Hello to everyone joining us online again for ALT-C22. I'm delighted to be joined by Lewisyn Nelson, who is here to talk to us today about how she has used a personal tutor toolkit to support personal tutors in their role. So without further ado, I'm gonna hand over to Lewisyn for help. I don't know what to do, providing digital support for personal tutors. Thank you very much and hi and welcome everybody. I am Lewisyn Nelson and unfortunately Sonya won't be joining us today, but I'll be here to talk to you about our role in supporting personal tutors and how we've helped that through the creation of a digital tool. So just to provide a little bit of background, I'm actually an academic, I'm a senior lecturer in anatomy, but I also hold this additional role of being a senior personal tutor together with Sonya Lopez de Quinto at Cardiff University in the School of Biosciences. So it would be great to know who's here and who's joining us today and where you're from. So if you'd like to sort of say hi in the chat, so we know who you are sort of, and if you have any roles that are similar to senior personal tutoring or yeah, just what the background is, that would be great to know. So moving forwards, I wanted to provide a bit of a background to how we can ended up doing what we were doing. So have you ever been in this situation where you're a new member of staff but you don't know about how things work? How do you, you're supposed to be a personal tutor? How are you supposed to do it? Or another example is, I can't remember when I'm supposed to be meeting my two T's. I'm supposed to meet with my two T's, but I don't know what to say. They have the situation where personal tutors are just expected to know everything. Where do I find a question from a student? Might be where do I find information on applying for extenuating circumstances? A student wants to chat about mental health but I don't feel like I know what to say or how to approach them. My personal two T wants to ask about placement year but I don't know anything about it. So I've ever been in this situation where you feel like you're bombarded with questions from all directions. And then meanwhile on the flip side, this is a student's mind. So in the student's mind, they come to you, they have a question and I need to ask my personal tutor about and it could be anything. Personal tutors get questions from their two T's about absolutely anything. And often personal two T's see the tutors as this font of all knowledge. So then we have this situation where personal tutors don't feel particularly confident and two T's expect them to know everything. And then we also get this time factor where two T's say I need to know the answer now for my five o'clock deadline or in an hour or it's quite urgent, I need your help now. So this was the background and then we had the lovely situation where COVID hit and then personal tutors had all of this again by some factor, whereas multiplied. I put 30, it could have been 100, I didn't want to over-exaggerate the demands on personal tutors were definitely increased throughout the pandemic. So moving forward, so the School of Bioscience, we're a large department. We have roughly 90 academic members of staff who act as personal tutors and approximately 1,500 undergraduate students give or take because we have extra students that come and go. We have the dental of students, for example, and we have intercalating students. Anyway, roughly 1,500 students, that's quite a large task of providing help and uniformity to the students across the board. So some of the challenges that we faced as personal tutors, as senior personal tutors, we wanted to provide students a uniformed experience as much as possible where they would say that they got good support from their personal tutors. And as a senior personal tutor, it was our role to provide our personal tutors with a good platform to help them be as good a personal tutor as they could. So the challenges we faced was that tutors had varying levels of experience and training. So for example, some personal tutors might have been quite experienced, but not particularly engaged. So they just did their own thing or we had new members of staff who'd never been personal tutors before and just didn't know what to say. So that was an issue. There was also a lack in support and resources available to tutors. So again, they were just expected to know things, but weren't necessarily given all the help and training that was required of them to be able to deal with the student questions. What we also found was there was inconsistent support delivered to the students. So some tutors were very, very active. Some tutors weren't particularly active. And so what we found is the students would speak to each other and say, well, I got this help from my tutor and the other one will say, well, I didn't. And then they would find there was this disparity in support across the students. So we wanted to try and iron that out. In addition to that, we would experience a lack of interest or engagement with the personal tutor system. And that came from both sides, not only the tutors, but also the tutors. So some tutors just didn't reach out or contact their tutors. Some on the flip side, some tutors would contact their students but wouldn't get a reply, wouldn't ever have at them come to a meeting. So there was this issue of lack of engagement. Sometimes tutors would say, for example, that they would go to their tutor, but their tutor didn't ever know any of the answers to their questions. There was no point. So on top of all of this, we also wanted to ensure that the student expectations were managed. They would understand what a personal tutor could help with and also the plethora of support around them, not just using the personal tutor system to help them if they had any reason for needing help. So that they weren't always falling back on expecting the personal tutor to know everything. So in addition to those challenges that we faced then through COVID, we had additional challenges that we faced. And that was essentially coming down to the lack of interaction, sort of physical interaction, which led to this feeling of isolation among students but also among staff. Previous, before COVID hit, there would be lots of corridor chats, staff, they could pop out of their office and pop into someone else's office and ask a quick question. And that lack of community was lost through COVID. So there was a lack of support both to staff and students, which helped, I'm sorry, which caused additional stress, let's say, on personal tutors. And in addition to that, there were more demands from the tutors. All of a sudden there were so many more questions coming from tutors and students were really struggling to sort of understand where to go with all of the extra challenges that they were placed on them through COVID. So we developed this one-stop portal, an online personal tutor toolkit for staff. And this was actually in the pipelines before COVID, but it was quite good timing with when it was due to be released because it was released during COVID. And the plan was to provide school specific up-to-date information that was kind of managed and updated regularly so it could contain time-sensitive information. So the plan here was to have information that wasn't necessarily on the university-wide internet, but specifically information that was relevant to School of Bioscience students and the School of Bioscience staff. So we developed this personal tutoring toolkit for staff. And to give a brief overview of what it is, it's a Zerti webpage. I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with Zerti, but Zerti is a browser-based tool and I've pinched this quote from the Zerti website, but it's a browser-based tool that allows anyone with a web browser to create an interactive learning material quickly and easily. So using Zerti, you can choose how it is shared. So we've set it so that it requires credentials for access. So only members of the university of Cardiff... Sorry, only members of Cardiff University are able to access our personal tutoring toolkit. So we do require credentials for access, but it is a webpage that's been created by myself and Sonya, and it's us that manage it. So anytime we want information or change information, we don't have to go through a different team. It's us that we can update it as and when we like. So that is a definite bonus. There are some formatting steps that Sonya and I aren't advanced enough to deal with. So we do have some assistance provided to us by the digital education team, which is a central team for the university. But once they've provided us with those formatting, with a formatting setup, it's all very, very simple for us to change and manage and alter an update as and when we choose. So just to provide an overview of the sections that we have got in there, we've got basic information and contacts. We've got signposting links. We've got frequently asked questions section. We've got guidance and support documents for meetings. And we've got a section where we try to summarize and collate information that is provided to students so that personal tutors can be aware of communications students are receiving. And all of this, as I mentioned, is targeted to support tutors. So this is not an interface that the students see. This is a situation. So if a student comes to a tutor and the tutor gets asked a question, they don't know where to find the answer. They can just click on this portal and they can find almost all of the information that they might be asked. So what I'll do now is I'll provide a brief tour of the toolkit and hopefully I'll be able to go now to another page. So hopefully now you can see the toolkit and you'll be able to see that we've got a homepage. We've got information on confidentiality. Got training and resource specific to our personal tutors. And sometimes as you can see here, we might link to other aspects. So there's other pages that we direct them to. So we've got personal tutor training that is university-wide. So we're not recreating training, for example, but we're showing them where they can find it. And we've got our contact page. So all the contacts for different people are here. So for example, we've got links that go directly to the email addresses. We've got a frequently asked question page. So if your tutor asks you what do I need to do if you need to self-isolate if I happen to fail a module. So all of these are here and answers to those questions that personal tutors can see to help address their tutors queries. But what we find has been most successful has been the meeting sections for the different years where we've been able to provide specific meeting to specific meeting information for the scheduled meetings as well as overviews of the different meetings. So for example, we've got the timetabled meetings that the students will see in their schedules. And then if I just show an example of one of the meetings, so for meeting one, we've got instructions and guidance on how the tutors can arrange their meetings, suggest a discussion points of what to chat with their students about during their first meeting. And then you can see here a document that was shared with the year one students. So for every meeting, we've got a set number of documents that the tutors can see in access to help them with that meeting. And as I said, the plan is to help to reduce the workload and kind of stress around being a personal tutor by providing the support and guidance to the personal tutors. As you can see across the top, again, we've got help with extenuating circumstances, links to health and work. You can see this is under construction, links to areas of health and mental wellbeing. So there's lots of different areas that are behind the scenes that we are working on. So the main advantages of this toolkit are that it is a webpage so it can be easily bookmarked on a phone, a tablet, a computer so that they can easily reach and access the page for up-to-date live information. We've been able to provide uniformity of information to the tutors, which then helps to trickle down to the tutees. So students have the potential to have the same information shared with them. Obviously tutors are free to provide any additional support or additional guidance or do something slightly different. This is definitely not a directive of what they have to do, but it's just suggestions in case they're lost for what to do. And it's just a webpage that's simple to use, simple to follow. In terms of evaluation, it's been a really, really huge success. This is just one quote of many that we've received. This one here says, the Zerti resource has been fantastic as a way of helping to support us in the tutor role. I think a lot of credit for the positive feedback to individual staff needs to be reflected back on you guys who are putting this in place. So this is an example of one tutor who's been very thankful. We've also seen a reduction in the requests for change of tutors. So previously, well, all tutors have the option to request a change of personal tutor. And we used to have almost kind of, it was a pattern on which tutors we would see having requests for. So obviously, there are more engaged tutors and less engaged tutors. Well, previously we had less engaged tutors and now those less engaged tutors have actually been really engaged and really thankful for the help. And now they've gone to be as engaged as the others. And so we've had requests for switching now has predominantly been as a result of students switching degree schemes rather than because of a lack of interaction of the tutors themselves. We've also had really positive feedback from staff. So this was a survey that was put out actually during COVID and you can see this staff largely agree or strongly agree that the guidance and suggestions, the guidance and suggestions documents were useful. And similarly through COVID, we had a student survey that was put out and the question on personal tutoring and whether they felt that they had support when needed from the personal tutors, it was actually the question that received the highest positive feedback in the student survey. So that was quite positive for us because we could see that the support that we were providing to the tutors was trickling down to the tutees. We've also seen a shift in positive feedback. So previously in 2020 we received 18 replies from students of which 13 were positive. So 72% positive feedback and of those 13 messages of positive response, they were relating to 12 members of staff. And following the rollout of our toolkit, we've seen a huge increase in the number of replies. And you can see that we had 38 members of staff received positive comments. So bearing in mind, we've got about approximately 90 members of academic staff. You can see that this went from being, the positive feedback went from being acknowledged from a small cohort of staff to nearly half of the members of academic staff received positive feedback from us. So that was a really good jump for us to acknowledge. And so we can see that our support that we've given to staff has helped across the board. So it's not just a dedicated few members of positive, highly engaged personal tutors, but it's now across the board. We're seeing a lot more engaged personal tutors. Limitations are that we've been unable to monitor usage so we can't see which pages have been more popular and which pages or areas of different pages have had more clicks. So that's something that we're trying to work on. See if we can get that. And for more complex tasks in setting up the page, additional help is required. As we mentioned, this is the assistance from the digital educational team. So when we have something more complex or we want to change the formatting, we can go to them to figure out how to do it. So I'm conscious of time, we've got a minute left. So what is next? So off the positive feedback off this, we have been working on a similar toolkit for students. So providing a student interface, a one-stop portal for students, outlining all of the available support to them so that they realize it's not just their personal tutors that they can go to. And the aim of this is to benefit students who have all the information in one place. They'll be able to understand and appreciate the network of support that the personal tutor system lies within so that the plan is that this will reduce the queries directed to the tutors because they might have then a better idea of where else to go for help and support. The other thing is that the resource has generated great interest within the university. So other schools are looking to developing a similar resource. So it's really nice to see our efforts in the School of Biosciences have been recognized beyond the school of the school and we're helping to develop this in other schools as well. So in summary, this toolkit has increased the confidence the personal tutors have in their role. It's helped to reduce the amount of time and effort that tutors need into working with the students in being effective personal tutors. And it's also reduced the fear or the anxiety that tutors face around the role, particularly when they're new. So we've had better engagement from personal tutors overall and we've been able to provide more uniform support to the students. And lastly, it's been a really useful tool that we've used for training new, particularly new staff members when they've joined and also existing staff members like to be able to have kind of refreshing refresher training through the tool as well. And that's it. So I'd welcome any questions if there are any any comments would also be lovely to see. So I'm here if you have anything to ask. Thank you very much for listening and here's my email address. I think you're on mute. Oh, thank you rookie mistake there. Thank you so much for that, Lewis. So it was great to hear about the positive impacts this toolkit has had not only on the staff but the students as well. That's such a fantastic response in the feedback. You must be very pleased with what you've been able to do. Yes, yeah, it's been a great success. Everyone we bump into in the corridor is always thanking us. So it has been a great success. So I'm just gonna share a couple of questions that have come in. First one from Lynn Danzig asking, I'm interested to know how the Zerti webpage shares data, for example, sign on information with the systems like the VLE or Office 365. Yeah, that's really interesting. So this is the kind of behind the scenes stuff that we're currently trying to seek. So at the moment we don't really know. We can have a tab of number of views on a page. But for example, if I click on the page 10 times that 10 times that tally's on to 10. So we haven't been able to get any specific information on sign on information or anything like that yet, but it is something that I've requested. So the digital education team are working behind the scenes to see what the capacity of Zerti has for us to be able to figure that sort of information out. So yeah, I agree. That would be really interesting information to know. But unfortunately at the moment we don't have that. Great, thank you. And another question from Neil McEwen. Each faculty or skill can have different ideas and definitions of what personal academic tutoring involves. Did you have to keep in mind various definitions of the role when creating your guidance? Yes, so the university, Cuddiff University has its personal tutoring policy and that includes the role of the personal tutor for the university as a whole. So in our page, we have two separate sections. So we have the university-wide policy and then we've also made a smaller kind of what school of bioscience expects you to do. So it's not an official university-wide policy, but we've kind of refined the expectations of what we in the school have based on the university-wide policy. As we are a large school and we have got a different system to other schools, we had to acknowledge that. But there was flexibility in the university-wide policy document for that, if that makes sense. And as I said, within our toolkit, we have links to the university-wide information as well. So when we make it clear that this is a university-wide policy and here are the expectations for the school. So we don't try and pretend that we're making a new policy document. We try to clearly outline the two steps, if that makes sense. Yeah, great, thank you. And another question from Lynn. Is it a challenge to keep the information up to date? So as senior personal tutors, we used to provide the information to tutors anyway, but through emails. So we used to send emails with these documents with suggested discussion points. So actually what we found is the work is similar, but instead of sending emails and having replies by email, we just put all the information on that toolkit. So now we have actually had a lot less work in terms of replying to individual comments because tutors now know where to go for that information. So it's meant that we... And now it's got to the point where we don't send emails saying the information will be on the toolkit because tutors know that the information will be there. Sometimes it might be there a week in advance or a day in advance, but they know that on the day, the information that they need to support their students will be there for those individual meetings. The... If I go back to my page, hopefully, can you see my screen? Yeah, the homepage, the personal tutor role, the confidentiality, this stuff is stuff that we don't often need to change. If we find that we get a lot of a particular question, we might add it to the FAQs, but the thing that we change regularly and we update regularly is the year specific pages. Obviously, we haven't yet rolled out the 22, 23 information, but so here, it just means that we add an extra bit in the bottom. If information to students comes in, we can add it here. So it hasn't really added extra workload. If anything, I would say it's almost reduced the workload because we know that we just need to put it there. We're not going to get an influx of information or questions on what should I do? I can't mean my tutor, what do I need to do? So I would say it's reduced our workload, apart from the fact that we need to make sure that Zerti is updated. Thank you very much for that. I'm just sharing your email address in the chat there for anyone that wants to make a note of that. If anyone would like to carry on the conversation about this really interesting resource, have to say, even as an established member of staff, something like that can be incredibly useful. So I'm pleased to see that you have had such a positive response. We do have our Discord channel set up if you want to carry on the conversation, but I've just seen there's one more question come in, so maybe we can finish on this one from Lynn, which is, can tutors share experience and ask questions via the Zerti page? Yes, so tutors, only Sonia and I have access to updating the page ourselves, but one thing that we have tried to put in the page, if I go back to it, is where is it? Academic Tutorial Ideas. So sometimes some personal tutors have really good ideas or they have really good discussion points or they have tutorial ideas that they like, and we would like to share sometimes what other tutors have, so they'll give us the information and we can add it to here. They don't have access to editing the whole page themselves, but we do, so there's a section here on shared practice, we've said we'd welcome any information that we could add on here. So it isn't just us kind of demanding what goes on, we would like to be able to have this as a kind of interactive shared space that we'd be able to help beyond Sonia and ours ideas, other people can have their ideas that they can put on there as well. Yeah. Thank you, a lovely message to end on there about sharing the work, and yeah, thank you so much for sharing your experience with us today. I'm sure we'll agree that was a great session and it's just left for me to say thank you to Louvessa and thank you to everyone for joining us, and we hope you enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you.


Do you think human beings need spirituality? No, there's no such thing as spirit. So why would there be- Well, there's a schism right there.  Is this biological needed? It's not. How am I living without this need? You're coping? How are so many people? There's more atheists all the time. You need to look at what makes a society good and realize that Islam doesn't provide these things. Not unless you assume a whole bunch of things that are not supported by the data. Like people need spirituality when we do not. You are professing facts, not in evidence while accusing me of denying the data. You are denying the data. I mean, so 2011, study in Oxford University humans are predisposed to belief in God and the afterlife. They are predisposed to supernatural beliefs. Called born believers. Preschool children constructed theological concepts as part of their understanding of the physical world.


If you've been in crypto for the past week, you've probably heard of and seen the collapse of FTX, the second biggest crypto exchange in the market only behind Binance. FTX filed for bankruptcy and is another domino that has fallen during the crypto winter 2022. The cemetery is getting packed with platforms who have filed for bankruptcy or gone broke. And the rumors continue as now we hear whispers about BlockFi, Crypto.com and Genesis, three other huge players in the game. So the question becomes, what can we do to protect ourselves and protect our crypto from going down and losing it completely in one of these platforms? And the answer is not that hard. Self custody wallets. In today's video, we're going to cover exactly what a self custody wallet is and why you need to get one right now. We will also break down the difference between the different wallet types and some of the ones that I personally use. So let's go ahead and dive right in to today's video. What's up guys? I'm Jay and welcome to Bitcoin Daily. Remember that this content is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice. Always do your own research before risking any of your own money. And as a disclaimer, I am invested in Bitcoin since 2016. So if you guys are new here, don't forget to subscribe to the channel, smash the like button and turn on the notification bell, or you might miss out on some of these keys to success in the crypto markets. So first off, we need to understand what a custodial wallet is. Simply put custodial wallets give control of your keys to a third party. So when you put your funds in a centralized exchange like FTX, BlockFi, Gemini, Coinbase, Celsius, Voyager, and we could just continue going down the list, you're trusting a third party to control, manage and basically do whatever they want with your funds with your crypto securely and for them to give you access to your own crypto when you need to trade them, when you need to move them or do anything else with your crypto. This is basically the same as keeping your money with a bank while that may be easy to use. And it may be convenient for you to do it that way. Keeping someone else with the security of your funds well, it never ends well. And it's something that we actually have learned many times over with banks. And it's also a reason why Bitcoin was created so that we, the people have control of our own funds and we don't trust a third party, a government, a centralized bank to give us the permissions on what to do, how to move our money, when to move our money and all of that. So then the question becomes, well, then what's the best way for me to store my crypto and that my friends is called self custody wallet or also known as a non custodial wallet. So what is a self custody wallet? So a self custody wallet allows you to own and control the private keys to your crypto. This way the wallet provider cannot freeze or manage your assets in any way, which is what we have seen over and over and over again as these platforms have fallen. They've been taking your funds, using them for high risk investments, high risk trades, they're using as venture capital or whatever they see fit. And then when they make a couple of bad moves, Bitcoin's value drops, they owe a bunch of money.  So the underlying principle is that with a self custody wallet, you control the keys to your crypto, you control your crypto. So why use a self custody wallet? I mean, I think we've answered it already, but let's answer this question. And I think if we just look at what's happened in the past week, it answers it for us. FTX was the second largest exchange only behind Binance. So of course, people trusted their funds with this exchange. The issue is, if you had your funds in this exchange, you didn't have control of your funds. So FTX actually had control of your funds and were able to manage your funds, however they saw fit. So FTX controlled all users crypto, FTX used users funds for high risk investments, trading and other things. FTX lost user funds and filed for bankruptcy. Since users did not own the keys to their wallets on FTX, they probably will never see that crypto again. And that pretty much answers why you should use a self custody wallet at all times from here on going forward. And this is a tell as old as time. This happened way back in the day when there was a exchange called Mt. Gox that basically used the user's funds and got hacked or whatever the case was and lost all the funds for the users. The users 10 years later are still trying to get their funds out. That's why I say if you're stuck on one of these platforms, they're probably never going to get those funds back. And we've seen it with Mt. Gox, we've seen it with Luna, UST, with Celsius Network, Voyager, Digital, FTX, FTX US. Now we're seeing it possibly with BlockFi, possibly even with Gemini. All of these platforms have complete control of your crypto. If you have your crypto in any of these platforms, what you need to know here is if you do not have the keys to the wallet, then you do not own that crypto. The third party owns your crypto. Apart from that, some other things that happen when you have your funds in a centralized CFI platform is that they have withdrawal limits, they have fees. Maybe you don't see the exact fees. Maybe they just include the fees in by changing the price of the crypto token that you're moving out or trading or whatever the case. Self-custody removes all of that and gives you 100% control of your funds. With a self-custody wallet, you alone are responsible for the safety of your keys and your crypto. Because once again, remember, not your keys, not your crypto. All right. So hopefully by now I've convinced you to take your money and remove it from all these CFI platforms and get yourself a self-custody wallet. Let's talk about what's the difference between a hardware and software self-custody wallet. But before we do that, make sure that you guys smash that like button if you're enjoying this video and subscribe to the channel. So hardware wallets are also known as cold wallets. And what a cold wallet means is that it's not stored online. It's stored in a USB-like device offline. And the reason for this is pretty simple is that you won't get hacked. Software wallets, on the other hand, are basically an application either on your PC or on your mobile device. These are encrypted. They securely store your private keys and provide an interface for you to trade and manage your crypto. Software wallets are encrypted and require a password for you to access your private keys and your crypto. So which one should you use? Well, honestly, it depends on you. Cold wallets are obviously going to always be a lot safer. And if you have large amounts of money, then I definitely recommend investing in a cold wallet and keeping your crypto offline. If you don't have that much funds invested in crypto, then it's fine for you to use one of the applications, especially if you're going to be moving in and out of positions and trading and you need to move them constantly, for example. I think the best mix overall that I use personally is a mix of both. I think you should have the majority of your long-term portfolio offline on a cold wallet and then anything you use for trading, for example, you can keep in a software self custody wallet. But again, everyone's situation is different. So that's really going to be for you to decide which one is best. So next I'm going to give you guys a couple different hardware wallets and software wallets that you guys can use. And I definitely recommend for you guys to do your own research and see which one is the best one for you. So as far as the best self custody hardware wallets, I always recommend either ledger or treasure. These are probably the two biggest and most popular ones out there that the majority of people that I know use. I personally, myself, use ledger. So for software wallets, many people might not know this, but you may already be using a software self custody wallet if you're using MetaMask or if you have any funds on MetaMask. Now MetaMask is built on the Ethereum network, so you wouldn't be able to hold Bitcoin or anything like that. So another wallet that I personally use is Trust Wallet. You could actually download this on your phone. I have this on my iPhone and you can store a lot of different cryptos in there as well. The bottom line is take your funds out of centralized platforms, centralized finance, centralized exchanges. Do not give your funds to a third party for them to manage it or have complete access to them. Because when something like this happens, as you guys can see with FTX, even though they were the second biggest platform in the market, it still fell. So that shows you that no matter how big these companies are, they can still fall, you can still lose your crypto in them. The safest route to go so that you don't ever have to worry and so you can sleep good at night is to have a self custody wallet, like one of the ones that I mentioned in today's video.  Let me know if you guys have any questions about anything that we covered in today's video. Let me know which self custody wallet you might prefer and which ones you might have had the best experience with. As you guys know, the goal of this channel is to provide as much education and information for free for everyone. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to smash that like button and subscribe to the channel. I know with the value of Bitcoin dropping, a lot of people are probably losing money. But did you know that you can actually make profits as the value of Bitcoin goes down? I recently did this video on how to short Bitcoin where I showed you guys exactly how you can bet on its value dropping to make some profits during these crypto winters and bear markets. Just make sure to click the video that's on the screen right now. You guys don't want to miss it. I'll see you guys on the next one. As always, peace and love.


Alright guys, welcome to Arizona Deliverance Center. This is the Children's Deliverance Service, okay? Now I know most of you guys have not been here before in person, right? So I would just wanna welcome you for the first time, okay? So this is how we're gonna do this. I wanna prepare the parents and then I wanna prepare the kids, okay? So I'm gonna be doing a teaching for the kids. But what I want the parents to think about is areas of your life that you're struggling in, okay? Now this might be forgiveness. Maybe there's somebody in your life you need to forgive that's been on your heart or pushed down, weighed down that you haven't thought about in a while, okay, forgive. What do you need to repent for? If there is unforgiveness, you may need to repent of that, right? Okay? So I want the parents to be thinking about who do I need to forgive? What do I need to repent for? What do I need to take responsibility for in my own life? And the third thing, do I use my authority that God gave me? Have I been using it over my children? Or not? Have I been lazy? Have I been complacent? Is there something on me that's preventing me from stepping into what I need to do? Okay? So as you parents are thinking about that, I'm gonna be doing a teaching for the kids. After the teaching for the kids, we're gonna pray for the parents first. The parents are gonna get prayer first, okay? So that's why I want you to be prepared, all right? Now kids, this is your part. I'm gonna do a teaching for you guys. But here's what I need from you. You have to pay attention because there's gonna be prizes that I'm gonna give if you get the answers right. Who wants to play the game? Yeah? You guys wanna play? All right, let's do it. Okay, this is the teaching today for the kids. We're talking about the 10 commandments and love. That sounds weird, right? We have rules we have to follow, but how does it equal love? Who's heard of the 10 commandments? Let me see your hands. Anybody? Anybody? Yeah? Okay, well, we're gonna talk about it today if you haven't heard about it. Here we go. What does the 10 commandments have to do with love? I think we're gonna find out right now. We're gonna watch a video. You guys have to pay attention to the video, okay? You have to remember what the video says, and then we're gonna have a quiz. Okay, here we go. The first commandment is, you shall have no other guards before me. Look at the run. He's coming in first. He's number one. The first commandment is, you shall have no other guards before me. That means God should be number one in your life. The second commandment is, you shall not make yourself any graven image. That is, don't bow down to anything but God. Look at that man. He's bowing down to an idol in the shape of an upper two. The second commandment is, you shall not make yourself any graven image. Don't bow down to anything but God. The third commandment is, you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. Don't use your lips to dishonor God. Look at those big red lips. That is honoring God, and they're in the shape of the number three. The third commandment is, you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. The fourth commandment is, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Don't neglect the things of God. Look at that boy. He watches TV all the time and never gives special time to God and he's inside the number four, reminding us the fourth commandment is, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. The fifth commandment is, honor your father and your mother. Look at mom and dad. Oh, they've shaped themselves into the number five, reminding us that the fifth commandment, number five is, honor your father and your mother. Uh oh, look at that bomb. It could kill someone and it's in the shape of the number six, reminding us the sixth commandment is, you shall not kill. The seventh commandment is, you shall love commit adultery. Adultery leaves a heart broken. Always be faithful to one you marry. Look at that heart. Inside is number seven and it's broken with that. Reminding us the seventh commandment is, you shall not commit adultery. The eighth commandment is, you shall not steal. Look at this bird, this thief. He's trying to steal something. This mask is in the shape of the number eight. Reminding us the eighth commandment is, you shall not steal. The ninth commandment is, you shall not lie. That means we should always speak the truth. Look at that nine. He's lying in bed. He's a lying nine. Reminding us that the ninth commandment is, you shall not lie. The tenth commandment is, you shall not covet. We shouldn't want what others have. We shouldn't be greedy. Look at that greedy man looking through the doorway at the diamond ring. The doorway and the ring in the shape of the number 10. Reminding us that the tenth commandment is, you shall not covet. Did you guys like that video? Yeah? Does it help to have some pictures? It sure does. It helps me too. Okay. We're gonna do a review of what we just watched. Okay. Do you guys think you can remember what we just learned about the commandments? Let's do a test. Okay. And the parents can help. That's okay. The parents can help. What was number one? Who remembers what the most important number one commandment is? Darby, do you remember? Okay. What's your name? Silas, do you remember? What was it? That's right. No other gods before me. That means God is number one. Boop. There you go. You get a prize. All right. Who's ready for number two? Okay. Let's try it. Let's see what we got. Number two. What was the second commandment? Who remembers? Who remembers? Remember the guy was bowing down? Remember he was going like this? What was it? Who's got a guess? Not bow? Let's see. Remember there's the guy. You shall not make yourself any graven image. No idols. Okay. I think that was pretty good, Nathan. There you go. You won one. All right. Who thinks they know about number three? I'll give you a hint. You ready? Here's a hint. Those lips. What is it? The lips turn to the third. Uh-huh. It sure did. And we got to be careful with our words. Right? We don't want to take God's name in vain. Yeah. That's pretty good.  Is that okay? Yeah. You won one. But we're going to go ahead and give it to sister. Okay. There we go. Here, give it to you. There you go. That's good. Okay. Ready for number four? Let's see what it is. You guys want a hint? I'm going to give you a hint. Ah! Do you remember the boy? What was he sitting and doing? He was wasting time. He wasn't spending time with God. Okay. Are you going to win it for your sister? Yeah? Let's see. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. That's the day when we go to church, right? We go spend time with God. We don't want to sit and play video games all day and watch TV. We want to spend time with God. We can read our Bible. We can read Bible stories. Right? We can hear God talk to us through the Bible. Are we can go to church and learn? Okay. What about number five? Oh, we got to get a prize over there, don't we? We need to get a prize for the sister because I think Nathan did it. All right, sister. Titi. There you go. Okay. Number five. You ready? You want a hint? Darby, I think you're going to get this one. Here's your hint. Who are those two adults? What do you think? Okay. What do you think the commandment is? That's pretty close. Honor your father and mother. That's right. Great job. Awesome. Gonna have to open another one of these. Sister Kelly got this for you guys, by the way. Two Kelly's. All right. Number six. What's the sixth commandment? You want a hint? You guys want a hint? Celine, I think you're going to get this one. I think you're going to get this one, girl. Here's a hint. You nailed it. Great job. You shall not kill. We don't ever want to kill, right? That's all bad. There you go. Congratulations. Okay. Number seven. Number seven. Who's ready? Who wants a hint? Me. You want a hint? Okay, here you go. Here's your hint. What do you think it is? Very close. How about committing adultery? That means cheating on your partner, on your wife, or on your husband. We always stay committed to our wife and our husband. But that was close. Close enough for me. But I think you're going to want a different kind now, right? Because you already got an egg. So I'm going to have to give you one of these. You like Twix? Okay, that'll work. All right. You guys want surprises too? The ministry team? Mom? Mom's young. She wants candy too, I can tell. Okay, let's see if she'll get it. My young mom over there. What's number eight? There you go. Do not steal. Do not steal. That's right. Jen's so upset. She's getting her Altoids out. She wants something. I know. I know. I know. Okay. Number eight. Two more to go, guys. Two more to go. We got two more prizes. Who's going to get it? Who's going to get it? I shall not steal. Number nine. Ready for your hint? Okay. What is it? A lying nine. Okay, I think you were going to get it too, weren't you? You were going to get one? I thought you knew that one, right? A little bit after she said it, you knew it? Yeah? Okay, I think that counts. I think that counts. I think she, I think Garby wanted for the whole row. Oh my goodness. You want it for the whole row? What did you do? That's amazing. Great job. Here, they want it for the whole row. Look, nice. Okay, we got to get this row. You guys ready? Y'all ready? Okay, last one is for this row. Number 10. You guys remember? I'll give you a hint. We're going to have someone in this row answer it. What's he looking at? He wants, yeah, he is. He wants something somebody else has, right? Okay. Do not covet. Great job. Great job. You did it. Now, we got to talk about what this has to do with love, right? We went through the commandments. We know what they are. Thank you. There you go. Okay, we know what the commandments are, but what do they have to do with love? Let's see. Matthew 22, 36 to 40 says this. One of the disciples asked. He said, teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Now, we went through all the commandments, right? Don't steal, don't lie, don't cheat, right? Which one's the greatest?  This is the first and the greatest commandment. Okay, what's the greatest commandment? Love God, right? And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments. What does this mean? Love God and love your neighbor. Love God, that's number one, and love people, okay? If I love God, I'm not going to hurt people, right? So that's why loving God is most important. If I love God, I'm not going to hurt people and I'm going to love people. So this says, notice the first four commandments. The first four say what? Put God first, we know that. There's no other gods before him. We're not going to bow down. That was number two, respect God's name, right? And respect God's day of rest. See, these are all about God. God, God, God, God. They're all about God. Remember, the first most important is to love God. That's why the first four are all about him. Now look at the next six. What happens here? Who are parents? Those are people.  Respect marriage. There's two people in a marriage, right? Don't steal from people.  See, the last six are all about people. So we love God with the first four commandments and we love people with the last six commandments.   Isn't that great? How easy is that? We only have to remember two things. Love God and love people. It's easy. And this is how we can keep the commandments. We love God and we love people. Who has questions about this? Not you? Okay. What's your question? My question is that to love people and love God to listen, to not lie and to not be jealous. That's right. Right, are you ever jealous of anybody? Yeah, he was jealous about me. Okay. Well, we'll take care of that today, right? We'll just ask, we'll tell God we're sorry, right? And we won't be jealous anymore. What, what's your question?  Right, that's true. What else? What other questions? Don't be mean to mom. That's right. Don't be mean to mom, right? We gotta respect our parents, honor your mother and father. And why are these so important guys? Because we love God. That's very true. That's very true. And if we stay loving God, then he's gonna protect us, right? We wanna be protected. So we obey God, so bad things and the devil can't come after us, right? Okay, now how many of us have done bad things? How many of us have, let's ask this question. How many of us have lied? Raise your hand if you've lied. Raise your hand if you've lied. Not now, but before. Okay, we've all lied. Okay, raise your hand if you've ever stolen anything that wasn't yours. Did anybody ever take anything that didn't belong to them? Yeah? Okay. I never took that. You never. A perfect one here, that's good, okay. All right, how about has anybody ever done something your parents told you not to do? Okay, she can't get away with that one because you're sitting right there. Okay, we know, all right. So what do we need? What do we need, you guys? If we open the door by breaking the commandments, we need something from God, right? What do we need? If we open the door because we break the commandments, the devil can come in. Boop, he can come right in. I don't wanna be a liar, but if I start lying, do I have a lying spirit inside of me? Maybe, right? If I open the door because I've been dishonoring my parents, there's something called rebellion. It means I'm acting out against my parents. And guess what? You get a spirit of rebellion in there, we gotta kick him out, right? So this is what we do in deliverance. We've all sinned, we all know we're sinners. We all know that we're not right before God. This is why we constantly tell the Lord, we love you, Lord, we're sorry. We don't wanna be that way. And then, remember, we forgive, we repent, and then we use our authority. We kick the devils out.  We don't lie, and we don't steal, right? And we don't break the commandments, okay? So this is the part where we get to use our authority and tell those devils to get out of us, in Jesus' name. Who's interested in that? All right, awesome. And you know who it starts with, guys? It starts with the parents. It always starts with the parents. Why? Because our parents, they broke the commandments, right? And when they broke the commandments, then the sin goes down to the kids, and then the kids are having trouble. Oh no. So first, we gotta get the parents cleaned up. Then we gotta focus on the kids. Does that sound good? Yeah? Okay, well, I think we're gonna pray. We're gonna ask the Lord to come and help us right now. And then we're gonna have the ministry team start praying for the parents, okay? Does that sound good? All right, guys. Well, let's open in prayer then. Heavenly Father, we wanna thank you, Lord. For today, I wanna thank you for all these families, Lord. You love them so much. You love the parents. A lot of these parents were hurt little kids. A lot of these parents had a lot of trauma in their lives, and they need help, Lord. They're like big kids themselves, and now they have kids they're trying to raise. So we need your help, Lord. Help deliver them. Help reveal to them any thing that they need to shut the door on, anywhere where they might have had unforgiveness. Lord, I ask you to help them right now. And I pray for the kids right now in Jesus' name. I pray that their hearts would be open to you, Lord. That deliverance would come to these families today, and I thank you for doing it. We know you're gonna do it. In Jesus' name, amen. Okay, guys. I'm gonna have the deliverance team target the parents, okay? All right. I need to grab Jen. I'm gonna come right there with you. Hey. Okay, guys. Hi. Good. Have you been thinking about some things that I talked about as far as forgiveness, and what is it? I'm trying to forgive a lot of people in my life. I feel like I've gotten there because I've been working on the miracles. Oh, amen. Yeah, so. Who are the big ones? The big ones, Mom. Okay. I had a big rejection being in the city. There was that one. My brother's brother. Molestation? Molestation. Okay. My brother's brother. That was that one. There was another man that was my brother's friend that tried to do that to me as well. Yeah. One of us won. Oh, God. I tried doing that one. I think that one didn't hurt. What about yourself? Yeah. You need to forgive you? I need to forgive me as well. Yeah. You feel like you deserved any of that? At one point I did. Uh-huh. But I'm still working on that. That's a lie. You did not deserve any of that. And you already know through going through this process, right, the devil set you up and he was operating through these other people. Right?  Or if you guys wanna go over on there, you can go play over there too. You can go sit. It's up to you in this area. It's delicious, isn't it? You're good. You're good. Okay, so. I'm gonna, let's pray together, okay? The big thing we're gonna focus on is you, okay? Yes, ma'am.  No, I'm dad's at home. Okay, awesome. So, is dad a believer? He's on the fence? He's on the fence. Okay, we're gonna pray for him, right? You already know what the word says about a praying wife and a believing wife, right? Amen, sister. Okay, and he blessed you with this family? Okay, perfect. So, he's got you. He's got you. He had you even through all of those incidents, right? So, the parents, they sin, they open the door. The demonic things happen to the kids, right?  Right? Yes, ma'am. Okay, so that's great.  Gonna be able to help others, which is what we're called to do. Okay, so this is super encouraging. All right, I'm gonna leave you in a prayer. We're just gonna forgive everybody, including yourself, okay? And then, what are the things that you're struggling with that you need out still? The rejection, you have depression? I can see it on you. Sadness is sorrow, yeah, a heaviness, right? You don't wanna get out of bed sometimes, right? Yes. Okay, yeah, it's too hard. You have these thoughts in your mind. This is too hard. You have regrets, yep. I wish I wouldn't have done this or that, okay? You're gonna stop doing that, okay? You thought you were in control, just like I did. I thought I was in control of my life. I thought all the bad decisions I made were me. Guess what, the devil was running me, okay? Now God is in control, okay? So even though we walked our own path, he was still in the midst of us. You can trust that you'll be delivered. He'll give you the strength to get through everything.  You're just going to trust in him, okay?  And it's hard with those spirits of heaviness because they make you not wanna do anything, right? So then sometimes you need help. So get on the phone call, get on the phone ministry and call somebody and let them pray for you. And they'll pray for you. You don't have to do it alone, okay? All right, we're gonna pray. You guys gonna come into agreement and pray with us together? Okay, amen. Jocelyn is your mommy's name, right? What a pretty name. She got pretty kids. Y'all are pretty girls, you know that? Okay, Heavenly Father, I wanna thank you for Jocelyn right now. I wanna pray for her heart in Jesus' name. Here's your tongue, buddy. I wanna pray for her heart. It's right outside in the hallway. You'll see it right out there. I pray for her heart right now in Jesus' name. Lord, I ask you to break off all this sorrow. I ask you to break off this depression. Every person that violated her body. Every person that violated her trust. All the heaviness that she's been carrying. Even though she's married, feeling like she's done it alone. And it's all her and she's the only one that cares. Lord, she's gonna repent of that right now in Jesus' name. Lord, I repent for all my negative emotions. I repent for what I thought about my husband. Lord, I repent right now. I repent, Lord. I repent, Lord. I'm so sorry, Heavenly Father, come here. Come help me pray. I'm sorry for believing lies about myself. Not believing that you fully love me. Sometimes feeling like you've abandoned me. Sometimes feeling like you've taken your voice away from me and I can't hear you. I repent of all of these lies. Believe in the enemy. I bless my children. I bless my marriage. I forgive my husband. And I forgive myself right now. For all my mistakes. All my shortcomings. For word cursing myself. I break every word curse. Spoken by me. Spoken by my mother. And I forgive her. Who else do you need to forgive? Ask the Lord. I'm not sure about it. I'm so sorry. Why have fun? It's the first one from another marriage. Tell the Lord. The Lord, I need to forgive him for blessing the link. I forgive him right now. I know it was that devil, but it wasn't. I know it happened to him too. Lord, I forgive him. I know it wasn't you. It wasn't him. What's his name? Every evil spirit. Every evil spirit. I command you to come out of her right now in Jesus' name. You get out of her body right now. Get out. Get out. Every molester. Every molester. Every molester. You come out now. Come out. Come out. Come out. Hold on. I'm gonna get you a bucket. Out. Out in Jesus' name right now. Get out, devil. Get out of her now. Get out of her body. Get out of her mind in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Out. Out, devil. Go, go, go. Girls. There you go. Girls, come sit down. Come sit down, ladies. Come on. Come on. Your mom's doing great. Come on right now. Get out of that body. Go, go, go, go, go.  Okay? You know that? You've got a calling on your life for deliverance.  You ready? Say, come out in Jesus' name. Come out in Jesus' name. Come out in Jesus' name. Come out in Jesus' name. Say, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.  Give my mommy. In Jesus' name. Out, out, out. Tell them, out, devil. Say, out, devil. In Jesus' name. Say, out, devil. And hand her a tissue. Just go like that. Give her a tissue. Give her one tissue. Same. Okay? Say, out, devil. In Jesus' name. Get out, devil. Come out of her body. Oh, that unforgiveness. Go, go, go, go, go. Go in the name of Jesus. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Every curse. Demons enforcing curses. Out in Jesus' name. Get out. Out of her life. Out of her body. Get out. Get out. Get out, devil. Go, go, go, go. Say, I don't know my mommy in Jesus' name. You don't have to be afraid. Hey, you don't have to be afraid. Okay? This is how Jesus heals us. Get out of her body right now. Get out. Get out right now. Get out of her body. Get out. Get out in Jesus' name. Go. Go, go, go, go. We claim healing for her daughter in Jesus' name. We claim healing. We claim healing. Break off. Why break every word curse off of mom? Cicer, mommy, mako, chill, yeah. Okay, go. Yeah, go help him. Come out of her right now. Come out of her in Jesus' name. Get out. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Come out, devil. Come out in Jesus' name. Get out. Get out now. Get out of her. Get out of her now. Out, all the way out. Depression. Depression, go. Depression, go. Depression, go. Suicide, go. Depression, go. Suicide, go. Suicide, go. Lord, I'm sorry for believing that lie. Out. They'd be better off without me. Get out. Get out now. Get out now. I repented that right now. Get out. Suicide, spirit. Spirit of suicide, go. Spirit of suicide. Out in Jesus' name right now. Let her go. All the way out. All the way out of her body. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Take your poison out. Take your poison out of her body now. Take your poison out. Take your poisons out of her body. Take your fear out of her body. Take your poverty out of her body. Get out now. Get out now. Get out of her finances. Go. Go in Jesus' name. Go in Jesus' name. Go in Jesus' name. Go, devil. Go, go, go, go, go. Get out right now. Get out right now. Get out right now. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. the way out. All the way out in Jesus' name. All the way out. All the way out. All the way out. All the way out. Come out right now. Come out of your body. Come out. Depression. Go. Anger. Go. Bitterness. Go. Resentments. Go in Jesus' name. Unforgiveness. Go. Unforgiveness. Go. Silas. Come here. Come here. Get out. Get out. Keep commanding them out in your mind. I'm going to talk to your son, okay? Keep commanding them out. Don't stop. Go now. Come up and out now. Come up and out now. It's okay. It's okay. Hey, come here. I'm going to pray for you, okay? In Jesus' name. Come here Silas. Come help me. In the name of Jesus. It's okay. In the name of Jesus I command all fear to come out of her right now. In the name of Jesus I command you to let her go now. Out. Out.  Every spirit of autism. Come out in Jesus' name. Let her go. Let her go now. Come out of her mind. Come out of her head. Come out of her heart right now in Jesus' name. I command you to be healed in the name of Jesus. I command every evil spirit to let her go now. Get out.  Get out of her mind in Jesus' name. Come help me Silas. Come out. It's okay. Come sit with me. I'm going to show you what to do. It's okay buddy. It's okay. Yeah, you know why?  They make you sick. So Jesus is forcing them to come out of her body. That's a good thing. It's not a bad thing. Have you ever had an upset belly before? Yes, you have. You've thrown up before, right?   Do you remember that? Remember? You got sick. And do you remember?  Your mommy's getting healed.  That's amazing. That's amazing. You don't have to be scared. I promise you. I promise you. Okay? Do you believe me? Let me pray for you. Can I have your hand? Come on. Hold my hand. Okay. Come here. Come here. Come on. She will come home. Sit down. Come sit down with us. It's okay. Come here. Come here. We're going to pray. Let's pray in Jesus' name. You ready? Come on. It's okay. It's okay. Come here. She's not autistic. That's a spirit, too. That's a spirit. She's going to be healed of that. Say it right now. Lord, I believe you. My sister is not autistic. You are going to heal her.  Say this. My sister is not autistic. My sister is not autistic. That's right. Jesus is going to heal her. Amos, he's going to heal her. And you have fear, right? Yeah. You have a little fear. Remember you were running away? You say this. Lord, forgive me. I'm not going to be afraid. Come out of him right now in Jesus' name. All fear. Go. Lord, I'm sorry for everything I did that was bad. I'm sorry, Lord. Forgive me. Okay. Come off of Silas right now in Jesus' name. Come out of his body in the name of Jesus right now. All spirits of fear. Go. You tell him. Get out now. Say, get out of my body. Get out of my mind. Come off of him right now. Lord, I pray that you would touch Silas, that you would fill him with your Holy Spirit, Lord, that you would kick out every evil spirit that came in from mom and dad, every evil spirit that came in trying to bother him.   Come out of him right now. Come out of him right now. Come off of his mind. Say, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for healing me, for making me whole, for getting rid of fear. All fear. Go in Jesus' name. Go in the name of Jesus. Get out of my heart. Get out of my mind. Right now, devil, you can't bother me. You can't bother me. Devil, get out of here.    Get out of here. Get out, devil. Get out in Jesus' name. You say it. Get out of me in Jesus' name. All right. Let me pray for you. I pray for Silene right now in Jesus' name. We command all fear, all molesters, everybody that touched her inappropriately. Come out of her right now in the name of Jesus. We command you to be healed in Jesus' name right now. Every lying spirit. Come out of her right now. Every spirit of rejection. Every spirit of rejection. Come off of these kids in Jesus' name. They are not rejected. Jesus loves you guys so much. He died for you. He died for you. Do you know that? He loves you guys. He's alive. He didn't die. He died, but he came back to life. Do you know that? We're going to live with him forever in his kingdom. Do you want to do that? Live forever with Jesus? How amazing would that be? Amazing. Now you're going to fight, right? Devil, get out of here. Right now in Jesus' name. Okay. What happens if you get scared? What are you going to do? Devil, get out of here. I am not scared. Okay. Let's pretend like I'm something scary and you tell me what you're going to say. I'm scary. What are you going to do? Now, get out of here. I am not scared in Jesus' name. I am not scared. Every spirit of fear. Get off of these kids now in Jesus' name. I pray for their minds, Lord. I pray for your protection. I pray for your guidance because you love them so much. You guys are awesome. You know that? You're so great. Jesus loves you. You're so handsome. He made you perfect. You know that? He made you perfect. You're so beautiful to him. He knows every part of you.  He knows how many. The exact number. More than that. Way more. I don't know how many. There's so many. But he knows. You believe that? Hundreds of thousands probably. So many. Say thank you, Lord, for my life. Thank you, Lord, for my life. I'm so happy to be part of your kingdom, Lord. I'm so happy to be my kingdom, Lord. Amen. Let's go, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. We're going to pray for your sister again, right? Who's autistic? Nobody. Right? That's a spirit. We're going to pray for healing. We're going to pray. Come on. Come here. Let's pray. Let's pray. Come on. Let's pray. Come on. Come on. Yeah. Sit right here. Come on. Sit down. Okay. We're going to pray for Victoria right now. That evil spirit of autism. She is not autistic. I pray right now. Break off of her mind in Jesus' name. Come out of her body right now. Get out. We break your curses right now from mom, from dad. We break your curse off of her now in Jesus' name. Be healed, devil. Come out of her body right now. Get out of her mind right now in Jesus' name. Be healed in Jesus' name. Be healed in Jesus' name. Come out of her heart. Come out of her mind in the name of Jesus. Be healed. Lord, you said I was anointed, Lord. I come against this evil spirit right now in Jesus' name from the grandmother. We break your power.  Every word curse spoken. Out in Jesus' name. Come out of her now. Come out. Come out. Come out of her right now. Let her go. Let her go now. Come out of the body. I command you in Jesus' name. I command you in the name of Jesus right now. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. Break off of her now. Break off of her now in the name of Jesus. Holy spirit, I ask you to fill her to break this evil spirit off of her now in Jesus' name.  Come out of her now. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go. She is not autistic. That is you, devil. That is you. Come out of her mind. Come out. Come out. Come out. Victoria. Victoria. How old are you? How old are you? Yeah, autism. Come out in Jesus' name. Autism. Come out in Jesus' name. Victoria. Out in Jesus' name. Tell him come out of me. Out of me. Out of me now. Out of me now. Yes, she wants you out in Jesus' name. Out in Jesus' name. Come out of her now. Come out now. Come out now. Let her go. Let her go. Let her go in the name of Jesus. Let her go now. All the way out. Out of her body. She's gonna be healed in Jesus' name. She is going to be healed in the name of Jesus. Yes, out of her body.   Come out of her now. Come out of her now. Victoria, fight him out. Come out of your body. Say, out of me. Say, out of me. Out of me. Out of me in Jesus' name. Out of me in Jesus' name. Come out of me. Say, come out of me now. Come out of me now. Every spirit of autism. We're gonna keep praying for your sister, right? Right. In Jesus' name. Come out. Devil, come out in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. How's it going? Good. What are you thinking? You okay? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, good. We come out every Friday. I saw you yesterday. Yes. Yes. Awesome. Yeah. Do you need prayer? Did you get some prayer? I don't think I need prayer. Our son has a really bad eczema. That's fear. Yeah. Can we pray for him yet? Can you just hold him on your lap? I can. Yeah. Can you make him stay? I can try. Okay. Let's try it. You guys have authority over that. I don't know that. Come out. You know, it's not that, you know, it's basic to have something in it. That's what I'm talking about. You're cutting all the time. Come out now. Come out now. Come out, Victoria. Come out in the name of God. Victoria, out in Jesus' name. And three out of the rest of the soldiers, with Victoria. Out in the name of God. To the body of the soul. To the body of Jesus. To the body of the soul. To the body of the soul. To the body of the soul. Okay. I'll read your story. Come out and in the name of God, come out in the name of God. Your blessing will come. All the tormentCome out, you, come out. Turn the torment into God. Come out in the name of God. Come out in the name of God. Come out in the name of God. I'll tell you a few things. You two make trials. Come out and in the name of God. You see? In the name of God. I know, yeah. At least about a time. I know. Time to get out of this. Oh, thanks. Thanks. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Come out. Come out. Come out. Come out. Why else in your name? She's got a lot of attention to it with the ball. She's going out right now. She's going out of the game. She's going out of the game. But then she also needs to stay home. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.


I was a communist for the FBI. Calling Dana Andrews in an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a communist for the FBI. Many of the incidents in the story you're about to hear are based on the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Sevettik, who for nine fantastic years lived as a communist for the FBI. Where is our star, Dana Andrews, as Matt Sevettik? They call each other comrades. Talk a lot about the brotherhood of man. Well, you can add that one to the long list of their lives. How can a man who has no identity, no mind, or soul of his own be a comrade or a brother to anybody? I know. I was one of them. I was a communist for the FBI. In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevettik, undercover man, who's as Matt Sevettik, FBI undercover man. This story from the confidential file is marked Bert Offering. One thing that always excited the local party members was the arrival of a visitor from Europe, any sort of an official from one of the iron-critting countries. These messengers from headquarters always demanded and got the full plus-carpet treatment with all the thinning. It was assumed, of course, that they were here for some secret purpose beside their official duties, and they usually were. Like Zubansky, the diplomatic courier from, well, let's just say, from a certain country in Europe. Zubansky had a purpose, and if necessary, he was ready to kill to carry it out. I know this is extremely sharp-notice, comrade Sevettik, but the tremendous importance of comrade Zubansky's mission fully justified. I understand, comrade Jones. I'm glad you were able to find me. What is the mission, comrade Zubansky? Question, comrade. A most remarkable attitude. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to try, but well, if I'm assigned to work on it... Your assignment is to accompany comrade Zubansky to Chicago. He's going to meet a contact there and return immediately to New York. And from there, you go on back to Europe. If you don't carry out the mission, your job is to facilitate it. I've made plane reservations. You're to be at the airport in 30 minutes. Or one more thing. You'll carry this with you, comrade Sevettik. I'm gone. This must be a big one. The biggest job we've ever done. The man you're going to contact has been in Chicago only a week. He came there from Los Alamos, New Mexico. 30 minutes. No time to discuss anything with the FBI. In fact, I didn't see how I was even going to contact them. Zubansky went to my hotel with me and stayed with me while I packed. Finally, we were ready to leave and there was no way around it. I had to take a chance. With Zubansky standing a dozen feet from me, I picked up the phone and called the FBI member. Hello, city cab company? No, this is not the...  A friend and I have to get to the airport right away to catch Flight 9 to Chicago. Richard? Right. It's very important that we catch that plane. Something big? Yes, yes. The Gavin Hotel. Right away. All right. We'll cover you. Thanks. Thanks a lot. The taxi will be waiting, Comrade Zubansky. Shall we go? I think that'll be all for now, boy. There you are. Thanks. What did you say is the name of this hotel, Conrad Zavedik? They handle their house. One of the best in Chicago. Yes, it is most delightful, very luxurious. Now to business. I have a telephone number here, Conrad Zavedik. I wish you to put the call through when they let me talk with the person who answers. All right. All right. Operator, will you get me? Iroquois 7349. Yes, that's all right. They're ringing now. Good. Let me have it. Hello. This is Ivan of Zubansky. You have been informed of my identity, I believe. Good. I am here now and prepared to complete the transaction at once. Number 14, cottage grove 9 to 9. Excellent. Very well. Goodbye.  Yes. As I recall it, the summer resort, 10 or 12 miles up the lake shore, probably deserted this time of year, not entirely. There will be someone waiting for us in number 14 at 9 o'clock. Would it be possible for us to obtain an order? Yes, I can rent one to the hotel. So simple? It's amazing. We will make history tonight if everything goes well. Make history? Conrad Zavedik, I have been an agent of the party for 20 years and I have never carried out an assignment even approaching this one in importance. A range for the car. An hour later we left the room and headed for the elevators. I was worried, plenty worried, because I couldn't be sure the FBI was on hand and covering me. We left the elevator and started across the hotel lobby. Then I saw him, sitting in a chair near the reservation desk, reading a paper. It was David, an agent I'd contacted before. The FBI was on the job. At the door I glanced back and saw that Davis had folded his paper and was sauntering along behind us with a parent unconcerned. A doorman pointed out the rented car and we walked over and climbed into it.  Just a second, the motor's cold. Never mind, we leave now. Alright, you're the boss. But why? I don't get it. The secret police, Conrad. You mean the FBI? Yes, the secret police. You see, there were no taxis at the door when we came out. It was better to leave quickly before one should arrive. The secret police, they would be unable to follow us. You understand, Conrad? Yeah, I understand. The timing was excellent. It worked perfectly. I'll say it worked perfectly. I caught one last glimpse of Davis in the rearview mirror. He was frantically trying to flag down a cab.  And I was out of touch with the FBI on my own. That must be number 14 there at the edge of the sand. We will soon know. Come. You will leave everything to me, Conrad Zavedik. I'll have to. I don't even know what it's all about. No matter. I do. Be on guard. Be careful. That is number 14. All right. Good. Thank you.  Who are you? I am Ivanov Zubansky, a friend. A friend of whom? A friend of a friend. All right. The door's unlocked. Open it and go on in. I'll be behind you. How come there's two of you? I understood you'd be alone. This is one of our American comrades, Conrad Zavedik. A U.S. commie? I told you, guys, I wanted no part of these local jerks. Mind if I say something, fella? I'm not interested in anything. Maybe you'll be interested in this. Conrad. Hacking a rod, huh? And I'll take your gun, if you don't mind. Thanks. Conrad Zavedik, I am not sure of the advisability. I know this type of comrade Zavedik. He'd keep us here arguing for half a night if we'd let him, and probably try to raise the ante. As it is, we can do business and get out. Right, pal? I still don't like it, but... Did you bring the money, Zbansky? Yes, I have it here in my dispatch case. $10,000? Correct. There you are. You may verify the amount if you wish. No. No, you wouldn't try to shave it. You're getting a bargain and you know it. Suppose we find out what we are getting. There's the money. Produce. All right, take it easy. There you are, boys. Fine. I'm not Zavedik. I'll take care of it. Sorry, I didn't mean to get out of line. Not at all. You had been most helpful. But the one important thing now is to transport this item safely to Europe. And at that, I am a past master. Shall we go? I drove back into the hotel with Zbansky holding the dispatch cases, though it was stuffed with diamonds. And there it was talking very much. I still didn't know what it was he'd bought. But it was a bound report of some sort. And the man who'd sold it had come from Los Halamos. Two good reasons why it shouldn't get out of the country. We just got inside our hotel room when the phone rang. Who's that? Well, I don't know. I'll get it. Hello? Yes, this is Mr. Slady. David's here. I see. Tell, I saw you come back. Pick up anything, a report or a film? Of course. Well, we have a plane reservation out on flight 12 in the morning, so the room will be available by 9 o'clock. All right. No trouble at all. Bye. The room clerk. They've got a convention coming in tomorrow. Wanted to know when we were leaving. Oh, yes. Is the matter of fact coming at dawn? I think we shall leave immediately. But I thought we were staying over until morning. There's hardly any point in it now. I have what I came for. It's better to get it out of the country as quickly as possible. What about this? Getting it out of the country, comrade. How are you going to get it through customs? This batch case, of course. I'm about to put the seal on it now. Diplomatic immunity. I hadn't thought of that. Comrade Svedik, I think you might be interested in seeing what a tremendous prize we have acquired tonight. I will show you just the title of the report before I seal it up. Look. There aghast. Watching him put the customs immunity seal on the case. Realizing the full meaning of the title on the front of the bound pages. Get read. Quarterly progress report. Secret weapons. Anna Andrews, starring as Matt Svedik. And I was a communist for the FBI. And the second act of our story. Once again, the timing was against me. Zabonski's sudden decision to leave immediately put me out of touch with the FBI again. And that diplomatic immunity seal was another problem. A problem even for the FBI. I didn't dare let that report leave the country. And yet I didn't know how to prevent it. Then we boarded the airliner and took off from Chicago. According to this schedule, we will arrive in New York at 6.40. And at 8.10 I catch a transatlantic plane to Europe. Excellent. Yes, the timing seems to be with you all right. Because the times are with us comrades Svedik. The march of history. Hey, better go kind of easy on this comrade stuff. Do you want the secret police on our necks? Oh, who I forgot. It is well that you accompanied me. Who knows what errors I should have made. Glad to do it. It's all for the cause, you know. Always before I have come only to New York or Washington and I've seen no one outside our own embassy. I know very little of your customs. Yes, I began to realize that Mr. Zabonski. Well, when you're in doubt just follow my lead. Mr. Svedik, that's the idea. Oh, stewardess. Yes, sir. What can I do for you? I wonder if I could have something to eat. Certainly. Would you like something, sir? Well, I don't. You might as well. It's on the house. Bring us both a snack. Yes, sir. I'll bring it right away. Such luxury, such service. You said it. By the way, I guess I'd better send a radiogram to the chairman and tell him everything went off all right. Well, wait a minute. Why, Mr. Svedik? Those were my instructions. Oh, I understand. You can send the message from the plane? Yes. Another one of those luxuries. But isn't there danger of it being intercepted by the secret police? Wouldn't do them any good. I use a code of my own. See, now, let him know we got the item. You're hurrying on to Europe. And I'll be there by noon today. I guess I did. There. Think the secret police could make anything out of that? Hmm. Save fly, boy. This all the same upstairs drawer. Keep mum. Your truly long side wrong G. G. Up front, sing plenty. Hear no can. You'll fix him. Nixon tipple. Let's see. A remarkable code. Yes, isn't it? Here's your food, gentlemen. Thanks. Stewardess, would you mind giving this radiogram to the pilot? Well, I... Just give it to him, please. He'll take care of it. I'll be glad to. Thanks. I sat there eating and listened to Zabanski congratulating himself on the great job he'd done. And then what I'd been waiting for happened. The stewardess came back from the pilot's compartment. Sir, the pilot can't make out some of the words in your radiogram. He wonders if you'd come up and explain them. Yes, I'll be happy to. I'll be right back, Mr. Zabanski. A minute later, I was back in my seat again, and the pilot was trying to make radio contact with the FBI in New York. Flight 17, New York to Gander, German and London. I believe the immigration office is over this way, Mr. Zabanski. Yes, right ahead there. It is such a nuisance to require a foreign diplomat to check through immigration. It is always a mere matter of routine clearance. Well, it won't be long now. You'll be in the air and safely on your way to Europe. Quite so. And with the satisfaction of having completed a highly successful mission. Here we are. Can I help you, gentlemen? I am Ivan Zabanski, my passport. Ah, yes, Ivan Zabanski, government courier. It is a diplomatic passport, you may notice. Yes, I see it is, Mr. Zabanski. I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to step inside. Step inside? Thanks. What is this? A slider of regularity. I'm sure we can clear it up in no time. This way, please. You too, sir, if you don't mind. What is the meaning of this? I don't know, but I'm afraid we'll have to go along with it for the time being. Come on. This way, gentlemen. My government will hear of this. I hope you know what you're doing, Chum. This is the next thing to an out-and-out insult to the official representative of a friendly foreign power. I'm sure it can all be straightened out, sir. Through here, please. Hey, so what's the idea? This is the detention section, the cell block. It's quite all right, sir. There's nothing to be concerned about. Here we are, gentlemen. Inside, please. A cell. A prison cell. Nothing of the sort. There's some slight question of regularity in Mr. Zabanski's passport, and we'd like a half hour or so to check it. That's all. But he's a foreign diplomat. I'm aware of that, sir. Well, maybe we'd better make you a superior's aware of it. I'm carrying out their orders. My dispatch case. That is your objective. You are going to take it and break the seal. Please, Mr. Zabanski. You may keep the case here with you if you like. What are we going to do, Mr. Silver? I don't think we have much choice at the moment, at least. Come on. Thank you for your cooperation, gentlemen. Far so good. The pilot had evidently got my message through, and the FBI had decided to go along with my plan. I'd ask them to detain us for half an hour and leave us in a cell together. The rest was up to me. The problem? Block off that report. Without getting the State Department involved and without arousing Zabanski's suspicions, quite a problem. What is taking them so long? Why doesn't he come back? Easy, comrade. He's only been gone five minutes. Somehow they have found out comrats of edict. It's impossible. How could they? I have been thinking that man who sold us the reports, a traitor and a criminal, perhaps he sells to both sides. Yes. It's possible, of course. Not this spatch case of yours. If they do open it and find that report... They will open it. Of course they will. That official didn't even deny his intention when you accused him. It's possible. They may be trying to get authorization from higher up. And they will come for it at any moment. What can we do? If we could only get rid of that report. Without that for evidence, they wouldn't dare hold you. If we could only dispose of it some way. Sure. But it's a little hard to dispose of anything when you're locked up in a cell. Like a cigarette? No, thank you. Ah, that is it. The cigarettes. You have matches, of course. Yeah, well, I get it. It's in the report, right here on the floor. Exactly. We must hurry before they come for it. Where are the matches? Here. Let's tear the thing in a shred so it'll burn in a hurry. Otherwise they may smell the smoke and get here before it's destroyed. Ah, it's a very shrewd idea.  And you're coming? Well, too generous. Well, that ought to do it. Here goes nothing. Good, good. It is flaring up very quickly. It would all be burned within a matter of seconds. A $10,000 blade and an even greater loss to the party. We had the plans of secret weapons right in our hands, Comrade Tsubaki. Comrade, there was no way to save it under the circumstances we are fortunate to have saved our lives. Here, what's running in here? Just a minute, Comrade. And as he do for a surprise... Good Lord! What are you burning here? Private diplomatic papers to which I have no further use. I'd say you're wasting your time, pal. There's nothing left but embers. Why did you do this? Why did you burn these papers? They purely personal matter. What about Mr. Zabanski's passport? Did you get that irregularity cleared up? Here is the passport. It's been cleared. You take it as stamped. I am free then to take the plane to Europe. I have no reason to detain you further. Not now, huh? As for you, however, my superior is waiting down all to ask you a few questions. Glad to oblige, I always... Hey, look at the time. What? You've got just three minutes to get aboard that plane, Mr. Zabanski.  Yes, yes, I understand. I go quickly. I will communicate with you in the very near future. Fine. Good luck, Zabanski. Nice going, sir. Thanks. You put on a pretty good act yourself. I don't exactly know who you are or entirely what this is about. But there's a man down the hall who does. I must say, though, you made a fine mess of the four of one of my security units. Yeah, but it was a fortunate mess. Plenty fortunate. There you are. Come on in, Matt. Oh, Davis. A little bit an hour behind here. But I guess there's nothing much left for me to do, but also congratulations and say that we're... Wait, hold on a second. I just wanted to enjoy that sound. That was Zabanski's plane taking off. That was that. Davis traced a spy from his fingerprints on the gun I took from him and picked him up in Chicago a week later. But that was later. There in the immigration office, I shook hands with Davis and he left to catch a taxi to his apartment and his wife and kids. I walked down the long corridor toward the terminal, heading to the ticket windows, heading back to my hometown cell and the same dangerous double life. I wondered for an instant how it would be to have a wife and kids to go home to. And then I killed the thought. I couldn't afford to have thoughts like that. I'm a communist for the FBI. I walk alone. Dana Andrews.


Good evening, everybody. I'm Piper Merriam. I'm here to tell you a story. Those that know me best know this about me. I have a deep love of storytelling. You see, stories are everything. They're the glue that hold together this thing that we call reality. We tell ourselves stories about who we are, about what it all means. At this very moment there are hundreds and hundreds of stories colliding and competing and passing clean through one another. Without either protagonist being the slightest bit aware of their insignificance. But I digress. I promised you a story, didn't I? The characters in this story are messy. They live in places where the water isn't safe to drink. Their dreams of children are met with miscarriages and disappointment. Their fathers drink themselves to death. Their partners toss them aside with indifference. Their daughters become sons. Their governments charge them with treason. Their brains betray them with depression and panic attacks and crippling social anxiety. The character that I play spends more time and pieces these days than he's comfortable with. His marriage failed this year. His windfall turned into tax liens and hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. He has self-destructive coping mechanisms. He turned 40 this year. He goes to a lot of therapy. Struggles to keep showing up to work and lead when the truth is that he feels lost most of the time. Struggling to keep things compartmentalized and walled off and separate. This is fine, he says, as the pieces of his life fall to pieces in the ground around him. I'm fine, he says, when all he can hear is the rattling of the bars as the feelings fight to be let free. It's fine, he says, as the community that loves him props him up day after day. But fine or not, there's a story to be told here. And the story of cryptocurrency is not mine. It doesn't belong to any of us. But it's one that I've had the honor to help write. It's a story written in math and human experience, straddling the predictable and reliable world of numbers. And the messy reality that I've been over-sharing with you today. And in this story, at least the part that I'm telling, I am a superhero. I feel uncomfortable and self-conscious saying those words, how arrogant. But for real, the things I get to do and the stuff that I get to work on, the things that we get to work on, it's truly astounding when you step back and look at it. And then step back again, trillions of dollars sloshing around, 14-something million ether staked, blah, blah, blah, I think I have to say, NFTs.  When I said that stories are everything, I meant it. Stories propel us through our day-to-day. They're the chalk marks on the floor telling us where we came from in this labyrinth that we call life, and my job requires excellent storytelling. It's a craft I take with the utmost responsibility. The stories I tell have to be compelling and true and entertaining. There are a myriad of people who deserve an enormous amount of credit for coaxing Ethereum into existence. I hesitate to draw such focused attention to a single individual, but we do love our heroes. We might not be here today without the story that Vitalik told us. So many people out there deal in these things called ideas, and idea merchants need not apply. Ideas are thin things, electricity surpassing some minimum threshold across a path of neurons in your mind. Affemeral things, but stories, stories have staying power. They are sticky things, infectious things. Ideas are nothing without a story to carry them, and stories are the incantations that we magicians use to summon ideas into existence out of thin air. A few years ago I decided to tell a story. I called it the Core Developer Apprenticeship Program, and I told a story about what some people call a job, a career. I don't think those are exactly the right words. Identity, mission, purpose. Okay, it's a job, but it's a really cool job. I told them a story about getting paid to build what has the potential to be the most important tool humanity has ever imagined, and they believed me. They showed up in droves, hundreds and hundreds of them, hundreds and hundreds of messy people with messy lives. They showed up eager and ready to learn, what do you have to teach us, Piper? Absolutely nothing. This is not how it works. Go figure it out for yourself. No, there is not a roadmap. No, there is not any curriculum. No, we have not called it serenity for a long time. No, I do not know how zero knowledge proofs actually work. But they did it. Not all of them, but enough. Danny and I like to say that the doors are all unlocked and hilariously wide open, and I think a lot of people have trouble believing us. But all you have to do is look. These people walked through those doors one after another. Out of the rat race, away from OKRs and conversion funnels, away from larger salaries and stabler jobs, and away from the bullshit that I never ever want to go back to. Stories are power, and power that I have learned how to wield. Unwieldy things that can slip through your fingers, things that can burn you when held too tightly or too close. I almost drowned a few years back. I told everybody a story about a new Ethereum client that would be lightweight, line after line of code, months turned into years. The thing grew and metastasized. Wasn't this thing supposed to be lightweight? I watched as it pulls me deeper, water filling my lungs, I can't let go. My precious story that wasn't a lie, but would never become true. Of all of the things I was saved by a story about a monkey and a pedestal and dreams of the moon, so much time wasted and money to learn that I was telling the wrong story, why do we have such a hard time letting go of the things that no longer serve us? A few years ago I told another story that's called Stateless Ethereum.  A story that some of you seem to have believed was worth telling and that you continue to tell and that is still being written. It tells us stories about infinities and games. Danny told us a story about a bright beacon on the path towards a yet to be realized dream. Alexi told us stories about how we're doing it all wrong and he's not entirely wrong. Parity told us stories of make-believe and fantasy that all turned out to be too good to be true. Nick tells us stories about the names of things and Vitalik tells us story after story after story. And today you've listened to me say the word story 30 times or so without necessarily having a clear point to be made. What story are you going to tell? I did a talk like this a few dev cons back on the subject of depression. My hope was to help normalize some of the stigma around mental health issues that are prevalent in our industry and often invisible and that I have personally struggled with. My goal this year was to do something similar for the more broad topic of the messy parts of our lives. There is immense social pressure to present a very well manicured version of yourself. Fairy tales make for good bedtime stories, but when we tell them about our own lives we deprive other people of the opportunity to really get to know us. I'm done with telling fairy tales. It's easy to feel like we are alone when everyone around us looks so well put together. My life is messy.  You at least don't have to hide them from me.