Wow, wow, wow. Woo-hoo! Not only can you sing, you can preach, girl. Thank you, thank you. Years ago, when we were both very young, we were in a hospital in Russia, and I'll never forget that when you were singing, it brought such peace to people. And uh, well, thank you, thank you. Wow, North Gate, thank you. You're busy involved in all those ministries. I hope all of you are involved. That's that's the deal. If you're a follower of Jesus, we should be involved. And I don't think you have to be scolded, I think it just flows out of us, and we want to make a difference. Uh, the last two Sundays I've been in Uganda. Uh, we just dedicated a brand new 700-seat chapel on our 26-acre campus there. Yeah. And Pastor Ken was the the uh uh first speaker ever there. He preached a powerful sermon. Oh, and uh I've really enjoyed this worship today because I didn't have to do a conga line and I didn't have to dance like I'm not really coordinated enough to do, but they celebrate. For you that have traveled with us, you know what I mean. It's exhausting and it's several hours. So if I go on an hour here today, don't worry. It's uh a short one compared to their. But anyway, it was amazing, amazing to be with those students and and see uh them worship in their new uh chapel that we dedicated to them. We have about uh right now 300 kids living on our campus, and so this has really been in my heart for a long time to build a new chapel there and a place where they could come and pray, because boy, when you talk about praying, they pray over there. It's embarrassing. Once I hear them pray, I don't want to ever pray out loud again. You know, they're just they they know God and and and they're talking to him and he's talking to them, and it's amazing. But on Saturday, we had an advancement, we call it. When our uh uh senior four finished or graduated, they go on to five and six at another place, but off our campus, and we were celebrating them. When I came in to help set it all up on Saturday, I saw what I would I expected to see students throughout the chapel on their knees praying. And man, they're seeking God and they're and sometimes they'll pray throughout the night, and sometimes they'll fast and pray for a couple days. And so this is a place of refuge for them. And I I it just meant the world to me to see them using their chapel for that, and then to be a part of their worship was so inspiring, and and you know, it it just uh I I I love young people, and even though I'm 74, I still am immature enough to hang out with kids and I laugh at what they laugh at, and I still laugh at stupid stuff that yeah, we laughed at some stupid stuff last night. Ken and Betty and and Lawrence and and Michelle and I were out, and man, those people are stupid too. So anyway, we we we laughed a lot of stuff, but anyway, when I see kids fired up, teenagers fired up, I gotta tell you a little story. Uh, I'm gonna talk about how God wants to use each one of us, and we don't have to have the greatest talent. When he calls us, it's always above our own abilities, our own strength, and our own uh you know comfort zone. The highlight for me was we, you know, when we talk about uh walking for water, which you guys congratulations, you had an amazing walk, thank you. Uh uh eight eight wells were raised. Um we just passed 1,300 deep water wells in in Africa. So that was that was awesome. But not only do we do the deep water wells, but when we get a good well, we find a school that needs uh additional water, what we do is we put in big water tanks. We put in uh the highlight this time was we've been involved in a school that has special need kids with special needs. It's a special place. We've drilled them a well before. In fact, um who drilled it from here? Peepers, peepers did. Remind me of the names. Joel and Mary. Mary, are you here? Is she? Where? Yeah, Mary, Mary, you're gonna, you're gonna remember when we dedicated that well a few years ago? That was a moving experience, wasn't it? It was they were so excited because these kids who are in wheelchairs and crutches, some are missing limbs, and they were going anyway. Thank you. So this time we not only drew from that well, we put up three 50,000 liter tanks, which the outflow of that we were able to put in hot and cold solar showers for these kids, flush toilets, I mean, drinking fountains all over the place. I think there were six or so, is that right? And and it was absolutely amazing. So uh we celebrated with them, we dedicated all that. Josh, you stand up too. He's on my team now, by the way. You know this kid? He he was my neighbor kid uh growing up in Phoenix, and and he went on a mission with me when he was 12. What were his parents thinking? Letting him go with me, and I was really immature back then, but but he's been working with us, and now he's on our staff and uh part-time at least, and he's the liaison between we built a beautiful uh uh medical clinic with the latest of uh all the equipment you can imagine, probably the best outfitted clinic in in for miles and miles around uh where we are, and he's our liaison, and he's the guy kind of running that for us. And so he was there with me. You slept yet? Not quite. Me, Ken, no, you slept four hours last night. That was a good night. So if I fall asleep here, you you wake me, all right. But anyway, um, yeah, that was so amazing to see the kids. We celebrated, and then we gave them ice cream, and that's a real treat in Uganda, and we do that most every trip now, you know, a nice uh uh bowl of ice cream like that, and and they're celebrating and everything. And I walked in, um my highlight. Uh I had a family, uh, a couple I grew up with in Iowa, and he's helped me out a bunch of times. And we I asked his wife uh a few months ago, would you sponsor our our uh student chapel? And we'll we'll name it after you and another lady that I have in mind, and they said yes. And so they came, they brought two of their adult sons, and then five of the grandkids, and they were 16 years of age down to 11. The 11-year-old, I walk in and see all the kids eating ice cream in their class, and here's the 11-year-old. It's what it's all about. Here's the 11-year-old, Boaz, Bo, found a boy that had no arms, and he was feeding him his ice cream. Yeah. You know, we can all do something. We can all do. I I I just cried. I mean, I don't cry like Ken does. Ken cries at a basketball game, but you know, but I am emotional, and I tell you, it wiped me out. I if you that are connected with me on social media, you know it's gone viral, it's gone over and over, but to me, that's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. And I I said, Bo, what what made you do that? He said, I just saw the kid in need and I knew he couldn't feed himself, so I just wanted to help him. 11 years old. So anyway, that was my highlight. Well, some of you aren't familiar with who we are, and I want to just show you a few uh little uh uh PowerPoint here. And and yeah, you can already see I talk in my hands, you know, that's how you get things across. So I live on a ranch in Oklahoma. So I I I uh in fact, this week when I get home for the first time in a long time, except for a couple days last week, I I'll be on my horse, and you know, I love to do the roping and got a lot of calves that need a little help right now. So uh anyway, when I do this, that means the next one, not this. That's just me being weird. Uh is this where we're starting? Safe water? Oh, I was doing that okay. Back up, back up. Okay, I've only got 11 minutes and 48 seconds left. I gotta roll here. Uh, it's it's hope for kids Sunday, okay? Let's yahoo. There we are. Our divisions. That's yep, that's that's it. Our divisions, uh, Water for Kids International. A lot of you are familiar with that because you've done the walk for waters over the years here. Um, child sponsorship, a lot of you are familiar with that. You can sponsor a child. We have a bunch of uh profiles out front. We desperately, kids are waiting to be put in school, and it's just a life changer. We provide education and nutrition. We do a lot of projects like building the infrastructure, like uh medical clinics and churches and and uh schools and and uh housing for our our our uh students and wait back up. I I I yeah, thank you for being so sharp on this. Um, and mission teams, service, hands and feet. A lot of you have gone with us, and I hope in this next year. I know Ken, you're going in July and November and April. Okay, good. Uh so three times if you want to travel with them. If you don't, Larry's going on July. And if you'd rather travel with him, I think it'd be a lot more fun. Uh so you'd go in July. This is my last service. I'm never going to be invited back. Anyway, let's let's get back on the horse here. Uh, our international team, these are the countries we're involved in right now: Guatemala, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, the Philippines. I just was there last month. It's amazing stuff going on over there. Romania and Uganda. So our mission uh teams serve as the hands and feet of Jesus, delivering essential supplies, rebuilding communities, and spreading the gospel, the hardest uh places to reach. This is a little bit of what we do in our villages. We rehabilitate or build up a village that's really poor. Uh, we build chapels, we build medical clinics, we build primary schools, vocational and secondary schools, uh, schools with housing, uh, septic systems, solar power, farming and irrigation, and playgrounds and sports courts. That's a little bit of what we do. And now we're at this slide. Uh, safe water. Over 771 million people around the world still do not have access to safe water. Nearly 1.7 billion people are living without proper access to hygiene or sanitation. Even though we've drilled 1,300 plus wells now in Uganda, there's still 11 million people in Uganda that do not have access. So we're just getting started. So if you want to be involved in that in a personal way at Christmas or something like that, there are$10,500 for a borehole. It's there for 30 to 50 years. We put stainless steel pipes in. It's not going to rust. It's amazing. And that's outdated, as I told you. We just hit 1,300 now. Uh, we have over 7,000 children have been sponsored through Hope for Kids. Sponsorship empowers helpless children to break the cycle of poverty with quality education, health care, nutritious meals, and emotional guidance through the love of Jesus. So if you'd like to do that, it's$39 a month, a little over a dollar a day. They get a high quality education, uniform, shoes. Isn't she cute? Oh my gosh. Motivation and improved grades, social worker for emotional and academic needs, medical care, uh, knowledge they're a part of the Christ-centered extended family, and hope despite trials. So that's that's a life changer. I know, Ken, you you saw your uh sponsored daughter, you and Betty's. Uh, how old was she when you started? She was five years old, and now she's 23. 32? 23. Oh, dyslexia, yeah. Um 23 years old, and she is not only a beautiful person, but just filled with confidence. And what is she doing now? Hotel management. Wow. So it changes their lives. So if you're sponsoring a child, uh, thank you for doing that. And and you come and visit them, you can write to them. One of the things I always do is I like I uh love to encourage that you parents that you uh find a child the same age as your kids and let them write to them. And they they learn a lot because they see the sit the conditions they live in and how filled with joy they are. Or if you have grandchildren, do it. I have a number of people that sponsor and let their grandchildren write to them. It's just an awesome thing. You'll gain a lot out of it. And then uh here, as I mentioned earlier, we're celebrating that you had eight wells funded this year at your walk for water. So thank you. And these are is that Betty? Are you in there, Betty? And Polly? Wow, is that you, Betty? Oh, I think it is. It's cute, whoever it is. Um, but anyway, what a celebration when they get their water. It's it's it's a blast and it saves their lives. And as Megan mentioned, uh about 52% of the kids in some of these areas die before their fifth birthday. So it's a blessing, it's fun, and all the walking, but man, you are saving lives, literally, and they're so grateful, and they they really show it. So thank you, Northgate, for all you all you're doing around the world. I want to share just a few more minutes. I got six minutes and 22 seconds left, and Lawrence comes down on you if you if you go over. So um, the scripture that Megan used is the same scripture that I had chosen uh in uh Matthew 28, just to remind you, and right at the end, I want to just touch on the thing at the last sentence when it says go and uh uh to all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded. And I'm surely with you always to the end of the age. And I just want to focus on that last little verse because that's a key. You know, because a lot of times when you hear about talking to your neighbor or sharing with somebody at school or something like that, a lot of us are intimidated. We we just don't have the courage. And like the song saying, You got a lion inside you, and that's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can give you boldness. I remember when I first came to Christ and went off from I grew up in Iowa and I went out to California, to Los Angeles, went to Bible college, and I quickly realized that I was not cut out to be a pastor because it didn't seem dangerous enough. But now Ken and Larry are saying it is dangerous. You'll have to hear about these stories. I want to hear those. But anyway, um, so I thought I would go on another path. And so I right away, because I had been a biker, I still ride a Harley and I I've always liked bikes. I I uh went out to the motorcycle gangs and it was pretty intimidating. I was a skinny little kid, you know, 19 years old, and I'm trying to witness to these guys, and they're pretty rough. And and you know what I discovered was that it I didn't have to depend on my own power. That I wanted to say things to them, and I felt like God was giving me the words to say. I'd been learning a little bit of scripture. I knew I hadn't memorized it, but the memory, it the scripture just flowed out of me. And the scripture says that God will give you the words in that hour, and I began to experience it. And I was helping kids, I'd go by uh young people that were uh strung out on drugs. I'd buy them coffee and talk with them and stuff. And again, I just felt a boldness. When I read a book called God Smuggler, going back to what Megan said, I I read about Brother Andrew, he'd drive up to the eastern uh Europe, uh Eastern German border or the Soviet border, and he had a Volkswagen bug, he'd fill the back seat all up with his Bibles and he'd say, Lord, when you saw blind people, you made them see. Now, when you see seeing border guards, make them blind. And he'd drive in there and and they'd never see him. Now that cool. You know, I could do something illegal for God. So that's what I chose. I chose to do that. Because, you know, yeah, I still, well, anyway, I'll I won't go there. Uh but anyway, uh I I later, you know, started smuggling Bibles, and I saw the same thing happen where they never found our Bibles. Until 1981, we had boycotted the 1980 Olympics. If some of you are old enough to remember that, because the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. And so we protested by not going to the well, they were looking for any Americans traveling in the following months, and they found myself and a friend smuggling Bibles, and they arrested us and they took us into separate rooms, and we did they did the strip search, and and again, I was thinking, God, what what happened here? And then I realized I could witness to these guys. And I I'm sure my voice was at least three octaves higher than it is now. I don't want you to think, oh, yeah, no, I'll, you know. But uh I really sensed the Holy Spirit on me. And when I began to share with them, I said, Your your constitution carried these the freedom of religion. Why are you why is your government forbidding this? Because they they called it anti-Soviet literature. I said, they said it's just a joke book, it's a myth, it's it's fairy tales. And I said, Really? Well, if it's just fairy tales, why is your government afraid of it? And I I can't prove this, but I I could really sense that these guys are going, yeah. So I have to believe even they stole my Bibles and that they probably took a couple for themselves. I hope so. But I've seen that kind of thing happen as I've talked to university campuses where people are so anti against it, and I go, What are you afraid of? What just read it, just try it. But I said, I wrote in my one of my books, I said, when they had arrested me and were questioning me, I I felt like I was in the palm of my Heavenly Father's hands. And I felt like I was about that big, and I was saying, You can't do anything to me that he won't allow. What a place to be. And I've been arrested, I've been kicked out of countries, I've been banned from countries. I can tell you the Holy Spirit always shows away and always gives boldness. And I want to encourage you because I think when you read about or hear about all these ministries, you're connected with you saying, Oh, I can never go to the prison, I can never do this. You can. You know, he'll give you the strength. Step out of your out of your comfort zone. So I always say God calls us above our abilities, above our strengths, and uh, and and above our faith. And that's when you know he's called you to do something. For a lot of us, we just give leftovers and go, I could do this, you know, and we give a little bit. That's not doing God's will. That's not answering the call to go. And go can mean downtown. It can mean in this in this beautiful community, it could mean to the school, it could mean to your neighbor. But I hope you're going because he's very clearly said he would, and he said he would be there with you. One last thing. Oh my, 40 seconds. Um, can you change that for me? And I I won't tell anybody. All right. Uh pray to the Lord of the harvest. This is in Matthew 9:38. Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out labors. I can't emphasize that enough. You know, I start my day every day by praying through a prayer list I have and just surrendering the day and saying, God, you know, bring somebody across my path. Thank you for Sunday, November 23rd, 2025. And I'm going, Really? I'm still alive? This is awesome. What opportunity? I believe he'll give you that opportunity if you ask him to. Have him open your eyes. Like Megan said, he'll move your heart by. I always pray, move my heart by what moves your heart. And there are times when I see someone and I just go, I need to talk to that person. I don't ordinarily do that, but I've got a sense. I need to talk to the person. And it turns out they needed somebody to be there. They needed somebody to listen to them. Somebody, we can all do that. So that's the important thing, but you have to pray. And I often say, I love the way this works. I was just in Africa and I heard those students praying. And some of you are responding, and you're helping us with water, and you're sponsoring kids. You become the answer to their prayer. I mean, I don't get that mystery. Why God knows they need it. Why don't why don't you just do it? But somehow, this whole mystery is pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers that will respond, that will do it. And then there's someone over there praying. When we dedicate a new well, we always ask the communities, the villages, they're dancing and they're they're they're giving us goats and chickens and geese, and we even got a cow this time. It was crazy. And so uh they're filled with joy. And we say, How many of you prayed for water in your village? Almost everybody. You've become the answer to their prayer. So prayer is so important in this whole thing. I remember when I was in Bible college, I I grew up in Iowa, a little town of 380 people. You know, I'm in California. I thought that was the end of the world. And in some ways it is, but anyway, uh I began to uh listen to our professors. One had been a missionary in Tanzania, another was uh from Pakistan, and another one was from uh uh yeah, another one of those countries. And so um when I began to hear about it, I thought, where's that country? I don't know where Pakistan is or where Nepal is or where, you know, and so I bought a map, and you kids, you you don't know what this is. It's kind of cool. Back then, it was a paper thing and it was big like this, and it had all the countries on it and stuff. Now it's just like Google, oh yeah. But then, and so we there were a number of us that we would put that map on the platform of the chapel, and then we'd look it over and go, oh, there's where Pakistan is, and we'd start praying for them. Little did I know I'd be ended up going to most of those countries, over a hundred nations and over these 53 years. And I and I I just thank God for that opportunity because there's stories and people that were transformed and people's lives were saved because of uh uh just sharing the good news through practical needs, uh through practical help, or uh through um uh just witnessing. Okay, oh wow, okay. Can we do one more story? All right, so nobody said yes, and nobody said no, so let's go for it. But anyway, um, yeah. When I first started and communism fell in in late 80s and early 90s, we knew that kids were not allowed to go to church up to that point in those communist countries, and so all of a sudden they could, and there was just this hunger among the young people. So we started doing uh youth events, big, big uh crusades and stadiums and different things, and everybody'd show up. It was really an amazing time. And then we realized that door would close because then all the garbage comes in too and takes the the attention of the of the youth. And so we started doing leadership training and and youth leader in leadership deals in Romania and Bulgaria. The last two years we did it, we had over 3,000 young people. Now a lot of those guys are pastors all over the place. And so, really, at the root of hope for kids in our vision is that we want to not just witness, not just beat the needs, but we want to disciple people, like the scripture said. So, recently, through Ken and Betty's inspiration of wanting to start a Bible college on our campus in Uganda, uh, Ken just uh uh tied into an organization called TLI and and they're teaching, and he's been in Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone twice recently, and now was with us, and we met with leaders there, and we're hoping to start pastor training in in this spring, in in April, and they'll be a part of that. And then also all of our students on campus were gonna have a facilitator come in and start discipling them. So, to me, I hope God gives me a few more years because I'm telling you, this is the most exciting time I've ever seen at hope for kids. And you guys are a big part of it. And I just encourage you, what's God calling you to do? What can you do? You you can do a simple thing, or you can do you know things with one of these ministries we've listed today, or or or get involved in in changing a child's life. So I know God's speaking to us, isn't He? He's challenging us. So let's let's just pray. God, we surrender these words to you. We've sensed your holy presence here all day. You're speaking to us, and I pray that we won't shut your voice out, but we'll say, Yes, Lord, that's what I can do. I want to be faithful to you. Fill us with your power and boldness so we are not afraid to step out and share the good news. We give you all the praise and glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. I hope you guys have been encouraged today through I'm just hearing from Tom.