Hey guys, how's it going?
Happy Tuesday, May 10th.
Awesome.
Let's get live on Facebook.
Hey, Mara, Ben, Marianne, Walter, Susie.
Awesome guys.
Okay.
Let me get us over here.
Do you guys want to do some wins?
Yeah, guys.
You know how this starts.
If there's a win they would like to share, testimony, go ahead and unmute yourself.
Just getting it to where we can see your faces.
Okay.
Well, I guess I can start if that's okay.
You can.
It is okay.
Let's see.
Oh, you're.
Is that me?
Yeah.
I have decided that I'm going to do a small challenge on Ascension Day, the 26th.
First I thought, oh, I'll just do one day.
And as I went, this three just keep popping up in my head.
So I'm going to extend it to three days.
It's going to be called the prayer quest.
And I'm hoping that at the end of it, that I may end up with a group of people who would
like to learn more about prayer, give them a safe place to sit, learn, pray, do a little
bit of craft of prayer, talk about how they felt, what they went through, how God is working
in them.
At least that's what I'm looking at.
That's what I'm seeing.
And I'm hoping that just maybe I'll be able to do a little bit of coaching on the backside.
So that's, that's what I, that's what I'm looking for, but yet God's got to do a miracle
here somewhere.
Nice.
That's awesome.
Got it.
That is really exciting.
Well, thanks for sharing and obviously keep us updated and utilize these coaching times.
However we can help you as you build that out.
That's awesome.
Cool.
Let's do one more.
I see Susie's unmuted.
So.
This morning I had this thought of, Oh, what will I call this thing that I'm doing?
And it suddenly hit me.
This thing has been named from the beginning.
This thing existed before I joined Kingdom Messengers.
I've been being resourced for this for 40 years.
And so it's not a matter of what is it's going to be called as much as, okay, what is this
called?
So I'm really excited about just stepping into that way of seeing.
I love that mindset.
That is really cool.
I'm going to start to practice that too, Susie.
So thank you for sharing that.
I love that so much.
It's already, it's already existing.
It's just now hearing from the Lord on what it is.
And so we can partner and co-create together.
That's super cool.
Okay.
I saw that Monica just jumped on.
Monica has a very exciting win slash testimony slash update on life.
So I'm going to hand it over to her because we asked her to jump on and share it with
all of the Kingdom Messengers.
We thought this would be very encouraging for everyone.
So yeah.
There you are.
Okay.
There she is.
I was like, I did see her.
And then she was gone.
Okay.
I just ran back from the bank, all the business stuff.
So you'll know what's happening as I share my story.
There were, I was talking with Tamara the other day, sharing with her as well.
And there were actually some parts that I left out, which makes it even more fantastic.
So I have some news for you all.
God is on the move.
He, it's so funny how he will have us thinking we're going in a certain direction.
And then all of a sudden he switches things up for something bigger and better.
And and so we just all, it just shows me how we need to be ready to pivot whenever he says
pivot, because he wants us to be in that flow of the Holy Spirit and, and of the things
that are so out of our comfort zone that it just blows our mind.
And we have nothing left to do but surrender because we feel so unequipped for whatever
it is.
It has to be him.
It has to be a God move.
So I will quickly share what has been happening.
And I'm going to tell it to you kind of in story form, because that's the only way to
get to see the, the connection of the dots that God has placed here before us.
So back in 2021, as you guys know, I've been part of the company called Sanctuary Girl,
where we sell, you know, faith-based scripture, jewelry, home goods, pillows, different things
like that.
And we've been around for about three years.
And how I got there, I won't tell you, but it was also a God thing.
But we did a pop-up shop in Nashville, Tennessee.
in the end of 2021 and the Airbnb that we were staying at had a certain number on it and it
caught my attention when we drove in. It was 2021 and I was like oh that's interesting because we
are in 2021 and the apartment number was number four and for some reason that number just convicted
me and I'm like I need to pray into that there is something about that number four. So the next
morning in the shower because you know that's where Holy Spirit does his best work in the
shower. I had this vision and it had to do everything in fours and it was so incredible.
I wrote the whole thing down but I'm going to tell you the part pertaining to this story
and it was that Sanctuary Girl was going to have four main locations, four stores where
miracle signs and wonders were going to happen and from those four main places it was just going to
grow from there and the name was going to get known and people were going to come to Christ
who would never walk into a church on their own. They were going to have encounters very similar
to what you are all doing on TikTok and on Facebook and on Instagram. Very similar people
who would not show up normally inside of a church. So I was just kind of like wow I wonder when that's
going to happen. That's super exciting. Well recently I was on the plane back home from Atlanta
and I was listening to the audio book that of Sean Bolt's new book. I think it's called
Encounter and there's one part in that book that said that the Lord showed him that he was planting
great oaks in all different facets of society and they were all interwoven in their roots
and basically the whole point was through these great oaks he was going to bring revival. He was
going to bring knowledge of his Holy Spirit. He's going to bring his son forward to be front and
center and so as soon as I heard him say that I got this vision on the plane and I'm sitting here
crying the poor people next to me or just I feel bad for them because they're like oh I hope nobody
passed away in her home and I'm over here just overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit and so anyways
in this vision that I got it zoomed into the CEO of Sanctuary Girl her arm of all things and on her
arm she has this big tattoo of a great oak and it has a scripture on it that talks about the great
oaks. I think it's been Isaiah. So that came and then it was Sanctuary Girl is going to be one of
those great oaks and so I was like wow that's amazing. The next step in that vision was that
he showed me it was almost like a microscopic version of the oak. I was looking at a big oak
tree in front of me and all of a sudden it hyper zoomed and I could see all of these like small
little creatures growing and moving and morphing and he said you know all you see is what you can
see with your eyes it's like the tree but this is how my kingdom works it grows it expands it
morphs and it makes itself alive and so I was like wow that's so powerful what we're doing
in each one of these oaks is bringing life literally into dead places so I thought that
was just amazing. So here we go we're bopping along with Sanctuary Girl and all of a sudden
it we have three stores check check check and our fourth store is about to come up and they
were wondering where it should be and lo and behold there is a spot here at Crabtree Mall
that's about 20 minutes away from me here in Raleigh and so I said well I'm going to check
it out. I went they didn't have any great spaces that we saw were a fit but we just left it there
and then all of a sudden I get the phone call that the Amazon store has just vacated it's a 5,500
square foot space and and we can have it if we want and so I went to check it out and the the
number of the store did it for me I didn't even have to walk inside the number of the suite was
two one one four and so I took a picture of it and I was like oh it has a four in it maybe that's
a sign and I sent it to the CEO and she said you know what that's more than a sign she said
do you know what two one one means and I said no she said that's
the crisis hotline. That's the number that people call when they are in trouble. And so I
immediately responded, well it looks like Jesus is about to pick up the phone because he is moving
and he's doing amazing things. Another thing that I didn't tell you Bruce and Lindsay was that
Raleigh is called the City of Oaks.
That's awesome.
So he's just like bringing all the things together. So at Crabtree Mall when I went to visit,
I started looking at the walls and they were full of like these colorful like balloons and
different things that look kind of party style. And I look closely at it and it's the mall's 50th
birthday this year. Well guess who's turning 50 on June 1st?
That is so the mall and myself we were born in the same year which is amazing. So long story short,
the owners have decided that this is going to be their first franchise. So my husband and myself
are going to take over this store and run it as our own. And we are so excited because the
Lord has shown us that this is going to be a place of encounter. He even gave me specific
instructions in two dreams of exactly how to market it and how to put the whole thing together.
He said you are going or I saw myself going and speaking to all of the pastors in the churches
in the area and telling them about the store because there aren't any Christian stores
very available ever since COVID. So many of them shut down. And so I was going to tell them that
this was going to be a place of encounter with the Holy Spirit. And from this place,
these people needed to be disciples and that was going to be their job. And so from there,
they are going back into the churches but filled with the Holy Spirit and they were going to cause
revival inside of the churches. And so that was what he showed me and he showed me exactly how
to speak to them, how to talk to them. We are going to be tithing back to the churches. So
they are of course going to want people to be coming to the store and it is just amazing.
Another little area just to show you how God will work. We didn't know how we were going to do this
because we didn't have money to invest for a franchise that wasn't on our radar. I've always
been an online business type of person, never a brick and mortar. I would never place myself there
on purpose but God's purpose is bigger. Anyways, my husband had some stock and he said, well,
maybe I have a couple thousand dollars in there that we can throw at it. He hadn't looked at it
in so long but he knew it wasn't very much. He said it was very little because he had recently
taken some money out. And he looked and it was the exact amount we needed for the franchise.
It was like 15 times more than what he thought was in there, which was great. But there's even
more to this. This last week, we were going to take the money out to start ordering product
and get things going. I don't know if you guys look at the stock market but it was completely
down. My husband has these little graphs and it was like a roller coaster going down red.
It was red. That means we had less money. My husband was starting to freak out just a tad.
Who was the cucumber because I knew God was behind this from the get-go but he was starting
to get a little nervous. Wouldn't you know it? We saw that one evening last week, maybe five
days ago. The following morning, he looked at his little graph and there is a green line shooting
straight up. The whole amount that had gone down red was even past in green going straight up.
So, we took the money out and within hours, it started plummeting down again.
I mean, come on. This is God moving. I mean, he even moved the stock market for us.
You can't make this kind of stuff up. It's amazing. It's amazing. So, we are excited.
We're going to be opening mid-June right before Father's Day, God willing. This is a new adventure
for us. I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to this at all but God does so I'm trusting that.
Because of that, I won't really be able to be doing
what I was doing here with you all, but what I will be doing is documenting the journey with
you all because I do have to build a new audience for the store and I do have to create social media
and I have to do all of those things. So I'm going to be showing you step by step how we're all
growing in whatever assignment the Lord has given us to share his word and his hope with the world.
So that is my story. So far today, we just got the keys a little while ago, so we went and grabbed
it. Yeah. That's awesome. Praise God. How cool is that? I am so blessed by hearing all the details
again, Monica, and the new details. I grew up in North Carolina and I did not know that Raleigh
was called the City of Oaks. So that's extra special. And it's extra special to me because
that verse is in Isaiah 61, which is a huge... Right. I consider it my life verse, but it's
one that we've declared and spoken over Kingdom Messengers over and over again. So I feel like
there's just confirmation after confirmation, and I can only see the kindness of the Lord in each and
every detail. So we want to... She's not leaving and that she's still here. Like she said,
she's a Kingdom Messenger, like all of us, but she's going to be stepping down from her team
role so that she can give as she needs to 100% to this launch that's happening in almost less than
a month. So that's very exciting. So I wanted to ask Tamara just to pray over Monica.
Why don't you do it? Why don't we pray for her? Yeah, that's why I said... Bruce would like to
pray over her. Okay. I'm going to pray over her. Okay. What we were communicating was we wanted to
spend the opening prayer, because I don't think Monica can stay on the whole call because she's
literally got the keys for the store and is doing stuff. But we just wanted to bless you
and declare life over really to agree with the Lord and what He is partnering and co-creating
with you. So I will do that even though Tamara is the prayer warrior. So Father, we just say thank
you. We come with such thanksgiving, such eager anticipation for what you have done and what
you're about to do in Monica's life through Sanctuary Girl. Lord, this has been a journey
that you've taken her on, and she has been faithful. She has walked and served in humility.
And Lord, you know all the details, even the things that were unseen, all the behind the
scenes. And all that time, Lord, maybe without her even knowing it, she was sowing a seed into her
own ministry, into her own business. And so Father, we say thank you. I just declare Isaiah 61
over Monica and her husband and over her family in the store, Lord, that this will be an exchange
center. Monica is believing it'll be a place of encounter. Yes and amen to that. We all just agree
with that. And we say it'll be a place of encounter and exchange. People will come
in heavy, and they will leave with a garment of praise. They will come in mourning, and they will
leave with the oil of gladness, Lord. They will come in sick, and they will leave healed. They
will come in broken, and they will exchange that for your wholeness, Lord. So I just pray favor
into every single detail, every conversation, every transaction, every contract, Lord. I pray that you
would continue to just resource this above and beyond. I pray that whatever contact, or contractor,
or lawyer, or mall representative, like every single interaction that Monica and her husband
have, I pray that it will be dripping with favor. And I pray that the encounter starts now. The
exchange starts now, that it's not just happening when the store is finished and ready, but it's
happening as the store is being built and readied. And I just pray that protection over Monica and
her family during this time. I rebuke any plan of the enemy. It cannot stand. I speak life, life,
life, and I speak shalom, shalom over this entire process. And Lord, I do pray, Lord, we so trust
your timing, and we do believe the timing is now. So I pray that there would be no delay in the
opening. There would be no delay in any work being done. I pray that there will even be stories and
testimonies of, oh, this should have been delayed, but it was supernaturally accelerated. And I pray
all of these things in Jesus name, amen. Amen. And I just felt like for your, just encouragement, like
right, Lord remind me of the Romans 8 28, like he caused all things. And you mentioned, oh, I'm just
like, I focused only on online business, but I feel like there's going to be a massive online
component to this that you haven't maybe thought of yet. And I know there's like a lot that you're
doing just right now, but just be on the lookout.
coming months and I think giving as you're pioneering a new form of marketing kind of on
that space like just see that there could be like don't underestimate the size of the building for
like what the impact could be this is something that we really believed heavily in with like
churches we've been involved with where there may only be a few hundred people in the room but like
we were always very eager to like bring thousands of people alongside that which is of course what
we're even doing with kingdom messengers so don't underestimate like the size of the room for the
impact of the of the store and I think that that's for any brick and mortar but I think there's a way
to go model that to kind of be online and leverage all of this digital landscape for that for such a
time as this so we're excited for you we're obviously going to miss you and we just wanted
to let you guys send you off we didn't want you to sneak out by the by the way Monica's gone she's
doing this cool thing she's doing this really amazing thing yeah no it's great we're excited
the timing's right we trust the lord and all that obviously um we love working having her on our team
and helping coach you guys but um lord will provide another you know other way so we feel
like this is this is part of the multiplication absolutely for sure yeah so thanks Monica for
sharing thank you guys so much so so much there's there's nothing like you know you guys have opened
the door for so much for me personally and also just for my family and uh just in terms of
changing the perspective it's so funny how sometimes you're you're thinking you have all
of the instruction but sometimes it takes just one word one tweak and you guys have spoken into all
of the gaps that I had when it came to business when it came to showing up uh and and being able
to see it through the lens of god and so and in such a peaceful way I'm usually such a like
let's go out and get them and then Lindsay brings us just this peace and calm and I was like wow I
can I can fight from a place of rest and uh and so that has really spoken into my life in a huge way
even as a parent and so I truly truly thank you all for the opportunity to just share share with
you and by the way Isaiah 61 is century girls first that's awesome oh there you go that's so
cool yeah like it's like he knows guys he does he really does oh I love that yeah bless you Monica
and we will we she's not leaving like we're gonna see her around and we'll continue to pray and like
keep us updated on the launch stuff and everything as you can um yeah yeah I'm gonna be making a
Facebook group just for the store kind of like what you're talking about creating community and
doing the impact so I'm going to be doing that soon to kind of create the hype and show people
well should I put this here should I put that there and and try to make it so that they feel
they're part of the creation of it so that you know they're part of that that building is theirs
it's for them yeah we're going to we're going to have a big space also like a parlor area so that
people can just come and sit and read their bibles or have meetings or you know do different
things so it's not just the products it's it's the environment it's it's an experience is what it is
it's an experience so I'm so excited yes thank you guys I love you all so much
bless you so good um okay so do you want to jump into yeah so we are looking at the database right
now and the first person up is Ben and then we have no we're gonna do it's actually oh I'm looking
at it backwards yeah so Brendan and Lee Brendan and Lee probably because they're living in the
future in Australia they got theirs in first and then Ben and then if you have anyone else
has questions you can go ahead and raise your hand we'll get you in the queue so Brendan and Lee
hey guys hello I think my eyes look like it's 5 a.m or I've had a facelift something like that
you look glowing maybe it's your the light in your eyes but I did have a facial yesterday so
I'm still glowing that's what it is and it shows yeah Brendan Brendan's had one as well haven't you
no I will be that after after her yeah okay would you recommend that Bruce or not
Bruce will not have his face touched so
so yeah um first of all congratulations Monica she's gone now yeah she's been fantastic I love
that amazing send-off um I'm gonna replay and find the whole story yeah yeah but um
active campaign so I've got that up on my screen Bruce like what I'm going to embed that in the
solo um the bio we use the solo bio so we're just trying to
embed that little link.
The link, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you want me to share my screen?
Sure.
Yeah.
It's going to be...
We'll grab a quick link and then, yeah, I can show you where it is.
Brilliant.
And is WordPress hard to learn?
I was going to ask that from a...
If I was going to learn that, would you have a go-to video or is it quite involved?
Yeah.
So, you can...
I would...
So, it's built...
So, the 30-second version is like, yes, it's built.
You guys are using not just WordPress, but it's a thing called, I think it's Elementor
Elements or something like that.
Right.
Yeah.
Elementor.
Just when you're searching, look for WordPress Elementor tutorials.
Okay.
That way, you can actually know how to build and move things around.
So...
Yeah.
Look, it's worth learning whatever tool you have when it comes to the tech.
WordPress is a platform that you can own and have as your own thing.
You're not tied to a monthly subscription for Squarespace or Wix or one of those platforms.
It's a little more flexible and it can easily move around.
So, all in all, from a user experience, not my favorite.
So, I'm not...
I wouldn't go set up a WordPress site, although we do use it for one of our...
Two of our websites.
So, it's just...
It's kind of an inevitable thing if you're doing anything online, you have to touch WordPress
at some point.
So, it's...
Since you guys have the site and it's built, I would take some time and learn it.
Because it's like if you had any piece of software,
if you guys are doing any type of video editing software or whatever,
like just take the time to get the most you possibly can out of that tool
until you're like, I can't get anything else out of this.
I need to move to another tool.
That's when you go to the next tool.
So...
That's really helpful because we're thinking about your video.
We watched your video on ownership.
Amazing.
Yeah.
Who can inform...
What do you call an information?
Oh, a discovery call.
Yeah.
All right.
So, here is...
We'll talk about that in a second.
But yeah, if you go to the integrate blue button at the top right.
And then you're going to grab the link.
So, let me grab my pen.
Got it.
Yeah.
And then this is the link you want to send people to.
So, you want to copy that link and then add a link here.
And you can just name it like...
That's where you paste the link.
And then under here, you could say something like, you know, get notified...
Sorry.
That's my fault.
I will...
I think I didn't...
You can grab it.
Yeah.
It's the tab before this one, I think.
Right there.
Yeah.
There we are.
That link there.
Yeah.
That link.
Okay.
Right.
Sorry.
And then I'll just copy.
And then that's okay to just pop in there.
Yeah.
And then you can say like, you know, get notified for, you know, new updates.
What's a good like...
Not get notified for new updates.
I mean, that's why if I look to you, because you're the copy person.
I would just say...
I got the link in there.
What about that?
I can notify for podcast.
Oh, it is early there.
It is awesome.
I would say like sign up to receive updates or whatever.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Yeah.
So you can get notified.
About what?
Like, because you guys are doing like new updates.
Like as you guys share updates, you're going to send emails.
This is to get on their newsletter.
Let me ask you, Lee, what would you say if it were...
I would definitely say, having thought about it quite a lot this morning at 5am, to send
them to Monica's store just to like thank her for all the hard work.
I would say to sign up to be part of the community.
But then because the active campaign is getting set up, I mean, I think it is set up here.
Yeah.
If you've got the form here, like it's going to work.
Like people are going to sign in.
Right.
It's going to work fine.
Yeah.
What I'm trying to get to is you want to share, not just like sign up here.
That would be the worst thing because you want to have some sort of like promise or
value statement.
That's what I was trying to get to.
So like, get notified for the latest Thrive Peer news or something like that.
Or don't miss a Thrive Peer update.
Episode?
For the latest updates.
Latest updates.
Sorry, I'm a copywriter.
Go for it.
Yeah.
No, do you guys...
Why are we the only ones doing it?
All you guys are writing content.
You can drop some suggestions.
Latest updates.
It's really early.
Yeah.
No.
Okay.
Latest updates.
Yeah.
I think it's important to have some kind of action.
So like sign up or receive or so that they know.
Like a verb.
Yeah.
Well, they know what they know that you're asking for.
Right, honey.
Them to take action.
Yeah.
take an action, right?
Yeah.
So like, they're gonna click on it
Yeah.
and give you their email.
So it needs to have some kind of like,
yeah, receive our latest updates.
Or our latest Thrive Peer updates if you want,
if you want to refer to it, like.
Yeah.
We've got a Leading Hair podcast.
So, but we're going to be getting,
as the news breaks on our funding,
we're gonna get a peer support program up and running.
So like, receive our latest Thrive news.
Yeah.
And you can always edit it.
Like if it becomes something more,
like, oh, you're changing the direction of the newsletter
or it's gonna be a weekly something.
You can be very specific.
All we're getting to is anytime you guys want to capture it.
Oh my gosh.
Laura's blessed.
Yeah.
Look at the.
Just copy and paste what Laura put.
She's teaching.
Check this out.
Sign up to receive our latest updates
and join our community.
That's perfect.
Oh, I love that.
Who said?
And I think, hopefully you can put all that in there.
I don't know if there's a character limit,
but you should be good.
You can eliminate the second to, to shorten it.
Sign up to receive our latest updates
and join our community.
Yeah.
So see, there's a character.
Okay.
So there's like, they're limiting you.
I would, yeah.
So just, just say,
sign up to receive our latest updates
since there's a limit.
Yep.
That's lovely.
So just if you,
if you guys are wanting to do a newsletter
or do an email, capture an email,
just, you always want to trade,
like, hey, you're about to give me your email
for something, like something of value.
Yeah.
Because no one just wants to give you their email
just so that they can be on your list, right?
They want to know,
they want to know what to expect
when they give you their email.
So just taking that next step.
Yep.
Awesome.
Thanks guys.
I am, I'll stop my share.
That's fantastic.
Cool.
Very good.
Your solo site looks great.
Yeah, it does look good.
Thank you.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
Okay.
Let's see.
Our event went really well, guys.
Like,
Oh yeah.
Give us an update.
Well, I felt like it's seed
and like, I always look at the numbers
because you've trained us to do that with the dashboard.
But yeah,
we, I think we've got about 12 people in total,
but it was really good.
We had streamers, balloons.
We had donated in-kind support from the community,
which we're going to be partnering with anyway.
And yeah, it was really funny.
Cause Brendan,
you share about that,
get to know you bit.
Oh yeah.
At our house.
So it was really funny.
Yeah.
So I suppose it was a combination
of those who had been on our journey
and also those young people as well that we interviewed.
And so I thought what would be a good sort of open question
was around, you know,
what brought you here and tell us about like a challenge
and a highlight for this year.
And it ended up like turning around
and then us getting all this, you know.
Affirmation.
Yeah.
Affirmation and encouragement about, you know,
what we're doing.
And so it was sort of like,
Lee quoted as like, you know,
sort of like going back to our wedding.
You know,
when everyone's talking about you
and you aren't the focus.
And stuff.
Like we blessed,
we felt like, yeah,
we had a lot of blessing for them,
but, you know,
we've received so much back.
From our community.
From them.
So, yeah.
Which was really encouraging for us.
And yeah, it was.
It was really good.
Yeah.
It was great.
And, you know,
on top of that,
I think going live each day for the month of April,
like we've received so much encouragement
from young people.
Like, yeah.
Like around the world, really.
Getting connected to us and to say,
hi, I really like what you're doing.
And so, yeah,
that sort of blows away really.
And yeah.
We've got so much content now
because people have contacted us
and wanting to be interviewed
to just support and advocate
because they are care leavers.
So we're reaching out.
Yeah.
And then, you know,
even Teresa,
who just recently shared her story,
she wants to help in any way she can.
And, you know,
so I'm thinking,
oh my gosh, social media.
No, Bruce and Lindsay have helped us get that covered,
but, you know,
we could have a 30 year old's perspective.
You know,
there's so much going on in our heads about,
because people are now saying,
what do you want us to do?
How can we help?
So that's been encouraging.
Yeah, very much so.
So, yeah.
God's really blown us away
with just doing that live.
And I think for me,
probably the confidence to,
it's okay,
you know,
like you don't need to have it all together,
but just to present,
you know,
just to be present
has got so much impact.
So, yeah, it's exciting what the next step is going to be.
So.
Very cool.
That's awesome.
Every video that I've been watching of you guys lately,
it's been hard for me not to be emotional when I watch.
And it's actually not because of the details of the stories
that these care leavers are sharing,
which is like, I mean, just some horrific things
that they've had to walk through
and survive and thrive through.
But I think what it's been a spiritual thing,
not your natural emotions, but it's been,
I just feel the weightiness of what you guys are doing
and the significance of what you guys are doing
because there's a justice component
because you're giving a voice to the,
in my opinion, the otherwise voiceless.
Yeah.
And like you said, Brendan, it was so well put,
but you are doing what others were not willing to do,
which is be present in the midst of these people's stories
and like where they are now
and giving them that voice and just being there.
Just, I mean, that's what they haven't had,
at least even consistently,
is just the presence of someone being present, right?
And that's what you guys are bringing.
And so well done.
And we are with you guys.
I'm supporting you in prayer.
The Lord has been bringing you guys to my mind,
especially this past week.
And so I've just been partnering.
And what Laura has been teaching me
about speaking in tongues and praying in the spirit,
I'm applying to you because it's all I can say
is it's just, I can't articulate it in the natural,
but there is a weightiness that like all of us,
probably in what we're doing,
we don't even know the magnitude,
but that's okay because the Lord does
and he's keeping us where we need to be
and walking us through it.
So I love that the event went well.
I think it's just the beginning, guys.
Like it's really big.
Yeah.
It's exciting.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Keep us updated.
That's awesome.
Yeah, please do.
Thank you so much, guys, for your encouragement.
Yep.
And then we're just gonna help Ben,
I think with some ads, if you wanna share your screen.
And then we'll take any other questions you guys have,
if anyone else has anything.
Those were the only two people
that had submitted stuff ahead of time.
Yeah, thank you.
So you were running some ads.
I can zoom out of the way here.
This is this ad campaign here.
I have to put the budget here on $20 a day.
It's euros, but it's almost the same.
It got some impressions,
but I did not get any leads.
Are you doing, what type of campaign?
Oh, so if you wanna just click, let's see here.
So it's a lead campaign with a lead form within Facebook.
Okay.
Gotcha.
So let's see.
Okay, so did you put $10 on each of these?
Yeah, on each of these.
And the reason why I have split it is
because I didn't know at that time
that I can change the picture format to stories
and feed that I can individually kind of replace those.
I didn't find that at a time.
Okay.
That's a little trick there I learned today, but.
And how much is spent here?
Like how much do you have a total spend?
It's the one hasn't done anything.
I can scroll right now.
It's like, can you scroll?
Cause I think I gave you control.
Let's see.
It's a little bit too, right now here.
Okay.
So you scroll to the top.
Oh, here.
So the one doesn't do anything, right?
It's only spent seven, like euros.
Yeah, that's the same.
It's almost one-to-one.
It's a little difference, but.
But this one hasn't run a whole day yet?
That's about a day, yes.
Okay.
So I wouldn't do anything to any ads for the first few days.
And they need two or three days just to figure out that.
The next, the one thing I would do,
like if you did a story in a carousel,
as long as they're two different placements,
that should be okay.
You can always just go back and edit
the second one that's there.
And we can also take a look at it.
Let's see if we can just hit the edit button.
So this one is, that's something, right?
It does somewhat, it does kind of a little bit.
It's gonna be hard to help you with the copy
because we don't speak German
as far as like what the wording is.
But let's see here.
Now, this is your first time ever seeing,
watching Ben's stuff and you're like, what is this?
Ads Manager, it's probably very confusing
since it's not even in English.
I already made that check last time about it.
Okay, where, there's primary text here.
And this is your carousel.
So did you not add any primary text here?
No, for purpose not, we wanted to keep it like
not as an advertisement rather, you know,
people click through and then they would click
on the more info here.
That's what, that's who, that's the same, like more info.
That was the goal there, right?
To not have it appeared as an ad rather as a,
just a, you know, a regular.
Let's just see the story here.
Okay, so I would definitely do one.
Okay, so you've only got one piece of creative.
I would go make another creative.
That is her talking to the camera,
like on a selfie for like 15 seconds
and do a 15 second version of that.
Let's see what your placement's like.
Those, this is just, this,
it looks exactly like an ad, right?
So what you want it to be is someone that looks
like your friend posted it, that's not designed,
no graphics done to it, no animations,
just start the clip, you talk to the camera
and then stop, like no editing, none of that.
Okay.
That like basically as raw and as simple as possible.
And then let me just see where you're targeting.
So I'd go make, I would do that actually,
like that stuff I would do immediately,
even don't worry about waiting a few days,
like go ahead and just change it.
Cause I can tell you that's,
that's going to be a difficult ad to convert
because it's just going to get lost in the noise.
Where's your placements?
Let's see.
But the placements are exactly the same
for the carousel and for the other one, right?
I copied those.
Okay, I would, then you've got a story.
Sorry, just to complete that,
the one that's shown in the story
and the other one is showing in the feed.
That's the only difference.
The same group, the same age, same everything.
Okay.
Yeah, you could combine those and just have like,
just basically, and it's very easy.
You would just go here, hit copy
and then just go here and hit paste.
So I'm assuming that's copy.
Yeah.
And I just saw something plus V.
So you could do that.
And that should keep it the same style.
Oh, I see what you said.
I see what you did.
Okay.
Leave, take that.
Mention this down there, down here.
You can just delete it.
Yeah.
Cool.
Okay.
I see what you're, what you're saying.
You did different.
You isolated the placement.
So that's, that's fine.
You can certainly do that,
but I would go and like duplicate this one.
Do at least one or two sentences in that primary text
to say just the bottom line, like it's for,
it's for ADHD, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
So something about like, we'll see what she says.
Like,
You want it to be a question?
Is it, it's people who are coaching
or teachers who are helping people with ADHD?
No, those are parents.
Oh, parents.
Okay.
Hey, so you say it's like, you know,
you would write a line of copy.
That would be something that would include like, Hey,
you know, if you're a parent with, with a child with ADHD,
here are some of the things I've tried or some of the,
I don't know.
What do you think?
Well, are you wanting it to be,
what are you wanting the,
called it?
It's basically,
you just want to grab their attention in that first line
to let it know that it's for, for parents of,
just by reading it without having to watch the video,
you want to know who it's for.
Is diagnosed a trigger word?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I would like almost just be like,
has your diet,
has your child been diagnosed with ADHD?
Question mark.
That'll grab their attention.
Sometimes Facebook can be a bit finicky about anything
that's health related.
It took them over a day to approve it.
Yeah, that's okay.
And that's probably because once you get more volume
on the count, it'll, it'll come down to hours.
But I would try to just ask like in that primary text,
just do a quick question.
Cause you're addressing the parents by saying, you know,
your child has your child been recently diagnosed
with ADHD and, you know, have children with ADHD,
whatever the correct German way of, you know, you know that,
but that would be a call out to parents specifically.
And then it would have ADHD in there and it would, you know,
that would be something that they would want to find out
more about.
So, yeah.
Let me just look at, and then on the video,
just have a good hook like that.
Like I would even make that, whatever that line,
like have, has your child been diagnosed with ADHD,
you know, this can be, this can be like life altering news,
but you know, and then just share something, but there is,
There is hope.
There's hope.
Hey, I'm going to be sharing a,
you know, something's, you know, online workshop, a free workshop paid,
whatever it is, you know, click the link below to learn more kind of thing.
So just like grab your attention.
Hey, there's the problem click the link, you know, you're trying to, but
you want to make sure you can do that in a video really well.
Um, and again, just selfie mode on a camera, uh, on a phone, just
portrait, it'd be a great, those are the highest performing ads.
Um, no tripod, no fancy lighting.
Yeah.
Cool.
If you, if you're outside and walking around it's movement and even better.
So, okay, cool.
And then we can take a look at targeting and other things later.
Okay.
Thank you.
Appreciate your help.
No problem.
Good luck.
And just, um, you can post the ad.
Well, I guess we wouldn't be able to understand it, but you can post
like a translation of it maybe, but share it in the Facebook group.
If you want some feedback.
Yeah, I'll do that.
Yeah, absolutely.
Thank you.
Appreciate your help.
Awesome.
Okay.
So we'll go through, I think Marianne had her hand raised first.
And then we'll go to, uh, Reva.
I only just raised mine, but yeah.
Well, yeah, if you have,
my question, how do you block somebody on Instagram or TikTok?
I've had a couple, one of them that's, that's, uh, telling people to go to a
spell caster to help with things.
Um,
there is a way to, um, on Instagram.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
Instagram and TikTok.
Can I share my screen?
All right.
Yeah.
Um, can you, I think you can plug this in here.
I'm going to see if I can see.
So this would be on the phone, not the computer.
Um, this would be on the, we'll do it from the phone side.
Yeah.
Um,
new movie.
I'll just give me one second to pull this up.
iPhone.
Do you know what edit?
There it is.
Yeah.
Oh, it's my thing showing?
Not yet.
Let me just do it this way.
Sorry.
Oh, iPhone by a cable.
There we go.
That's your camera.
Okay.
So I'm, I'm on Bruce's.
So you would just, if it's like a comment, you would click on their account.
Bruce trying to do this.
You go click on their account.
Yes.
The profile.
Yeah.
And then the three dots up here.
Oh, I think I can draw at the top.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I can't.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then you could do block.
Oh, that's easy enough.
And then what I would do is there's two options.
Just block this one account, or it will let you block this account and any,
Oh, I don't know.
Is this Instagram or Tik TOK?
This is Instagram.
Okay.
So let me go back to that really quick.
So block.
So there's two options.
Oh, it's not showing.
Okay.
Well, I'm just going to walk you through it since you're looking at your phone,
Marion, when you hit block, there'll be two options on Instagram.
One will say block.
My, my problem, first of all, is how do I, on my phone, how do
I get the comments on Instagram?
Well, if you are, I'm guessing it would be on my, um, my reels.
Yeah.
So if you go to reels, like let's go to, um, uh, let's go to like posture.
Um, there's the reels.
If you, if you're in a reel, like what hate mail are you holding in your hand
today?
Yeah.
What is the enemy who, by the way, the Bible says is the accused.
So there's a little comment that I can't make it.
You have to scroll through the comments and find the comments of
the people you want to block.
Okay.
Sorry.
Um, there's a little like comment icon on the far right.
That gets you into the comments.
Is that what you're asking?
Oh, a comment item on the far right.
Um, oh, there's, there's a little, um, arrow.
Is that it?
The easiest way that I would probably do it.
Marian is just when you're in your videos, when you click on your video,
you click in the comment section.
Do you know how to do that?
Yeah.
Well, I have, I do on Tik TOK for some reason.
No, I'm on Instagram.
Um, it's pretty similar on Instagram.
Yeah.
I can only click on it when I've got comments.
Um, and right now I'd, I'd probably just check them.
So I don't.
Right.
So you would click it and like, what hate mail are you holding?
And then you could click on a comment.
What is the enemy?
Yeah.
I think you would click on that person.
You have to click on their profile.
And then, okay.
I'll try that and see what happens.
Okay.
Is it the same on Tik TOK?
Similar, similar.
I don't have, yeah, let me pull up.
TikTok. Yeah, we block people all the time. Like, don't be
afraid to block people. No, there's some I would like to
block. Um. No, I'm saying we we do it all the time. So. They
disappear after a while. They don't, you know, if I don't
respond, they disappear. Yeah. So. If you go, let's go. You
know that Jesus didn't come to. Sorry. How's your hundred and
thirty thousand view video going? Uh it's probably a
hundred and thirty-three now, I think. Nice. Yeah. That's
awesome. Okay, so if I go. Not not as many comments anymore.
Got it. Okay. Yeah, engagement typically will start to plateau.
Okay. Okay. To see. Yeah. Just see if you can without it. Oh
yeah, it does have the three dots. Um well, I clicked on the
three dots but it doesn't come up with anything about
blocking. Yeah. Just kind of where to um where you want to
share with. Yes, if I'm on, I go to the profile on TikTok,
three dots at the top right, and then um down here, you see
at the very bottom there. Yes. Um that will be where there's a
where it crosses it off. Yes. Alright. Now, I've got um
Instagram open. I've got the three dots but they're they're
upright, not horizontal and when I click on those three
dots, it comes. Oh yeah, I see the block. Okay. Awesome. Good
job. Now, you can go block everybody. Helpful. Very
helpful. Thank you. Okay. No problem. Um I'd love to have a
hundred and thirty thousand um Mariam, I'm so proud of you.
I'm just like, you're like, you're building my faith like.
I know. I just hit the right thing that everybody that the
Holy Spirit guarantees when when we join Jesus. Hit the
right subject and since then, everything I've done is is kind
of revolves around salvation. It gets a lot of feedback. So,
you know. Well, I think it is a kingdom messenger record even
on Lindsay's channel. Like, I don't think you've had 130. I
think so. I think we need to like send Marian a trophy or
something. That's right. Some kind of prize. We gotta talk
about this. We're not that we're keeping score but if we
were. But if we were, Marian would be winning, guys. I've
got, I've got a really good like little subtitle for that
award for Marian. She um she's like, you know, with all the
people, like the blockers, the people who are trying to stop
the enemy. Can't stop this woman. Gonna say that.
I love it. Awesome. Um I see. Hey, Reva. Hi, guys. It is such
an encouragement. Marian, it's true. Like, and even with what
Ben was saying, like, we have some strategy. We've been
praying through but we also had to clear our schedule from
distractions and like a lot of you, we're still working. So,
this is all like uh try to do full-time ministry while you're
doing full-time ministry. Um so, the strategy though, one,
Ben, that was confirmation that when we uh record to go live
without tripods and formal setups especially for TikTok.
I'm wanting to grow the TikTok so I can go live. I told you
guys last time that we wanna do a live event at Pentecost um
but this time, really pull in um some people who can't be
there in person, right? The last couple of years, we're
seeing growth online in relationship building and
kingdom expansion that we we haven't had in person. Then, I
love what Monica was saying how she's like, well, this was in
person first or no, she was saying it was online first and
then it grew to in person. Either way, god is working both
directions and um I'm I'm looking for tips to get to that
thousand so that we can then go live. Yeah, absolutely. So, are
you posting um uh this is TikTok specifically. Are you
posting daily on TikTok? I know this is the one big thing that
now I think if I can do it for a week, I'll establish I'll
establish that in our routine. We also established an
afternoon routine uh so that Brett and I can be working
music. I actually, we just stopped. We have a theme song
for our city and so we just laid down tracks for that here
and uh paused so that we could get on here and just see your
lovely faces and say hello and thank you for praying because
god is moving and um
It's a process, but the biggest thing that Brett has been on,
he's like, clear the distractions.
You have to clear the distractions.
So God is doing that.
Even at Bible study today, I felt like he just, there was a Holy Spirit
arresting so that we would rest and then receive Tamara saying, yes.
So there's a Holy Spirit arresting so that we have that peace, right?
Come on posture that we would serve out of a place of rest.
And then it's him.
It's not us.
It's not our stress.
It's not our message.
It's his message.
So that's what we really are trying to lay a hold of as a city.
We're really laying a hold of the prophetic words spoken over our
city, over the people of this land.
Um, and being a better carrier of that message.
And then as a family, like, okay, what has God called us specifically to?
Um, we did not have peace.
We were supposed to go on a missions trip and we just couldn't shake it.
I was like, I want this for my senior to go on a missions trip
and we had to lay that down.
So I just want to encourage you guys, whatever he's calling you to lay down.
You're not going to be disappointed, right?
Whatever he has instead of that.
And today we saw fruit, like he has something big in our city that he wants
us to apply ourselves to so that we'll get what he has for us, not what
we're going to try to manufacture.
Yeah.
So, and it's something new that we haven't seen before.
And that's, what's tough.
We're entering into the digital domain places that we've never seen before.
So I just wanted to shout out a thank you, Bruce and Lindsay for gathering us up.
Praying for us, but just be encouraged.
Like Marianne, Ben, everybody who's spoken already, like your
tips are the tips that I need.
I so many times I've just listened in.
I'm like, yeah, thank you, Jesus.
You answered the question.
Maybe I didn't even know I had, so it's cool.
And I just want to thank you guys.
And yes, daily watch for my other thing is I don't have a schedule to like I'm
either on Tik TOK or I'm on YouTube, but I have to figure out, this is what I
recommend.
This is what I would coach you into because, um, I feel like you guys are
still, there's still much to, there's, there's always much that you can do on
every platform, but because you're really interested right now in growing that
audience, growing that reach so that you can gather people, I would go all in on
Tik TOK.
Yeah.
And yes, specifically short form content.
You can always, you can take that and make it a YouTube short.
So it doesn't mean that you're like not on YouTube, but I would just focus on
that short, like, yeah, sorry.
I was going to say like, this is what we've been focusing on.
Like, I would even sit, like go further than that and say, unless you have like
certain critical mass on YouTube, like if your whole audience size is less than a
thousand or a few thousand, I would just only be working on short form content.
Like I wouldn't even worry about anything longer than 60 seconds for a while.
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
Cool.
We are, we are one month.
Yes, you are one.
So be, and, and because you have like a, you know, you, you're kind of, Hey, we
have an event coming up, so there is this like deadline.
So I would accelerate what you're doing.
I would do short form content.
So I'd get super focused on that.
And then I would do twice daily.
Okay.
If you can.
Well, you can, you can't, you can, because we're, if you can't, you're
overthinking it, this is 60 seconds or less.
And you just sat here for about 60 seconds and encouraged every single one of us.
So it's already in you.
So don't overthink it.
I would just, I would make the goal.
I'm going to get on tick-tock and I'm going to add value by sharing
encouragement and good news and do that in the morning and do that
like once in the evening, twice a day.
That is going to, from an organic reach perspective, no ad spend.
That's really going to help because you're going to tell tick-tock, Hey,
I'm a serious creator, so you can start serving up my content more because
Bank on the fact that I'm going to be here creating on your platform.
And they're going to start putting you in front of more people.
So, and it's going to help you as a creator with your creative reps.
So you're going to start to demystify this, like what it looks
like to start posting regularly.
It's going to really help your process.
So that's what I would do.
Like, don't go to bed tonight until you like, cause I'm already
halfway through the day, but start tonight, tonight I'm posting tomorrow
morning, I'm posting, I'm going to post it.
I'm posting it and like, it's going to, it's going to be uncomfortable
and it might even hurt, but it's a, it's a really helpful pressure in order
to like birth what you're wanting to birth.
So like lean into the contraction of the pressure of, I have to post daily.
I'm going to do this and it's okay.
If it's not perfect, the whole goal is for me to show up and add value.
I'm going to do that by being an encouragement and sharing good news.
Amen.
And just.
quick tips on that. Like one batch your content. So you're not trying to do two in a day. You're
actually trying to do like 10 or 15 in a day and then just have them ready to go for the rest of
the week. It's very hard to like get into that mindset, be creative, record the thing.
Yeah, if you're cooking dinner and the kids are needing help with homework, like,
so it's difficult to get in that mindset. So, but there's, you could do several different,
you could do several clips all at once, like in 30 minutes, and then you have like the week
done. So you're going to be posting, you're going to be posting twice. Does that make sense?
Yes. And this is why you guys are the perfect coaches. I mean, cause you're leaning on God,
obviously like cumulatively the, the coaching sessions. That's exactly the, what'd you say?
Reps, the creative reps. Like, of course. Yes. And I understand the bad thing. Cause that's what
I started doing 10 minutes. I'm like, Oh, I have to pare it down. I'm like, I don't, I can't get
it lower than 10. Then we realized, Hey, look, posture works pretty well. If you just play 60
seconds from your 10 minute. Yep. Okay. We can do this. Yeah. And, um, just go look as well for
ideas on Tik TOK, like go search for other people cause and see what's working. Some of those things
are just like literally recording your Bible with a verse. Like that could be the one of the posts
for the day is like, Hey, I really liked this first read the verse and be like, have a blessed
day. Like that's the whole, I really am feeling like I don't want to let go of is the stretching
these prophetic stretches. I'm still receiving and still pressing in. I just haven't been
recording them because life is busy. We just graduated our first senior homeschool plan.
Senior is a different level. Like you have to create the whole ceremony. You don't just show up.
Right. So this is the big season of transition for us. And I saw in the getting ready, like I
heard myself saying to other families, these are the songs, the scripture learning songs that we
use for our family. Now we're going to make them ready and available to help your family.
So Brett saying, yeah, let's, let's share our process so that they'll be watching for it and
bring them along the journey. And I think that was shared also in this same coaching session.
So thank you guys for confirmation. Awesome. Okay. Hopefully you can be back next week or at
least let us know in the group, like we'll keep you accountable, but like, Hey, I'm doing it.
I'm doing it. Here's how it's going. And we'll please optimize. Yeah, you can do it.
You just did it. Just get on and encourage people. Thank you guys.
Sweet. Well, good. I don't think there's anyone else with questions. Oh, well, it's got a quick
question. Yeah. What's that? Well, yeah, I just need to be pointed in the right direction. I'm
gonna need an ad that will point back from tribe to probably Facebook. I want to try to keep it
as simple as possible so that by the 26th, I have, you know, cause I have something to, to look at
something to start. And I've been looking and I think I'm more in a hurry to try to get something
accomplished and I'm probably overstepping or not seeing what I need to see. Does that make sense?
You want to create a Facebook ad for your challenge? Is that really?
Yeah. Facebook challenge for the, yeah, for the ad Facebook ad for the challenge.
Yeah. So that's as simple as just recording a video. Like we're talking to Ben. I would do like
a portrait, like vertical video. I would do like a 15 second version and then a 30 second version
and or, or just a 15 second and a 60 second. Those two would be really good. Cause they'll
go to reels. And there is a training we did a couple of weeks back. I think we can go find it
a somehow it's going to be in kingdom messenger TV. But you can, I wait, I walked through like
how to go about setting that up for the first time, how to get your ads in, you know, with the
new system and how Facebook has changed some stuff. So that is in there somewhere. I I'll,
I'll try to find a link for you. Okay. But go through, like record the video, get it going.
That should be enough to get it, like to get it launched. And then if you have questions,
just reach out on the Facebook group and I can give you more feedback, but let me see if that
works. Tamara, do you know where that is as well? I can try and we'll, we'll find it for you. Post
it somewhere. I'll get it to you somehow. It was just a couple of weeks ago. I'll find it cool.
I'll make a note to we'll tag you. We'll tag you in it. Once we find it.
So you'll see it.
Yeah.
And guys, we're still, we haven't started the tribe social bundle just yet.
Like the whole, that whole launch kit that we talked about.
We haven't started that just yet.
We're going to be probably doing it kind of maybe end of this week or
early next week.
We'll be letting you know,
we're having a lot of calls with you guys and it's been really
interesting.
The chat. So if you guys are thinking about.
Building your own platform and want to go to like,
you actually don't want to run it,
start running challenges and start building that, that audience.
Then we're happy to meet with you.
All you have to do is just book a call and we're happy to chat with you
guys. So I'll drop the link there again.
I know it was in the email from today as well.
And yeah, so that's, that's good.
I just want to mention that anything else.
That's good. It's good. Hanging out with you guys again today.
We'll look forward to seeing you guys next week.
Have an awesome productive week.
Playing for you guys.
See you next Tuesday.
Bye.