It was good boys welcome back welcome my room by the way. He's been in here. It's nothing special You got some like I don't know don't care don't care still don't care doesn't matter It's not we're here for I thought I'd switch up the scenery because we have a banger coming up And I'm pumped about this this right here $2,000 box for opening today the mosaic So I don't even remember what it was called to be honest what I did was I hit up wheels Another man youtuber who is so into this training card stuff. I was like dude It was just the most firebox I can get for a video. He was like this box.  That's expensive He was like, yeah That wasn't a very cool story, but you get the point so now we're here this has okay It says two autographs per box on average so in EA's world that's zero e a sports It also could potentially be four so that's pretty cool There's 10 packs per box and each pack has 15 cards. We got 150 cards right here We're hoping that two are like a banger autograph. Let's just hop in. I'm gonna give you more of an inch Oh, and Luna's joining us today. At least she's down there.  So should be a good luck charm. I don't have like an MLG like hand cam, you know for you or whatever Apologies six years deep. I'm still scuffed, but I love your boys anyway So I was gonna do this like where I open the packs and then I play a game of Madden with the players But I think this is gonna take a long time to open this many cards and show you guys like all the sick ones So imagine this will be its own video if you do all this video, please let me know I'll do more But I'm holding one right now and this is think as hell I remember last time I did one of these the autograph was a really thick boy So here's what the packs look like as pretty as hell. That's beauty. I see we can get so here's what the base cards You're gonna look like Philip Lindsey Devon single Terry. Oh, dude. I got boomer. I love it. I Got boomer base Larry Fitz base Steve young base Gronkowski base Mike Evans Oh now we're getting into the rare stuff because this was upside down. Oh, it's a holographic. Okay Holographic Adrian Peterson. See it's got that little color going on like a Pokemon card. Here's our rare one from this one The Steve. Oh my god. I don't even know what you call this. I'm sorry. I know some of your trading card experts I'll probably piss you off with not naming these right, but I'm gonna call that a prism Steve Largent Is that accurate? I don't know. It's fire though. I can say that much. Oh, it's 30 of 49. Damn That's actually fire 30 of 49 on the Steve Largent. All right. Let's go I'm gonna keep that out to the side keep the AP out to the side. Damn. We put some sauce next up We get a month. Oh, dude. These are fire montage the Sean Watson. That's though. What is this? All right, so this is a prism for sure prism Tom Brady. That's fire. That's so though I don't think it's necessarily rare. It just looks cool that Steve Largent was rare And then the rest of guys when I'm going through the common ones They all look like this just with the player on them. So I'm not gonna show you each and every one of those I hope that's okay. That's back one. Let's keep moving. All right, so it looks like the first eight or so are usually the Commons we're gonna start with common Tony Gonzalez Zeke Elliott Kevin King the Neil Hunter Derek Henry Eli Manning Howie long and our first flipped upside down. It's actually so pretty prism Ben Roffelsberger Oh, who's up next? Oh, wait, that's dope NFL debut prism CD lamb. Love that An introductions card. That's what they're calling this Jordan. Love. Oh That's heat. Yeah, you gotta love that we get the montage to Sean Watson Now we get a montage Lamar Jackson that's sick and the rest are commons Derek Brown Jerry Rice Gabriel Davis and Cole Comet All right pack three of ten base Kyler Murray base Drew lock Matt Judon Brett farf Oh, you know what I could do for this section. I can pull it down. Oh, yeah, I can do this You guys like the cheetah chariot came at this place. Here's what I'm gonna do for the base ones I'll show you guys you can see me in the back. So base Kyler Murray base Drew lock Judon Brett farve Curtis Martin Jerry golf Jimmy G and now we're into the rares. Mr.  Sorry making it up on the fly here, you know, okay? So first one as you saw holographic T Higgins, he's going off this year, too So I'm excited to get that card. I like it. Whoa. I do not have surgeon hands, bro Let me do open heart surgery. I'll murder someone Next up is a Chandler Jones jeesh Super he Boys are he Chandler Jones. Whoa, what am I looking at stare masters? Wait, this is so sick I don't think it's necessarily rare stare masters Baker Mayfield. I don't know if it's nest. Yeah, I don't think it's like super rare anything It just looks so cool. Look at that. That's a beauty same with this one I don't think it's rare for this is men of mastery JJ. Why these cards are so dope. They do such a good job with this I gotta give them credit and then we get a base to a base to Sean Watson Given can law Jonathan Taylor to close it up three of ten our auto know where to be found as now I am not losing hope though. I know it exists So our base is Minshew Garrett Jordan Hicks Lattimore Charles Woodson B-Doc and Vonte Parker. Oh Starting it out with our rares. Can you guys can you guys he might win rookie of the year? There's your hint Justin Herbert at a prism Justin Herbert. That's a beauty right there next up is another NFL debut card Henry Rugs crispy the only rare card I pulled so far like that is like a number of a number is the Steve Largent Who's 30 or 49? Wait, this one's called blue chips blue chips to a tag of a loa. I don't really know what it means But I like it. Oh, I got another stair masters. Yo, these are so sick. Actually. I love that That looks so good Aaron Donald to do Aaron Donald and Baker Mayfield Stair masters And then we're back to the basics and it's just Justin Herbert Russell Wilson AJ through out cam makers to Justin Herbert's in that pack. I think he's getting rookie of the year based off of that information Does that make any sense?  Can you guess? Can you guess the montage Oakland Raiders half back is my montage here? You said Bo Jackson you were wrong.  I'm such a cheater Josh Jacobs montage I love these montage cards. These are so cool. All right, let's keep rolling. We got a swagger the Vonte Adams I don't think we pulled a swagger card yet. Is that what it says? It's a swagger, right? Yeah, it does I mean the man has swagger and then to the basics T Higgins to a Jalen Rager at a Troy Palamon. Come on if I do did we have that first pack heat and then we've just gone Dry on the rares, but I know there's an autographed card waiting in here for me And I'm just I'm just praying at somebody awesome Brian Burns Jeff Saturday Odell Chandler Jones Warren sat Cameron Jordan Marcus Mariota what we got here Cortland Sutton John Brown Deandre Hopkins Nick Boso Sony Michelle Ryan Tannahill Darius Slating into our rares. I don't think there's an autograph in this at least not as of right now So I guess we'll see that would mean our last auto if we got it is in the final pack first things first Holographic prism Leonard Farnett currently now on the Buccaneers next up. Hey, that's a dope one I love getting that it's breath far reception if you look through and see the like the camera going there breath are beautiful card Larry Fitz man of mastery We got a name it a Larry Fitz get a name it a Larry Fitz and a JJ watt and I look like this Those are dope. Oh, what's going on here? That is a brand new one for us boys center stage Colts painting Manning I like it and then a couple comments to close it out. Oh, no moss boys We haven't prayed for that last auto in this one or I'm gonna be kind of sad no lie Let's see it. Don't hold me. Don't pull an AA on me David Montgomery Mark Brunel Jarvis Landry Matt Ryan Donovan McNabb Dan Marino It is it is an auto. I didn't see who the player was yet. I'm gonna show you guys first All right, you know what I haven't seen it yet still it looked like it was bills to me though It looked like it was bills. So in my head. I don't know it could be it could be a bills rookie It could be Josh Allen. No, but I would expect it to be a rookie or a legend I don't know.  I love this dude Hey Autograph Zach Moss dude, that's got some potential Zach Moss just ends up being the next best running back in the league Oh my god, it's not super likely, but still really cool. Damn. That's badass All right.  I will be giving that away too.  Love these cards. Oh another montage. Oh Damn my two running back montages are both injured Nick Chubb and say one Barclay I hope that man heals quickly montage Say what damn it's kind of hard to see that montage actually and that it's gonna conclude it ladies and gentlemen a while What a banger right there that is awesome. Got it. You want to see the aftermath here boys I'm gonna see the aftermath these are all the commons over here and just like the remnants of the packs And then this is everything that was like in the rare section. That's a beautiful thing right there lots of lots of beauties All right boys. Hey, I hope you enjoyed Pretty simple concept, but it was really fun And if you're interested in any of those autographs or if you really like give a shit about one of the different cards I can send you that too because I'm not the only things that I think I guess are important or the autos And maybe that's Steve Largin, but I guess I'm not sure because I don't know the like NFL trading cards very well So just let me know I'd be glad to part ways with them, but yeah, that's it I will see you guys next video. Let me know if I see more of this peace out


It's April 6th. We started planting on Saturday a little bit getting our planters lined out It's the earliest we've got to plant in several years with all the wet Springs. We've had so I hope this pattern holds up We can get some corn and rice and beans knocked out early for a change, but We started corn this weekend. We're starting rice. We're gonna see what this rain does tonight hopefully it won't be much when we start rice and beans tomorrow and Maybe it'll hold up and we can get it knocked out quick and all we'll have to worry about is Milo and cotton, so Like I say so far it's the best planting window we've had in several years, so I'm excited about that but yeah, hopefully by mid-May we'll have Everything be up and it'll be green around here and not not Just burnt off cover crop and burn down winter burn down and lots of stuff growing. That's a good time of year for me I like that part but Maybe we'll get a good early harvest this year to be be nice to have a Year that some semblance of normal whatever that is anymore, but Hopefully I can Do some hunting in November instead of having to try to finish up a wet harvest Anyway, that's kind of what we're doing right now


Alright, hello everyone. Welcome to this June 29 2022 special meeting of the Amherst Massachusetts Conservation Commission. See who we have present we only have two items on the agenda tonight. One is to move forward on an enforcement order at zero document lane and the second is a brief conversation of our conservation land use policy which kind of gets at the mission statement of the conservation commission, something that we've been tabling for months that it would be good to take a next step forward on. So unless I don't have any other updates that we can talk about now, and is there anything else that you wanted to bring up before we jump into the hearing. Okay, no ma'am. All right. So with that, I don't think I have to so it's an enforcement order I don't have to open anything. I see that Dan Lewis is here. So, I should bring him in, I'm assuming Aaron, and let us get get him, let him give us update. Yeah, it's completely at your discretion. If you want to talk about it first if you want to bring him in first. But yeah, I mean, yeah, I would say should definitely allow some time for, you know, for him to speak if he'd like to. Okay, well then maybe I'll just set the groundwork by saying that I think that the enforce the proposed restoration plan is sufficient and good faith effort has been made to kind of meet our original requirements under the enforcement order. Commissioners, have you had a chance to take a look or do we need Aaron to share it and walk us through it. Are you. Go ahead. Oh, sir. No, I'm looking at everyone. Okay. Does anyone have any specific questions would it be helpful to screen share and take a look at any documentation. I have one brief question. And that's for Aaron. How many trees were removed in the beginning. And that was Michelle and I spoke earlier and that was the one sort of question that I felt like remained unanswered. But I will say, say that say this and obviously, you know, I think Dan should should address it as well but in my experience that you don't want to over plant so let's say 30 trees were removed. I would like to replace 12. I'm just, I'm pulling a number out of the sky I don't know exactly how many trees were removed but just based on the area that was cleared. I think that the number of trees that they've proposed seems reasonable, and I wouldn't want to over plant to the point where the trees are killing each other trying to grow. Okay. If anyone else any other questions or concerns. I do think that this looks like it meets our original requirements and will be a sufficient and market improvement over the existing site. So I'm really looking at it right now and I don't see any concerns. So if anybody has any quite specific questions or concerns I'm just sorry I'm going to give Dan a chance to address the commission and ask any questions and then we can move forward I think a couple of conditions that we wanted to have were we're going to be doing Aaron, let me double check. Setting a date when the restoration work should be completed and require an expect inspection by the welds administrator once the work has been completed. I think we should get Dan on to see what his prediction is for the timing of this work so we can set a reasonable kind of target date. And I think there was in the, and I can just do a quick screen share to look at it but I think in the narrative, it did state a potential date for the planting. Okay. June 30, no later than June 30. September 31 was the planting date. But there was other other benchmarks as well for installing the stakes at the 100 foot buffer line. Yeah. And then planting the seed mix on July 15 by July 15 and then the tree planting September 31, which for the tree planting seems reasonable I just had this conversation earlier today because especially with conditions being what they are for rain. Yeah. Dead of summer is not the time to be planting trees. Right. So then the date by Michelle I see her hand sorry if that's not for a second. The day by which we would ask this to be complete is September 31 then. Yeah, that's what they're offering I was, I think that the commission should when they make a motion to approve this just state in addition to, you know, the narrative and the plan that have been submitted that, you know, just to punctuate those dates, so that it's clear, and then have an inspection after the fact. Okay. Okay. Michelle. I have a question comment. I was just wondering if, so we have a re year 50% success rate criteria. So just as somebody that's watering perennials right now. Does it, does it apply to everything or just the trees so so like the grass seed mix. It's the same thing across the board is a success rate. Okay. Just clarifying. Yeah, that's how I read it, Aaron. Yeah, and I, I think that if you guys wanted to punctuate that as well in in a motion that that would be fine like just to state that the commission expects that over a three year period that at least 50% of the trees and ground cover is successful. And certainly would be helpful to to water it or Yeah. I would say to water so you know, to water and maybe they're have construction or water on site to be able to do that. I'm not going to tell them your other responsible process. Having a hard time hearing you, Larry, I'm getting feedback about that. I'll go back and show you some problems with that recently. Anyway, can you hear me now. Static. Sort of maybe just go for it. Yeah. All right, is that is learner consulting responsible for the whole project hearing it through fruition. Well it would be the owner. I, and, you know, Oh, you're talking about like overseeing the plantings and stuff like that Larry. Well let's why don't we check with, why don't we check in on that question and, you know, give him a chance to talk. Yeah. And if you're listening, I'm going to promote you to. Larry should mute yourself too. I don't think I'm. Oh, sorry about that. Gotcha. Should be set now. Are you there Dan. He's muted. Dan you're muted and we also can't see you. I don't know if you want to contribute at all. Oh, there we are. Gotcha. Hello. Hi, hi there. Thanks for making time for this. No worries. Thank you. Have you been following our discussion? Just sitting here in the dark. Okay, okay. Awesome. So I think we're thrilled with the effort on the restoration plan. It needs all of our requirements and we really appreciate that. We had a couple of clarifying questions. I think we've sorted that out. And just start going to make it very clear, make some things very clear and emotion, but nothing in conflict with what the restoration plan says. Okay. Are you guys going to, is your team going to oversee the restoration planting and kind of watering and care? Or do you think you'll hire a like contractor to do that? And we're just wondering, so Aaron knows who to coordinate with. Yeah, we'll oversee it until the home is turned over to the, the homeowner and then oversee it from there. Okay. Okay. So that answers your question, Larry. Yeah. And Dan, I think. The motion, I think we'll just clarify. September 31, 2022. Deadline for the restoration plan to be complete. And then ask that upon completion, you notify Aaron so she can do an inspection on the site. Okay, great. And then Michelle is just clarifying that 50% survival over three years applies to kind of everything. I think that won't be a problem with grass, but just make sure that that we're on the same page on that. Yep. Okay. Great. Is there anything else you wanted to ask us or any other questions? No, I mean, as far as the building permanent itself, that shouldn't hinder anything with this meeting at all, right? Okay. Okay. So I guess commissioners were looking for a motion. To what is it? We got to approve the restoration plan and kind of close the enforcement order, Aaron. Is that. Yes. So the motion would be, and I'll sort of read this back to approve the restoration plan for zero Tuckerman lane submitted by learner construction on June 6th, 2022, as well as the associated plan that was submitted with that restoration plan. And as conditions, the full planting plan would be completed by September 31st, 2022, an inspection to notify the wetlands administrator for an inspection upon completion and an expectation of 50% survival over a three year period of the plantings and ground cover on the site. In the clearing area. So we have to make that motion. What about the enforcement order? We have to quote this as separate. So should you approve the restoration, then that would basically. That's it anyway. What that means. What that means is that essentially you're there, they're in compliance as far as the submission of the restoration plan. They just need to, they need to. Complete the action items basically to. But considering all of this, the site is in compliance currently and coming into compliance so that the enforcement order can be closed out at the end of, at the end of the process. Okay. Great. Exactly. I'll make a motion to accept the restoration plan from learner consulting that we will. Have the plantings in by September to say 21st, 31st, 31st, 31st, 2022 with the expectation that have the plantings to survive for three years. And that the wetlands administrator will be notified upon completion of the plantings. I second. I can't do that. I know I can't. I'm just saying. All right. So we got Fletcher on the motion, Michelle, the second voice vote, Michelle. Larry. Andre. Hi. Fletcher. Hi. And I'm an eye. Thank you, Dan. As a matter of interest, I saw a bear about an hour ago. Crossing Henry street and going right over the tracks toward that property. Wow. A young, young dispersing bear. They're everywhere. They are. Everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you, Dan. Have a good night. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. And then. Oh, Michelle. Can I just ask like a procedural or. Remind me question. When if the house sells quickly, which it probably will, the homeowners will then be responsible for this three year success rate. How does that get conveyed to them like legally and communicatively? That's a great question. I'll probably end up having to reach out to them. That's generally like in a situation like this. Usually like if there's an order of conditions or an enforcement order has been recorded on a deed that would trigger them to be notified. In this case, obviously I don't, I don't think that extent is necessary. You know, we'll see the house being constructed. We'll see the house going up for sale. And yeah. So I'll, I'll just sort of monitor the situation and reach out to them. After the sale and just let them know that that. That area is being restored and make them aware of the situation. I mean, it's also, it would, it would be great if the builder could make them aware of it, but you know, I'll make them aware if they're not. Okay. I have seen houses that are. In construction up for sale. So I just didn't know like how. The, the real estate transaction would convey this condition. Along with it. Just, I don't know, I just want to put that out there because it's a hot housing market. So things can happen quickly and I'm not, you know, sure that the seller will necessarily convey the information himself. So just interested to know how that's going to happen. Yeah. I mean, generally like I had sort of have a list of. Enforcement follow up cases on my list that I'll sort of make the rounds on and follow up with and check in with the owners on. So I'll just follow up with them and, and let them know. Okay. Thanks. Yeah. Sorry, Larry. Can you say that again? Does he have a building permit yet? Not to my knowledge. That's not our. Not our zone. I don't know. Oh, did we just lose watcher? Looks like it. All right. I think you just asked for a minute. Yeah, I don't think you liked Larry's question. I think he's signal. He just needed to step out for a second. Okay. All right. Well, let's, we can catch watcher up, but let's keep this show moving along. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You do have to wait, Aaron. No. No, it's not a, it's not a hearing. This is pretty informal. Okay. Just double checking. Yeah. So contribution land use policy. Yes. Yep. And if it was a hearing, we would like if it was a. A legal ad and a butter is notified and whatnot. But this is, this was just sort of a. An informal discussion scheduled. So I'm just going to put it on my screen. So there's, there's two, two documents. And this is, so this is considered as to be sort of a, a first glimpse. Now I've. I'm exiting full screen. So I can't see any of you right now, but just for the sake of me. What's up. Somebody say something. Can you guys see this? You can see it. Okay. Okay. Sorry.  I can't see your faces. Okay. Yeah. We can see it. Beautiful. Okay. Sorry. I just want to make sure. Okay. So just to give you a sense, just really quick. A snapshot of what happened here. Earlier this year, we became aware that. So you guys are all aware about our land use application process. And it's not just a land use application. Generally speaking, it's for like an event or a series of events that occur. And, but there are occasions where somebody like submits a land use application to use a piece of property for a given purpose. And in this case. An applicant had submitted back in 2017 long before I started an application to use Amethyst Brooke for a. Program with children to like do like nature education. And so, I was working with the kids for about a week. And was functioning fine. And then over COVID. The COVID period when schools were out of session and parents were, you know, needing things to keep their kids outside and active. The program became more active, shall we say, became more of a daily program and all day program. And we're still working with this individual because they're trying to get all of their necessary licenses and permitting through the town to continue to operate. We had internal discussions and decided we really need to have like a more cohesive, holistic land use policy for all of the. Conservation land to incorporate the purpose that how the conservation commission kind of generally sees conservation land and how it manages conservation land, just like regular regulations in terms of like what's allowed, what's not allowed. Information, you know, and this is evolved to include a lot more than originally expected. Like I had hoped that this would be a one or two page document when this started. And as it evolved, we started to realize, oh, wait a second, we've got agricultural restrictions and we've got encroachment issues and we've got liability issues. We've got, you know, agricultural licenses and we may want to do forest management in the future and we have community gardens now and we have land use applications. We should roll that in and just general licensing. We should roll that in as well. So. You can see that as you start to unpeel the onion layers reveal themselves and it becomes necessary to make it more comprehensive. So that's that's basically what this document. We're still editing it. We're still modifying it. We're still making changes. We want to finalize this. We want to get this, get you guys eyes on it, get your feedback on it, get comments on it. Especially now that we've wrapped up the bylaw regulations. This is going to come to the forefront. I know we already took a stab at the mission statement and we can come back to that. If you want to, but I will just sort of roll through this and give you guys a little more depth on it. So mission statement. Conservation land regulations. The idea of this being. The original purpose of conservation, a conservation commission being created in Massachusetts was for. The management of conservation lands prior to the inception of the wetlands protection act in like the early seventies. The conservation commission act came into effect. And that was basically. For conservation commissions to be able to manage land. So we thought it was important to include that. And what the purpose of that. Legislation was for everybody to understand, for you guys to understand, for the public to understand. And then rules and regulations. And you, and you may have seen these. And again, these are still sort of in flux. And, and this version that we're looking at may be very different from versions you've seen before. We've tried to really stretch that. We've tried to really stretch that. And so it's been very different from versions you've seen before. We've tried to really streamline these to. Modernize them to update them. And there are more changes that need to be made here. But previously it was like no loud radios allowed on the trail. If you're listening to your walk, man, keep the volume low. You know, it's like all these things that it was, it was kind of funny.   There's, there's a lot of things that we get a lot. And there's a lot of information on the town website that I've been trying to remove and update. But like, for example, we used to allow camping on conservation land, but then we started having problems with people. Sort of setting up tents and living in the woods and, or having, you know, fires in the woods and cooking and trash and all this kind of stuff. And so we were able to do that. And now we don't allow camping. We don't allow fires. Yeah. So, and those are just a couple of examples. But I'll keep rolling through here. Cause I don't want to. For you guys with too much backstory on this. In addition to saying like what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's not allowed, what's allowed, what is allowed as well. And this is, you know, I think an important thing for people to understand what they can do, what's allowed on the property. Removal of material like firewood. Metal detectors. Another thing, and Michelle had mentioned this to me, which I don't have in here right now, but use of drones. I don't know if you can see it. I don't know if you can see it. But I don't know if you can see it. I don't know if you can see it. I don't know if you can see it. You know, and again, if there's like a conservation restriction that. Has for ground nesting birds, like at the, at the. Sorry, I'm drawing a blank on the, the old landfill. There's a conservation restriction to protect birds.   Conservation restrictions. I don't know if the conservation commission is even aware of this, but you guys hold conservation restrictions on many properties in the town. And it's our responsibility to monitor those properties. That is a very interesting component because it's not really, I mean, when you think about my bandwidth, how much can I really do? I mean, I think we're going to be at some conservation for some areas where we hold conservation restrictions. Very soon. So we're trying to roll this more. Roll my responsibilities more into this wherever I'm able to. We also want to, I mean, this was a section. It occurred to me. Oh, we also hold agricultural restrictions on several properties. And again, those are. We also hold a conservation restriction. We also hold a conservation restriction. We hold a conservation restriction in the town's care. And so we are going to add some verbiage about that. Encroachments. Obviously you guys are aware that we have several places in town where. Private land. A but conservation land or may a but land where we hold a conservation restriction. And there may be encroachments by. Private landowners say extending their. Land ownership. And we also hold a conservation restriction in the town's care. And we also hold a conservation restriction in the town's care. So we're from their property to conservation areas. So we wanted to address that. Address liability issue. If somebody's injured on conservation land. Big section on agriculture because we.  And we want to, in whatever way we can, we want to address that. We want to address that. Where appropriate have ag license agreements. And or community gardens. So. This is pulled in this ag license policy or ag use policy is pulled in from our directly from our license into this document so that it can be. Known about by people and more specifically. All of these fine points, live stock. We encourage people to use these things. We have a lot of loud cover crops, length of licenses, etc. Who can have, who can hold a license in town? Signage fees. Liability insurance, all of these very, very important things. Use of pesticides. Terms of use. gets an ag license and they say, hey, my pal Joe wants to come over and you know put something else in here too and subcontracting out to other people. We saw like all these things that have come out in the wash very similar to looking at our our bylaw regulations. It's like things come out in the wash as we have permits come through and where's there a problem and so these are things that we've identified that need to be incorporated. Forest management was an element I put in there because in other towns I've worked for we've done forest management and that might not be something that we ever do as far as having a forest cutting plan or even a forest stewardship plan but that is a potential option in the future if the commission wants to do selective cutting or do some wildlife habitat management and do some cutting in one of our lands that we manage. Community gardens, a lot of this came from Stephanie Ciccarello who manages community gardens in town. The intent of having community gardens, there's obviously community garden rules and regulations and also the community garden circle that has recently been established is also establishing guidelines for organic gardening as well which we want to roll into this policy. So again we're it's it's still evolving and we're still trying to get all these pieces compiled together but as you can see we're already on page seven like this is how it's all sort of just been we've been building it and building it and that's why it's been taking so long. Incorporating information about native plantings and you know native plantings on conservation areas, land use applications, getting and I think this was a really important this section license section and lease sections are very important sections but particularly considering our recent situation with land use application at Amethyst for us to really define what is the purpose of a land use application versus a license. So if somebody is doing something that is a more an event or you know maybe a series of events it might be appropriate to do a land use application whereas if they're actually using the property for an extended period of time like a year or more then a license would be more appropriate if they're holding classes there or you know regular regular events for a long period of time not reoccurring year to year would be the purpose of the land use application but recurring year to year would fall into a license category and then of course a link to our land use application which is now online fully. I can't see if any members of the public are here Jen so I don't know like if anybody raises their hand or anything like that. There's nobody here. Oh okay. Okay. Again for general licenses we still have some stop some work to do here like just to give an example the situation that we ran into with help yourself who they're the folks working at Amethyst you know as we've as that situation has evolved it's become really important that we incorporate information about for example if you get a permit from the conservation commission you still have to go through other boards and committees in town for your whatever you're doing to be legal so like if you are having group gatherings out there every day from nine to five you should have a porta potty so that people have access to you know bathroom facilities things like that. So there's still you know little details that we need to incorporate here to make sure that those that information is conveyed to people. It's been a long time since I've looked at this. It's been like since mid-February since I've looked at this because we've been so crazy with the regulations but I had no idea all this was in here so this is helpful. Yeah yeah I hope so. Yeah the only thing I saw in the SharePoint was just a mission statement. Oh really?  I don't know I switched computers because my leg pooped out. I don't think this whole thing is in there. Oh really? Yeah I don't think so at least it won't I see like a file but it looks truncated. Okay let me just it could be oh no no no no Erin it is. It is there. It was my fault yeah. Oh okay. Okay so so that's that's that's a lot. That was a lot like 20 you know a lot of me going over it and I don't want to get you guys to the point of like a glazing over on it right now. I know we've had a very intense week. We also we have our mission statement which we started and we we started to wordsmith it. I don't know if we want to look at that a little bit more while we have say 20 more minutes to our meeting tonight or if you guys just want to like take this as a general intro you're welcome to if you'd like I can email it to you. You could comment mark up and send back to me so that I can start incorporating folks ideas and feedback into this document. I think I'm in a vote. Sorry is that you Andre? It was I I've got a question about about this. I noticed that the mission statement that is on the document that you had before is different. Is that the old one and now this is the what you're showing us is the working their work in progress? Yes yep so that was just a placeholder that I put in the land use policy document just to get the juices flowing and we did I think it was prior it was probably in like February sometime I did bring this to the commission to talk about but then we got ramped up on several other things so it sort of fell to the side but yeah we'd like to revisit it and continue to make this fit what the commission sees as their mission relative to conservation land and then once it's finalized I'll pull it into the other document so that it's there. Okay yeah I have a couple of additions that I put in it but this may not be the right time to talk about it. So I was gonna say just between the week we've already had and just reading their room and also like my own level of ability to give productive feedback right now I would vote that we if you can email out both documents and we do markups and get them back to you and maybe we set a deadline like a reasonable feasible deadline for us to do that Erin that would be also like not you know feasible and reasonable on your end but commissioners does anyone is there anything that pops to mind I got a thumbs up from Fletcher good Larry seems good with that you okay with that plan Michelle sorry can't see everyone at once um I've already done some markups on just the mission statement um just like full disclosure I'm a total nerd about this stuff because I've been like 15 years in land use management and all this so I'm gonna have things to say and also like I've been through litigation and defense and enforcement and everything so um and Amherst is my town so there's a lot going on for me and I have the thought to think about and like digest but I have just one question for the commission for the the mission statement and what I think is so important about the mission statement is that when we like evaluate a land use application I often like lean on well what is the mission what's our mission and like what are we one question I have is like are these um in order of importance or are they just listed horizontally so is is one more than five or or are these five missions that we hold um in equal importance so that's one question I have and then the second question I have is if one is the most important it it combines two things which is I just want to point this out while people think about it to protect and conserve land and water resources and enjoyment of community so that's like a dual purpose number one mission and those things can often come in conflict so if we decide that this is like a hierarchical statement one through five one puts us in conflict and if it's not hierarchical one is like a beautiful opening mission sentence but I just want to point out that they can sometimes gain conflict and it seems like a really simple one paragraph thing but if we're like in a hard decision and we are like what is the mission I'm just gonna we're gonna state our mission we need something that can like guide us to some clarity so I'm just gonna throw that out there for everybody as you're considering it yeah Michelle yeah so first of all to your first point we're looking for you to like lead tear this apart and tell us what we're not thinking about it's almost like I should kind of cede to you to kind of I think facilitate these discussions and figure out how to move this move through this because I recognize you have a ton of experience with it and how it can go right and wrong so thank you for that the second comment is just when I read this and this is again like we haven't spent time on this so Erin this is not a thing but to me statement one is in conflict and there's no way we could evaluate land use applications with that the way it is yeah we we want to say we're we're conserving and protecting the land for the health of the environment but to what extent is that actually for the people of Amherst and how much do we embrace that I think it's like very difficult and fundamental um so yeah agreed Michelle we got to figure that out just a quick just a quick thing that could modify it is for the enjoyment of uh current and future generations and when you do that then you're essentially looking to um preserve it or to incorporate sustainability in time I think I mean I'm just like as a heads up I'm probably gonna split things up into people and ecology and anyway I just I just wanted some like thoughts from you guys which Jen you just gave about if they're hierarchical or horizontal and like what is the number one mission is our number one mission the land and water is our mission is to help developers work within the confines of the wetlands protection act so is that the mission like who says that's a mission that's the wetlands protection act so hold on hold on can I just intervene here so and this is a good educational moment it was like 1972 the reason conservation commissions were created was for management of conservation land that was prior to the wetland protection act so there's two separate pieces of regulation that the conservation commission is charged with conservation commission is a dual purpose committee charged with care custody and control of conservation lands as well as administration of the wetlands protection act and local wetland protection bylaws so really you're both right but what's really interesting about this conversation is we're dealing with both of these things together in 2022 like we're dealing with our regulations which we just finished and now we're dealing with this and so it's like this is what like this is exactly why we're having this conversation is getting us all on the same page about what our purpose is so you know kind of on on that same in that same vein and not to dig into it much further than we really want to right now one of the suggestions I had as far as wording is to facilitate land use and according with the massachusetts wetland protection act and the amherst wetlands bylaws to facilitate it and that's essentially what Fletcher was just saying can you say that one more time uh just yeah yeah and I and I can I'll have it in writing it's already here to facilitate land use in according with in accordance with the massachusetts wetlands protection act and the amherst wetlands bylaws yeah no I think that that's a great fusion you know because that we look through that lens every single time at everything and so why would we look through a different lens for land use policy so I think it's very very um valid thing to include here very exciting and I know that you guys have have it's been a very intense week like I'm literally ready to call it a week right out it feels like Friday for me um and I'm sure it does for you guys too uh so I don't I don't want to exhaust you guys with this right now but let's I'll send it to you and you guys can look through it more carefully and um maybe not at our next meeting on July 13th but maybe the second meeting in July we could try to get it on the agenda but I'll I'll yield to what you guys think and what the what the chair thinks yeah I think the July 13 24th no 27th I can't even add the July 27th meeting would be a good time to get this in and one more thing just to let the the um juices ruminate a little bit is that we need another vice chair here um to be appointed so to think about who would like to step into that role um yeah wow we lose LaRoy oh yeah I hear that yeah we've lost and we're also going to be losing Larry very soon really I didn't know what all right dang no major bummer yep what LaRoy move or something just couldn't do it anywhere I think he had a change in his work schedule uh pretty significant change and just making the night meetings was a problem sure but he might come back you know um in the future just for the time being he can't gotcha so anyways I don't want to why don't if you guys are feeling um good about just having an initial overview we don't have to talk about anything more on this tonight I just thank you for making the time this week it was a very important week and we stepped up and got through two meetings so that's a lot and uh I really appreciate you guys taking the time out of your lives volunteering to do this to help us yeah yeah monumental effort and Michelle if there's some way we should structure the way we talk about the the both the mission statement and the land management plan or if there's some way that we can kind of best facilitate getting to a good like productive endpoint on that let me know I think that might be you know maybe guidance from Erin because she's gonna be taking all of these suggestions from everybody be like yeah I don't that's a tough one since we can't like cleverly communicate right it's hard it's hard because what would be nice is to pass the document around right and yeah I have lots of time to discuss like I'm still sort of hung up on what Fletcher said and I'm not sure I have an answer yeah um so probably calling you Erin yeah yeah and how I've handled this in the past and not necessarily with concoms but other like you know reviewing papers that need markup is having everybody incorporate their edits and then just going through each one and incorporating changes um which you know isn't the isn't the most we could also schedule a work session too that's another option is like within a given meeting schedule a work session where we go through paragraph by paragraph and make edits and suggested changes where everybody has their markups in front of them and we do get out you know that's another option um again I would almost recommend we do that in a special meeting format because I feel like it's better for us to come fresh to discuss something like this as opposed to like after having six years yeah I just feel like looking at July I just don't know how we're going to have the time to have the discussion that it needs in our normal meetings just given that I mean really like how long can we be productive like two hours is a long time to then do this at the end yeah and I'm I'm happy to do the consolidating and if there are comments that are in conflict bringing those to your attention um so we can do it completely offline but I could think that the main thing is like if Fletcher marks it I send it to everybody Fletcher marks it up when he responds he sends his comments only to me Jen you only to me Michelle only to me everybody only to me and then I take those each of those comments and I incorporate that into a new version um that's the only way we can get through it if we do it offline which is completely fine um but a couple options on the table anyway okay I mean I guess like just the idea that comes to mind is is if you make a markup with some like sort of um like philosophical background based on on the mission statement to just incorporate that into your comment with the edit instead of just like redline it so that it's like viewable usually and it's not like a ten minute discussion it's just there to yeah you know Michelle you you just gave me a little brainchild the other thing is we could create a subcommittee similar to what we did before I I think these things are such the backbone of so many things and like we just were you know every every time something difficult comes before us we can we can come to this and help it you know make our decision this is the same thing as the as the bylaws so I'm fine with taking more time do it I cannot speak to anybody else in this committee but well we we could formulate a subcommittee and have regular Friday at noon meetings uh twice a month to do this you know we did it once already we could do it again and um that is an option on the table so we can talk about all these things you know we don't have to make a decision tonight but all on the table for consideration of how you guys want to approach this I guess I would I would love to have a like a conversation with everybody about the mission statement because everybody has a lot of ideas about it and it's sort of the basis of everything that comes after it so that's just my two cents okay well so why don't we all individually and respond only to Erin with markups for now on both the plan management plan and the mission statement like like Michelle said instead of just track changes try to like highlight and add a comment if you have like some rationale that you want to explain for why you're making the suggestion you're making that way we kind of understand the viewpoint along with the edit itself let's get those back to Erin Erin will collate and then depending on we'll I'll check in with Erin before our July 27 meeting and see kind of like what how substantial that is and then if we can just spend any time we have in the July 27th meeting just discussing the mission just discussing the mission statement we will and we'll go from there so that sounds like a plan sounds like a good plan to me okay thanks for keeping this going Erin with everything else going on I frankly don't know how you do it so I make miracles happen every day yeah it's true you know it's definitely true wetland protection miracles all right well I think that was it for agenda for tonight so unless anyone has any questions or comments we just need a motion to adjourn and I would see you guys on July 13th next I'll make a motion to adjourn uh a 754 second that nice uh um voice vote Michelle hey Larry hi Andre hi lecture hi I'm an eye unanimous great job guys thanks for dinner all right good night


And guess what, he never stops moving. If he did a miracle before, he's going to do it again. What does this mean for you? This means today in this episode, I truly believe God is going to move in your life. So buckle up, get ready, take some notes, whatever you gotta do, God is about to do something. I'm joined here with Angela Angela. We've got an exciting show, tell us why. I am telling you, so this show today is gonna spur you on and encourage you in faith. Many of us long for an outpouring of the spirit of God like we saw in days gone by, but today's guests live through one and has come to share her experience. Reverend Dr. Sarah Baldwin is the vice president of student life at Asbury College where thousands of believers descended to experience what many have called a modern day revival. Today we will get an eyewitness account to America's most recent outpouring. We'll learn of the impact such moves make and gain an understanding as to why it ended. Matt, this is what we live for. These outpourings of the spirit. I cannot wait to hear her eyewitness account. I think it's one thing to hear about it or watch it on social media, but it's another thing to actually be able to hear someone who's been there in the trenches day to day experiencing what God has done. It's gonna be incredible. Listen, by watching today's program, you're gonna discover how God showed up at Asbury and how he continues to move. Even today, you'll also see how God is stirring up the next generation, which is powerful. And your faith will undoubtedly be strengthened after hearing how good and faithful our God is. So exciting. Plus, coming up later, we're gonna reveal the winner to yesterday's stumped the viewer question. You will see the correct answer or what the correct answer is and who the winner is of this awesome pack prize that's including his cornerstone television t-shirt. In this book of the month. So you won't, or you'll wanna stick around and find out who the winner is. Angela, so much happening. So much, right? Listen, and I love that we turn the tables on the viewer.  Oh, okay, okay, okay. See, I know what the question is, and I was kind of like asking everybody I said, why can't I get these type of questions? And we said they get a multiple choice, it ain't fair.  I said, okay. I'm not sure how that makes me feel, you know. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. Oh, well, Wells, Azusa, Toronto, Brownsville, and now, Asbury has found its name among the ranks of places that have experienced divine moves of God. Today's guest, Reverend Dr. Sarah Baldwin, Vice President of Student Life at Asbury College, lived the unique role of co-convening and facilitating the core ministry team for the revival. She led this in a rapidly scaling logistical management and served on the president's cabinet to help make institutional decisions, hard ones at that. Today, she joins us to share some of what she has captured in her upcoming book, Generation Awakened. Giving us the behind the revival scenes look, Reverend Dr. Sarah Baldwin joins us now Welcome to Hope Today, Sarah. I'm so glad to be here. Thanks, Matt and Angela. What a joy to get to share what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. Yes, we are so excited to dive into this. And so without further delay, I wanna ask you, Sarah, prior to the revival, what were your thoughts on revival and how did this outpouring change them? Well, you know, Asbury has a history of revival over the last 100 years. The Holy Spirit has really stirred things that Asbury often in Hughes Auditorium, which is our main chapel on campus. And that's part of our family Asbury story that God moves and that revival happens. However, the last really big revival at Asbury was in 1970. And certainly we've had a few smaller ones since then, but really it was a part of our story. But I mean, I hoped that I would get to see something like this happen, but I didn't really expect like I should have because we know that what God has done before, God will do again. And so, yeah, it was an amazing opportunity to get to see this happen right when I was there. I mean, truly a dream come true. Now you were on the front lines facilitating logistical management and all of the inner workings with being the VP of student life. So tell us a little bit more of what the scale and logistics look like for those who ended up coming and those who were already there at Asbury when the outpouring began. Right, well, on February 8th, 2023, just right after a really an ordinary chapel service. Well, some people say they felt the Holy Spirit moving even before the message was given. But at some point in the service, an altar call was given, a few people came forward and then chapel dismissed like it does every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 10.50. Students went on to their classes, but a few students remained. We had an Asbury Gospel Choir that day leading worship and they continued to sing. Sometimes that happens. Every once in a while, students stay and linger, but this group of students kept staying and they kept lingering in the presence of Jesus and more and more students came and more and more and we couldn't really believe what was happening. At first we thought really, this was just about young adults and college students and they started to come from the region, but then over the course of the weekend, we began to see other people, community members and then people from other states and like you said, people from other countries. And eventually we think that at least 50,000 people arrived to our little town of 6,000 people over the course of the 16 days and there's probably a lot more than that. About 300 universities and colleges were represented over 30 states, over 13 countries. People came from literally the four corners of the earth. And so as they were coming during those early days, we kept looking at each other and saying, is this the crest? I mean, surely this is the crest. And I kept saying that to everyone who would listen. Surely this is the, surely they're gonna go home. But when we were about seven to 10 days in, we thought, oh wow, God is doing something. So all along the way, it was as though we were building the jet plane while we were flying it. We were figuring out how do we accommodate thousands of welcome but uninvited guests really just hour-to-hour decision-making. I mean, that is truly amazing. 50,000 in a town of 6,000. I went there, I saw it. I mean, it was just a beautiful demonstration and to see so many coming to experience the power and the presence of God. Let me ask you, Sarah, do you feel like it was the student's choice to linger that spurred this on? Or what was the true key that brought this outpouring? Yeah, I do. The Holy Spirit was stirring in our students. You know, Generation Z, I really believe is experiencing an awakening and a hunger for Jesus. And that is beyond what happened at Asbury. We still hear accounts almost every day of the way that God is working in the world, particularly through this young generation. But when they stayed and lingered, they were ready for more of God. They were ready and wanting to encounter the fullness of Jesus. And we saw them radically on their knees, radically surrendering all of who they are to Jesus. And we heard them with their confession, repentance, their stories of restoration, the way Jesus met them right there in the moment, freedom, hope. It was incredible, healing. So I really do believe that what God lit in them was really the bonfire that eventually went around the world. But it started with Gen Z. I don't think it was just for Gen Z. I mean, the rest of us were pulling up our chairs to this amazing feast of God and then trying to navigate, like how do we make these decisions about all the people that are arriving? But I do think God is doing something particular with this generation.  But now I'm thinking behind the scenes. So for those who are staff, employed, professors, teachers, whatever it might be. And then the questions that start to stir up and arise, like, is this a move of God? You know what I mean? What do we do? Do we allow this to happen? Were questions like that happening on the back end? And what did you guys do to make sure that, okay, let's not stifle what God is doing? Matt, that's a great question.  There were so many outpouring miracles that were really about the behind the scenes. But from that very first night, I remember a few of us gathered underneath Hughes Auditorium where the students were worshiping. And we made what we call perhaps like the very first yes, where we said, okay, we think God is doing something here. Let's leave the auditorium open all night. From a student affairs perspective, there's all kinds of things to think about, like safety, how should we handle this? And of course, we called in additional safety support and I immediately started texting our team, like who can be present all night. But one of the amazing outpouring miracles, and I still can't hardly even take this in, is that what was happening and how God was moving was so clear that we had consensus about it. Like I'm talking not just five people, not just 10 people, I'm talking like a hundred people, 200 people in those first 24 to 48 hours that came and they stepped into the space. And we shared this sense that God was present in a way, in an extraordinary way. There was like an atmospheric shift in that phase. We felt together the presence of God in a really extraordinary way. And that really brought a lot of unity together. We worked closely with our president, Dr. Kevin Brown, who really came to our community saying, we think this is of God, can we together scaffold this? And I remember we were just, we don't know how to do it, but we think God is doing something. But it was an amazing season over those days to see many people set aside their day jobs and volunteer for 18 hour days, day after day after day and really live into their spiritual gifts. People that had other desk jobs now became all-term ministers, faculty members became custodians and changing the toilet paper. There was staff members who were helping people with wheelchairs in the back door to get to the right spot. I mean, we just became the hands and feet of Jesus for that season and hopefully we still are. That's right. I believe you are still the hands and feet of Jesus. If for those who haven't attended the Asbury Rival, they didn't get to experience it, what are some words you would use to describe his presence there and then share with us one of your favorite stories from that moment? Oh, thanks for asking. Yeah, you know, sometimes when I would stand in like the back lobby that near our volunteers hub, I mean, over those days, about 1800 different people volunteered, all of that just sprang up through connections and friendship and people who just showed up and said, can I help? It was amazing. But I remember going through those back doors and sometimes I would take a deep breath because when I stepped through the door, it was as though the presence of Jesus closed over my head. There was something in that space. It was awe-producing, the love, the joy that seemed to radiate, the way people entered in and worshiped together. It was truly as though, it's like we got a little taste of heaven, like every tribe, every nation, every tongue, every socioeconomic status, it was a colorful room. There was all different kinds of people and ethnicities and everyone felt drawn to worshiping Jesus in this incredible outpouring of love. It felt as though the weight of the love sat on us. It was really amazing. So one of my, I have so many favorite stories, but one of them, you know, I got to sit on the stage many, many hours and look out and pray for the crowd and seek to bless them and also be aware of all of the spiritual dynamics in the room. And one day at about 11.30 at night, I was watching some people come into the space and there was this Latino family, like maybe grandpa, mom, uncle, little kid, and they'd been waiting probably about nine hours outside in the cold. And they came in and they had all of their scarves and hats on and mittens. And as they walked in the door, I could just watch their faces light up. And as they walked down the aisle to take their seats, they just started taking off their jackets and coats and scarves and they just dropped them right where they were. And they didn't even go to their seats and went right to the altar. And the whole family, grandpa, mom, uncle, dad, kids all face down, reaching out to touch the altar. And I remember thinking, Jesus, would you make me that expectant for your Holy Spirit? Would you move in my heart that much so that I can't wait to be in worship with you? So I got to see that. I got to see that for 16 days. Hungry, expectant hearts. People just so desperate to experience Jesus. Wow. I love what you're sharing there. Cause you can't experience revival and come out the same, right? I mean, things change. You now have to think differently. You speak differently. Everything is just renewed almost in a sense, right? And so what does that look like for Asbury? I mean, coming out of this revival movement, did things have to change on the college campus with the way that you guys do things and the way things are said? What does that look like now? Yeah. We are still discerning, talking and praying. We have experience in ongoing a revival on our campus this year. Our students came back to us after the summer really prepared and desiring to worship, to be present to Jesus in a new way. We've seen record baptisms. We've seen just a contagious spirit of the presence of Jesus in a fresh way on our campus. As a community, I think one of the big things that we are learning through the outpouring and through what God did in our hearts is there, it really seemed as though it was about consecration over talent.  She's the one to watch. And I feel as though we got that lesson because what we were doing was not, it wasn't the best preachers, the best communicators, the best musicians, the best organizational processes. I mean, it was hour to hour, Jesus, what should we do next? Jesus, what should we do next? That was the posture of our heart. And we learned that it was about a sack of a heart surrendered to Jesus. And so I think still as a community or asking ourselves, like, what does that mean? What does it mean to live in a way where our first priority is the consecrated heart? Our first priority is full and total surrendered to Jesus. And then we work it out. So instead of looking to be the best and the brightest, the latest and the greatest, the most talented, I mean, but instead, how do we become people that are surrendered 100% to Jesus? I think that's what I'm trying to work out and praying about, and I believe that as a community, God's given us that work to do. I love that you're continually digesting and processing what you've experienced and your entire community is. Let me ask you, Sarah, how did you all make the decision to shut, okay, we're gonna shut the doors, we can't continue to have thousands of people coming onto campus? How did you make that decision? And then once you made that decision, was there's a sense of, oh man, I miss that heavy, thick presence? What a wonderful question. It takes me right back there. So our president's cabinet really had to wrestle and discern what is God doing something different with our university? And we really felt two things. One, we felt as though that this outpouring of God's love was not meant to be contained at Asbury. It was just the beginning. It was meant for the world, and we have seen that.  And that is what we have seen. And so that first decision was like, this is not about Asbury. This is about what God wants to do. And we felt as though the whole spiritual water table has been raised in so many ways across our nation and across our world. And then secondly, we really had to wrestle with how do we, we are an educational and formational institution. Like we love Christian education. We want our students to experience full surrender in Jesus. That's our mission, but our priority as a university was to our students. And so those two things came together versus understanding that we couldn't end what we didn't start. We were only stewards of what God was doing. And secondly, that our mission, what God had given us to do with the care for the formation and the academic development of our students. And that mission hadn't changed. And so we felt as though we could give a benediction and share it with the world. And that's just what has happened. It is powerful. It truly did spur on such an outpouring within other universities and individuals, lives that I believe too will continue to spread. In our last few moments here, Sarah, would you just take a minute and pray for our nation, pray for our world, for divine outpouring of his presence? Yeah.  Jesus, we need hundreds upon hundreds of these outpourings around our world. We need to experience the power of your presence to come together and embodied worship to feel and sense your love upon us. Jesus, would you make us hungry and expectant?  Jesus, would you give us that kind of posture of heart that we are so expectant and awaiting your presence? Lord, we desperately need you. Our nation needs you. Our world needs you. Would you continue to show up if you continue to pour yourself out upon us? In your name, amen. Amen. Amen. Sarah, where can people find your book? Well, right now they can. It's a pre-order until May 7. So they can find it at inviteresources.com and then it will be on Amazon on May 7. I'm so excited to get to share with you. Yes, we are so excited that you came and please check out her book, Generation Awaken. Sarah, thank you for taking the time to talk with us today and thank you for taking and stewarding what God has shown you and giving us an opportunity to read it in your upcoming book. Thanks for being with us. Such a joy. Thanks so much for the opportunity. Stay with us because when we return in 60 seconds, we will announce the winner of yesterday's Stump the Viewer. Plus, I will be sharing about my experience at Asbury and how I saw God move in incredible ways. We'll be right back. God is calling you to do something significant in the earth for Him regardless of your age, skill set, or perceived limitations. What's holding you back? When you give to support Cornerstone Television this month, let us bless you with Rick Renner's life-transforming book, Chosen by God. Every page will help you overcome your limited thinking and follow God's plan for your life.  This book will thrill you with the possibilities that await because you are chosen by God. Request your copy when you give by calling<PHONE_NUMBER> or donate online at ctvn.org slash donate. Thank you for helping us spread the gospel through life-changing programming like Rick Renner, Hope Today, Heart Questions, and more. To keep your favorite programs coming and receive Chosen by God, donate today. Welcome back to Hope Today. In case you missed it, yesterday we asked our stumped the viewer question to you, the audience. So let's check out what the question was. Who led the Israelites into the Promised Land? Was it A. Moses, B. Joshua, C. Aaron, D. Abraham? Angela, before we reveal this amazing question, do you know the answer to it? Yes! Joshua, B, let's go! Okay, okay, okay, okay. So, statistics say that 82% of you got it right way to go. So let's find out who the winner is and drum roll, Anna, or Ann Hall. Congratulations and you are the winner of this awesome Cornerstone television t-shirt and this book Chosen by God. We'll be emailing you and letting you know how you can receive your prize. Congratulations once again. Angela, okay, I'm thinking about, I mean, there was obviously all, not even just the rumors, but everything going around about this Asbury revival and love hearing what Sarah had to share about it, but you also experienced it yourself. So tell us a little bit about that. Honestly, getting to talk to her was such a joy and I cannot imagine being in her position with the logistics of all of that. Like, you guys, you cannot understand the scale of this. She had shared, there were folks who waited in line for up to nine hours. I waited in line for like two and a half hours with my family and a friend of mine and just the bathrooms that are there, the staff, the volunteers checking to make sure people had water, tents are up. Like it took thousands of volunteers every day.  You know, they're trying to educate students. So just thinking through all of the like juggling that had to take place, I just thank God for Sarah. I thank God for how they stewarded the move. I love that they had a very global approach that they wanted to see the Lord's spirit break out in all these ways. But for me personally, it was the sweetest. It was the sweetest presence of the Lord. It was just this gentle move of God. I was talking with one of my friends, Matt, about what I experienced. And I loved what she said. She said, isn't it cool how God would come in such a divine peace for such an anxiety-riddled generation? And I was like, pfft, that's it right there. That's what I felt. That's what I experienced, just the peace and consecration. Wow.  I think a lot of times we can just only see revival as this big move of God to happen on a college campus or in a church building, you know, somewhere great. And yes, that's true. But also revival was personal, right? And so Angel, I mean, what would you think? What would you say to somebody of how would we begin to open up ourselves for a personal revival to happen? That's a great question, Matt. And I think really what it boils down to is doing what the students did, linger in his presence. Don't be in such a hurry to get through your four songs and get on to the benediction, you know. Don't be in such a hurry to brush past these moments where you feel the Lord's still small voice whispering to your heart, lingering in his presence and longing and expecting more, like that Latino family that came in. Expect that the creator of heaven and earth is gonna supply everything that you need and more. Right, right.  It's a heart posture. Right, like what position is your heart in? I think, let's be honest, a lot of things just compete in our understanding, in our mind, and I'm being honest to myself, that's how we can view a move of God sometimes is through the lens of our understanding. So the Bible tells us lean on our own understanding. But it's about this heart posture, Angela, you know. I mean, what should we do with our heart to get our heart in this place of receiving, yes. Okay, God, quieting the noise. Shutting up the voice of the questions and getting my heart ready to receive. Yes, Psalms 46-10, be still and know that I am God. In the chaos, in the confusion, in the noisiness of the world and the busyness of our schedules, we've got to learn to be still in his presence and know his character. When we are still, when we get to know his character and that he is faithful to the end of the ages, we will realize everything we desire he is. Every answer we need, he's that. And in that space, our heart posture really is positioned to receive the full measure of who he is in an outpouring of our own. Yeah, yeah, that's good. You know, today's show is all about a move of God. If God moved before, if he can move on a college campus like Asbury, well, this means he'll move again. And right now, even under the sound of my voice, I believe that God is moving greatly in your life.  Like Angela said, just be still. Rest in knowing that God is a man of his word and he's good to keeping his promises. He works everything. Hear me clearly. Everything out for your good. Get your heart ready to receive. God is on the move greatly in your life.


All right you guys, what is up? Welcome back to another video. For once, I'm actually gonna be putting up a video in real time. This video, as you can probably tell by the title, is a thank you and a documentation of hitting 60,000 YouTube subscribers. What a ffffff... I don't want to curse, I curse a lot but I don't really in real life. I don't know why it comes out on camera. I think it's because I'm just so excited about things that I'm watching or seeing. It just comes out. I don't really swear that much in real life and I'll tell you what if I did start doing something like commentary which Up until a month ago. I'd never thought possible, but the more I practice the more I watch the more I Listened like I'm not I gotta be honest guys After starting this reaction business the way that I watch sport has changed I listened to the commentary thinking could I actually do that for a job? And I've never done that before so that's interesting One thing I do want to get out of this video is to is to thank you guys first and foremost Thank you to everyone for your support. The time right now is 3 25 p.m. It's Wednesday The 11th of July 2018 some of you guys might be just going to bed some of you guys might be just waking up I'm gonna be going to work tonight for 12 hours from 7 to 7 because that's what I do I have a full-time job. I work four shifts a week for 12-hour shifts a week, which is 48 hours In my spare time I like to come home and make YouTube videos and look after my daughter and Spend time with my girlfriend and all that kind of stuff hang out with my friends play rugby and There's not a whole lot of time left to be honest, but I have been grinding Okay, once I realized that people do like these videos. I thought this is this is it I've got an opportunity am I gonna take it or am I just gonna Let it go like a whole lot of people do and I decided to try and take it so with that being said As far as grinding as far as really really working hard putting in the hours the product from that Has been a whole list of videos that I have already edited already made already uploaded already You know the tags are already done the descriptions done the thumbnails done everything's done. They're ready I could press publish right now on about 35 videos But obviously I'm not gonna do that. So I'm thinking I'm gonna keep the upload schedule at about two per day Maybe three if I have too many videos, but what I want to achieve guys I want to achieve Well, basically I want to get out all these videos that I've done by the start of the preseason because I don't want to be doing I don't want to be you know I want to be Current I want to be in real time because that's what's fun. Some of these suggestions that I'm getting I've done But I can't go back and comment to every single person saying it's done. That's done It's done. So what I'm gonna do is hope that everyone who needs to see it will see this video And I'm gonna show you guys exactly the videos that I've got done and exactly the videos that are gonna be coming up next and Exactly what my plan is so my plan is to put out all these videos that I've done all of the ones that I plan on doing Plus the top 100 So I'm gonna make it all the way down to number one who I already know is Tom Brady But I don't know who any of the other ones are I'm gonna make it all the way down to number one put those videos up and Make that the final video before the start of the preseason and just let's just check when it actually starts So I'm not sure When does the NFL preseason start? When does the NFL preseason start on the 3rd of August the Bears will play the Ravens On the 3rd of August. Well, it must be the 2nd of August where you are So that is a that is a Thursday. So we're starting off with Thursday night football. It seems And I've got to be honest that gives me three weeks Three weeks to put up all these videos. So I think I'm gonna put up three per day two or three per day We've got 21 days. What's three twenty ones at 63. I'm thinking I'm probably have it I'll probably have about 60 videos to put up So first of all, I'm gonna show you all right the last video I put up if you guys have seen is a combine video We've done the top 10 running backs. Oh, sorry, not top 10. We've done the top running backs We've done the top wide receivers. We've done the fastest 10 athletes and I've got one more to do Which is the top 10 defensive linemen and offensive linemen So I hope you guys enjoy that video But before that we're gonna put this one up because we want to do it in real time and with that being said. Oh, no We've got six more All right, so here we go. Here is my list guys.   All right, if they've got a X They're being published if they don't it's still yet to publish, but it's already edited so With that being said, we've got the fastest offensive linemen a defensive linemen like I just said Leveon Bell is done green gridiron done Leonard four net college highlights done Ezekiel Elliott College done Ezekiel Elliott NFL done Green Bay Packers I learned about the Green Bay Packers for about half an hour I really hope you enjoy that one, but that's done Peter Warwick done 1985 Chicago Bears the second most feared defense in NFL history done the fridge done Reggie Bush College Super Bowl 51 Doug Flute JJ Watt Benji Marshall NHL biggest hits my first look ice hockey NFL biggest fights college football's most ruthless punch Jerome Beatus the bus and Legion of Booth the ones over here with an asterisk have been done The best big-man moments Alvin Kamara last year's rookie of the year Inky Johnson, what a story John Madden.  What a story Ronnie lot.    So I've got you guys to thank for that so We're only at 59,994. They've slowed down. Why have they slowed down? So I've thanked you guys, which is what I wanted to do first and foremost. I've told you guys about my plan I'll put out all of those videos I'll tell you the ones that I have I have to still do actually voice of God Joe Montana Tyro Matthews tab on Austin College Highlights best trick plays the hook and ladder NFL 2018 top 100 Yes, Madden best gamers reactions 10 things you didn't know trying on football gear for the first time buying my first pair of receiving gloves, which I still haven't done Biggest college rivalries Texas bowl sugar bowl college crowds subscriber highlights Chris C to CJ 2k Johnson Herschel Walker Larry Allen Steve Smith senior Julio Jones and The 2018 NFL season that's all I'm gonna do guys.  It's done I cannot wait to get into live play. That's what I want to do. I want to I want to get I want to have live Sessions with you guys how many people would tune into a live What do you even call it? I didn't even know what to call it I've never I've never gone live before but we could do some sort of like Q&A session live Possibly I can't wait for that. It's the fan engagement. It's the it's the not fans the subscriber engagement It's community engagement that I really enjoy and I think that's what you guys are enjoying too and actually speaking of which The engagement through comments. I don't do I don't do anymore. I'm leaving it to you guys I'm leaving it to you guys to have your opinions on things debate them out but for me to comment on this person's comment and not on this person's comment and I mean there's so many coming in Literally, I'm getting a comment like every five ten seconds and it's absolutely impossible for me to do that You know Gary Vee a guy who I really respect He goes through his comment section and if he sees one he just comments every now and then he'll comment back to it Basically, it's the luck of the draw and I don't want that to be the case on my channel because I know that some people Won't appreciate that and I wouldn't appreciate that so I'm gonna make it easy for me and for you and just not reply to any that's that's how we're gonna do things going forward so for you guys Who want to keep commenting? You know, I do read them. I like reading through them I enjoy that one of the best parts of my day is to Grab my phone and just sit down for a bit and just scroll through the comments and just see how things are going see How people are receiving the videos because I put them up and I sort of have to forget about it for the next few hours Otherwise, it's just too addictive. I have to keep looking at my phone all the time I'm sure you guys can imagine sure you guys can relate so We've got to 60,000 subscribers without me going too insane for looking at my phone too much, but I That YouTube studio app that gives you analytics of your channel and how things are going and how your videos are going Which ones are best where your traffic's coming from? Demographics countries all sorts of stuff. I used to spend a lot of time on that beforehand But now you can imagine how much time I'm spending on it So I'm trying to keep it to a minimum but to watch the way this channel has gone to watch the growth literally like minute by minute has been Unbelievable it's made life really really exciting. So thank you guys. Thank you and that's where I want to call it We're at 59,997 Come on give me three Give me three. Come on. Come on. I think I've said everything. I need to say Honestly, I'm gonna go to work tonight I've got 12 hour shift and I've basically made two hours worth of videos this morning and They're all ready to edit they probably take about three hours each So I've probably done about eight videos. Oh, sorry, maybe six or seven Three hours each is probably at least 20 hours work. I'll do six Whilst I'm at work tonight and do the other 14 in my spare time and I won't look at any more videos I won't do any more reactions until those ones are done or else it just just gets way way too overwhelming As I'm sure you can imagine so I'm gonna I'm gonna call it here. Look, I'm not lying. We're at 59,997. I cannot believe it It's still it's still sinking in it really is and I want to say as always. Thank you so much to everyone for the support If you have liked this video press like if you want to subscribe please do and I'm gonna get this video edited up and up on the channel as soon as possible so you guys can see it and Know that I'm here. I'm not going anywhere.  It's so much easier. Fuck. It's so much easier If you don't like once I start feeding one troll It'll start playing my mind and then I'll think oh well if I did it to him I'm gonna have to do it to this guy and this guy and this guy. It's so much easier just to say no I'm not commenting to anyone good or bad It's it may seem unfair, but the reality is is that if you do see me an email or you do see me a Facebook message Or an Instagram message. It's most most likely Gonna get through a lot faster than the YouTube comments as I said I'm getting a comment everybody five or ten seconds, which is crazy But it's it's the reality man. It's the truth you guys are you guys are awesome.  That's for sure so With that said we're at 59, 998 And we've got to go. No, we're at 59, 999. Oh come on. We've got to get this on camera Come on Doesn't matter how long it takes I'm gonna sit here And watch and wait I'll be making this video for long enough and if you're here at the end of it. I really appreciate it as always You guys keep me going. Oh man.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart See in the next one