie, she really I believe put the basis into that proposal and as well as the work started, the integration started quite successfully and even though we know staff changes and things happen, you know we were able to base our work on a well-grounded gender strategy. But I believe all the four centers in this CRP are able to understand and are implementing and looking at how we move forward from output to outcomes. When maybe we got more careful about ensuring that we spend sufficiently quality money on gender, the gender initiative took place and initiated by the nice-to-can-fish management and then KIT was joined us in a way and this great adventure continued with the KIT colleagues and through an open call that but clearly said that not only you will be able to tap into new funding to integrate gender in your work but as well you will get expertise, support through a coaching process. We got really good feedback, overwhelming positive feedback, maybe too much in a way because we had 20 or so positive proposals and therefore when we had to make actually decisions on which one to take on and looking at you know being fair in terms of criteria, looking at having all the flagships represented, all the value chains represented, at least the one who applied obviously Fiorpia, Tanzania, Nicaragua and all of us and as well the different centers obviously then the coaching process really took took place and as we are here this week writing some of us, the results of some of this coach project I think we really see the way how gender has you know the interest in integrating gender in our work has really helped the different center to come together around this special topic that actually we can all relate to whether I believe economists like me working on value chains or breeders, geneticists, field specialists, we are actually all working with human subjects, men and women and therefore gender does bring us together and as we are now working on the proposal for the second phase of the CRP we actually see really genuine interest in by all the flagships I would say all the technical teams as well in ensuring that gender is integrated from the beginning of their work you know if I develop this vaccine you know what does it mean for men and women for example to you know assessment and things like that so I believe the work we've started with what you're currently doing on gender in the livestock and fish CRP I believe he has he will really have strong basis for future work in the second phase of the CRP so the gender initiative may evolve depending as well on all the different centers you know sees gender and how they want to to to source it in terms of technical expertise but I think the spirit of working collaboratively and you know looking at external expertise as well outside the CG we've seen the value of that and you know I believe this is a value of most of my colleagues have seen it so in a way or another I think we will continue these collaborations somehow and I look forward to continuing working with my colleagues from all the centers on that great adventure