Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Greetings friends. It's great to see you on this Mother's Day. We are thankful for the mothers in the room. Are there any mothers in the room?
Quite a few.
Is there anyone here who has a mother?
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Well, it's wonderful to have you. This is our last regularly scheduled morning adult education program and so we're so happy that you have joined us. Thank you for being here.
We're going to introduce in just a few moments Bart Jackson, our speaker today who's going to be sharing his faith and the things he's learned and talk about his new book. And we're so grateful that he is here with us. But first let's pray. Please pray with me.
Gracious and and holy God, thank you for this day.
Thank you for this time of fellowship and learning. Thank you for our Nassau church friend Bart Jackson, who is willing to share his gifts with us.
We ask that you bring joy to our friends who are celebrating their mothers today and comfort those who are remembering their mothers lives.
We invite your presence into this sacred space and ask you to bless our time together.
In Christ's name we pray. Amen.
Bart Jackson is the CEO of Prometheus Publishing. He is also a globe trotting journalist.
Bart has carted his pen and curiosity across 80 some countries searching out fascinating individuals striving to live life to the fullest as they see it.
He has accompanied, interviewed and published the tales of thousands of folks from heads of state, Nobel Prize winners and business leaders to the lone Buddhist monk in a Tibetan cave and the blind bard who nightly sings Homer's Iliad in an Athenian cafe.
The latest edition of of Barth's CEO of yourself.
Getting down to the business of your more rewarding life has become a worldwide bestseller.
His most prized writings are the poems penned to his wife Lorraine which are published on the north wall of their home in Cranberry, New Jersey.
A lifelong Christian, Bart sees holy Christ at works this current book as the natural summit in his quest for for sharing pathways to a fulfilling life. Please give a warm welcome to our very own Bart Jackson.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Well, thank you for that introduction Marshall. My last speakers gave me an introduction that I thought was written by my in laws.
So I really appreciate this one. But I also appreciate so much you do to pull this together and all the works you do for mission. So kudos to you and I've. Oh I'm sorry, I gotta take this.
Yes mom. Yes mom.
Yes, I will tell them that Jesus Christ was the most influential person ever to walk the planet.
Yes, I will tell them that. That was mostly due to his mother. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. My shoes are shined. Mom, I gotta go. Thank you. Yes. I love you.
So.
It will be after I die.
It's a simple question, really, not one that theologians often want to have you discuss, but it's quite natural and it's very necessary.
It's not okay, Iter my voice.
Is that better?
All right.
How many can hear me?
How many want to hear me?
All right, well, we'll give it another shot.
It is a simple question, and it is.
If you choose to practice the life that Jesus Christ preached, what's in it for you?
I mean, specifically, what benefits can you expect to receive today in this life? Now, for investing in the pathway that the carpenter's son holds out for us, you really need to ask and answer this question, because if you don't, you are going to either abandon it or you'll grind yourself into a life of misery.
And we're also going to limit it.
If you go out down Washington and you cross Route 1, two things happen.
Number one, as most Princetonians believe, you do not fall off the edge of the earth.
But the other thing is, you will see a little sign that. That says, Jesus died for your space in heaven.
Now, I'm sure these are lovely folks and they really mean well, and they probably have the patience of a mother giving a 2am feeding while hubby is a. Yeah, right.
But as for me, I have the patience of a rhinoceros with a harpoon in his liver. I cannot wait. And I bet you shouldn't wait to shuffle off this mortal coil to let your investment mature. But even more important than that, if you can't pull your head out of the clouds of tomorrow, you are going to miss so many of the blessings that Christ has lined up for us to have today in this life.
So let's look at the messenger. I'm sorry, let's look at the message that Christ holds first.
But to do this, we're going to have to have a little honesty analysis right off. Okay, I'm going to give you a little quiz here. And don't answer out loud. Just think to yourself, okay, number one, President Barack Obama comes up with a national health care plan.
Number two, Donald Trump comes up with and says, no, I have a better health care plan, which is better.
And that's the question. Now, what I'm asking is think to yourself, how many of you thought about the authority of the messenger and your opinion of the messenger, rather than thinking about the specifics of the plan and it's not easy. I mean, and particularly with the authority of Jesus Christ. We've, everyone in this room has been taught that Jesus is so loving, so caring, so perfect and so divine and so son of Godly that everything he says we just absolutely have to take and follow. I mean, good heavens, why wouldn't we? Well, what I'd like to do, if we may, is kind of turn that logic on its head.
I'd like to have us just sort of gently lay aside all the plush robes, who the man was and his divinity and whatever you imbue him with.
And I'd like to just look at the elements of what this itinerant preacher standing on the shores was saying.
The way of viewing life and the way of living it that he held out for us. That's what we'll take a shot at today.
And it's, it isn't easy, but I think what we're going to do is sort of set the message on a scale of pragmatic value and see if it works for you. It doesn't matter if it works for me. For you.
So we'll do our due diligence and look at the investment that we're being called to make.
So what's the first thing you do? Step one, when you're considering an investment?
You go and talk to the other investors.
And for me, this began many, many years ago. The whole idea that put it here was picture a parish hall very much like this one. Over there in the corner is the Christmas mitten tree. And this self important guy comes rushing in and gathers up all the mittens, puts in and gets them all set, reaches down, grabs the tree, hoists it up. Now one of the little tricks about hoisting up a Christmas tree that this guy learned is that very often the bucket with the water is attached to the tree.
And so here he is buffooning his way, all the water and pitch dripping down on him. And here's. And wait for it, over here is a woman climbing Gladys Frisch. She turns out over toward the man in the tree and says, let's thank Barth for all the work he does for the church. And she applauds and everybody else begins applauding. This buffoonery turns into an ovation. And I said to myself, something very, very special is going on in here.
And that's. And it's something that I want to pay attention to. And so I started and I do what most writers did. There's this whole flow of conversation that flows out through their lives and I sort of sit there panning, trying to get the right. The gold nuggets. So I listen. I listen. So when Henry Behnke says, well, it's all very great that Jesus fed 5,000 people, but you got to remember it all came about because one little boy stepped forward and said, hey, I've got a fish to share. Okay, I got that. Henry wanted generosity and the power of generosity. And then, of course, there's this guy over here, Val Matthews, who Sunday after Sunday, comes up to me and says, oh, Bart, let me introduce you to. And what Val has done is what he always does. He runs out and. And finds the newcomer who's sort of looking bewildered as an American voter. And he turns around and he finds the best thing that that person has done. He ferrets it out. He finds it, and then he takes it and he holds it to light and shares it with me and all the other folks.
So I think about that, and I say, okay, okay. When I get to the idea of how to develop the spark of love, I'm going to remember that example. And then I've talked to others. I talked to Noah Werner, who says, I don't see this as a career. I see it as a calling. It gives my life purpose. I talked to Carrie Mitchell, who talks about how this being here, walking with Christ, fills her soul with peace. And then there's Ed Madsen. I say, Washington, D.C. is 12 square miles surrounded by reality and the. And he says, yes, but you have 12 square miles that you can make real and you can improve yourself. So, okay, you get the idea. I see the smiles on these people, and I say, something fabulous is going on here. There's a transformation, and I want to be part of that.
So.
So I think that's what we want to do now. We're going to look at some of the individual ideas that Jesus was holding out. And so we should begin at the beginning. We'll begin with the core.
What is that?
Christ gave us two new commandments. Marshall, what are the two new commandments? I forget.
Take a guess. Paraphrase.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: I'll defer to you.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: All right.
Well, he asked us that you love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind, and that you love your neighbor as yourself.
And so just think for a moment. Think of what Jesus is not asking us to do. He is not asking us to sacrifice, to hate ourselves.
There's no seven Humane habits to success.
There's no chore list doing.
Jesus was wiser than that. He knew that all the deeds and mental constructs that we come up with are fed and seeded by our emotions.
And this is what he said.
He was saying that they turbo drive our decisions. They, they give us the urge, our emotions give us the urge to act and they give us the rewards that are going to make us act again.
And as another example, I always thought it was fascinating. There's only one time, at least in all my reading of the Gospels where Jesus says, be ye perfect. And that's when he's talking in Matthew 5, 48, he's talking about getting rid of hate. He says, if you have a great charity gift and you're going to take it to the altar and put it down, he says, and you have hate in your heart for your brother, drop that cotton picking gift, get over, reconcile with your brother, and then come back and give the gift. In other words, Jesus is putting heart over hands. He's putting heart over hands every time.
And so in essence, it looks to me as if what this guy is calling for is an emotional makeover. He's asking us to eschew the ones, the emotions that hurt and give us the ones that'll heal. And the other thing that is so wonderful about this, this is the sweet part when you consider it.
Another reason that he keeps dealing emotionally is that because emotions are really one of the major parts of the reward. They're what we want.
I mean, you know, if you think about it, cash on hand, applause, praise, a bonus from the boss, a look of admiration, praise, envy, I love being envied. But these are all just pathways that feed what we really crave, which is the feeling.
When I wrote the book CEO of Yourself, I surveyed 2,000 individuals with one question, and I said, what is it you really want?
And the one I absolutely adored most, more than any other, was the fellow who said, I want to wake up happy. I want to wake up so happy. I'm bellowing a song out loud, joyfully, that will make my teenage daughter blush crimson with embarrassment.
And I said, that's it. That's it.
Yeah. And I just thought, so Jesus was wiser than the Greeks because the Greeks called passion suffering. They looked glass half full, people. Jeez.
They looked at the downside, but Jesus saw the power and he saw that they were that emotions gave us, in the great words of Elvis Presley, the V8 engine of our life.
He really did say that.
So let's just think a minute and let's consider the prime emotion that Jesus talks about, which is Dave.
Yeah, all right.
This man knows. So anyway, so and the timing is perfect for this. Fifteen months ago we celebrated Valentine's Day.
Now we're celebrating Mother's Day. Everything's coming to fruition.
So I'd like you to do something now. I'd like you all to just take a deep breath out.
And I'd like you to close your eyes and remember those first early days when you yielded up everything to love's passionate hold. Now this can be your first romantic love.
It can be your first child.
It can even be that dear, oh so important best friend that you joined at with hip and heart and just couldn't get enough of their presence. Just think about that person and remember how. How your well being depended on the well being of that other person.
And recall just how delicious life tasted at that time. Remember that even those pesky frustrations and those people who kept annoying you, even they sort of seemed to drift out into the distance because you had something much more important in those days.
Now.
And just remember this. The feeling of love.
And love is a lot like God. It's too big for one definition, one nickname. There aren't three types. It's love. It's marvelous.
Okay, now hold onto that for a while. In fact, hold onto it all your life and just open your eyes and think.
This was available.
Now I can see some adults here who are saying this is just youth fancy.
This is just being in love with love. And the answer to that of course is bingo. You would be hard pressed, think about it. Hard pressed to find a better definition of Jesus call than being in love with love.
But further, what the carpenter's son is doing here is he is asking us to expand that out into every. He's asking us to take it out to every man, woman, child and dog of God and share that this is the calling. Jesus wants you to love humanity before you meet them.
And that is what he's asking for. That's the investment.
And how do you do that? Well, remember what Val does. He goes and finds the best, the light in each person and finds that gold in each individual.
So the practical returns about this are. Well, it's a simple three point. It's a simple process. Number one, when you go home tonight, I want you all to lie in bed and think of the 12 things that, that you want or you want fixed in your life.
And 10 cents of my own money says that they could be alleviated or gained with 10 of them could be alleviated or gained by knowing more people or knowing the right people better and more intimately.
So if you had 100 people before, and you reach out and find 1000, and the rate of allies for every hundred is four allies per hundred. How many would you have? I'm not trying to be insulting here. I'm just saying that by reaching out into the world, you increase more. And if you reach with that love, that seeking of the best that is in people, that's a compensation for it.
It's not a sacrifice.
So now I know that some people are going to find the idea of an emotional makeover kind of a tough road to hoe. But for others, it's a very easy slide. It's a way of feeling that they've always wanted all their life. And so I think that that's something that we want to hold onto. Now, I have a list of the other elements of that Jesus talks about.
And this is.
I was told by AI that I should do it this way. So this is. This is. I am. I am a. Actually, I'm the world's most greatest Luddite. And for those of you who don't know what a Luddite is, you can check it out on AI. But I think we got them all here. All right. Look at that. We got it. Okay, well, these are the ones I came up with. And doubtless you have more, but this is what I saw Christ asking us for. Well, we've talked about the art of loving. And just one more. I'd like to go in a little deeply. A little more deeply.
And that is compassion.
Because Jesus radiated so much of it himself. I mean, and so I. Does anyone here have a good definition for compassion?
Anyone? Okay, Keith.
Empathy with love. Oh, that's good. That's good. Okay. This is from the intellect. This is mine.
My own definition of compassion is you are bearing down in your car down the street, you're late, and an elderly lady comes limping across the way.
Compassion is that marvelous instinct that makes you hit the brake instead of the horn.
So.
Yeah, right. Yeah, right. I think his was better. But what kind of. You know. And so what I'm saying, so what are you doing? What you're doing is you're lifting yourself outside of yourself and. And you're putting yourself in the other person's skin in his place. You're feeling this.
Compassion leads beyond pity. Pity holds a distance.
You look with regret and sorrow at the man who's lying down and bleeding before you.
Compassion calls us to action.
And we literally feel the pain of that injured man.
And it hurts us so much that we can't.
It helps us and him to pick that man up and pull him off the razor wire and tend the wounds. And Jesus did this all the time. I mean, in Matthew he talks about the large crowd that was, he was filled with compassion and he healed all the sin.
And Mark talks about how this large, spiritually deprived, leaderless crowd gathers around him and he fed their spiritual hunger. Along the road, Jesus gives sight to 10 complaining blind men.
It's what he did. But again, you notice the call to action. You, you notice that his heart was filled and this is what he's asking for.
So you're asking us that when you see the man, you don't pass him by.
It's like you give bread to the six year old starving Palestinian child. That's what you do. And you do it because it feeds you both.
And that's the benefits again, the benefits on this of compassion, what comes back to you?
They're pretty obvious.
You know them. I mean, there's no better way to gain allies in your life and fellow helpers, you will just plain accomplish more.
In my, My whole feeling is something that my wife's husband is overly fond of saying is that one iron willed ambitious man can climb the highest mountain, but one compassionate person surrounded by all her supporters can move it.
And that's really the difference. If you are compassionate, it surrounds you with an immense, immense power. And please note, by the way, that I'm not ask, I should know something. Oh, there's a question. Yes, I was just thinking that the example you gave of the woman who congratulated the guy who was lifting the tree up. Yeah.
That had to have been an example of compassion. Oh, you are so right. Because, and I'm glad you brought that up, is that compassion when you put yourself in the other's skin? That also includes celebration.
Your neighbor gets accepted into med school, whatever it is you celebrate, so you've got more people to celebrate with. You're absolutely right. Somebody who that when you put yourself in the skin, it ain't all misery.
The church is very big upon having us tend up those who are downtrodden. So we talk about the miserable a lot. But there's a lot of joy that needs sharing too. And that comes with compassion. Thank you.
Okay, there's others here and I'll tell you what I'd like to do.
We're going to do this.
There are other elements to the message and what I'd like to do, if you don't mind, I'd like to sort of breeze and tease through these others. And if you want to know, delve into any of them. I'm afraid you'll have to read the book.
But the good news is, by the way, I cut out half, I limited myself, I cut out literally 50% of each pearl of wisdom and it's short its essay form and it, I think it was you, Val, who told me that it does fit into a wood burning stove. After you're finished or before you get it, I don't know. Anyway, I'd like you all to just sort of listen and catch the feeling I'm going to run down some of these and we'll talk about. I'll just give a few touch on a few points. So gushes of generosity. Imagine that, that mom took when the kids stepped forward and said I have a fish to share.
Imagine the pride she would have.
And it's like my friend Dale.
Dale gets out of Princeton, has no money, so he sets up an education to job foundation for urban children who have what he calls urban traumatic stress syndrome. Living in the ghetto.
Then he founds the entrepreneur zones to fight poverty in distressed areas. He helps me launch my Prometheus Social Enterprise awards which is aimed at holding up new role models of compassionate contributors.
And then on the inauguration, on the morning of his inauguration to become the president of Centenary University, he gathers a bunch of students together and with them he makes a bunch of care packages and goes down to the local jail, prison where they distribute them. And then comes back to the best of my knowledge, that is the first president who visited prison before his inauguration.
And I think it just took me. But I mean, the point is Dale spends his life metaphorically buying a round of drinks for the house.
And I have never seen him without a cloud of admirers and a joyful smile on his face.
He walks that extra mile because that gives him the control of his life, that his giving gives that control.
And by the way, if you'd like to learn more about this fellow, his name is Dale Caldwell.
And when Mike show was looking for a running mate who could really deliver the goods, she chose Mike. And so Dale's now, he chose Dale. Dale Caldwell's now the Lieutenant Governor and the Secretary of State of New Jersey. And he's also formed the Faith Action center, which is another topic. The requirement of faith. This one Jesus just keeps proving that faith is the key to accomplishment.
Think about it. You can miraculously build, if you have faith, you can miraculously build a 50 story skyscraper on a plot of empty ground. You don't believe it. Look at all the cityscapes that you have somebody had the faith to do that. With faith you can set a man walking on the moon and playing golf. Then later you can send a woman back there to set up something practical. But you could. I meant with. And with faith you can even walk on water. But when you lose it, you sink like a stone. Okay. Attitudes of gratitude. Everyone knows this thankfulness is the death blow to self pity and depression.
Because when you're thankful, you're basking in life's sunnyside. You're thinking of all the good things that have come come your way. And if you take that attitude, you also arm yourself with something else. You arm yourself with the gift of thankfully giving credit to others.
And the benefit of that is, well, if you want an admirer for life, take that person and hold up to light. Publicly praise them in front of others.
That's gratitude. That's giving credit.
And the rewards there are too humorous to mention.
What are we up to now? Oh yes, the piece of devotion.
This is something that I've heard Karen Mitchell talk about. Noel and some others, they talk about having life as a calling. And what that does is that gives you life with purpose.
It sets you with goals. And the result, the benefits are that you end up with that calm confidence of a Christian with four aces that just says because, you know, you feel that you're on the right path. Distractions melt away and amidst all the sweat, serenity seeps in. It's a very good feeling. Mercy and forgiveness.
These are my favorites, or two of them anyway.
And the best way to feel the rewards of mercy and forgiveness, I think would come by looking at the alternative.
So outside Pueblo, Colorado, in an overgrown cemetery, there's a Tombstone that says 1857, here lies Sheriff Mark O' Donnell, who walked wide of no man.
In other words, everyone cringed when Mark came by. All right.
And I can just see Mark dealing in the currency of hate and fear. I mean, can't you, you know, the world is tough. It's a cruel place. I mean, you know, you got to strike first.
You mess with me, boy, you're going to walk funny from now on. And eye for an eye, you, you should be so lucky. No, everyone is here and I need to keep the image up of people frightened.
And in fact, I've erected a whole compound like a good godfather and nobody gets in.
And you're right, Mark, nobody gets in. Absolutely.
And further, if you decide to do away with mercy and forgiveness, you can't forgive. You're going to slide down the nail studded slope of judgment. Now judgment is not. You judge everybody and you judge the people you know best. Who do you know best? Yourself. You end up judging yourself on a scale all the time and you get to swallow the glass of the broken glass of a regret.
It is a bitter, bitter way. Now, isn't that fun to wake up to? That's certainly where that's the kind of reputation I'd like or.
So instead you can toss off injury and you can laugh with a little compassion when a wrong comes your way and you can literally send vengeance to hell and you can get back on the track. You don't waste time on it, but because you get back on the track of your more valuable life.
Or you can have a tombstone like Donald's Mark's, I'm sorry, easy mistake.
And I guess that's all.
Oh, this one down here. Yes, humility.
So Christian, I've done the book and Christian listed all. I was halfway through and Christian Kirkpatrick comes to me and she says, well, what about humility? And I said, I'm too wonderful a person to have forgotten anything.
And she says, yes, white boy. And so I thought about humility. And I think there's one thing that really, just in terms of the return that comes to you. It's simple.
We all know that the truth is self promotion only works if someone else does it for you.
Think about that. I mean, it's one thing if I get up here and tell you that every word is a gem, but if Tom says so a person with a heck of a lot more intelligence than the author, then you listen. Then when someone else tells you, it's as simple as that, humility.
And just like as Jesus wisely suggests, he says, take that lower seat and watch the crowd, watch the faces of the crowd as the host promotes you to a higher one.
So yes, there are rewards.
And for me, all this is fun stuff. I mean, all these emotions, these are good feelings. Things are joy. And by the way, I mean, I look at the drinks that the carpenter's son is serving and I want a barrel of it for my whole household because it's a joyous way to live. It puts things aside. And by the way, if anyone here, if anyone here afterwards can convince me that Jesus Christ's true currency is sacrifice, suffering and self denial, you from me will automatically win a gift certificate for a custom made hair shirt from Wanda's Whip Emporium.
Charlemagne and Thomas Becket died with their hair shirts on.
Jesus never wore one because he was too busy spreading joy and asking you to do the same.
So just a thought.
Okay, so in all of this, because we're a special group right here, what is the role of the church in all of this coming out? I mean, what is the church's role? And through all the time you're here, you're looking at your own faith. You're trying to, you have these life building processes and these, these emotions that you're working with.
What is the, you know, what's the church offer? And you think, I've got to be careful. Well, as you, everyone here keeps proving to me, there's no place better to find experienced veterans who understand, who in their own way understand the pathway of walk in Christ. And the marvelous thing is everyone is individual.
If there are 50 people here and I ask what is Christ's pathway?
I'll have about 75 different answers. You know that? And that's the marvel of it.
You get individuals passing on, sharing lore.
Now you also get there not only a wealth of ideas, but their wealth of encouraging company.
When I'm on, I get on these rants about the church.
I think probably none of you have ever had any disagreement with anything that's ever been done in the church, I'm sure.
But so when I get on one of my rants, my big one is every time every Christian church and every service spends hefty amounts of time to devoting itself and to reminding you what a lousy job you have done following Christ's way, how you failed. Here are all your flaws. We dedicate whole sessions of our church to this, our church services to this. We make little booths that you can go in and tell people, oh God, I'm terrible.
And the priest said, yes, you are.
And I say, what is all this?
So I said, well, it seems to me all I'm ever getting out is that all I'm ever getting out of this church is that Christianity is like golf. It's something you never do well enough.
I mean, you know golf, you know golfers. A golfer is a guy who goes out, hits 17 holes in one and comes home weeping piteously to his wife because I missed the six inch putt on the 18th hole. This is the sort of. And I said, this is sort of what I'm getting out of this. I say, you know, everything.
Only the failures get talked about and counted. Where is the encouragement? Where's the attaboy? Where's the praise that is going to keep me going?
And this guy right here without missing a heartbeat. Well, when I'm from, first of all, patiently Slip through it without missing a heartbeat. He says, well, Bart, that's what we're here for.
Oh, duh. You know, I think I had been sitting under the sign that says slow children.
This is just where was I thinking. And it seems like what I'm understanding that, yes, we all get the hard nose coaching from the pulpit and then we come out in the parish hall and we get the encouragement and we get the love and we get the chance to get wise insights. And we are each other's light.
We are each other's light.
And so all of this is really what's made me come back when I wake up in the morning, say, holy Christ, it works. It really works.
And so I invite you to take a look at Jesus Path.
Remember that you have the ability to walk beside him.
There just happens to be a little book here that might act as an earnings report for you. But it's on the thing. But just don't always forget.
I'm sorry. Please remember, please remember that when Jesus Christ says, have a good day, it's not a wish, but it's an offer I think you really might want to consider.
I thank you.
[00:41:02] Speaker A: Thank you, Bart Jackson.
Thank you so much. We have time for a couple of questions. Does anyone have a question?
[00:41:14] Speaker B: Very simply, what was your inspiration to write this book which may be the most important one you've written? Yeah, it was that moment with Gladys Frisch, because I thought it went when I held the tree upside down. And everybody, as I say, buffooner, returns to ovation.
And I said to myself, this is. I thought, would this have happened if I'd done it at work?
What would the response be if I'd done that? Think of your workplace if you did it at work. Think of your home, your family, if you did it at home.
People put on their Sunday best when they come here and they're putting on the spirit that Jesus asked them to hold. So that's what got it. And it was one of those books I tucked away and wrote, sort of put pieces into and then just recently said, let's put this all in a box.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: One more question.
[00:42:14] Speaker B: Anyone asking when we eat, Really, I just wanted to say thank you for just kind of summing it up with just the how Jesus teaches us the art of one anothering, you know, and that's kind of, in a sense, what you've been talking about. Yeah. Thank you very much.
[00:42:48] Speaker A: Let's give another big hand to Bart Jackson.
Thank you so much, Bart.
[00:42:58] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: Before we say goodbye, the doors are opening. We want to give a special thanks to Emma Marshall, who did such a wonderful job this program year being our technical solutions provider and also sharing her own faith story. She's going on to the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia to be a youth pastor. God is calling us away from here, but still within the fold. And we are just so pleased that she has had this time with us. Thank you so much, Emma.
And we're taking a break for the summer. We'll be back in this space and time in September, but in the meantime, we have a reschedule due to inclement weather.
Nassau Church night at the Farming area this Wednesday at 5 o'. Clock. We hope you'll join us.
Thanks, everyone.
