Hello Hi My name is Marina and welcome in the session how to use your strengths to become a great leader So how was your DrupalCon so far? Good bet Good great I'm really happy to see you here. I'm really happy to stay here and deliver this presentation It's each and every time for me is an amazing experience And I'm really grateful for the Drupal community to have a chance actually to stay here Me the girl from the middle of nowhere has the opportunity to talk about things that really matter to me It's just amazing.  I Guess it would be fair if I introduce myself first before I start with my content for you to have an idea Why have I chosen this topic and actually what experience I have about it? So my name is Marina and I come from Russia Quite a small city somewhere in the middle of Siberia and I work there in the company desise solutions And I'm responsible for organizational development. So During my professional experience. I've been a team member of many teams and I also had an Honor to lead several of them and through each and every of those experiences I somehow reinvented myself to find out what kind of leader is needed to lead the team to great success, but Nothing is good from the first time sometimes. So my first membership experience was the failure So I was like this little puppy in the new team. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know How to do it home to us. So back then it was the second or third year of university. I guess I joined a youth international youth NGO, which was about doing international student exchange. So I I The same as other new business team were assigned to Different students from different cities and I was supposed to find an internship for them But I didn't know how to do this. I didn't know how the platform of this searching for internship works So actually the team leader of our team didn't do that much bonding of us So I didn't know is it okay to approach someone else is it okay to ask for help? And so I was really confused that time but Somehow I managed to find an internship for this goal and I understand I wanted to keep going to invest more in myself development and I joined another team So if this time I was a team member of a team of a local chapter of international organization So next step was to be in a team that led this local chapter of this international organization And that was completely different experience because from the first days of this team the leader of it Treated us completely differently. She treated us as unique personalities. She helped us through all the processes She helped us to get to know each other. She helped us to trust each other So we met each week and we talked about every successes and what most importantly all failures we had so we shared it openly and if When we started this experience our local chapter wasn't even recognized by the capital Local chapter so we weren't even on the map of our organization that small we were that time But in the year we were that dedicated We were so that bonded that we managed to become the best level chapter in our country And it was like when we did it we didn't believe it ourselves because we were just you know third-year students knowing nothing about how to deal with this stuff, but The attitude that the leader brought to our team changed everything So she helped us understand how we can unleash our own potential while achieving our common goals and that brought us very strong commitment towards achieve the achieving them and that we did So later on when I was moving on with my career I started to analyze the previous experience I had I started to think what was the difference between those two different approaches to managing a team and I understand understood for myself that I I call it value-based team management works better. So if in the first team the manager were more of Delegating tasks and putting the project goals above our personal goals So on the second team the leader behaved differently So she helped us to connect our personal goals our personal values to the project goals and that Bonset us that made us a really strong team and so we could benefit from our common strengths together So I was digging deeper on this value-based approach and tried many mythologies many techniques in my next teams and so on and I realized that They're actually two main components of becoming a good leader and the first one is self-assessment and development. Why? Because I do believe that a true leader should start from their cells So you should know who you are and where you go before leading others somewhere It's at least honest because if you're leading someone somewhere without knowing where you're going yourself So you're all lost, you know, and so that is the first step and then when you are done with your self-assessment Go further to self-development because you can actually become some become better at some points of leadership of team management experience to become a better leader for your team. So When you're done with this It's important to be able to transmit your values transmit your vision to other people and therefore the second component is Communication so if you're able to communicate properly with your team members with other people to share your values to share your goals To unite people by them Your leader, but if you are a great personality great professional But you're not able to communicate with different people you cannot find right approach to different people So it will be very difficult for you to create a bonded good team At least in my opinion. So during this presentation We will cover those two points with our agenda and we will start with golden circle model designed by Simon scenic It will help us understand why we want to be leaders then we will move on to our You know natural features natural strengths and weaknesses with PAI leadership styles model that will help us understand which leadership styles exist and what Wish of them we demonstrate then we will do some self-assessment and see how we can communicate with representatives of different styles Right. So I have introduced myself. I have introduced our agenda So I really want to know whom we have here. Is it okay for me to ask if we have any developers in the room? Can you please wave? Yeah, that's amazing. Can we do we have project managers, maybe? Okay, good Marketing managers Good HR managers Yeah, what one one chef HR manager great. Who do I mean CEOs? Nice anyone designers. I forgot designers. Oh, yeah, we got one great I really hope the the session will be helpful for you somehow And before we start and if I'm starting speaking too fast or not understandable It's clearly heard that I'm not a native English speaker So please don't hesitate to raise your hand and slow me down or just ask to repeat something It's okay. I really want this hour to be productive and efficient for you and for me as well So if something goes wrong, just let me know well Let's start with a golden circle model. It is designed by Simon scenic I think answers to three main questions that can you that help you assess yourself hasn't even heard about this model before Yeah, the designer right Great So this model answers three three main questions why how and what so in terms of doing something What's more important? Why are you doing this? How are you going to do this or what are you going to do actually? So who's for why who thinks that why are you doing things is the most important? Uh-huh. Thank you Who thinks that how are you going to do this is the most important? And who thinks that what are you going to do is most important? Okay, thanks. Thank you for participating in my small interactions But I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you all are wrong The main point is that you need to apply two main principle to this model to make it work and the first principle is balance So you need to have all three questions. Yes, it is easy as this So you need to answer all these three questions in order to become an influential leader So if you know why you do things, but you don't know what are you doing? You won't be able to channel your personal values your personal vision to your activities and people won't understand What kind of person you are and on the other hand if you know what you do But you don't know why you still miss this connection and people won't understand who you are out of what you do And Simon scenic claims that if you have answers to all those three questions You will be able to have to build this strong connection between your personal values and your actions And that will help you to surround yourself. It's like minded people Who will join you or because of who you are because of why you do things? And this is what he calls influential leadership and The second principle of this model is order. So you should always start from why so in this terms Those who rose hands on why we were partially right because this is the first touch point with this model This is the first question you should ask yourself why are you doing this really? So why is it important? Why is it that valuable to you what? It brings to your life So if to finalize you should always have the clarity of why where why is your set of your personal beliefs your personal values Then you need move to move on and find your discipline of how where how are the concrete steps to realize your why and Finally, you need to have consistency of what where what are what is some Tangible results some physical manifestation Manifestations of your why in the real world so having answers answered all those three questions you will be able to Reflect yourself to your activities and build the team who share common values But unfortunately nowadays life is so fast and people don't really have time to stop and think about those things and usually if you ask others like Tell me something about yourself people answer something like I study in this university. I work in this company I do this I have this kind of hobby and that's it. They usually not sharing not share with you Why this is it's important to them? Why they why have they chosen this job? Why have they chosen this hobby and so on? But actually the point is that people don't buy what you do they buy why you do it and Bones in people by why I will build much stronger commitment much stronger connection Among your team members, so I think this quote is very true so Does anyone knows their while really? actually It's hard at first at least answer this question, but it's okay So if you're struggling I suggest you to answer two more questions that will help you to find your why to understand What your why is and the first question is what would you do if you have unlimited amount of money? so just imagine money is not an issue anymore at all and Think about the list of things that you would do then and once you come up with a list of things That you would do if you have unlimited amount of money Then at the same day or on another day to clear your mind think about the list of things that you would do even if you're not paid for it so what are you that passionate about that you would do it no matter what and Then look at those lists and think what is similar among all those activities? What do they have in common and then imagine yourself doing those things and think about what you feel what? What value those activities bring to your life? This might be not the direct answer to your why but this will be a source of insight to you to find it and Yeah, I find my why the hard way so As I shared with you. I was a member of this NGO. I Was I was there for four or five years or so and you cannot be a member of NGO without knowing why you're there So it's an NGO. You're not paid for it.  I want my children to be raised in the better world And I really wanted to contribute to this mission and therefore During those four or five and really remember years It wasn't the question to me why I'm doing this. I knew why I'm doing this but then since its use and student organization then I finished my university and Started working in the commercial company and at first it was very interesting Everything was new for a self of the year was very overwhelming. I really loved it. But then I found myself Not knowing why I'm there anymore. So tasks were like too easy for me I didn't feel like I'm really bringing some value to this company I didn't feel that the work in this company brings value to myself. So I didn't really see the point of me being there anymore, but and that was really unusual and Let's say unnatural to me not knowing my why I didn't know how how can I not answer this question about myself? I'm the one who it was supposed to know myself, right? But So I was struggling for months. I was trying to push this why out of myself, but it didn't appear anyhow and then Even without knowing about this model of Simon scenic I somehow made up a list of things that I'm really as I really enjoy doing and I included there all the things in my Life that really brought me happiness and fulfillment. I included there as the educational events that I created and was then I was in university the Brand of international internships that I launched when I was working in this NGO all the sessions that I prepared and delivered even my Weird hobbies such as home gardening baking and knitting and stuff like this and I was looking at this list and thinking why Why I love doing all those things and then Simply but not easy one statement came to my mind I realized that all those things are united by the one process of creation of doing something out of nothing of Like fixing something that isn't working properly and I just really realized that yes, this is it So I remembered myself standing on the stage of the event That was the idea of my mind in my mind that became The actual event that 200 people attended and I was standing on the station thinking wow I Did something that never existed before it's so cool and It really brought me fulfillment. I got really motivational out of it and I Was ready to do even more and I know that I Can create much more value for others if I'm in this Inspired state so I really wanted my everyday job to become something like this and I put effort to Change my job description a little to fit it to make it more to make it fit more my why and So as I told you in the beginning I'm doing organizational development Which literally means that I create business processes that haven't existed before or I fix business processes that aren't working properly So that's how finding my why helped me in my everyday life And I hope that if you will answer this question any time even you will need to answer To decide whether to do something or no knowing your why will be much easier to you to understand What it will bring to you and what can you give back? so that's about the this kind of personal values assessment part and Now let's talk about how you can Channel your vision to your team. What's how to become this leader that can really? Lead the team to the great success. What role the leader should play and we're moving closer to this PA y leadership styles model It is designed by dr. Adiz's He's an amazing scientist. He is amazing book writer I really enjoyed reading his works and watching his videos and I want him to Introduce to you the role of the leader because I'm sure after watching the video you will like him too What is a leader? Please look at my hand. You see that the hand is five different fingers Five different fingers and we need the five different fingers in order to get a hand Because every finger does something different than another finger If you had five fingers like the pointing finger, would you have a good hand? This is the best finger there is no you will not have a good hand because you will need things that this finger can do that This finger cannot do Now in another segment. I also told you that in the Middle East When the five fingers are together, that's called a hamster.  Probably two inches are we different and together? That's a blessing What are we different and separate? That's a curse So what is the role of leadership then? Look at my hand. Which finger is the most important one? This one, you know why?  It is a title of my future book Or a chapter in my present book Being a leader is being a thumb Make us work together Make our differences work as a hand So I told you he's amazing Yeah, so The role of the leader is to act like a thumb to make different people to work together And this is what we will understand under the role of the leader at least within this session So but what it takes to make different people to work together That means that you need to appreciate Differences and that is very important stuff important step of becoming a leader to appreciate each other's differences because the communication of people with different points of view can Lead to amazing ideas and efficient ways to realize them, but it only applies to constructive conflict so constructive conflicts are things that actually drive organization to evolve to change and develop and Again the quote of dr. Adiz's if all of people think alike none of them is thinking too hard Right, so if you agree with everybody all the time you don't move forward You don't go any further. You don't evolve. You just stuck in one place Actually, is it okay to how do you pronounce the name of the doctor Adiz's so I tried to Google it and I didn't find it in English at all. So in Russian we say it's hug so the same okay, so Because I was really confused because I didn't I couldn't Google something. Why? Yeah So we were talking about constructive conflicts. So that is the source of evolution But unfortunately or fortunately, I don't know destructive conflicts happen as well And that is the time when the leader should step up and to show the team how powerful and resultative constructive conflicts Can be and but there is the only way to make this Disagreeing process not exhausting and destructive is to create the atmosphere of trust and respect and when respect is if to rephrase of Kant is the recognition of the right of the other person to think differently and trust is being 100% sure that each and every time other team members do anything to contribute to your common goals So to sum it up the role of the leader is to act like a thumb to make to bring different people to work together In the atmosphere of trust and respect So what are those PAI leadership styles are again the question has anyone heard about this model? Okay, so this is an acronym where p stands for producer a stands for administrator e stands for entrepreneur and I for integrator Let's see what are those styles and more details? So the first role of the organization is to produce results So you need to produce some product of service to offer to your customers and then the producer is responsible to this And for this producer is very hard-working person producers are always They always have a lot of tasks They work from very early morning to the midnight every day and they really can produce good results under this pressure But sometimes being that snowed under work. They lack the big picture. They don't see how their current tasks Contribute to the final company's goal But on the other hand, they're very responsible. They Really accurate they do every task and they try to make it by deadline and they tend to control everything and sometimes they become Some kinds of control freaks because they don't trust their team members some bigger tasks because they don't know whether they will do this fine But so they delegate some minor things and they still check it all So therefore the more team members and the producers team the more work with the producer because anyway He does something like this. It's because producers don't really know how to Manage the team producers think that all education team buildings and personal talks are the destruction from work And that's why the team members of the producer don't develop themselves They cannot do bigger tasks the producer can delegate the bigger tasks and this endless circle goes over and over and Producers are ambitious. They know what results they need to achieve and they won't accept any smaller things So that's about the producer the next hero is administrator administrator the administering role is About how things are done. So administrators are responsible are responsible for Things being controlled organized Structured and stuff like this and for this purpose administrators have strong analytical skills They are great at working with data. They can analyze it. They can draw right conclusions and they really love doing this They are also very meticulous and they are working with numbers. They check it They double check it They never do any mistakes because they're very accurate at this point. They have steady and structured approach They do first thing first second things second never a different order and Therefore sometimes they put procedures over efficiency. So even though Their team members might come up with some efficient way to do something They won't allow it to start doing this until the team members will do instructions and of this process of this new process and But sometimes market situations changing very fast and the company doesn't really have time to write Instructions for each and every new process and in these terms slow decision-making process of the administrator can be Not the good point for the company For the company Yeah, so the administrator have the slow decision-making process because they really are they always need more data So when the administrator needs to decide something they require more data and then even more data and only after that They may be decide or request more data. So And they bound team with too many rules So after some time team members will come up with new ideas and suggest them But they will stop soon because they will know that right after they create something new they will need to write instructions for this next guy next Style is an entrepreneur Entrepreneur in role helps organization to successfully adapt to change and for this entrepreneurs really full of ideas They pop up with ideas all the time They pop up with ideas while popping up with ideas really they have many of them They're really innovative and they know how to bring some new things to organization But the point is they don't really filter those ideas They consider all of their ideas as the most brilliant ones and they actually expect the team members be on this ideas right after they say them but team members don't really do this because they never know whether it was the final idea or It will change you next five minutes so As the entrepreneurs think that their ideas are the most brilliant ones They don't really listen to others because they're really scared that someone else will be I will create something even better than they did But they have strategic insights So they are really good at creating strategies They somehow a little bit foresee the future and can distinguish opportunities from threats And this is the only style that can handle big risks because entrepreneurs are good at working in very unstructured conditions in uncertain situations They are really fine with changing environments and so on But they have implementation issues So they like creating strategies and popping up with ideas. They don't like implementing them And therefore entrepreneurs should remember then sometimes Media occur but implemented idea is better than the most brilliant one but never implemented And the final style we have that is the integrator so integrating role creates It helps to create the bonded team that makes organization last during the long term and work efficiently so For this purpose integrators have strong empathy. They are really good at working with different people. They are really good at working with The finding approach to different people so effective communications is their main feature and those other guys that create the atmosphere of trust and respect that we were talking about But of course there are some but so the backfire of the integrators empathy is that they're really scared of conflicts even of the construct constructive ones so they are constantly searching for a compromise and It slows up their decision-making process so they need to know each and every one's opinion before deciding something but Sometimes it's really unlike situation to have everyone to come to agreement especially if the team is very big So they put relationships over efficiency again So they need to communicate with all the people and to make everyone comfortable But sometimes it's really impossible or if the company is big and the decisions should be made fast and they can't take a stand so but The leader really should take a stand should have should make a decision and then act upon it because if the leader Doesn't take a stand that someone else will and It will be the leader Well, so we have described briefly all those four styles Let's see how they are correlated with each other So maybe it's not that visible in the in the back But as presentation the slides are available at the Drupal condo website the page of my session So there are four dimensions with which we can compare those styles which is focus perspective speed and approach So focus can be result oriented or process oriented perspective can be global or local speed can be slow or fast And approach can be structured or unstructured So I guess it's obvious that organization need to Have all the extents of those dimensions in order to develop So for example, you need to think globally to come up with a viable strategy But you need to act locally to implement it and you need to produce results But you cannot do it or at least you cannot scale it up if you don't have well-built processes and It's a hardly Situation when one person can combine all the extents of all those dimensions in oneself and therefore To manage the organization efficiently the complementary team is needed They are complementary teams that will combine all those four styles in order to benefit from their common From their collective strength, but to manage those team of different individuals who needs who is needed the leader who is acting like a thumb and brings all those four styles to work together and That's why the appreciation of difference is that important only in this case the team will benefit from the collective strengths and All of those styles have their own strong sides, but unfortunately all of them don't really matter if People cannot communicate with each other cannot build a good team So therefore I would propose a general recommendation to representatives of all styles is for producer administrator and the Entrepreneur to develop empathy because they all need it of course due to different reasons to produce her need empathy to Work with the team properly to delegate properly the administrator needs to have empathy to put people over the procedures and the entrepreneur needs empathy to listen to others and As what about the integrator? I won't say the integrator should stop being empathetic at all of course not but integrator should balance the empathy because some Yes, people's feelings are important. No one will argue that but sometimes in different situations it's not the most important things and integrator should take a stand and act upon it so Actually those descriptions of leadership styles and those recommendations are very brief and there are much more Details about each and every styles and the lists of recommendations to representatives of different styles and also list of Recommendations to how to communicate with different leadership styles So if you want to know more about your style of style of your colleagues, I've created a blog post which has very detailed Description of all this because we're now limited in time and I cannot tell you all I want Unfortunately, so you can I will share with you the link further So Have you seen some similarities with yourself or your colleagues in those leadership styles? Yeah, I think people nodding but actually for me personally It wasn't that easy to understand what style what leadership style I have just after reading the descriptions So I complete the self-assessment test that is available on the Odysseus online Institute I will also share with you a link that you can complete this test and be sure what style of leadership you demonstrate So once you know what leadership style you demonstrate you should go further to from self-assessment or self-development and see whether You can develop different style other styles For to become a better leader to your team members So I'm an entrepreneur at least according to the test and so you can imagine how much entrepreneur likes working with documents So but I decided that this is the feature I want to develop in myself This is the process I need to do because I know that it's important even though I don't like it So I decided to develop in myself this part of administrator Administrating style Second question can be can you delegate parts of your work to your team members or to other? representatives of your company I Also delegated some parts of my processes to my team members and at first Entrepreneur it was very hard to keep my mouth shut without telling them all the time how to do better because I know how to do better, right? but I Now I'm glad that I let it go that time because I see that they really Managing it pretty well, and I'm really grateful for them to for taking those part of my responsibilities and finally look at your other team members and see maybe you can build this complimentary team that I really can Add value to each other Well, so we have Find out why we need to be leaders. We have described all the leadership styles We drafted a strategy how we can develop other leadership styles in ourselves So now let's see how to communicate with representatives of different styles So this table Clearly shows how different people react to such easy simple words as yes and no So for example the producer for him for producer. Yes is yes and no is no Producer is easy, but then it's not that easy anymore. So for administrator. Yes is yes, but no is maybe which means that if Administrator says you yes Says you know, I'm sorry. It means Give me more data and if you give the administrator more data They can say maybe or even yes and for entrepreneur on the other hand Yes is maybe so if today the entrepreneur says yes Tomorrow it might be not even maybe It may be no and for integrator. Yes is maybe no is also maybe because integrator doesn't know what is yes And what is no until the integrator consults with all the other team members So of course there are much more dimensions with which you can compare different styles and prepare yourself to communications with Representatives of those different styles. For example the dimension time focus for producer. It is immediate So producer focuses on what's going on right now. What tasks are urgent right now. So administrator Administrators looks look in the past to data to some researchers to facts and stuff like this Entrepreneurs live in the future in the future strategies opportunities new ideas and stuff like this and integrators Care about present. So Do we have a compromise now? Is everything okay now? Is there any conflict somewhere and so on and Many other of them. So we won't stop right now on each and every one of them but if you will if you know that your Colleague or your boss is for example Administrator you just see what's important for the administrator and prepare yourself to the talk Well Then how to build this effective and efficient communication. So first you need to know yourself You need to know why you why are your leader why you want to be a leader then you need to find out what leadership style you have and then embrace all your Strengths and all the areas of improvement you have You need to know actually that know this in order to improve it or develop it Then you need to know your people Talk to them ask them. Why are they in your team? Why it is important to them to be in your team and keep in mind Keep in mind that actually money or experience are not really the final answer the final reason of people to do something Just try to gently understand Why your team members for example need money for so some people need money to travel some people need money to help parents And those are two different motivations to be in your team and two different approaches that leader should demonstrate towards two different people Because as I already told you in this value-based approach a leader should find The way to connect personal goal of the team member to the project's goal in order to create a stronger commitment and Then I'd also recommend you to test your team members and find out what their leadership styles are because it will help you to Delegates more efficient. So for example, I bet after the session you won't Delegate the account in tasks to the interpreneur. You would want the administrator to do your account And finally plan talks in buildings and education for your team members I know many companies that provide education for team members I know some companies that also provides in buildings and maybe it's just me But I know just a few companies that have structured And well-built approach towards personal talks with certain members But I promise you each minute spent on communicating with your team members with pay you back When it's time to get results because if people feel that you care about them But you really want them to unleash their potential through the project to show them the opportunity that they have They will pay you back with commitment with results with loyalty and team goes through different stages of its development from the starting of the project till the end and On different stages of team development different support is needed from the leader So for example at first stages the team members need a lot of education They need a lot of team building team bonding and some very you know intense periods of Projectualization some people might need emotional support or again knowledge support and stuff like this and if you Would be interested in planning this structured approach of these talks in buildings and educating your team based on the team Development stages, I would suggest you to Google Takman stages of team development And here it's very basics of team management where it's explained how the team goes from forming to the adjoining stage Well as I promised the self-assessment test that I was talking about This full link is available in the slides that are attached to my session page of the Drupal con website And there is a short link as well if you want to do it right now. It's bit.leagy-paui paui test and the blog post and medium where There are much more detailed description of each and every styles and recommendations to all those different leadership styles so Well, this is pretty it That's all I wanted to share with you today. I'm really looking for feedback and ready to answer your questions Well, if someone has questions, I guess in order it to be recorded. It should be asked in the microphone, right? Is this sort of testing and defining something you apply to Every member of your team or organization or just select group that are identified as the leaders of the organization Thank you for the question How I work so in my company in not in my company Sorry, so I have a team and I usually test the new initiatives on them And then if it's successful, I like Replicate success. I try at least to replicate the success to other teams in my in the company so now I started to do this so When I delegate some tasks, I see what the person is really How to say what's the leadership style the person is demonstrating and I see whether it will be a good to delegate this task to this person I know so now I'm just seeing how it's working and it's working pretty well So I guess in future we will be able to apply this to more teams in our company and actually This PA UI model is based on There like basic works of Carl Jung Which and many models that come from this very initial model have this four different leadership style But the advantage of this model is that it's really Let's say understandable. So the advantage of it is that anyone in your company from the first day intern to see you can understand and apply it so it's It really was Implementing Have answered any other questions. We have time. Well in case you don't have questions Then thank you very much. I really appreciated this Session and you coming to hear what I'm gonna say and yeah If you have time just to submit feedback to my session It will be really valuable to me You can just do it personally or the page of my session at RuPaulCon website. So Thank you very much


All right. Good morning. Thank you, Pastor Lee. Such an honor to be here. I've heard for years I've heard about this church and have heard for many years about Pastor Lee and your community and what you've stewarded. This is known to be a place that has stewarded both passion for prayer and zeal for the nations. And when I heard that years ago and I had a lot of friends that had come through here or have been on staff here or been, you know, part of the community, I thought, man, these are my people. I can't wait to meet this church in Kalamazoo and get to connect with your heart even more. So it is a mega honor to be here this morning. And I just love what God's doing in Western Michigan as we set off in this journey towards these next four Send locations. And the Lord spoke to us about this area of Western Michigan. This is pretty new for me. I'd not spent hardly any time here. But of course, over the last nine months, we've been here a number of times. And I just want to say, this is an amazing area. I truly believe that God is establishing this area as an Antioch on the earth.  And that out of that is going to come massive mission sending. It's already happening. It has happened in history, but it's going to happen more than ever.  It's a place just like Antioch was in the early church where the prophets and the teachers would walk hand in hand, spirit and truth, married together. And the more that I find out about your church and your community, the more I go, man, this makes so much sense why God would be speaking about Western Michigan right now. There's truly something in the soil, an amazing and rich history, but I'm going to say not just a great history, a great future for Western Michigan and all that God's doing here and all that He's about to do. And so it's a real honor to be with you this morning to share just a bit with you. And I've been in prayer for you and I hope my goal this morning would be that you leave with a little more courage than you came in with. That as you walk out the doors this morning back to whatever God's called you to, to what you do on your Monday morning around here, which I understand the summer is a lot of vacationing as well, which I just wish that Western Michigan would disciple the rest of America in vacation taking. It's amazing. It is totally amazing. I was just told don't try and do anything here in the summer because people are on vacation. So you are truly the radicals that are in church this morning. You must be because the rest are apparently vacationing. This is what I've learned. I could use some discipleship and vacationing, so I'm hoping it rubs off on me while I'm here. But my hope is that as you leave this morning, you'd leave with a little more hope and a little bit more courage for the assignment, the calling of God on your life, on your community, on this area of America, and that you would leave with that hope and that courage. So as I jump in this morning, what I'd like to do is start with a little bit of the Sen story. Not because it's about the Sen, but because I believe it relates to what God's doing in our nation right now and the nations of the earth. And I believe it relates to what's happening in this area of America. It was in 2018 that we gathered together with a number of leaders following, chasing after a prophetic word. That prophetic word was that's kind of in conjunction with a movement called the call, which many of you be familiar with. And the Sen was really kind of birthed out of the call and the ministry of Lou Ingle. And that prophetic word we were chasing was that God was going to gather together the body of Christ, much like he had around the call. And that as we gathered together, that it would be about gospel proclamations, signs, wonders, and miracles would break out, and that the call had gone out, but now it was time to send. That many had responded to that call, but there was a massive sending movement coming to America. That we have a rich history of missions that today America still sends more missionaries than any nation on earth, but that we were just touching the tip of the iceberg. And then out of Gen Z, Generation Z was going to come another massive wave of missionaries that would cover the earth. And the last part of this word was that the passion and the responsibility that Billy Graham carried was going to fall on an entire generation, not just one age group, but a people alive at the same time, not just those with microphones or ministries or platforms or positions or titles, but every believer was going to rise into their evangelistic and missional calling. That we were truly on the doorstep of another Jesus movement in America. How many of you believe that this morning? That we've been in dark times before. We've had bad headlines before. It's looked bleak for America before. Certainly anyone who was alive in the 60s would have said that, my gosh, we don't know if there's a hope or a future for the Church of America, you know, as we look towards the future.    And because of that, the Jesus revolution broke out. And how many believe if God's done it before, he can do it again. And we felt a promise in our hearts that was, we set off on this journey that it was really about these two things, spiritual awakening in the nation, another wave of renewal across America, where millions would be swept into the kingdom out of sexual brokenness and confusion, out of all of the craziness that we read in our daily headlines, that God was going to release a harvest across America, and that many of those that get saved, millions would come out of the young generation out of Gen Z. But out of a great spiritual awakening in America would also come a great renewal of the Great Commission in America. Today, and this is absolutely not true of this church, but statistically in America, only 17% of those who go to church on a Sunday morning know what the Great Commission is. That means 83% of those that go to church on a Sunday morning, they literally wrote in the survey, they've never heard of the Great Commission, or they've heard of it and they have no idea what it means. 83% of Americans. So you've got to ask yourself two questions with that. Number one, if we're not talking about the Great Commission in our pulpits, what are we talking about? If it's not a regular, which obviously it is here, we're praying for Kenya, this is, we're talking about the School of Ministry, this is a church that is going after both great zeal for the presence of God, a renewal and great awakening, but also the nations. But 83% of Americans don't know what the Great Commission is. So number one, what are we talking about from our pulpits if they don't know what the Great Commission is? Number two, what do 83% of Christians in America think that the mission for their lives is if they don't know what the Great Commission is, which speaks to much of our problem, which is a missionless church, or many missionless believers, and the second pillar that launched this sin was a passion to put the Great Commission back in the center of the conversation of global Christianity. And we've been talking about a lot of other things, we've been distracted, but God is longing that we would come back to mission center, that we would come back to the teachings of Jesus and the commands and the invitations of Jesus, that the whole earth, every tribe, tongue, and nation would have the great privilege of hearing the good news of Jesus, of having the scripture in their language, and that this defines the mission of the church. So we set off with these two pillars in our hearts to go after the word of the Lord, to chase after these prophecies.  We rented a stadium in faith in Orlando, Florida in 2019, had no idea if anyone would come, I'd never even let a conference in my life, I had no idea what I was doing. I'm from a tiny town in Alaska, if you think you're from a kind of small area of western Michigan, my graduating class was 13, there were no stoplights in my town, we were the end of the road. Before that I lived in the Aleutians out near Russia, and nothing of my life spoke to large-scale gatherings, and nothing in me even wanted to do large-scale gatherings. This was all obedience to something we felt God was saying. To our shock, 58,000 people showed up in that stadium, and we spent 12 hours praying, seeking the face of God, crying out for revival in America, and calling the entire stadium again and again to their great commission calling, whether that's reaching their high school, whether that reach reaching their university, whether that was the neighborhoods of our own nation, whether it was the vulnerable children of our nation living in the foster care system, or whether it was the 3.2 billion people around the world that make up the unreached to the world. And friends, we were astounded by what God did, more than we ever could have asked or imagined. A ripple of activation went out from that gathering. I'll tell a few stories as I kind of go along, but from Orlando we didn't know it was next, really that was all we had felt to do, but as we began to pray the Lord spoke to us that we were to go to Brazil next, that this was meant to move into the nations, it was truly global. And so about a year later we set our sights on Brazil, we rented a stadium in faith again, a huge one, it was way over our heads, and didn't know if anybody would come, all my Brazilian friends said, hey, we launched this registration, Brazilians are a last second culture, so don't panic if they don't register, they won't. They go about a month before, you might get a few people, they go, but two weeks before they really start registering, and a week before they're really going to, so they're like, don't panic, so I'm like, alright. Eight months before we launched this one Instagram post, all it said was that the Sen Brazil is open for registration, no bands, no speakers, we're not about that, we're about everyday believers finding their calling in God. And so we launched this Instagram post, and I was in Egypt at the time, a team called me about six hours later, and they said, Andy, we don't know what happened, but the stadium is sold out in six hours, I guess that's not possible, check the system, something broke, they go, we did, we called the stadium, we said what happened, that's not possible, the stadium said, yeah, we didn't think it was possible either, they go, we checked our system three times to make sure something hadn't broken, because this broke the record for the fastest the stadium has ever filled in its history. Now I'm highly competitive, anybody out there that's just competitive, it's just, it's part of the kingdom, I know there's Bible verses on it, we'll find them someday. But when I heard that, I thought to myself, man, well that, that's amazing, like God's on the move, but I'm kind of like, well what was the record, who did we beat? That was kind of my second question. So I said, well what was the record, they go six and a half hours. Now I go, who held the record? They said you two in cold play held the record. And I thought, my gosh, the great commission is filling stadiums faster than some of the biggest bands of our day. Could it be that we're in a new hour in the body of Christ across the earth, and God is raising up his bride in this hour to take up his mission, was so encouraged by what we saw and what we experienced there. We didn't know what to do because our stadium was filled and it was eight months to the event, so we rented another stadium, it filled up over the weekend, so we rented a third stadium. When it came to the San Brazil, we were in three stadiums on the same day, the 150,000 Brazilians believing that they have a role in leading the great commission across the earth. It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever had a chance to be a part of in my life. Several months later, we went into two years of delays, nobody wanted to talk about stadium gatherings in those two years, and nobody even wants to talk about those two years. So at the end of those two years, we ended up going to Kansas City and then to Norway, again amazed at what God is doing, not about a brand, not about an organization, not about a leader or a speaker or a band, but about God leading his great commission across the earth. This is his zeal, and we're all getting caught up in it. This is his passion for every tribe, tongue, and nation across the earth, for our own nation, for the next generation, and all of us are getting swept up into what God's doing across the earth. Now, as we look back at what God's done, I have so many stories, way more than I can possibly tell in a short amount of time, but one of the things that struck me as we looked back was the massive amount of activation. I just hear stories all the time, several weeks ago, I heard the story of six high schoolers that were at a Boston gathering that we did earlier this year. They were so moved to reach their high schools that they gathered together about two weeks later, we trained them a little bit on how to start a Christian club on their public high school, and the next week, they launched what they call the Jesus Club, their first Jesus Club on their public high school that had over 50 kids who had never set foot in a church before. They were there to hear the gospel because they were bold enough to launch a Christian club on their public high school. They carried that on through the rest of the year, the school year, ready to launch again in the fall, believing that God is calling them to reach their high school, and it's happening. It's actually starting to happen. Another lady came up to me, this was maybe a month ago. She said she came to the San Orlando, and as she was there, she did come from a background that believed in the power of God. She didn't really believe that miracles still occurred or anything like that. She doesn't even know how she came to the San because we clearly did believe all that. But a friend invited her, and she was kind of intimidated being there, but got swept up into her own hunger for God as she was there. She shared this story with me firsthand. She said, I was sitting there, and during the day, someone got up and started to pray for those that had a background of self-hatred, self-harm, that God would heal their hearts and restore them. And the person sitting next to me was clearly getting touched by God. And then they began to pray that God would heal them, even the physical effects of self-harm. She said, I looked over at the person next to me who had cutting scars down her arm from years of self-harm. She said, I looked over and I didn't believe any of this was even possible. And as that person began to pray, all of her scars disappeared on her arm. And she says, I now believe that the power of God is still moving today. I changed churches. I had to find one that actually believed the book of Acts was for today as well. Numerous stories. Same trip as several months ago. Another person came up to me after sharing a church that I was on my way to the sand. And I was two weeks before I almost died. I went into massive surgery and they saved me. They saved my life, but I was cut from hip to hip, major surgery. And I was told because of that surgery, I'll never be able to have children again. I had three children, but we weren't done. I thought, but now we were. She goes, it's only two weeks later, but I felt I was still to go to the sand. I was in so much pain from the incision, as you could imagine. And, but I wanted to be there. I didn't want to miss it.  And I really couldn't because of all the pain. She goes, but I just began to try. And as I did, the Lord healed me of all the pain of my incision. And I spent the day worshiping him free of pain. She goes, but then it was halfway through the day where I was thinking about all that I had just lost because of this surgery. When someone got up and began to talk about the foster care system in America, 400,000 kids will go to bed tonight without a permanent family, 330 or three, actually 380,000 churches in America and 400,000 kids without permanent homes. And she said, the Lord began to speak to us that we were to engage in this brokenness of our society and that we were to be a part of solution. She goes, we went, came home. We got our training. We engaged in the foster care system. And she pulled out her phone. This was several months ago, showed me a picture on her phone.  She goes, just last month, we adopted them and they now have a permanent family. The Lord told us that though I could not have children, our family was not done growing. And I get to hear these stories all the time. Amazing things that God is doing. When we finished Norway last year, we went into prayer over what was next, especially for America. The Lord spoke to us and said, don't do one gathering in one place and try and get the whole nation there. He said, I want you to go and honor, hunger in different regions of America. We wrote 15 names of different areas of America on the whiteboard that we all kind of knew about or had connections or had heard stories about, that God was moving. And then we began to pray. We spent several hours seeking the face of God. At the end of that prayer time, there were four places on the whiteboard that had been circled out of the 15 or 20 that are written up there. The first was central Pennsylvania, which is actually this coming Saturday is our send gathering there. And then the second place the Lord spoke to us about was Western Michigan circled on that board. And he said to us that there were hot spots in America. There was regional hunger and we were to come and serve and to throw more gas on that fire to help catalyze what he was already doing. That the water level was already rising and we were to come and serve the rising water level of what God was releasing in these regions. And I can't tell you how excited we are to come and serve what God's already doing in Western Michigan. I have so much expectation that what God does in a September 2nd in that arena is going to change the life of thousands of people who are going to find their calling in God, who are going to end up adopting children out of foster care system, high schoolers who are going to go, I'm not just there to play sports and get through school and suffer through math. I'm there to actually reach my friends in my high school. University students who are going to begin to gain faith at universities in a place where young people go to lose their faith. It's going to become a place where young people go to find their faith as evangelists and missionaries take their universities by storm. But it's also going to be a place where thousands would get calls to Central Asia and North Africa and the Middle East and the Himalayas. The people are going to be moved for the nations as we gather together. This is the faith that I'm carrying my heart for this region and Antioch in America that God is raising up. I want to land us this morning in the scriptures as I kind of look back on these last five years and the journey that we've been on with the sand. And if I were to summarize what I feel like I'm seeing in the scriptures, it would be out of Matthew chapter nine. Kind of the end of the chapter here is probably familiar passage to many of us, but it's an incredible just picture or slice from Jesus' daily life. And I want to end here, kind of land here. And again, my prayer is as we go into this, you would just gain courage for the calling on your own life, the thing that God has called you to. Matthew chapter nine, verse 35, just a picture of kind of the life of Jesus. It's a specific moment, but this really would have been very common day for him. It says Jesus went through all the towns and the villages teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord the harvest therefore to send out workers into his harvest field. And then in chapter 10, the first verse, Jesus called his 12 disciples to them, to him, and he gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and heal every disease and sickness, and he sends them. Now as we jump into this, the first several sentences kind of give us a picture of what Jesus did on a daily basis. He went through towns and villages. He's teaching in their synagogues and he's proclaiming the good news of the kingdom. Now to really understand the power of Jesus' life and even this specific story, you sort of have to be able to see what Jesus saw and feel what Jesus felt. And you would know this from context and from lots of teaching you've heard throughout your lifetime, but the Jerusalem and the Israel of Jesus' day is probably very different than we might imagine at times when we read these stories. It's important we connect to that context. Like we know that the average town that Jesus would have walked through in Jesus' day that over 70% of those that lived in those towns were living below the poverty line. So we're talking seven out of every 10 families is living in poverty and the effects of poverty, malnutrition, they don't have enough resources to thrive, their children don't have enough to thrive, their families, and then all the stress and the strain and the anxiety that comes with poverty. That's seven out of every 10 families that Jesus is observing as he walks through the villages of his day. We also know that racial division and oppression was off the charts in Jesus' day. The animosity between the Jews and the Gentiles, the Samaritans, the division between the Roman authorities ruling over Israel at the time and the Jewish people themselves, oppression at every level. Men are oppressing women, the Romans are oppressing everyone they're leading, the Jewish leaders are oppressing the followers of Judaism, adults sort of look down on children. There's oppression at every level that Jesus is seeing as he walks through the towns and the villages of his day. Then it says he's preaching in the synagogues and how do you know that Jesus didn't walk in the back of a synagogue and there was some epic worship team just like crushing it. Like Jesus did not walk into the synagogue and be like, man this youth group is on fire and this school ministry is touching the earth. No, Jesus is walking in the synagogue and rebuking the religious leaders. They're teaching people with a heavy yoke. They're putting religious bondage on people. It's dry bones in Israel in the synagogue of Jesus' day. There's very little real passion for the gospel or I shouldn't say the gospel with the kingdom of God and the growth and the knowledge of Yahweh. This is a difficult season for Judaism that Jesus is encountering in the synagogues or the churches of his day. And then it goes on to say that he's healing every disease and sickness, but you've got to realize to heal every disease and sickness, you've got to be among the diseases and the sicknesses. And that is overwhelming in Jesus' day. They're not living in nice hospitals, sterile environments with doctors and nurses. They are lining streets begging for their livelihood and it would have been absolutely overwhelming to feel the pain and the brokenness and the helplessness of the sicknesses of Jesus' day. And then it goes from there and it says that he looks up at the crowds and he had compassion on them. Why? Because they're harassed and they're helpless like sheep without a shepherd. They're leaderless. The people of Israel in Jesus' day, they are without leadership and they're harassed. They're helpless. We're talking depression, anxiety, all that goes on because of leaderlessness, because of being harassed and helpless. This is the site that Jesus sees. So how do you know that's a little bit different than just kind of reading the story and being like, man, it's amazing. He's healing the sick. He's raising the dead. When you're like, no, poverty, brokenness, discouragement, anxiety, sickness, oppression, racism, all of this is what Jesus sees, which is what makes Jesus says so profound. Because I don't know about you, but it's easy for me to read a few headlines today in America and just being like, what in the heck are we doing?  And it's easy to read those headlines and go, I don't really know where this goes right now. It seems like it's getting crazier and crazier. If you had thought even five years ago that we'd be having the national conversations that we're having today, I think everyone has said we're crazy. There's no way that that's going to become a national flashpoint conversation. It's totally crazy. And it's easy to read headlines and get discouraged. It's easy to read headlines and then kind of ourselves go, man, what in the world? We say things like, what's this generation going to do next? Every generation said that about the next generation. It's easy to get frustrated at sinners for sinning. How can they act like a man they've never met? But we can feel the frustration, the fear about the future of our own nation when we read our headlines, when we walk our streets, when we see the brokenness, the poverty, the anxiety, the confusion of our own nation. But what's profound is that Jesus sees all of that, smells all of that, sees it, hears it, feels it, and his declaration is the harvest is ripe. Come on. Come on, Kalamazoo. If Israel of Jesus' day was a ripe harvest field, what do you think God's saying over America today? Too hard, too dark? I don't think so. And you realize if Jerusalem and Israel, the very nation, the very city that's going to crucify the Messiah was a ripe harvest field, that it's never been a ripeness issue. It's always been a laborer issue. We tend to think that the issue in America is secular humanism. It is an issue. But the issue in America is not secular humanism. It's nominal Christianity. It's not a ripeness issue. It's a laborer issue. Are there laborers who believe the harvest is ripe? Are there laborers who have eyes like Jesus to look into the darkness, look into the confusion, look in the brokenness and declare ripe harvest field? The deeper and the bigger the vacuum gets, the more people are longing for a Messiah. Nobody likes being lost. Being lost is the worst. Everybody longs to be found. And we've got to change our perspective over America, that America's not just too hard, too dark, resistant, but most of America's just broken, confused, harassed and helpless waiting for laborers who can see a ripe harvest field in front of them. This is our hour to shine. Friends, the gospel thrived in the paganism and the humanism of Rome. The gospel was made for moments like this. This is our hour as a church to get the gospel on our lips, to get the optimism of heaven in our hearts, and to regain faith that in the midst of the darkness, we are experiencing Jesus longs to release a Jesus movement in our nation. Now is the time. It's never been more ripe. Now imagine Jesus, he's a little bit between a rock and a hard place. It's amazing the faith he had. He looks at the people and goes harassed and helpless, and he goes ripe harvest field. Then he looks behind him. And the only people behind him are 12 totally dysfunctional disciples. Immature, dysfunctional, arguing over who's the greatest in the kingdom, getting their mothers involved, which is the lowest of all though, wanting to call down fire on anyone who doesn't agree with them. And Jesus looks at the harassed and helpless and goes ripe harvest field. Then he looks at the dysfunctional disciples and goes, and you're the answer. Unbelievable faith. We've got to stop disqualifying ourselves. Stop trying to talk God out of using you. We've got so many excuses and reasons to not rise up and take responsibility. It's time that we stop disqualifying ourselves because of our past, because of what gifts we feel like we have or don't have. He's declaring ripe harvest field over America, and then he's looking you in the eyes saying, and you are the solution. The gospel has never been the issue. It's always worked. He's just looking for laborers who believe it and will take it up. And it's time that rooms across America realize there's not some other room that's going to rise up. You are the room to rise up right now. There's not someone else we're waiting for.  But the thing that most gets me, and this is where I want to land us in this passage as we wrap up, is that Jesus sees the brokenness and he's moved with compassion. How many of you know it is hard to move in compassion when you are confronted with the world's brokenness? It's almost easier to move in frustration at times. But Jesus has deeply moved in his heart with compassion. And this friends, I believe is going to be the key to the spiritual revolution that's coming to America as a church that finds tears for the lost again. A church that has tears for North Africa. A church that has compassion for the confused and the sexually broken. A church that is moved with the love of God so deeply that we can't not act. We can't not share because we're so moved by compassion and love. And this is what was in the heart of Jesus. He was compelled and he was motivated by love. Love is what moved Jesus into action. Love is what moved the disciples into action. And I think it is a baptism of love that is going to move the church of America into the Jesus revolution that's right in front of us. Now when you said that thing about kids, how many of you have kids that are in high school? I have so many kids that my brain barely functions and I forgot I had kids at that age. That's where I'm at. I have seven kids. That's a lot if you didn't know. My oldest is 18. He's my twin. He looks just like me and he preaches just like me. If you're here, you wouldn't know who was preaching if he was standing with me. My youngest two are 10. They just turned 11 actually. One's adopted. One's biological. We've adopted two out of the foster care system. My second oldest was adopted at 12 out of foster care. She's now 17 and one of my 11 year olds is adopted. They're a month apart. They think they're twins. I mean they know they're not but they act like twins. My wife wanted twins. I never wanted twins. She prayed for twins. I prayed against twins. We all know who the Lord loves in my family I guess. My wife is like, she's like Mother Teresa. That's the only way to explain her. We got her to break her like nun vow and marry me somehow. She is my hero.  I always joke about that. I'm going to come home to more kids that I left a trip with. It's dangerous leaving. So dangerous I've considered cancelling her cell phone when I leave. The state of Hawaii knows when I leave and they're like, he's gone. Let's call her. She's susceptible. She's vulnerable and the inhibitor is gone. Let's call her. It seems to happen regularly. Just not long ago, nine months ago, I'm on a trip to Korea. My wife sends me a text message. This is where we're at just so you know. A text message. She goes, hey, I just got a call. I'm like, of course you got a call. I am canceling your cell phone. She goes, I got a call. She goes, a homeless woman didn't know she was pregnant, went into labor, got rushed to the hospital, meth at it, just gave birth to a newborn and she walked out of the hospital after she gave birth, never touched the child, never named the child. She goes, we got a call. Would we take the child in emergency placement?  Literally. And then she goes, we should pray, which is code language for, I've already heard the Lord, but we should pray that the Lord would soften your hard heart. That's the code language. Just bringing you into my marriage right now. We should pray that the Lord softens your heart. And then I'm like, okay, are you going to call? She goes, we should talk to the kids too. That's code language for the whole family has heard, but now we're all praying that God would soften your heart to hear as well. Because when we started praying with our kids over this, we were to bring in one of our, the daughters that we ended up adopting. We gathered the family and go, Hey, we got to pray. This is a real situation. You do need to pray. And I go, we got to pray about whether we should be part of the solution. And my, my kids, um, they, uh, they go, we're not praying. They go, we're baking cookies. And I go, we are praying. And we're going to decide whether this is real God. They go, we're a family. That kid needs a family. So we're not praying. We're baking cookies. What kind of cookies does she like? This is my kids, right? So when, when my wife says we should ask the kids, now it's the family against me at this point. That's really what this means, right? So we pray, of course the Lord says yes, and pick up this beautiful little baby. And she has no name. She's nameless. She's not been named by her family. She's, her mom has walked out on her. She's technically parented by the state. No one should ever be parented by the state. The government is not a family. So this little girl lands in our home and, um, I'm not even home yet. I get home like three days later. My daughters are like, we got to name her. We can't legally name her, but we're certainly going to name her. And, uh, and so I go, let's pray, you know, and I'm praying. I'm in Korea and they're praying and they call me. And my, my, um, my daughter says to me, she goes, we got to name, man, it still makes me emotional. She says the Lord said Jaira over her because it means the Lord provides and maybe the world has abandoned her, what the Lord is going to provide for her.  She has absolutely messed us up. Looks like probably going to land in another adoption, seventh child, but this compassion that Jesus moved in is a compassion so deep that it's willing to not just take responsibility for its own actions, but to take responsibility for the actions of those around us. It's an adoptive love at its core. Cause I remember even praying for this situation going, I'm not the reason that this little girl was abandoned at the hospital. This is the brokenness of our world. And the Lord said what he said to us so many times as a family go, you may not be the reason that this brokenness exists, but you can become the reason that this brokenness gets healed. What would happen at the church of America began to move in adoptive love, not just for kids in the foster care system talking about for the most broken neighborhoods in our community. What if high schoolers went to high school in adoptive love? What if our universities were not just places of education, they're really places of brokenness, a lot of orphans that need a father. And what if the nations weren't just a place on a map, people waiting for the gospel? Who will go? Who will take it? Who will share with them? Who will lay their lives down? The compassion that moved Jesus into some of the greatest brokenness the world had ever seen. This is the compassion that's going to come on the church. This is the compassion that's going to move us into a real Jesus revolution, where we find that adoptive love in our hearts. And for me, some will get the privilege of seeing this. All of us will get the privilege of living it, but to watch my adopted daughters move in adoptive love has been the gospel in ways that I never could have imagined.  Just feel like this morning God's probably moving in a lot of hearts. And again, not just for kids in the foster care system that's been part of our journey, but God's asked us to, would we adopt the 3.2 billion, the unreached around the world to send us really an adoption movement that we would adopt the brokenness of our nations. We would adopt our high schools and our universities and we would move in radical faith, but also gutty compassion. And I just want to pray for you this morning. If you know God is wanting to release that on your heart, if you're knowing He's wanting to move in your heart with deep compassion, I just want you to raise your hand right where you are. Would you just raise your hand? Just raise it high. Believing that out of Western Michigan, God's going to release a spiritual awakening that would lead to a renewal of the Great Commission that would lead to an activated church that would be the solution to the crisis of America in this hour. So Lord, I just ask, keep your hands raised. I just ask every raised hand in this room. I'm asking, Holy Spirit, would you move with power right now? Would you move with power? I'm asking God, would you cut us to the heart, not just with tears, but also with faith? Father, I'm praying too that you'd baptize us in fresh courage today. Just courage would move in our hearts. Lord, where hesitation and fear have tried to hold us back, Lord. It's tried to hold me back my whole life, Father. I'd pray that it would be broken this morning. Something of hesitation would be shattered, God. Something that the fear in our lives would be broken, God. And I'm asking that you would move us in radical compassion this morning, but you would move us in radical courage and radical faith, God, to believe for great things out of our simple lives, God. None of us wake up feeling like superheroes.  So God, I pray that you would move with power this morning and let this mission-sending church send more missionaries than ever before in its history, to the highways and the byways, to the cities and the small towns, to the high schools and the universities, to the nations of the earth, God. I bless this church. I bless every person in it, God. Jesus' name.


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Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with our last filler pack to knock out that Sterling break. So we've got three different dice rolls happening here The first dice roll is going to be giving away those nine spots so we pulled nine spots out of there we only sold 21 spots outright and We're giving them away to the people who bought spots spots outright Then the second dice roll will be for the break itself And then the third and final dice roll will be for the Sterling spots that were given away each spot is worth $550 First off big thanks everybody here for getting into the action So let's gather your names up. Oh wait, hold on. That's It's from a previous break. Let me there's some new dice right there in a new list. So here's the first dice roll For the nine extra spots Which will give you better odds to getting those Sterling spots too. So in top nine after nine five into four one two six seven Eight and good luck everybody ninth and final time Top nine after nine Carlos Jordan Jack Daniel Allen Daniel Stephen Jordan and Jason So there you go you get Two for the price of that one spot. Let's get your names in here I'm gonna put a little rooftop next to your name. So you know that's where you So, you know you won those spots can differentiate it between the spots that you bought straight up now, let's do the break itself All right. See you There are the names there are all 30 teams in a quick quick pitch pat break Five and a five ten the hard way for names and teams one two three four five six seven eight Nine and tenth and final time five out of five ten times for the teams two and tenth and final time After ten we got the Royals all the way down to the Cleveland Indians All right. So here's the first half of the list right here And the second half of list right over here and let's Alphabetize by team no trade windows, of course and we'll print rip And then we'll do the third and final dice roll which will Give away those spots and that those are the two sterling boxes. That'll be in a in a different video the next video separate video There's your quick pitch pack. We got an autograph Wow, that's nice out of a filler pack Quick pitch on it's a nice one to jazz Chisholm rookie auto for the fish Jason Kersh Who bought a spot straight up won an extra spot got randomized the Marlins and Ends up with an auto. That's not too bad And you still have a shot at winning sterling spots, too And if that happened, I mean you may as well buy a lottery ticket at this point Let's gather everybody's names for the third and final dice roll and Let's roll it and randomize that list four and a four eight the hard way There you go. So top and for tonight only there was a rare jazzy's t-shirt that were given away, too So someone win a t-shirt if you're watching live, you don't want the t-shirt. Just let me know We'll give it to the next person down four and a four eight times Eight the hard way. Good luck one two three four five six Seven and fingers crossed eighth and final time after eight So there's gonna be a lot of sad faces here from four on down to 30 a sad times But thank you for trying. I appreciate it Spot three gets the consolation prize a jazzy's t-shirt. It's pretty nice Almost worth 500 almost worth a sterling spot. That's Jason Kersh. There you go with the spot that you won You got the autograph and a jazzy t-shirt and then the top two Sterling spots five hundred five dollar value. That's Sean maddock Congrats and Josh Smith Congrats So Josh and Sean will see you for that sterling that sterling baseball mixer to a two box mixer one from 2020 One from 2021. Thanks for watching. I'm Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm and I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


Welcome to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm bringing you a video tutorial on how you can alter the color of a reference photo. Often we get a reference photo that we you know we might want a different color palette so I'm going to talk about that and I called this painting perfect piece. I hope you're all having perfect piece. I'm featuring Giro pastels. You can see that box there. This is what is called the Elizabeth Mallory Poetic Landscape set. I love these pastels. They're very versatile. I love the the size and the shape of them. I do have a video where I actually give a review on these pastels or you know I do a whole painting with them but these are primarily the ones that I'm going to be using for the painting today along with some Terry Ludwig's. They work great on the surface I'll be using which is pastel matte. I'll talk about that in a minute but anyway I just wanted to show you the set and if anyone Giro pastels are available at like DickBlick.com places like that but this particular set is not you'd have to type in that name and you the company would come up where you can purchase it but anyway love these pastels let's get started. Alright for this particular painting for the darks you know we typically get the darks down first. I'm using Terry Ludwig pastels. I did get their set of intense darks one and two. They you know a lot of pastels the good ones anyway can be pricey but they are so worth it your results are so much better. It's just really one of those things with art that good quality materials do make a difference. Now that doesn't mean you can't start with medium quality or you know just to whatever your pocketbook can afford but when you gradually want to graduate to the better stuff there are certain pastels that definitely are worth the money and Terry Ludwig's and these your rows are definitely worth it.  I give a lot of commentary on my patreon version and it is real time but you can still learn a lot right here on this video. What I'm doing you see the reference photo it's from pmp-art.com and I am really changing what's in the reference photo which is a lot of warmth. We've got a lot of green and we've got a lot of yellow and the sky and the distant mountain or tree or whatever some of that is it's kind of a almost like a cloudy overcast even though the photo is bright it's kind of a gray white in the background. So what I decided to do is almost like an analogous color palette but I'm doing a very wide analogous color palette. If you want to get yourself if you have one already that's great but get a color wheel little pocket color wheel they're very inexpensive and notice what a wealth of information is on the color wheel and on the back well with whichever one's the front or the back on one side of it it's got the descriptions of what different color palettes are. There's monochromatic which is basically doing a painting all in like purples every value of purple analogous color is using colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. So what I've kind of done is I've worked with the primary theme of maybe like a violet magenta and I'm kind of going a little wider than that to some of the blues teal blues and some pinks and so you know I definitely was able to really do this rather easily. I know sometimes I'm people talk about this a lot that's a common question I get is how do I change a color palette how do you pick out your colors how do you know what colors to pick if you're doing that why wouldn't you have just painted that green and yellow lots of questions like this and sometimes I just want to change the mood and you can definitely do that with more of the blues and these these soothing colors to me I just really like these colors they feel peaceful that's why I called it perfect piece so basically also too I want to talk a little bit about the paper this is the pastel matte I bought a pad of pastel matte paper I really love it's not super sanded like you art paper as a matter of fact it feels rather smooth it almost feels like suede or something but it does take a lot of layers it works beautifully with these giro pastels or I should say these giro pastels work beautifully on the pastel matte and I also find that on this particular painting just so you know I didn't do any blending other than letting the pastels blend themselves I really feel you don't need to do as much blending you can and I've done that before on pastel matte but you know and a lot of other works when I work on your paper I'll use the typical pipe foam insulation blending method just to kind of fill in all those little spaces you get using your paper because it is so sanded and you don't even have to blend on that either but I find that you have to do it even less on this paper because it it just kind of goes on a little bit more uniform you see in the sky obviously there are still some spaces but trust me as you layer color all of that kind of just blends together and looks nice now I'm using a pastel here that if I was to use this particular color it's kind of like a taupe color on a cream colored piece of uart it would appear dark but because I'm working on there's the pastel again on a dark paper it appears light so if you don't understand value a lot you'd like to learn a little bit more I have a video I'll try to make it the featured video at the end of this if you want to look at it it's I think it's called value understanding value I think and value really value doesn't have any value until you put it on something or next to something it's very determined on what it's what it's on or what it's next to so I find that when you work with the darker papers values you would typically think of as dark end up looking lighter so you really just see it as you apply it kind of a method you know so that's a very interesting aspect about working on darker papers all right so I'm going to let you guys just enjoy this I wanted to share with you a little bit about what surface I was working on I do love the pastel matte this is a five by five size and it's part of the series I'm doing for my patrons called the 12 days of healing I'm inviting my patrons to paint with me for 12 days this is painting number eight I think and everyone who paints from these lessons and they're mostly getting the fuller version lessons they're sharing it we're all sharing it in a album a shared album I have on google and it's nice for me to just see what everybody else is doing and other people commenting so it's a really fun fun group fun place of course there's always even though the patreon page is five dollars a month and you can cancel it anytime you if that's even a lot I know right now our world is crazy you could always do the Monet cafe art group on facebook it's a private group you have to ask to join just to answer a couple questions and you can get so many of your questions answered by so many artists that are all helping each other it's a beautiful place almost 10,000 members in that group but my patreon group is a little bit more intimate I get obviously because there's less people I get to spend more time communicating with you guys and working together I really like the phase of this painting at this point I mean it would have been nice if I had just kept it a really a more limited analogous color palette instead of branching out into the pinks like I do later but this was a pleasing little painting for me I got up early in the morning to work on it and I've I've got to finish this video get everything taken care of because I've got to start now painting number nine in the 12 days of healing and get that shared with you guys as well all right enjoy this process please try it if you do if you're in the Monet cafe art group share it on there if you're a patron of mine share it in our shared google album and I can't wait to see what you do and I pray everyone is blessed please hang out oh also I never say this I always forget subscribe to my channel if you haven't already I really appreciate that it having more google subscribers I'm sorry youtube subscribers really does help my youtube channel so I appreciate it like this video comment if you like and come back often hang out till the end and I'll be bringing you more art lessons soon I'm finishing it up at this point and I really enjoyed doing this little painting you may have seen at the beginning I was working from my dining room table literally because my studio has so many pastels and things all over the place from doing so many of these challenge paintings each day so I hope you enjoyed I hope you'll try it I'll have more free art lessons coming your way and if you'd like to become a patron you can just click the link at the end of this video happy painting everyone


Hey everyone, and welcome to the Broogly Sumberspectacular. Over the next months of May, June, and July, I'm gonna be posting 60 plus videos, that's right, including level explanations over levels 13-50, bandmaid backgrounds levels, regular random levels, entity videos in shorts, and even some non-backgrounds related creepy stuff, like reddit mysteries perhaps. In May, I'm gonna be uploading every day, except on Sundays and Wednesdays, so five days a week. And in June and July, I'll be going back to every other day videos, like normal. It doesn't stop there though, because my second channel, Tugly, will also see multiple videos a week, including Minecraft videos, storytimes, rants, tier lists, and anything I feel like. These Broogly and Tugly videos combined, to form the Broogly Sumberspectacular. Make sure you turn your notice on, and I'll see you all on Monday, for the start of this awesome summer. Be ready.


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What we see here is a binary system where a super dense white dwarf star is sucking mass away from its giant companion. The mass that falls into the white dwarf creates a thermonuclear runaway and as a result the binary system is destroyed and the piece of shrapnel, which is the size of a star of a small star, is flung into space and it travels for millions of years toward the plane of our galaxy. We studied this star because it was very intriguing. It was zooming through the galaxy at extremely high speeds, so we decided to do further investigations, so we observed it using several telescopes and we discovered something that was extremely interesting. It was a star which is much larger than the largest planets, but still a lot smaller than our own Sun with an extremely peculiar chemical composition. So it became obvious that this very low mass star traveling at extremely high speed and with this peculiar chemical composition was the remnant of a gigantic explosion that took place millions of years ago.