warm and comfy. I am. It's minus eight here now, which is not bad, but yeah.
That's pretty chilly. Well, sometimes we've had down to minus 30, but this year it's actually
been exceptionally warm. So wow. Yeah. Friends in Texas have been getting a lot of ice and snow.
Yeah. All right. We're just making sure. Yeah. Sorry. I'm just like staring it.
We are on, uh, we're using Bruce's phone by the way. So this is just an interesting little
fun fact. Posture was back this week and I recorded it from my phone. I have an iPhone
14 pro max, and I use the sun as my lighting. And I got a lot of comments and messages about
what camera were you using? Or like, this looks so good. And I'm like, yes, I found, yeah, it's
good. Yeah. And, um, if you have an iPhone and a Mac, there's like a new feature, um, where you
can actually like, I'm, my phone is here and of course I can't show it to you, but it's just,
I was going to turn it around, but it's not attached to anything. There's no cables. And
so it's actually sending the video like wirelessly to my computer. Um, so just pairs automatically
now. Yeah. And then it has like, like it has this, uh, studio lights. If I turn that off,
that's like regular. And then it like adds this like studio lights here, like our backdrop gets
darker and, um, portrait, you can see like the background is not blurred. And then if I turn
portrait on it, it gives like that subtle blur. And we literally just have like the window right
here. Um, so it seems to work pretty well. This is going to be our setup. How are you doing it?
Landscape instead of portrait, just turn your camera. Camera's just this. Yeah. It's just wide.
Yeah. Wow. We are using, so you guys had the back camera. Yeah. That's the better camera
than the front camera. Yeah. So yeah. Awesome. Okay. We're live. We're recording. What's up?
Okay. This is our final call. So we're going to start from the very beginning
and just let you guys know there's, there's no offer being made today.
There's, there's nothing beyond advancement right now. And we're going to talk a little
bit about that because I want to share with you guys some behind the scenes of that decision too,
because I know you guys are building your own communities and just sharing kind of what we've
been processing with the Lord for not just this core group, because we still consider you our
core group, but also kingdom messengers at large, because we want, we want you guys to be in the
know and the first to know on those things, because you've been prayerfully with us and
partnering with us in building what we believe is a movement of kingdom messengers and, and what
that looks like moving forward and what we feel like the Lord has for us this year. And then we
really want to take some time to thank the Lord on this call for all that he's done. We'd love to
hear from each of you. So when you share kind of keep that in mind so that we can get through
everybody. I know some people couldn't join us today live, but just, we want you guys to share
a little bit about what you're feeling, like you're going to be building this year. It's okay
if it's not kingdom messenger related, but I just believe that it's really important for us to have
those marking moments and conversation to say like, Hey, out loud. Cause I know sometimes we process
it a lot, a lot of it internally, but out loud, like this is what I feel like I'm moving forward.
And, and it's okay if you don't, we don't have all of the T's crossed and the I's dotted either.
Was there anything else you wanted to add? I was going to just say two questions really like,
like where, where do you feel like you have advanced in the last four months? I mean,
we've been, it feels crazy that that has gone by so fast, but it was, we've been doing these calls
for the last four months since we finished up the eight week intensive. And so just would love to
hear like where you guys feel like you advanced. And then, like I said, where do you want to go
from here for this year? And I think part of that is just being able to share with a community of
other people. It just creates a little bit of accountability. And so I think it releases
something into the atmosphere, which is really important. So yeah. And then, yeah, obviously we,
and we've said, well, we'll pray, close it out. This will be the last call we do for a while
with you guys. So there's not, there's no call next week. We're not rolling into anything else
after this. So, and just like just a housekeeping thing, cause I know this has been a question,
the group will be archived. So anything that's in Facebook, you'll still have access to like any of
the lives you want to do. If you ever want to reference those back, it'll be just like what
we did with the membership site. It'll be archived. So you can't add anything new and
you won't be getting like notifications from that page, but you can always go back and reference
anything that's in that page. And then again, you also have the lifetime access to the recordings
we did in your kingdom messenger. Yeah.
TV. So none of that is going away. None of the training or any of that.
Yeah. And then as far as community goes, we may pop in every now and again to the
Kingdom Messenger community, the bigger group, just with some fun resources and other things
kind of throughout the next couple of weeks and months. And with that saying, we will be doing
some sort of coaching something this year. We'll do another challenge at probably some point. We
don't have any plans on the calendar now for the next couple of months.
I'm going to talk a little bit about that and why that is. And it will give you guys
some time to gather your thoughts as well, as far as like what you plan on sharing.
Slide a little higher so we can... There we go.
There we go.
It was bothering me. Now we can talk.
So the last couple of months as we've been in this advancement group, we've obviously been
processing with the Lord. It's a continual conversation for us, right? With what are we
doing with this core group? And what is we doing with the community group at large? And you guys
have been our focus, as you know, like when we go into an intensive or a membership or advancement
group, the focus is you. And then community is just really for those outer layer challenges and
workshops that we do occasionally throughout the year. And so you guys have been on my mind the
last four months. And when I brought Kingdom Messenger to the Lord, it's really been about
this advancement group. Cause I'm like, you know, some of you guys have been with us for
years at this point. And Lord, what do you have for us as this group? Is there anything
more that we can pour into them? What does that need to look like? And in all of that,
I'm trying to give you as much of the internal process, just so you can relate, because again,
you guys are going to be leading community, online community as well. There is this detachment that
this, I'll say that maybe this disentangling that has to take place when you have that
conversation with the Lord. Lord, what are you requiring and what are you opening up? And also,
what am I just feeling personally attached to? Cause friendships are formed, relationships
have formed here. And so there is this, there is this recognition that has to take place of
what is it that you are wanting us to continue to do Lord? And what is it that I am just feeling
personally, emotionally, sentimentally attached to, right? And that's okay. That's good to notice
that there will be that like, Hey, I just want to keep this up because I love these people.
And I never want this to go away, but Lord, actually we're on mission here. We're not here
just to hang out. So what is it that you intend? And every time I went to the Lord with that
conversation, I kept having this word pop up in my spirit, fallow ground, fallow ground,
fallow ground. So I'm sure many, you're probably familiar with that, but just a really quick
definition of like this picture of fallow ground is when there's time for the soil to be given a
rest period of no planting, no harvesting, but just letting that soil rest. And so I was,
I wouldn't say I was like resistant to that. I just, I kind of was like putting that on the
shelf, like, okay, yeah, fallow ground, fallow ground, fallow ground, but Lord, what are we
going to be doing? And, um, I took it off the shelf the last two months, um, kind of when December
hit and said, okay, Lord, are you asking me to give this soil some rest? Is that what we, we,
we must do? Let's have that conversation. What does that look like? And what's been really
interesting is when you're, when you lay something down, I spoke a little bit about this in my
posture episode that I released this week, when you lay something down or acknowledge something
like, Hey, this doesn't, this needs to change. Inevitably your eye, when you're having that
conversation with the Lord, anyway, inevitably your eyes are open to new possibilities.
And that was starting to take place. And I'll, I'll let Bruce kind of share this as well, because
kingdom messengers is part of the vision and mission of what we're doing. When we talk about
leveraging the digital landscape to disciple nations, it's, it's, it's literally coaching
the kingdom messengers, pouring into them and equipping them. But the other half or the other
half that we it's a half now, maybe it'll be a third or something later as Lord continues to
expand this vision. But the other half of that vision is the technology piece and what we've
been building with tribe. So it's very interesting to me, the timing, because as I was laying down
like, okay, Lord, is this something we need to give a rest to the kingdom messenger, like con
like pouring in coaching content creators piece, all of a sudden there was a big opening with tribe
and the things that we were building with tribe that began to open up rather quickly and pretty
accelerated. And so with the fallow ground and now our illustration or give me gave me typically
what you do is you let one piece of the land rest while you're planting on the other piece.
And I feel like that's what's taking place for us when it comes to this vision of
leveraging the digital landscape to disciple nations is as we're putting this ground to rest
for a season, there's another ground that the Lord has this planting in.
creeping in and that's with what's happening with tribe.
And I do think it's significant and important
to share with you guys some of the details of that
versus just saying like,
oh, we're doing this with Wisdom Challenge
or working with this client
because I want to plant the seed of encouragement in you
as far as what is taking place in that
because I consider you partners
in what we've been building, including with tribe.
Some of you guys were the pilot members even
of beginning to get into tribe and utilizing tribe
and so much has happened.
So I want Bruce to take a second
and just explain over the last couple of months
what has been happening with that.
Yeah.
Give the details.
And I do want to share that
and I just want to reiterate again
so you guys know like our hearts,
like the things that aren't changing
are like our vision for this to be just a continuation
of the digital landscape.
So what happened was we kind of,
we were been doing tribe for a long time
then we started kingdom messengers
and all of last year
we almost had like three businesses running.
We had kingdom messengers, we had tribe
and then we were still doing like development services
for a bunch of clients.
And so finally like this year
it felt like everything kind of merged together
and what we're doing with tribe,
like everybody's having the same questions
with what we're helping with kingdom messengers.
And I was like, well, what really is the line?
Like, oh, well, one is Christian and one is not.
Well, we're really here to help promote kingdom creators.
I don't really care if some business wants to use it.
It's not, that's like a by-product,
but so we're like, well, you know,
so it's starting to kind of merge more together.
There's a lot more synergy taking place.
So that's, I would say that it's kind of the same thing.
It's just, it's kind of just adding to it now
because we've been building this other thing.
But yeah, what's happened, like it was funny
because we actually looked at it
from a financial standpoint and we decided,
hey, we're just gonna like put a pause on tribe
starting in like October, September, October.
Yeah, maybe early, early fall.
Yeah, and so we were like,
hey, we're gonna go all in on this big challenge
for Kingdom Messengers in September, which we never did.
And then we basically, we had an opportunity
to work with Pedro a day on some stuff with 100X
and they, he consensually came in and tried to,
and worked to help build and promote tribe with us,
which has been really exciting.
And so-
Can I just share one piece of that story
because it's important?
We had a conversation together.
We said, we're gonna put tribe on the shelf,
meaning it still exists,
but we weren't going to invest anymore in building it out
and building it fully.
And within a week, we had a call from Pedro about this.
So it was like, we kind of laid it down thinking like,
we're not gonna give any more to this.
And then the Lord like opened up.
It was just very significant to timing.
Exactly, and so it's been really great.
It's been an insane amount of work.
It's like the last few months,
particularly the last 60 days has been insane.
And so our team is looking forward
to having like a Christmas break soon.
I hear that's around the corner.
And so, but we are gonna be taking like a little bit
of a slower February,
kind of get back into like a good pace.
But did that, we had, we, you know,
as you guys know, last year,
we launched tribe with Graham Cook.
We had tribe running on God Behind Bars.
We also launched it in like two or three other ministries.
There's a big church out of Texas
that is like using it for all of their platforms
and all their, they just launched an app this week.
And so there's just a number of people
who are using this in a really cool way for the kingdom.
And so, and then most recently the Wisdom Challenge
and they had about 75,000 opt-ins
and email addresses come in.
You get people who joined the challenge.
We had about 32,000 app downloads,
like in the App Store and the Google Play Store.
And I don't know,
there was something like half a million video views,
like in 30 days, which is wild.
And then, so, sorry, I think Hannah just bumped her head.
She's fine.
She's good.
She's not by herself.
She's with Graham.
She's not by herself.
So it's been amazing.
And particularly that we actually in this last 30 days
have found a way to sort of monetize the platform
for the creators.
So we're actually able to use the platform
to generate a bunch of revenue for 100X and through that.
So, which has really been our passion
is to try to find ways for Kingdom content creators
to actually generate funds
and make this more of a lifestyle.
Yeah.
I mean, to support them.
So, you know, as we were building it out,
kind of the first priority,
which you've heard us talk about a lot
was giving the creators ownership of their data,
of their users, you know, that was taking place.
But this is like another piece of that,
allowing content creators to utilize the platform
as they would with maybe social media in the past,
but in a much safer way
and being able to generate revenue
so they become self-sustaining,
which you've heard us talk about many times
about how great would it be
if ministries were self-sustaining in that way.
So it's really cool.
Well, those numbers are really big, but think about the acceleration that's
happened when you've got 32,000 people downloading the app, like it's amazing
how things are tweaked so quickly and built so quickly when you got that many
users using things and it's, it's really accelerated the whole thing.
So it's like, we we've been boots with is a term in the startup where
the we're bootstrapping tribe, meaning that we didn't have investors come in.
We didn't have anyone put in like a ton of money to make this happen.
We just sold a website and then we took that money and we like put it into more
development and then we like sold two websites and then we like, you know,
kept just building it.
We did kingdom messengers, like funded a lot of tribe development.
So it's, you know, something that we felt the Lord had given us to do and not to
bring like a bunch of partners in.
And even today, like it's still a hundred percent.
Lindsay and mine, like that's, we own all of tribe.
We still have, we have clients that are using it like a hundred X and others,
but it's, it's still our thing that we feel like the Lord's given us to run.
And so I was just going to say, as far as the number you said, those are big
numbers. Like it was essentially like we were just building and then all of a
sudden, like the gasoline was poured on this little fire that we were, we were,
you know, chipping away at.
So it's been awesome because we've, we feel like we've accelerated at least a
year or two into the future of that.
So it's been, it's been awesome.
And just some of the stats on the, cause I just saw that we just got off a meeting
now. I think they're close to like 20, 2300 people have like joined
this like monthly membership, which is $31.
So you can do the math on that. Like, it's like, what, 65,000,
$70,000 a month is going to be like clicking in for, um,
eight to eight, uh, this is a hundred X, um, with this,
they're doing a thing called kingdom seekers. Um,
and so it's just like daily devotional discipleship stuff,
which is really cool. It's been,
that's what's one of our things we wanted like right from the beginning for
tribe was to help build actual life change in people and discipleship.
And so that's going to be happening. Um,
so what was cool is we got to pair like our technology with Pedro doing the,
the marketing and the branding and the, the, the sales part of it.
And so it just really like came together. Um, so that's,
that kicks off tomorrow. So like, we just finished this like crazy challenge,
but like, they're just started this new product tomorrow.
And all of that is happening inside of, inside of tribes.
So now what's cool is like all those features,
all those cool things we just built for them are going to be available to like
all tribe users soon. Um, we're just,
it's taking us a little bit of time to get them basically moved back to like
everybody else. So it kind of upgraded the whole platform by doing this.
Yeah. So it affects people who have tribes. Yeah.
There's the sun is not cooperating, our natural studio lighting today.
Um, and so it's really exciting because you can see the ripple effect that
happens because of what has happened in the last couple of months.
And so it's very, it's very cool.
And it's something that you'll all benefit from, um, utilizing tribe.
Those features will trickle into what you guys are doing as well.
And that's really it's we, I love how we built it.
We haven't built it off of like Bruce said, um, investment venture capital is
capital. What is the word venture capital, venture capital.
We are building this kind of as we go. And I think it's,
it's been done in a really unique way when it comes to tech
startups. And I think it's something the Lord gave us in the way to do it.
So one other thing that I want to speak about that I've been
talking to Lord about, because that's the,
that's the tech side and the structure side,
but kind of going back to the kingdom messenger, the content creator side,
something that I've been talking to Lord about for years that has bothered me
with a lot of mentorship programs, discipleship programs,
ministry programs is often what tends to happen is
people become very attached to whatever the program is or the church or the
ministry. And it becomes sometimes in people's lives. And this is not,
I'm not saying that this is something that the churches or the ministers or the
mentors are wanting to do or trying to do. I just think it's people are,
people come sometimes in a, in a desperate place,
and then they experience some life change and they become beholden to that
person or that ministry more than they are to the Lord.
And it's something that I have wrestled with in my own life.
Like I have made spiritual fathers and mothers,
even like as if they're Christ in my life. Right.
And that only leads to eventual discouragement or disappointment because it's,
it is,
you're making an idol out of people and no one should have that place in your
life other than the Lord.
And I don't want that to happen with us and the people that we're mentoring in
the ministry that we're building. I love that there has been impact,
that there has been transformation, that there has been growth,
that there has been success.
The Lord has allowed us to be a part of your story and what he's partnering with
you on, but I never want you to feel, um,
obligated or
unhealthy.
fully attached to what we're doing that you feel like you can't do it without us.
And so part of this fallow ground season at for kingdom messengers, and I'm not
saying it's going to be like a year or seven years, I really feel like it's just
giving us a couple months of breathing room.
Us and you is that again, going back to Romans, I know Graham shared this with us
and our membership, but you talking about that discipleship model of from the Lord
through the Lord to the Lord, we believe that the Lord has given you guys, given,
given you to us for a season to be a part of your journey.
And we are our initial prayer.
When we started kingdom messengers two years ago was Lord, give us the people
that you wish for us to receive.
I mean, that's like, that's the prayer that we pray when we put out ads, even
like, you know, we, we, we do the work as far as, Hey, we know how to strategize
and target, but Lord truly bring us the people that you wish for us to receive.
That is our, our prayer.
And I feel like he did that.
And now it's time for us to give you back to him.
That's what I feel like it is, is that, okay, Lord, just so you know, with pure
hearts and pure hands, we are not holding on to tightly and, and you have given us
these people for a season and now we're giving them back to you.
I don't think that that means that we'll never see you again.
That's not what, but maybe, maybe, but I mean, for some of you, that is, but
that is the level of freedom, right?
Maybe we will never see you again.
Maybe we'll never connect again.
Maybe we'll never know the full impact of all that's been planted in you guys in
the time that you've been here with us.
And that is okay.
That needs to be okay.
Because we want you to be beholden to him alone because you're his.
So he's given us to you for a season.
We've worked with you as he's worked through us to implant, to plant things
in you and grow things in you.
And now we're giving you back to him.
And so that's, that's our hearts in this.
And we wanted to share the tribe piece because we didn't want you to feel
like, oh, wow, kingdom messengers is going away.
It's like, it's not, we're going to be doing this for the next 10 years.
Yeah.
This, this continues to be a life mission of ours.
It's happening in different expressions.
And it's definitely not something that we're now like peace out, see you later.
But the heart of it is it's time for us to give you back to him.
And, um, and so that's what the next season is, I think on the horizon, I'll
tell you guys this, because we want you to be some of the first people to know
like, what is, what do we feel like would be the future of the kingdom messenger
side is we have been talking about what would it look like to do not an annual
membership, but a monthly membership where people could have access to live
coaching calls if they need it and the tech support, like you've had in this
group and it can be a month to month basis.
So it's not a long-term commitment, but it's something that the person can
control based on what they feel like they would need and how long they would need it.
And, um, so that's what we're, that's what we're kind of working with and dreaming up.
We don't have a final plan and it could, it could change tomorrow.
We're very open with the Lord about that, but that's what we've been dreaming
about as far as the kingdom messenger side.
We would love to plant some more seed in the community piece, because I feel like
we've got this group of 1500 people who have raised their hand and said, I want
to partner in your vision of leveraging the digital landscape to disciple nation.
So we'd love to pour into that group a little bit.
I'm asking the Lord, what do I have permission to do?
Like, do we do some prophetic prayer calls in that group?
Like the bigger group, do we, you know, do some tech Tuesdays in that group or
even some tech support calls every now and then.
So we're talking about that.
Nothing's finalized, but those are the things on the horizon for kingdom messengers.
So it's not even like, we're never even thinking about kingdom messengers.
We're definitely thinking about it, but we feel as far as the output right now,
the Lord's asking us to do something different.
And we're looking at like, how can we, how can we help you guys and everybody who
wants to be a part of this movement?
Um, like we do feel like we've started like a movement of, you know, of, of, at
some scale and we want to see like, how can we most effectively use our time?
We, our team is very, very small.
Like, um, you're like Tamara and, and the two of us are like the whole Carolina
may missions or team.
Yeah.
And Carolina has been helping and she's really on the tribe side of things.
So that, and then we have one other developer, like that's the entire
company doing all of this stuff.
So.
We don't think it's going to stay that small, but that's just, we're having to
be very strategic with like where our time is focused, but we know that part of
it, it isn't going to be like, here's some software, have fun with it.
It's going to be like software plus like a lot of teaching and education
about how to use that tool.
Um, and, and, and what's exciting is before it was, was very much like a
website, Oh, I put all my content on a website now, like.
happened in the last 30 days or so with the wisdom challenges, it turned into a discipleship
platform, which is really exciting. And it, you know, into a mobile app that was on your phone
that you could like engage and interact and have discussion with people. So that's, it's really
exciting where it's headed and all those tools will make available to you guys as well. So
we will like continue, like we've got to where to from now, like we have the Kingdom Messenger
community. It's a great place to just post stuff, anything that's related to Kingdom Messengers,
wins questions, you can throw stuff in there. There's still, you know, we'll probably be a
little more active in that and post things here and there. Since we're not going to be running
like an intensive group, right? We don't have any challenges planned. If we do, they'll happen in
that group. And then if you're in the tribe, social Facebook group will also, I'm pretty
much gonna be posting stuff there. And potentially we're playing with the idea of even having like
a weekly call just for tribe, for people who are using tribe. So not exclusively all Kingdom
Messengers, but all Kingdom people that are using it just to do some training and show new features
and all of that. So plenty of stuff to kind of be connected on that side. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. And
that was like 327. I'm going to leave time for everybody. Yeah. So we want to hear from you guys,
like where the questions again that you posed. Yeah. Where did you, what would you feel, how did
you feel like you advanced the last four months in Kingdom Messenger advancement? And then what are
you planning to do the next for the rest for 2023? Yeah. Yeah. And we could just. Should I call on
people? We're just going to go in order here because everybody, or else we're not. Okay. We'll
go in order. Let's start with Susie. Let's get you, let's get you unmuted. Sorry. Yeah. I think
I've gone from yeah. Okay. To yes, Lord. Absolutely. I really appreciate the landing page.
I don't know if I'm the kind of person likes to know where the end is and I feel like, okay,
I've got a sense of where the end is and, and how to, how to pull this all off together. So I,
yeah, just, I feel much stronger in, in the whole tech thing. And, and that I can, I just,
I erased my landing page off the website and had to do it all over again. So that was good. And I,
and I redid it. And so that was a good exercise. Where I'm going from this is I'm still really
clear that what I'm doing is providing firm scriptures for people. And I'm looking forward
to having calls about, okay, we've, we've read this about this. What does it mean to you? And
how do you think about it? Because I don't, I'm not inserting any of myself right now into what
I'm presenting because I want it to be available for anybody to use, but I'm looking forward to
having conversations. And, and one of the big ones for me is all this neurobiology, Jim Wilder
calls himself a neurotheologian. And I've been connected with a lot of people going that way.
And I'm really curious about how does that connect with what the Bible calls our frame?
And because people aren't familiar with that and just how does that all work? So I'm excited.
Awesome. Hey, Marion.
So for me, God's been doing things in my life recently that have really kept me very busy.
And it's got nothing to do with the videos. It's just, I prayed a prayer about the homeless.
How can we help them? Because they're not in our community. And the following day,
a friend said, have you still got rooms to rent? I have somebody who's come out of prison and a
halfway house. And if she doesn't get a place, she'll be on the streets. And I thought, okay,
that sounds like God. And somebody had phoned me or emailed me three weeks before with the same
thing. A lady, Christian lady, father was a pastor and has to move out and can't afford rent.
So I've got two ladies moving into my house within a couple of weeks, or maybe even this week.
And it's totally, I had expected to move into a condo and was questioning God about it.
But the great thing is one of them is going to do the house cleaning. The other one will do the
gardening and cooks. So I'll be free to do what I want. But the other thing God has shown me this
season is walking in the prophetic and not getting so much involved in pastoring people.
The videos, I don't know where I'm going. Once my landing page is finished, at least I can use it.
But right now it's not finished and I'm struggling with it. But, you know, other than that, I don't know where my videos are going.
I know I've, I've been sporadic for the last month. But God's told me not to stop.
So, yeah.
I just, I know he will show me what to do. He said, when it's time to stop, he'll tell me. So that's where I'm at.
Sounds like you're flowing, Marion. You're flowing with him.
Yeah, yeah. But my one question for you is a question. Once the landing page is finished, if we've got a tribe website, I think, Bruce, you said that then you will set up the website properly, right?
Yeah. What do you mean by that?
Well, well, originally I talked about, you know, when can I change the picture and do all this stuff?
Oh, yeah.
Once the landing page is finished, then you can finish the stuff that's not done.
Yeah, I think, have you had a call with Carolina to work through the landing page?
I've had two months, of course.
Okay, cool. Okay, yeah, let's, let's figure out what that is. We will figure, I don't know where the disconnect is there.
So I can even do it.
Well, it's partly because I'm not very techie.
And also it's been frustrating.
But, you know, again, I know that it will get finished eventually.
But I know from our side there's nothing that's pending on our side so let's let's connect offline, I'll reach out to you on an email.
We'll get, we'll get it figured out.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, whenever, whenever, that's good because I figured, you know, you said that you would finish websites and things like that, anything that needed doing for people who are on tribe, right?
So, I just really behind that end of things. So, but I really appreciate it. I have learned a lot in this last six weeks, has it been?
Yeah, definitely. I've grown. I've learned a lot from you guys, more about even the place of rest, you know, God was showing everybody about rest.
And finally after Christmas I thought, oh, maybe I'm supposed to be resting, and I'm doing too much.
I questioned God about it and that's when he said no, I need to wait on him. But, but I'm not supposed to lay it down or stop so.
Yeah.
But thank you guys because it's really has been enriching.
Yeah.
And we'll make sure we get you the support you need Marian.
Oh yeah, Cindy, thank you so much for joining us we are praying for your mom I've been praying for your mom, and for you and your sister and your family so thank you so much for joining us.
Hey Amy.
Hey.
Okay, well, I feel like I identify a whole lot with Marian on, on the learning curve.
I feel like there are, I don't in any way feel led to lay down
the digital landscape, or my videos and and platforms.
But I do also see new possibilities springing up and had a nice long talk with the Lord this morning.
Well thanking him for you all.
And all of you.
But sensing that from him. Well I was thanking him for the growth and the, and the love for growth that he's put in me in, in my time with you all, and through this, I mean I, I run as fast as I can toward growth.
When I used to shrink back and be afraid of it.
And, but I did have this sense that it's time for me to walk in that growth.
The rest component for me is, it's like the Lord just tells me everything that I do that he has for me is going to be brought forward from my journey that he's had me on, but it's going to be.
carried out from a place of rest.
And it's going to be in my connection with him.
And so I'm a late comer to tribe.
Thank you, Bruce, because I didn't even
know where to start prior to the 12-month thing.
When that concluded, I didn't even know what to pick up.
But I'm excited about developing that.
I feel like it is a piece for me going forward.
And then I'm excited about how he
unfolds just the prophetic and the writing and the publishing
that's ahead for me.
So I do think I'm going to need to just sit still
for a little while and let him talk
to me about what that's going to look
like for the rest of the year.
Awesome.
Of course, I'm excited about the writing, Amy.
So I'm excited to hear that.
Hey, Xavier.
Oh, man.
OK.
First, I just want to thank everyone.
So first, you and Bruce, just for your wisdom
and your faithfulness and following through
with what God has given you.
Because your graciousness, your patience,
everything's been just such a tremendous blessing.
So I won't belabor that point.
But I just really had to express that.
And also give thanks to all the rest of you.
Because everything that you've shared has meant so much
and has been so encouraging.
And this is family now.
This is my family by choice.
And I honestly feel that way.
And if there's ever anything that I can do for any of you,
please don't hesitate to ask.
Where have I advanced?
Wow.
I will say that most of the advancement,
I have been advancing.
But most of it has been the last four to five weeks.
It's just what God's been doing with me.
And I've gained really an expanded vision
of what I'm doing and clarity about what I'm doing.
I think when I first got started with all of this,
it was I wanted to figure out, OK, well,
how do I get attention for whatever message
that the Lord wants me to give?
And I've known I've always been given things.
But I didn't necessarily know how to get attention properly,
how to do this right, and how to go about that.
And so I started to learn that.
But then it became, OK, now that I know how to get attention,
what do I do with this attention?
And so going into advancement, that
was really something that I was trying to just wrestle with,
even if I couldn't articulate it at the time.
But when we went into this pause and went into this rest,
it was really so that I could step back and focus.
And for me, it was putting my dependence
on the Lord in every area of my life.
I've always been trying to have this line of demarcation
or delineation between what's sacred and what's secular.
And I've always struggled with that my entire life.
And these past, especially these past four weeks,
the Lord has just completely busted that apart.
Because everything belongs to the Lord.
And everything and how I approach it has to be in there.
And so that's something that I've just really been learning.
And believe me, I understand what you guys are talking about
when you're bootstrapping your company and doing that.
The company I work for, we've been doing the same thing.
It's been really a challenge.
And what the Lord has really just taught me in so many ways.
I mean, we're just seeing miracles happen
because it's just the dependence is on Him
and not on all of this other stuff.
He goes, my focus has needed to be on Him.
So a lot of what you've shared, what each of you have shared,
is really about focusing on the Lord
and listening to what He is having to say.
So as I'm moving forward now that I'm seeing
and now that I have an expanded vision,
I know how to get attention.
I know what to do with it.
I'm actually moving into for the rest of this year
is to start coaching.
I'm calling it smart coaching
and it's smart for spiritual maturity, accountability,
realignment and transformation.
And we're really talking to people who have gotten so,
who realize that religion
is not what they need to be wrapped up in,
but they need to be in relationship.
So I'm kicking off a six month program.
to do that. And it just so happens that my pastor said something this week, we started talking, and we're on the same track, you know, just, you know, feeling with addressing different audiences and our different who's, but it's really the same thing.
And because of what he's told me so now I'm going after just what I'm calling right now, kingdom ministers, because there are a lot of ministers who are wrapped up in the organizations or the institutions, and don't have the freedom to really
or don't they don't feel that they have the freedom to to really step out and deliver the message that God really wants them to deliver. So, a lot of my coaching is going to be moving in that direction.
And so as I'm doing that then I'm going to be building a community. And so, you know, when we first started I knew that I need to try but I wasn't sure how I was going to use it.
And really the last four weeks I've started to go okay this is how I'm going to going to start to piece this together and it's really kind of starting to go together.
So all of this, again, is because you guys have been faithful with what God has been telling you, you know, to do so that I can step out and do what he's telling me to do, you know, and I think that that, you know, this, this is just the beginning as I said
And I'm going to be around for a while and if there's ever anything I can do to help anyone again, please don't don't hesitate to to ask for for any reason.
Thank you, Xavier. Hey Bridget we'll go to you.
You're muted. Hold on.
Sorry, there you go.
I feel like I've definitely got more clarity and like Marion said I feel like I've got more handle on the technology I'm not there yet but it definitely when like when the team asked me questions I know what they're referring to.
So, you know, what's what I what I find helpful was every time you asked us those questions that forced me to go the next level. Okay, what is this and pushing it down.
So I have almost finished my empty nesters book and then next week I'm setting up times with the brilliant team to do my new VSL recordings for parenting, and then hopefully sometime in March I'll launch my parenting coaching.
I feel like I've made a lot of strides forward. Thank you.
Hey Monica.
Hey guys.
Whoo.
Like your T shirt shirt.
So being one of the originals here. This is a, um, I don't know it's emotional for me to, to see the, it's not the closure it's actually the beginning of a new season.
And, and if I could say one, one thing about YouTube, it's integrity.
Integrity is one value that I hold very important in life and business.
And as I've watched you both, you know, on the front end and the back end.
That's the one thing I can say about you both about the shadow of a doubt.
You are doing things because you believe that the Lord has called you to do it. And you've been obedient, and you have given and given and get an over delivered and over given, and I'm adding more givens to that multiply that by 1000, because I know what you guys
You're sneaky because you're humble. And, but I know what you've sacrificed, and you've given why, because you're people of integrity you truly want this family to be able to make an impact.
And so for that I am just, I'm so grateful. I'm so so grateful. I've learned the importance of community, that we can't do it alone.
And during this season for this advancement group has probably been the most difficult season of my life, both in business and personally, and just the fact that I knew that I could reach out to any to you Bruce or to Lindsay or have that you know that what
it made all the difference in the world because when you know you have people that are that are grounded, that are like a foundation you can stand on, you're able to stand a little taller and a little firmer, even when there are moments that take you to your knees.
And so you guys have been that.
for this community, for me personally,
and I so, so appreciate that.
So integrity, community, growth,
like one of the things I love about you guys
is when you've done your calls,
you're like, we've gotten this word,
or this person got this word,
but I see it for the whole group.
So that means all of you just grab it,
grab it, grab it.
And I've been grabbing, and I've been grabbing,
and I've been taking,
and I've been seeing the goodness of the Lord
manifested literally before my eyes
in so many different ways.
So he's been pruning us,
he's been removing some things from us
that have not served us,
but then he's been growing some things in us
that are preparing us for that next season.
So for me, Sanctuary Girl is no longer,
like officially we signed the contract,
now it's gonna be Mon Christian Gifts.
And we're gonna be able to just move it forward,
to the world like how the Lord wants it to be.
And so I believe that everything
that he's placed in each and every one of you
is so on purpose.
The whole journey with Bruce and Lindsay
has been so, the timing impeccable,
the timing impeccable for what he wants
each and every one of you to do.
Last night we were in a meeting with Steve Backland
and his team and a group of prophetic people from Bethel
who are there as well, we're going tonight.
And he said something that I just love
and I'm gonna share it with you.
He said, that David's secular hobby
is what saved a nation.
Playing around with his slingshot.
And nothing to do with worship
and nothing to do with all the things.
He has given each and every one of you something
particular, specific, so you that nobody else has.
And I think that Bruce and Lindsay
have done such an excellent job
of like bringing that out of us.
Those areas, even the text,
even those parts that like we hit up against a wall,
but those are all the secular parts that you never know
he's going to use to change a nation, right?
And so I'm just, I'm so thankful for you both.
I'm going to continue pursuing you guys
as you lose through the ebbs and flows
of business and life, because I cannot stand the thought
of just not, you know, just being in the atmosphere
of your amazingness, but, and all of you as well.
But I just feel that this is an amazing beginning.
Steve was talking, and I'll be quiet,
but Steve was talking last night
about the importance of faith attached to hope.
He was saying we can have faith,
but we're having faith for one thing.
And then what happens when that one thing doesn't happen?
Discouragement sets in, overwhelm, stress, anxiety,
all of the things, but when you attach it to hope,
it's not just one outcome that can happen.
There's so many different outcomes.
And I think that that's what Lindsay and Bruce stand for.
It's all the possibilities, like closing this is not an end.
It's just another possibility opening up
of what he originally had intended
through their act of faith.
And so that excites me to see that you guys are bold enough
and just kind of strong enough and gutsy enough
to listen and to make that move.
So I'm just thankful, so, so thankful.
I will never forget this season
and I cannot wait for what's to come.
Awesome.
Thank you, Monica.
We love sharing that.
Yes.
That was awesome.
Hey, Walt.
Well, what can I say?
Everybody stole all the thunder.
Really, you guys have taken me out of a cave of isolation.
You've helped me to find a voice
that I thought wasn't going anywhere.
You gave me the opportunity to really,
really to step out into what I call the undiscovered country
and you gave me a quest.
You know, everything that I have done,
even though sometimes I think it's really small,
but when I think of what God has done in me,
you know, you guys have been the foundation.
You know, I kind of see myself sort of like
that movie that Tom Cruise is wearing, that exoskeleton.
You guys have been my exoskeleton to a whole.
hold me up, remind me what the word says,
show me my own vision, and then said, go get it.
And that's what has really, really,
really been a blessing for me.
So, I have wondered what today was gonna be like.
I was hoping that it would go further,
but you know what?
When you talked about Thalogram, my heart left.
You know, it literally left.
Because I know that there's gonna,
I feel as though that there's gonna be a time
in which I know that if I was to reach out and say,
hey, I'm drowning here, you guys wouldn't hesitate
to come in and say, here's a hand.
And for that, I am thankful.
I am just, I'm overwhelmed.
I'm trying not to be emotional,
but my kids always say that,
dad would cry at the drop of a hat.
Well, the hat's dropped.
So, you know, look, each and every one of you
have been a part of my life in the last six, longer,
than I, you know, the last couple of years
have been phenomenal for me.
And each and every one of you have been a part of that.
But Lindsey, you know, like I said,
when I first met you, who is this young lady?
Who does she think she is?
But yet, I begin to see that,
that you guys have really won my heart,
humbled me in ways that I've never even considered before.
And in a lot of ways, you two have become like mom and dad,
that I wanna make you proud.
I wanna be able to go out and then to go say,
there he is, there's my boy.
Well, anyway, I'll stop there,
but God bless you guys.
And I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to meet you.
See, I done did it now.
That's extra sweet, Walt.
We actually have a prophetic word over our lives
that we'll be a mother and father to multi-generations,
even generations older than us.
So you just confirmed that word.
So thank you, friend.
Tamara, we've got a few more minutes.
I'd love to hear from you,
cause you've been on team,
but you're also Kingdom Messenger,
you're also Kingdom Messenger.
And so I'd just love to hear what you've been advancing
and what you feel like the Lord's calling you
into this next year.
And then we'll wrap it up.
I think we got through everyone else, yeah.
Yeah, I'll keep it short and sweet.
I'll just say this has been such a purposeful meeting,
like Walt, like who is this Lindsey Van Zandt
and Bruce now, you know, but it's been so purposeful.
And I would echo what so many others have said,
you have called out the gold in me
and won't allow me to shy away
because it's safe for me to just kind of shy
and just kind of hang out in the background.
But you constantly call out the gold in me
and you're right, Lindsey.
Bruce is a man of action.
He's like, okay, you can get this going today.
Like we can get this, you know, community set up
and you know, I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, you know.
And I'm always ready to just press the brakes.
But I feel so much like Walter.
I wanna make you guys proud, you know,
and first of all, God, but I just,
I'm so appreciative of the pouring in.
The prophetic calls have just been,
and that's been invaluable alone, you know,
just having that time to just tap into God's heart
and hear what he has to say.
So I have been just tremendously blessed.
And yes, like Monica, I see both behind the scenes
and front scenes and you guys have just been golden
bringing out consistently the gold in me on all fronts,
you know, and just pushing me into the greater like,
no, Tamara, you can do this.
No, Tamara, you're qualified.
Nope, you can do it.
You won't let me back away.
You won't let me shy away.
So thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Coach Lindsey and Coach Bruce.
Thank you guys.
You honor us so well and so healing to us
in so many ways to be honored by each of you.
We are very proud, seriously so proud.
We brag about you guys by name often, all the time.
Like we have Mary and our group doing this
and Monica's doing this.
She's opened a brick and mortar in this huge mall.
Like it's just all of you guys.
So let's thank the father.
Do you wanna say anything before?
This is great.
I mean, again, I think we really started
a sense of family here as well.
And I think I'm really excited to see like Monica said,
this is really just, it is the beginning.
It's probably gonna look very different, you know, like,
and I think what'll be crazy is when you guys
over this year, next year, as it.
gets sharper as, as things get better, you'll be the,
you guys will be the ones like when we started,
there was no, like any of this,
it was just like hopping on zoom calls and like chatting.
And now there's like all this other stuff going.
So like the people in the future are going to have it
the easiest.
And you guys were like,
you guys don't know how easy you had it.
Like when we showed up, it was just Bruce and Lindsay
talking and then we would just do a bunch of zoom calls,
but it's how, it's how these things evolve.
But yeah, we're very honored to, to, to lead you guys,
and just to lead this movement with you guys being,
as we call it, like the pioneering group for a lot of this.
So we're just, yeah.
We, I believe that there's a special blessing on pioneers
because pioneers pay a cost so that others journeys can be,
it's that it's the same anointing that our father carries
to make crooked ways straight and rough places smooth.
That is the spirit of a pioneer.
And that's what each of you have done.
And your own journeys of the Lord before you even met us
and you continue to do.
And so I just like to thank the father and bless you guys
and for the year ahead.
And again, I love what Monica said.
This is not the end.
It's just a new beginning and it's a new season.
It's a fresh season.
And I think it's one where the trail will be a little bit
more blazed for all of us.
And so we won't get as many,
we won't get as many thorns as we go through.
And yeah, so father, we thank you for all that you've done.
We thank you for each and every person on this call.
And those that are part of this community
that couldn't make this call today,
might be watching the replay.
You know them by name, you know their stories
and you brought them to us for a season.
Father, I pray that we've honored you.
I ask, I ask that as they go,
as we give them back to you, Lord,
we know that you will watch over them.
You'll watch over your word over them
to perform it in their lives.
So I don't even really feel like I have to make an ask father.
It's really just, it's just a Thanksgiving
because I know that you,
I'm so confident in your ability
to do what you said you will do in their lives.
It's really just a Thanksgiving for all that's to come,
all that you've done and all that's to come.
I pray Lord for a special protection
over each and every one of them
as they continue to plow the fields that you've given them,
plant new seed, harvest what the seed has grown.
I pray protection over their minds,
for protection over their hearts, Lord.
I pray Lord that there will be a fresh energy in them
as they continue to walk out and all you've called them to do.
I pray that you would bring people around them
that would minister to them,
that would be an ironing, sharpening iron to them
in their local context, not just their online context, Lord.
I rebuke any isolation.
I rebuke any temptation to feel the responsibility
that father you actually want to carry,
the responsibility for growth and success,
the responsibility for the needs of others
that they're gonna be pouring into.
I pray that there would just be no unnecessary feelings
or obligations of responsibility
that you've never meant them to carry.
I pray Lord that as they follow you, Holy Spirit,
I thank you that you will continue to lead them
and guide them in all truth.
I pray for a deeper sensitivity to your voice,
that the voice of another they won't even hear,
but they'll hear your voice and they'll follow you.
I thank you Lord that you are the provision
you've given them yourself.
And I thank you that you do provide provisions.
I pray for resource, Lord, in people and in team
for those that want interns,
for those that want extra help.
Lord, I pray for financial provision to grow,
whether it's in their gear or their platforms
or something that maybe they don't even know
is a seed that you planted in their heart
for the vision that's gonna unfold this year.
I thank you that you've already made the provision.
You've already gone before them.
You've already made the way.
And I pray that there would just be no resistance
to the provision.
I pray that there would be, I just rebuke the devourer.
I rebuke any plan of the enemy.
It has no place, it has no foothold in their lives.
And Lord, I thank you that this year, 2023,
would be a year of advancement.
That is your word over this community,
over each one of their lives.
And we say yes and amen to that.
And Lord, as always, we give you all the permission
and the space to do what only you can do
as Ephesians 3 lays out,
and that is to just do above and beyond
all that we could hope, think, ask, or imagine.
We thank you that you have given us pieces of the picture,
but we give you full permission to blow us out of the water.
So as we...
step out with what we know to do.
I thank you Lord that you can expand the plan at any point.
We give you permission to do that.
You can expand the plan.
You can expand us.
We are willing vessels and we are fully partnering
with what it is that you would like us to do.
We thank you that we are not tools that you wanna use.
We're not slaves, we're not servants, but we're sons.
We have the full authority of the beloved son
and we're walking in the fullness of him here and now.
And we thank all these things.
We pray all these things with the authority
that Jesus Christ, beloved son gave us.
And we say, amen.
Amen.
And amen.
Awesome guys.
All right.
Very cool.
Well, we're excited guys.
This is, we're, you know, stay tuned.
Like watch this space.
Watch this space and know that you guys can reach out
at any point.
Like if you have any questions too,
that support email is the quickest way to get ahold of us.
And if you even just have questions like,
hey, I'm curious what you guys are gonna be doing
or if there's something on the horizon,
like we love to answer those questions too.
There's nothing secretive.
Like we're not trying to do any big, like, aha,
we're just following what we have with the Lord.
And we consider you guys are our partners
and pioneers in this.
So as much as you wanna know,
and if we know anything extra, we'll let you guys know,
but we want you guys to be kind of on the forefront
of what this movement is doing.
And we consider you guys part of it.
You will receive the heart part of the harvest in this
because you've planted with us.
So, yeah.
Amen.
All right.
We love you guys.
Bless you.
We'll see you soon.
Bye.
Thank you.