EP358 Live Recording: It's Time for You to Move into Your Digital Neighborhood

All right. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the stream here. Jeff at the Church Digital. Tuesday stream. This is episode 358. If you're keeping score at home and I am I am running late. I hate to say this. Just kind of a couple of things are going on in life. And man, I'm even looking at this shirt. I have never worn this shirt. to stream like I'm very intentional about what I wear and I would never wear this because of the the stripes it would clash with like zebra you can even see it we're getting some camera defects after going around I just I've been running and just did not even think about what I was wearing and what I am doing but I am so excited to talk with you all about what's going on with the Digital Missionary Conference. We are a week away. Can you believe this? A week away from going live with the first conference. It's launching Wednesday, September 17th, so a week from tomorrow. And we will be doing our Digital Neighborhoods Conference to kick it off. I'm going to be doing a couple streams this week, trying to hype up what's going on with the Digital Missionary Conference. And I've got some fun stories, man. It's been a... Um, it's been a really fascinating week, uh, where just, I, man, I'm seeing my cameras freaking out. So I'm going to try something right now. Okay. We're, we're, we're going to, we're going to go off the off cuff here. I'm going to stand up. I'm going to get my camera to come up with me and I'm, I'm going to try to turn off my camera and turn it back on. Hopefully this works. Never actually done this before live on air. Okay, so I'm still getting a hiccup even with the camera off. So it's not the camera's fault. Hopefully the camera comes back on. Hopefully. Okay, it did come back on. Okay, so I'm going to sit back down. It's going to be cool. We're going to do this like all in slow motion and try to be like intentional. Nah, forget it. I'm just going to sit down. Hey, but when I say it's been like that kind of week, it's been that kind of week. Hopefully the glitches stop now in the stream. But I am so excited about the Digital Missionary Conference, and I'm so excited about some of the things, some of the lessons that I picked up and learned this week. I want to share a little bit about that. Hey, we got Mr. Pete. Mr. Pete, first one here. Always love to see Mr. Pete in the room. Hey, Mr. Pete. Mr. Pete's hanging out, I'm sure, over in Big Screen. I'm so excited about that. Looking good there on Big Screen. Thanks, Mr. Pete. I tell you what, like, resourcing and encouraging guys like Mr. Pete, doing the digital work that he's doing, and just being a... Being a friend, being a network, being a resource, being an encouragement to guys like that, I am – I mean, to be honest, that's really why I get up in the morning. Like, that is so cool that we get to do that. And that's really the heart of what – Scott Rambo is another one. Scott Rambo is coming on. Hi, Jeff. Scott Rambo is another one of these guys that, you know, I just – I love that we get to resource. I love that we get to help and to encourage. You know, Scott Rambo has gone through our EDM course, and, you know, he's had some – life struggles in in in recent weeks and months and and it's it's it's even digitally to come alongside and encourage uh people that that are going through hard times you know oftentimes digitally we it's the um Oh, but you can't. Oh, but it doesn't work that way. Oh, like it's always like there's a negative connotation towards it. When in fact, it actually is very positive. It can be very supportive. It depends upon how you want to use it and what that looks like. And in these situations, I just, I hope the little bit that I've been able to do digitally has been able to encourage both these guys in what they are doing. And really, I mean, it transitions moderately well. As we're talking about this digital missionary conference, you're talking about what we're heading into, the opportunity to, I don't know, look at these digital platforms, not in eyes of negative. It's not as good as physical. There's limitations. but maybe looking at it with more positive eyes, maybe looking at it like a neighborhood. What can this do? How can this engage? How can this? Don't frame the conversation in a negative, but maybe start to even re-examine what could the gospel look like? in a digital space, in a neighborhood. You know, early on, we've always said this, I've always said this, you know, we look at churches, we look at digital, like it's a place and every place deserves a church. And that's, you know, was really the lot of our drive towards planting and helping digital churches, you know, initially, even in COVID season and beyond. But it was that every place deserves a church. And as you look at a lot of how people are engaging in digital community and people are leaning into digital community, the more that it encourages us to take advantage of digital community and to take the gospel into digital community. And that's what we're going to talk about a lot of this in the Digital Neighborhoods Conference. I got to tell you, I may be speaking out of turn. The Digital Neighborhoods was the one that I probably worked the most on of the four conferences. And so selfishly, I'm going to tell you, I'm a little more excited about that one than some of the others. To be honest, as I was driving home, I was working off-site this morning. And I was listening to Snow Patrol. Snow Patrol was on the radio. I wasn't really listening to Snow Patrol though. I had like the, was it the Jefferson's theme song? You know, Americans, you know, you made George Jefferson and I forget his wife's name. But, you know, moving on up to the east side, deluxe apartment in the sky. Yeah, moving on. That was playing in my head. I was like singing that over Snow Patrol as I was stuck in traffic and the Tesla was driving home. It was a chaotic moment. But it's this idea of, that we are moving into these digital neighborhoods. And we are inviting you, people like you, to join us in recognizing the value of these digital neighborhoods for the gospel. Now, you know, it's funny. I actually am right now. I picked up a new contract a couple weeks ago. I'm working with a physical church here in Miami. In October, I start with, and we've talked about Christ's Journey. I've got a large contract, a large relationship coming with Christ's Journey later this year. It's one of our sponsoring churches through the Church Digital. It's a great church. So excited to work with Bill White and Ryan Reed. No relation whatsoever. and uh and some of what's what's happening all of what's happening there in christ journey but i kind of had like a two-month season where i was like didn't have anything and stumbled across this uh it's a it's an older it's an older presbyterian church um and like and it's this you know six seven hundred person worship center glorious facility uh beautiful buildings uh you know campus wide parking it was just great location The church had aged and had gotten down to about 50, 60 people on a Sunday. And what I loved about the church, and this is what I love, is they recognized that it was old and that they needed something new. And so they partnered with a church planter, a revitalization. And over the past couple of weeks, I've been part of literally relaunching this Presbyterian church in a very populated area of Miami, Florida. and it has been it's been an incredible experience but i tell you like the the planter who who came in he's like yeah my wife and i we prayer walked the city we we we came in with with fresh eyes looking at things differently imagining what this would be with young people we worked with some of the older people to get them to understand the value the original pastor who's been there a number of years is still on staff and engaging and supporting and so it was really listen i've been part of revitalization and it's it's still early i maybe i'm speaking out of turn but i've been part of revitalizations that crashed and burned and this one it's like oh my gosh like there's there's potential uh but it was it was so beautiful it's a physical church uh this weekend they had um So it's not an exaggeration. Four weeks ago, they had like 65 people in attendance. Last week, they were up to 150. The church had gotten up to 150. But they did a relaunch. A launch of the new church was this past Sunday. And, dude, I'm telling you, I have never seen, like, there was 100-plus volunteers over the span of 48 hours diving into this church and doing all sorts of work. I have never seen anything. like I saw in this, and launched the church service. I don't want to get into the whole detail. Other than audio, we did a whole new video. We did a whole new lighting. We did a whole new stream. Technologically speaking, it was a brand new church. And at the end of it, trained volunteers. I'm going to be hanging around for a while with the church for a couple months, kind of helping them. But their launch Sunday, there were 600 adults and 125 kids. They had 725. At a church a month or two ago, had 50. And there was this really... It was funny. I told the lady. I got the lady's permission. I was like, this was the most precious moment for the entire... Seeing 600 people in this room, packed house... worshiping God, hands raised, energy. It wasn't, and it wasn't, I mean, it wasn't, and I don't disrespect the old, because the old have a place, but it was a generational worship service. It was a community worship service. Like, it was not aimed particularly at a group, but it was aimed across. And the group, for the most part, came in, and it was beautiful. Like, it was... tear-jerking like I had worked you know two or three days to 2 a.m. I actually was quite sick I've got asthmatic I've got bronchitis right now and so like I'm doped up and drinking Gatorade and all sorts of things just trying to get through the stream and beyond but it was this really powerful 600 people and I looked over I was running video switcher and for the church and had a couple volunteers doing some other things and my daughter was running lights and And the operations director for the church, she was standing next to me in the booth. We let her in the booth. We normally don't let. Actually, I kicked like eight people out of the booth because like other people started hanging out. And I was like, unless you're pushing a button, get out. And the operations director started like, no, no, no, you can stay. I like you. Everybody else needs to get out. But the operations director, I looked at her and I was like, so she was like starting to tear up. literally like caught up, you know, emotionally in the spirit, in this moment as God is, A, revealing what he had as a result of the work that was done in that place, but revitalizing the old and bringing new into it. And I asked this, I asked the operations director, I asked this lady, I was like, hey, when is the last time you had this many people in this building? And she looked at me and she says, I've been here 10 years, Jeff, and we've never come close to this. As a matter of fact, I've got a family member who attends the church, a cousin or something, whatever, distant relative. And he made the comment, in 40 years, we've never seen anything like that. I asked the lead pastor today, Excuse me, the former pastor, the formerly pastor of the church. Today he's now over discipleship. And he said, we used to do like family events with a local school and church combined. And it would maybe get close, but we never had that for a church service. Now this is a powerful story for a physical church. And I love it because it's very much part of where I am right now. A couple lessons that I learned from this. you have to come in with new eyes. The planter came in with a vision, but the vision was informed by spending time in the community, getting to know the needs of the people and, and looking at things, not the way that they were, but the way that they are or the way that it needs to be. You know, it's interesting. One of the guys, um, One of my guys, when they were doing the install, I made a joke about, oh man, there's lots of skeletons that are in the closet. Just talking about old tech and old gear and things like that. And one of my installers, you know, said to me, says, Jeff, well, by the time this job's done, there's not going to be any skeletons left. You're getting rid of all of them. But it was kind of, it was like, let go of the past. You know, it was Jesus says, let the dead bury the dead. And in many ways, when you're, and I would almost parallel this to digital. I still think there's opportunities to look at digital differently. I think that how we are doing, like for the church digital, I'm doing that right now. Like, you know, once we get past the conferences, we're actually going to slow down November and December because in my mind, 2026 is going to be completely different. Digital missionaries, EDM, all that stays the same. But publicly, the face of the church digital is It's going to change. And so, like, it's not looking at the way that it was, not recognizing the honor of what happened. Let's respect it. but let's move beyond it and look at what can be. I've worked with legacy churches before that were living in the past and could not let go of the way that it was, of the skeletons in the closet. And what I learned from watching this new is that by letting go of the past and being open, there's so much more opportunity to engage. Digitally, it's the same thing. Digitally, I would tell you how we're doing it now is nice, but there's opportunities to do something else. And being able to let go, being able to be agile to adjust is so important. And to tie that together, how that's going to show up in digital neighborhoods, how we're going to talk about how the gospel can be represented and maybe how we as Christians, we as disciple makers, we as evangelists, we as missionaries in this space should be engaging with people and how we should be representing the gospel. I am so excited for this conference because when I put this conference together, honest to God, I said, who would kick my butt? Who is going to challenge me, Jeff Reed, at a personal level on how I am reaching, discipling, evangelizing, leading, multiplying? Who are the people that's going to say to me, Jeff, you're doing it wrong. You need to think about this. Those are the people that are speaking at the neighborhoods conference. It's the people that are going to challenge your mindset of digital missionary work and help you understand a new paradigm that once you see it, It's like the thing you can't unsee. It's the thing that explodes. It's the thing that all of a sudden everything will fall into place. I had this moment. Jason Morris did this moment with me. Eight months ago. No, it was probably February. Honestly, it was probably February of this year. Six months ago, Jason Morris was in a meeting with me. One of our senior leadership meetings. We were talking about maybe trying to get one of the speakers, Jeff Vanderspelt, to speak at the first Digital Missionary Conference. And Jason Morris blew my mind. And when he did, I said, everybody I know that's in digital mission work has to understand this. they have to put this in play and recognizing digital mission missionary work recognizing these platforms and their culture is a huge piece recognizing how the gospel fits within that culture is huge as well and helping you understand how to multiply that into others that can help you in your work If those are the three things you get away with from the Digital Missionary Conference, your ministry will be changed. And we're freaking giving it to you. For free. Ego, it's on us. Y'all, I am so excited about, I'm excited about all the conferences. I'm going to be focusing on the Digital Missionary one a lot because it's the one that's coming up in eight days. Wednesday, September 17th. What is it? 11 a.m. Eastern, UTC, negative four. We're opening doors at 10. We're going to be on a new platform called Hubelo. Hubelo, Hubelo, Hubelo. It's at hubelo.com. We're going to be sending, if you're registered, you're going to get emails from us real quick on how to set up the Hubelo account and get in there. It is a great, it is a powerful, it is a beautiful, it is a wonderful, it is an exciting event platform. And I'm excited to get our people in there for this conference coming up on Digital Missionaries. We're going to have... I'm doing quick math in my head. That's always dangerous. I think we're having four or five keynote talks for the Digital Neighborhoods Conference. Four or five keynote talks. Jason Morris. I'm going to try to do these off. I cannot do these off the fly. I'm sorry. I'm getting confused. Let me pull up the website here. It's at missionary.digital. Missionary.digital. You know, let me do this. I'm going to push this button real quick and see if this works. And if not, I'll be mad at myself. Give me one second. Tom says, nope, I'm not here. That's funny. I don't even think Tom's here. Just because he says he's not here. And then he's not here. Let me make this adjustment real quick. Oh, you know what? It's going to be too much work. Yeah, forget it. You know what, I said that last time. That is exactly what I did. If I do two, does it show up? No, it doesn't. Okay, nevermind. This is why you should rehearse in advance and do tech checks before you stream. I'm a bad person towards that. So the Digital Missionaries Conference, here's where we are. We've got four keynote speakers coming in. I'm excited about this. Ooh. Oh my gosh, this is cool. Sorry, I just saw it. No, you know what? I've got to figure out how to do this because I want everyone to see this. We'll clean this up here a little bit. Oh, Jeff, you didn't plan in advance. No, I didn't. That's a bad day. All right, let me kill this. Let me build this over. Doobie doobie doobie doobie do. I think it's that button. Yes, it is. how are you all doing nothing bueller bueller there it is look at that technology is great when it works i love the nice people at what is this ecamm ecamm live i'm excited about this all right hey I wanted to do this anyway. The Digital Missionary Conference. Let's go ahead and pivot. I'll show you. Missionary Digital is the website. We'll walk through this real quick. Brought to you by, hey, by the way, officially saying this, thank you very much, Crew Global Church Movements, the major sponsor. of the Digital Missionary Conference. Crew is incredible. So love our friends at Crew. They, multiple departments, multiple people over there are investing in the Digital Missionary Conference. It's funny, at some point I had to get like all the Crew people on the phone. Cause I'm like, hey, you all are, you all are like competing against each other. Like, do you wanna work together? Or how are we doing this? Because I've got, We've got Crew Global Church Movements. We've got Crew Jesus Film. We've got Crew God Tools. Like there's multiple people, departments coming in with Crew, but love them. Global Church Movements. We're excited about that. We'll be talking more about Global Church Movements in the conference. Hey, so we got the four conferences here. September 17th, Digital Neighborhoods. Control Alt Recovered. That's 24th. October 1st, European, of course. And Digital Missionary Gaming on the 8th. Let's check out what's happening at the Digital Neighborhoods Conference website. Nice video from Jason. Just a nice little countdown here, by the way. Doesn't Jason look great, man? Dude, this guy challenges me on a regular basis. Like, actually, the Church Digital would not exist without Jason Morris. That dude just challenging me, pushing me. Individually, spiritually, organizationally, institutionally, at every level. So beautiful. I mean, we've talked about this. U.S. Eastern, 10 a.m. 100% cost-free. You can register online. Registration's open. But check out some of this. We got Jason Morris is doing the first keynote talk. But then I love this. Look what we've got listed here. We've got our breakouts. So these are the breakouts. These are the things that are happening in addition to the four keynote talks. We talked about this. Keegan West and Bevan Ginder doing a communicating cross-culturally with honor, authenticity, and humility. How many of you are doing multinational, multicultural ministries at this point, right? I'm learning from Bevan. I'm learning from Keegan. Because these guys are already doing it at a global level. And I want to learn how they're doing it so we, the Church Digital, can be more effective. You can bet I'm going to be jumping in on that one, which stinks for Dr. John because I really wanted to hear Dr. John's talk on empowering believers. And, oh, by the way, there's another Ann Bosarge with Digital Discipleship, of course. Love Ann. Being the church on social media. I've actually had some people talk about this. Craig Bradley in AO Labs has been a conversation I've had recently with people that are interested in his free version of the Bible, free digital Bible. And some of the things that they're working for is the digital Bible as a platform. You may want to check out what Craig's doing at AO Labs. Nick Smith, I love the stuff that Tapos is doing. We talked about that recently at a town hall. I'm not going to get into much of that at this point, but definitely excited about some of the stuff that Tapos is doing, engaging the sermon and how it connects to artificial intelligence. Great stuff and how AI can be your research assistant to multiply things. Planting Microchurch Networks with APES. Micah Bales, who's our digital outpost director, digital church outpost director with the Church Digital. Definitely so excited about APES, and we're going to be getting more into APES here coming up soon. Alan Deschanoux coming in. This is... Alan is Church Ninja, Christian Ninja. Christian Ninja. Some of you in the streaming world would know Alan. Why are they in their room? Reaching the ones who shut the door. Talking about connecting with the different audience. That would be a digital. This is a great starter course here. Starter breakout. And then Cameron Bailey from Digital Missions Project. Unlocking Google secret ad. toolbox if you're not taking advantage of the grant and if you don't know what seo is uh then you may want to try this uh breakout and to get into that all of this is going to be uh i mean incredible i think there's seven or eight breakouts in that maybe i think there's nine up front and seven at the back we got close to 16 overall then we got jeff vanderstelt this is the one this guy's gonna slap you upside the head and you're gonna realize oh my gosh my entire life i've been thinking wrong I don't think I'm overselling that. Maybe some of you are going to be like, hey, Jeff, I knew that. I want my money back. And if that's you, that's great. The good news is you didn't pay me anything. It's free. So I'm not giving you anything back, which means I can say with courage. You know, money back guarantee. This guy's going to challenge you. I promise you with that. And what the gospel should look like in digital and virtual space. Then we've got, oh my gosh, I'm so excited about this. Cheryl Boyd with Audience Mapping. Now, Audience Mapping came up on my radar a while back. If you know the, oh my gosh, I can't think of the guy's name right now. The... Yeah, this is why I should take notes before I stream and not just come in cold. But this is going to help you understand what lostness looks like and maybe the path to help people take steps closer to God. Look, at the end of the day, getting an atheist to take that first step to being an agnostic, going from there is no God to, okay, there is a God. He just doesn't care about me. Like, some people would say, well, that person still doesn't know Christ, but I would tell you that moving an atheist to agnostic is a huge step. Like, and that's something to celebrate internally and externally to thank God for, because that's a step on the path. And what audience mapping is going to do is going to help you develop your path that you can walk people through and to start to recognize, okay, when I get someone to this point, I mean, trying to help an atheist recognize Jesus is hard. Helping an atheist acknowledge that there is a God to be at an agnostic level is actually easier. And so it's helping our audience mapping is going to help you start to recognize where people are spiritually and how to engage in conversations moving from there. So excited about audience mapping. And the cool thing is that there's a keynote and then right after it, there's breakouts. And there's going to be a specific breakout on audience mapping. It's a lab where they will literally help you create your audience map right there in the breakout. Like, we're wanting to really get practical with some of this. So, Soul Care for Digital Missionaries. Dr. Tim Yee, of course, coming in. Lucas Pooley doing a session on being called and what calling looks like in digital and virtual. I'll tell you right now, the second session, I may crash Lucas Pulleys because I love Lucas. I love Underground Network. I love what they're doing. And we, the Church Digital, we're going to start working closer with Underground Network and starting to pull in their resources. and complementing what they're doing with what we're doing. It's going to be really, really exciting. Venture AI, Wes and Leah Brooks, excited about this, excited about the road that they're on. Liz Anderson, I mentioned, digging in deeper. Sorry, excuse me. Digging in deeper to the audience mapping, definitely excited about that. Oh, this would be a fun one. If you just want to talk crazy. I love this guy. Andrew Jones. Some of you may know him as Tall Skinny Kiwi. Talking about how to prep for augmented reality. What could augmented reality ministry look like? Excuse me. Andrew Jones is always the future thinking guy. And I'm so excited to see him start to dig into And explore that space there. Sorry, I'm a little coughed up. Stacey Knapp, Why We All Need Recovery. Alina Delp, Real Faith in Virtual Spaces. And then Tim Selleck. This is a good one too. Tim Selleck on reaching the one. I've heard Tim talk on this. This is a very, very, very exciting opportunity. Listen, the breakouts we put in were, once again, who's challenging me? Who's going to say something that's going to be radical, that's going to be outside of the box? Who's going to challenge the people that are in there? What do they need to hear? And we lined up a very solid crowd, lineup for this. And then, wrapping up, this may be one of the greatest keynotes. Listen, I'm excited about Jeff Vanderstelt coming in and doing his talk. Mikel Eschenko. This is like, there's top shelf people. You know, listen, I'm like a C-lister. There's like B-lister people. There's like A-lister. There's like top shelf. And then there's like, hey, this guy's like untouchable. But Kelly Shanko is that upper echelon. I could not believe that Kelly agreed to come on to talk with us. But Kelly, like, just to put it simple. But Kelly is probably responsible for 2.4 million church plants across the planet. For starting 2.4 million. That's two with a comma and a four and then a whole bunch of zeros. Last time I think I said billion, I was out of context. Million. 2.4 million churches globally. How do you create leaders? How do you develop church planters? How do you develop pastors? Listen, we in digital church world, we say, oh, we don't have time, but we're doing the work all ourself. As digital missionaries, we're not reproducing ourselves. We're not training others to come alongside us. And as a result, our ministry is limited because we're all bivocational and we don't have time to do what God is calling us to do. How do we reproduce leaders for digital mission? Right here. I'm telling you, this lineup is going to rock it. They're going to challenge you, and it is going to be an incredible opportunity. By the way, let's draw attention to this. Check out the sponsors and the organizations. It's funny. Actually, I looked and there's one or two that are missing. I got to follow up on. These are the organizations that are sponsoring the Digital Missionary Conference. These are the organizations that are buying in the future work of people like you sharing Jesus digitally and virtually. Man, it's a great time. It's a great season. And all this kicks off next Wednesday. Check the countdown. 7 hours, 19 minutes. 7 days. Oh my gosh, I just gave myself a heart attack when I said it. 7 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, and 44 seconds. Listen, Digital Missionary Conference is going to be an incredible opportunity. A, for you to be challenged. B, I'm going to suggest it's an opportunity for you to maybe bring one or two people that you want to join the conversation, that you want to be on your team. Three, I'm going to challenge you even deeper. This is a great opportunity for you to invite one or two of the people that you want to be donors and sponsors. Maybe some people that have influence and potential but don't necessarily see value in digital. Invite them to the conference. Invite them to listen into a couple of the keynotes and join a breakout. And let them get exposure to what digital missions work can look like. And the people and the opportunities that you have to take the gospel in the digital and virtual space. The Digital Neighborhoods Conference will validate the ministry that you're doing. It's going to validate you. It's going to challenge you. And hopefully it's going to multiply you into others. And to be honest, that's the win. If nothing else, we validate your ministry in front of others. We challenge you to go to a deeper level and better understanding and equip you to explode into what God's calling you to do. And three, we help you multiply into someone else that can join you on your journey or start their own journey. Let's go, what are we waiting for, right? Like that is, that's the end game. So here, let me do this. I'm gonna put this page up. Here's what I need for you to do today. One, of course, wrong button. One, wrong button. One, of course, right, I found the right button, finally. Sign up on the missionary.digital webpage. You can sign up for the Digital Neighborhoods Conference. But then beyond that, We've got a media kit. This is a resource page where we've got all sorts of graphics and social media posts for all of the conferences. So here's one for digital neighborhoods. The mission field isn't physical. Digital space needs the gospel too. There's a social media post on that with the link. here's a graphic you can share. We've got several of those. We've got more graphics. Basically, we got a ton of shareable posts, shareable graphics, media assets. And listen, I'm asking for your help. I need your help to get the word out. We, for many reasons, we're a little behind the eight ball on these conferences. And I don't necessarily want to get into it, but at the end of the day, we'll never do this approach again for conferences. I love what we're doing, but we're going to make it simpler moving forward. This was not, in the grand scheme of things, it was a great idea in the moment, but the day of, it's probably four conferences, maybe overstretched us. a lot. So what I, what I want to tell you today though, is that we need your help to get the word out and invite some people in. So I'm not kidding. Invite a couple of your donors, have them sit with you and like, you know, connect with you. You can, there's, there's tables like we had with, with ultra light before and Ubalo where you can have conversations afterwards. There's breakouts. You can go into different breakouts and see different things. Get them on different devices. You don't need to be in the room together, but if you want to be in the room together and talk, that's great too. You can certainly do that. Invite your sponsors. Post about it on your network and invite some people to maybe go to the conference with you to be part of your team. Or maybe start to get the word out in some other circles where there are more digital missionary type people and invite them to be part of the digital movement. whatever it is this all these resources for not just digital neighborhoods we've been talking a lot about digital neighborhoods but there's control out recover a bunch of resources there uh there's a bunch of resources for the european digital missionary summit and then of course there's a bunch of resources for the gaming summit All of this is available at share.missionary.digital. If you go to share.missionary.digital, that'll redirect you and get you into the right spot. And so, man, that's where we are. It has been a, I don't know. I'm trying to think what I want to say there. It's been a little bit of a chaotic sprint. It's been a little bit of a... It's been a lot of distractions. There's been a lot of health issues within the team organizationally. It's been a lot of struggles. The Church Digital has had... There really have not been a lot of points in my life, I'll just be honest. There really have not been a lot of points, at least in the life of The Church Digital, where I would say, man, I really feel like this is spiritual warfare. Sometimes people just being stupid with technology, I'm not blaming a demon. We're not being smart with it. In my life, I'm never one to say, oh my gosh, spiritual warfare is prevalent. I don't know that I give Satan credit enough. We can have that conversation if you want. But this season has been really hard on Church Digital. Getting through these conferences, pivoting, making some adjustments backstage, organizational adjustments, and moving forward. We will do conferences moving forward. We will do ministry moving forward. And we've got to figure out how to be an equipping digital missionaries organization. that does conferences. Right now we're a conference organization that does conferences. So we've got to make some adjustments. I say all that to say, be praying for the team. We are looking for ways for people to volunteer and to help. And so I'm going to put links in fan for that. I probably, I don't think I've built out the form yet, actually. Probably should have did that before the stream. But I'm going to put a link in FAM on Discord and WhatsApp. You all can connect with that. We're looking for some tech support people. We're looking for some greeters, some family people, looking for some table leaders, some prayer people, probably some other areas. But that's where we're going. And would love some people to step in for all of the conferences to manage some of those details moving forward. We will show, we're going to stream Thursday. I mean, I don't know what time I'm streaming Thursday. Let me look real quick. On Thursday, I will stream out... There's the link. On Thursday, I'm going to stream out at 1 p.m. Eastern. And I will be talking about... I'm going to show Hublot. We're going to get into detail on Hublot and what that looks like. We'll do some screen shares and walk you all around what that looks like. And so be on the lookout for that stream. Heading into next week, the Digital Missionary Summit starting on Wednesday, September 17th. 11 a.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. doors open for the Digital Neighborhoods Summit. And then you've got the 24th, of course, Recovery. October 1st, European Summit. And then October 8th came up. All right. Let me tell you what. I've got bronchitis. I actually did not think I could talk for 45 minutes straight by myself. I'm kind of impressed that my voice held up this long. A couple days ago, I sounded like an 8th grade boy. My voice was cracking and I had no voice. And I was... Even yesterday, I was rough. And so... This has been a great stream. I love talking with you all and hanging out. I am very excited about the road ahead where God is leading the church digital as a whole. I'm excited about what's going to come out of these conferences. I'm excited about how the conference, the digital neighborhoods conference is going to challenge you. I promise. Pray about it. Come in expecting God to do something unique in that situation. And invite him maybe to show a different mindset for these digital and virtual spaces. It's going to be a great thing. All right. And on that note, I'm going to land the plane for me. Well, my dog's right over there taking a nap. My dog is asleep. I've got like a daybed right there in my... I started to say I've got a daybed in my office, but really my office is in the guest bedroom. I've got my dog taking a nap, but we're going to wrap the plane. We're going to land the plane and wrap up because I tired. For everybody else that was on the show, this is Jeff at The Church Digital. Thanks for being on the stream. We'll see you on Thursday as we do a screen share of Walk Through Hublot. See y'all later. Bye.