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Hello brothers and sisters of the Lord. We sure appreciate
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you all tuning in to this episode. Just wanted to
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do a quarterly update about our ministry and things that's
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going on in our ministry and our podcast. So let's
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get right into it. First thing first is if you
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haven't visited our website, please tune in to our website.
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Go to holinessfoundation.org. We have over 3,000 sermons on our
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website right now, and we're adding more. We're slowly getting
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them done and trying to get them onto the website.
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It takes some time because we're trying to edit some
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of the files and some of the audio and trying
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to get that done. So please bear with us, but
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we are going to increase the amount of sermons that's
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on there right now. I've got a lot of tapes
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that I'm ready to convert, so I've been working on that.
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When I get a chance, I've been uploading some sermons from,
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you know, I have from flash drives, from hard drives,
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from CDs. So hopefully we'll have a great amount of
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sermons on there for everybody to listen. And hopefully your
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favorite preachers on there that you like to hear. And
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we sure appreciate everybody that has actually visited our website
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and signed up. With that being said, the signing up process,
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some has asked us, you know, why is that? Why
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do you have to sign up on the website? It's
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really for security reasons. We try to keep everything safe.
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If you make an option on a website to just
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upload any file, you'll have, you know, a lot of
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people or, you know, certain ones that just wants to
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cause issues and they may upload a bunch of stuff
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that we really don't need on our server and so
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we do this to kind of cause a little security
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thing for us and anything you do online now or
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use any kind of service or anything like that you'll
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have to have an account so it's just it's just
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part of it we live in a world that's you
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know dark and they just want to cause havoc So
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we do this to really protect ourselves. We don't want
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to get any kind of viruses or anything like that
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to affect our website or anything like that. So it's
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for security reasons. But you can, with a profile, with
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an account, you can upload sermons. You can upload church events.
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You can upload church listings if you have a church
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and you'd like to put your church on our church directory.
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If you are an evangelist and you would like to
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have your name on the evangelist directory, you can actually
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do that as well. We have a very proper procedure
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on that. We do it very ethically. We make sure
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your pastor is okay with it. We have to have
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your pastor's contact information on there. He has to consent
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to it. You'll see if you ever fill out the
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form exactly what it is. so we just don't put
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any kind of vandalists on there. So please keep in
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mind if you want to put your name on there,
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you know, you had to fill out that form and
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everything has to be finalized. That's not a public directory,
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so only pastors will be able to see that because
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it's got, you know, people's contact information on there that
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those that want to provide that. So I just wanted
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to let you guys make aware of that. If you're
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interested in posting your name on there to be contacted
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from pastors, you know, to preach services or anything like that,
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their information is available. And you can also contact us
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about if you have any questions or concerns or anything
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like that, please feel free to send us an email.
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We just wanted to make that available. We got that
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requested to be made on our website. So we're looking
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forward to, to, you know, launching that and, and getting
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that going. Um, with the church directory, um, it gives
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you an option to post, uh, your picture of your church,
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your service times, who the pastor is. If you have
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a church website, um, anything involves the church, um, it's,
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it's available. And a cool thing about our church directory
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is if, Somebody accesses from their mobile phone. If they
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click on the address, it'll pull up and they're at maps.
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So your church will be easily be found if they're traveling.
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People want to visit a church in that state.
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They can easily click on that link and it basically
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sends them to their maps, whatever map they're using for
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their phone and directs them right to your church. So
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we're really excited to see that future, and we've already
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got some good feedback. Several people have been using our
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church directory and finding churches, so we're very thankful for that.
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So if your church is not on there, please go
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out there and create an account on our website, get
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on the church listings, click Add Church. It's the little
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button on the top, and you just simply fill out
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a form. It sends to us. And then one of
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us will approve it. So we're really excited to see
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that going.
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Sermons.
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So if you've got a bunch of tapes or a
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bunch of CDs that you've converted, or you've got a
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bunch of MP3 files on a flash drive and you
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would like to send to us, you can upload sermons
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to our website. Of course, we have to listen to
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it and see what the picture is and approve it.
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But you can send it to us. And if we're
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able to approve it, you'll see it on our archive.
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So we're very excited about that.
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I know.
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It's kind of hard these days with people learning how
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to do that. And if you have any trouble trying
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to do that and try to figure that out, please
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send us an email. We're more than glad to help
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you as much as possible. So we're really excited about that.
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Another thing that I wanted to talk about, we'll get
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away from the website, is we had an announcement just
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the other day about a feedback survey and several of
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you guys filled that out and we appreciate everyone that
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has filled that out and everybody gave us good reviews
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and we appreciate all your kind words and all your
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feedback and also your podcast feedback. So If you're on
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Apple Podcasts and you gave us a comment, we appreciate
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all of them. If you went on to Spotify and
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gave us a rating, we appreciate you as well.
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We truly appreciate it a lot.
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And I did want to address a couple of things
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that we were seeing, and we're glad it's good feedback
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to things that we need to correct. One thing we
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want to try to fix is someone stated that Our
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intro and outro is a little bit long. We're going
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to be evaluating that as a team, and we're going
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to be looking at ways to kind of condense that
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down just a little bit. So keep in mind that
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we're trying to fix that, and we're working on it.
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So please just bear with us. So we do appreciate
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you giving that feedback. Another thing that's been kind of
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a big issue real lately with us, and we are
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very aware of it, Someone had mentioned about AI photos.
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With preachers.
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We try our best to get the original photo of
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the preacher. We will reach out to the preacher. We'll
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try our best to send it out. We'll, you know,
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search on Google. We'll, you know, as long as we
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have the preacher's permission, we'll try our best to post them.
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But the thing is, when we go into our programs
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that we're using We use two different programs for our
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photo editing software. Somewhere in the lines in our settings,
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we keep getting issues with AI trying to enhance the photo.
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It's nothing that we're trying to do. We're not trying
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to make the picture look better. We're simple taking the
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preacher and trying to put them into a blue background.
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Somewhere in the line of our programming, there is AI filtering.
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We've turned the setting off several, several times. We've tried
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to contact customer support and explain the issue. We've tried
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to use different prompts and it's still doing it. So
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this is something that's been highly requested from emails that
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we get about wanting to see, you know, a product
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face to the message. And we've got numerous emails requesting that.
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So we're trying to meet that need, but also trying
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to make sure that the preacher has originality and that
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it's his face or, um, know, their image is not
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altered in any way. So we are doing our best
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to try to correct that. We are working with certain
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preachers that it's affected. So we're trying our best to
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get the originality picture. If we're using, you know, if it's...
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a picture we found online or something from a text,
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you know, or from a church website, sometimes the quality
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ain't the best within pictures. So for some reason, our
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AI system tries to enhance it. And we're trying to
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figure out how to fully control that and get that
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turned off. I've worked with customer support through our programs,
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trying to get an answer, And as you guys know,
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customer support sometimes is not very reliable. So I'm working
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to try to get that fixed. So we do apologize
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for any preacher out there that the system has altered
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your image. We're working on trying to get it fixed.
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We are evaluating to seeing if we need to switch
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to a different program to help us with our photo
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editing software. So please keep in mind, this is something
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we are aware and that we are trying to fix.
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So we, we greatly appreciate your feedback. We thank you for, um,
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even commenting, um, on our podcast. And we, we want
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to see reviews like that because do not worry about
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offending us. Um, do not worry about hurting our feelings. Um,
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we need to hear the issues, um, that you guys
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are experiencing with our, our podcast, our website, anything, um,
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in our ministry. Now, of course, we don't want to
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be overwhelmed with a lot of issues, but we'll try
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our best to correct everything that seems to be an issue.
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And so I really appreciate it. So thank you all
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for filling out them surveys. We really appreciate it. So
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the next thing that I'd like to talk about after
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that little spew is Next thing I'll talk about is
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our app. So as you guys know, we've been building
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an app. We've, you know, was in testing phase. We're
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now out of the testing window. So now it's ready
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to go live. We are currently, one of our team
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members is a app developer. So just to be transparent,
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we're waiting for approval for Apple. to prove the ministry
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as a app developer. So the part, you know, the, sorry,
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the app will be under our ministry name and not
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one of our team members name. Um, it's nothing against
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our team member. It's just, that's what we want. So
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we're kind of waiting in that ballpark. And if you're
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very aware, if anybody's an app developer, you know, it's
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a process of trying to get approved. Um, we're worth,
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we're a nonprofit organization. We have to submit documents. to Apple.
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We're just waiting for Apple right now. We have been
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approved for Google, so we're just waiting for Apple to
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finish their paperwork and get everything submitted. Once we get
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approved for an Apple developer for the ministry, we will
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be pushing.
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That app live.
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So we're very, very excited about getting that done and
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releasing it to you all. Uh, our app is going
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to have sermons on there. It's going to have a sermon,
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our complete sermon archive. It'll have 3000 sermons on our,
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on our sermon archive on the app. That's a lot
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of words there. Um, and then it also had our
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podcast feeds on there. It'll have, you know, all of
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our podcast sermons. Um, we're nearing almost a thousand sermons
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on our podcast. Can y'all believe it guys? I am
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so thankful. Um, it's been a long time and, uh, we,
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that was our goal. Uh, one of our, one of
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our goals in the podcast is to reach a thousand
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sermons and eventually 5,000 and 10,000. And, uh, we're, we're
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highly thankful. Um, our podcast analytics, uh, we got feedback, um,
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and I would love to be able to share it
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with you all somehow. I'm trying to figure out how
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that would work, but, uh, We've reached 250,000 downloads. 250,000
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downloads on this main podcast. Now, our other podcasts are
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getting there. And we're very thankful for you guys tuning
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in to Classic Holiness Sermons, our children's ministry podcast, our interviews.
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Very excited to see directions. We are working hard. This
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is something exciting. We are working on a devotional teaching
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podcast by two of our members working together, recording audio,
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and we're going to be releasing that in the near future.
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It'll be two.
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Of our team members getting together and making their own
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basically podcast. They've already got the vision. They've already got
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the forward direction, and they are praying and And they
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are studying. Very excited to release that in the upcoming future.
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So to get that out to you all. 250,000 downloads.
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It's phenomenal. Tried several times. As you guys know, I
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started the podcast.
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Ministry around 2013, 14, around that time. And I really
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started it with the holiness preaching online ministry. So then
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find us on Spotify. Because we switch everything over. New
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the podcast. We are just getting there eventually. We appreciate
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you all for taking the time to listen to this
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little update. Please feel free. If you have any questions, concerns,
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me a personal email. It's Dylan.DamrelFoundation.org. Either email will work.
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you know, Brother Dylan, call me. Might be one I'm
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the ministry's going. We're truly excited about our app, truly
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excited about our website. A lot of good things is coming,
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God richly bless you all.
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Hello brothers and sisters of the Lord. We sure appreciate
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you all tuning in to this episode. Just wanted to
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do a quarterly update about our ministry and things that's
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going on in our ministry and our podcast. So let's
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get right into it. First thing first is if you
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haven't visited our website, please tune in to our website.
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Go to holinessfoundation.org. We have over 3,000 sermons on our
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website right now, and we're adding more. We're slowly getting
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favorite preachers on there that you like to hear. And
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we sure appreciate everybody that has actually visited our website
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for security reasons. But you can, with a profile, with
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everything has to be finalized. That's not a public directory,
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from pastors, you know, to preach services or anything like that,
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intro and outro is a little bit long. We're going
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the preacher. We will reach out to the preacher. We'll
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search on Google. We'll, you know, as long as we
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have the preacher's permission, we'll try our best to post them.
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to contact customer support and explain the issue. We've tried
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this is something that's been highly requested from emails that
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preachers that it's affected. So we're trying our best to
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get the originality picture. If we're using, you know, if it's...
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a picture we found online or something from a text,
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AI system tries to enhance it. And we're trying to
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figure out how to fully control that and get that
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turned off. I've worked with customer support through our programs,
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trying to get an answer, And as you guys know,
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customer support sometimes is not very reliable. So I'm working
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to try to get that fixed. So we do apologize
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for any preacher out there that the system has altered
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your image. We're working on trying to get it fixed.
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editing software. So please keep in mind, this is something
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we are aware and that we are trying to fix.
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So we, we greatly appreciate your feedback. We thank you for, um,
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even commenting, um, on our podcast. And we, we want
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to see reviews like that because do not worry about
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offending us. Um, do not worry about hurting our feelings. Um,
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we need to hear the issues, um, that you guys
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in our ministry. Now, of course, we don't want to
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be overwhelmed with a lot of issues, but we'll try
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our best to correct everything that seems to be an issue.
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And so I really appreciate it. So thank you all
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for filling out them surveys. We really appreciate it. So
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the next thing that I'd like to talk about after
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that little spew is Next thing I'll talk about is
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our app. So as you guys know, we've been building
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an app. We've, you know, was in testing phase. We're
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now out of the testing window. So now it's ready
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to go live. We are currently, one of our team
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members is a app developer. So just to be transparent,
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we're waiting for approval for Apple. to prove the ministry
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as a app developer. So the part, you know, the, sorry,
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the app will be under our ministry name and not
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one of our team members name. Um, it's nothing against
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our team member. It's just, that's what we want. So
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we're kind of waiting in that ballpark. And if you're
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very aware, if anybody's an app developer, you know, it's
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a process of trying to get approved. Um, we're worth,
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approved for Google, so we're just waiting for Apple to
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finish their paperwork and get everything submitted. Once we get
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approved for an Apple developer for the ministry, we will
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be pushing.
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That app live.
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So we're very, very excited about getting that done and
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releasing it to you all. Uh, our app is going
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to have sermons on there. It's going to have a sermon,
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our complete sermon archive. It'll have 3000 sermons on our,
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on our sermon archive on the app. That's a lot
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of words there. Um, and then it also had our
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podcast feeds on there. It'll have, you know, all of
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our podcast sermons. Um, we're nearing almost a thousand sermons
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on our podcast. Can y'all believe it guys? I am
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so thankful. Um, it's been a long time and, uh, we,
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that was our goal. Uh, one of our, one of
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our goals in the podcast is to reach a thousand
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sermons and eventually 5,000 and 10,000. And, uh, we're, we're
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highly thankful. Um, our podcast analytics, uh, we got feedback, um,
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and I would love to be able to share it
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with you all somehow. I'm trying to figure out how
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that would work, but, uh, We've reached 250,000 downloads. 250,000
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downloads on this main podcast. Now, our other podcasts are
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getting there. And we're very thankful for you guys tuning
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in to Classic Holiness Sermons, our children's ministry podcast, our interviews.
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Very excited to see directions. We are working hard. This
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is something exciting. We are working on a devotional teaching
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podcast by two of our members working together, recording audio,
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and we're going to be releasing that in the near future.
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Of our team members getting together and making their own
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basically podcast. They've already got the vision. They've already got
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the forward direction, and they are praying and And they
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are studying. Very excited to release that in the upcoming future.
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So to get that out to you all. 250,000 downloads.
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It's phenomenal. Tried several times. As you guys know, I
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started the podcast.
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Ministry around 2013, 14, around that time. And I really
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started it with the holiness preaching online ministry. So then
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whenever we kind of started our own thing, you know,
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I wanted a simple direction. We want to push content
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out as much as possible. That's why sometimes you may
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see four sermons in a day or, you know, you
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may see one. We're trying our best to make sure
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that sermons are out there for you all. We're very
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excited about that. Now, with that being said, we are
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trying to transition to one system, one computer system, basically.
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because we have, you know, a podcast host that we use,
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to build everything. We're working on moving our podcast to
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our own server. So what that means is we'll be
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hosting our podcast. We won't be using any kind of
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hosting service, such as Spreaker, you know, like For example, Spreaker, Spotify,
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you know, Apple, you know, basically Apple Podcast Creator.
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That's what there is. You know, Podbeam, all that.
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It'll be controlled from our web. Cost down, save us
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a lot of money, and someone else. With that being said,
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the current platform that we use is Spreaker. If you
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listen to us on Spreaker in the upcoming weeks, our
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sermons are going to stop. I highly recommend everyone to
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try to follow us. Listen to us on Spreaker on
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Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We'll still remain on them. But,
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once we switch podcast hosts to our own server, Spreaker.
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Will no longer push our... It's a legal thing.
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can get back on Spreaker with, you know, podcasting from
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our website. But for right now, it does not look
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like we can have that option. Unfortunately, that's something we'll
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have to work through. So, If you have an Android phone,
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please go ahead and follow us on Spotify. Or if you're,
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you know, and you're using Spreaker, just go ahead and
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find us on Spotify. Because we switch everything over. New
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sermons will not be added to Spreaker. Just wanted to
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make that aware. Hope everybody can understand. You do not
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feel free to give.
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Me a call.
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Send me an email and more than glad to walk
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you through it, get you guest feeds with other platforms.
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So we're very excited about that. We're looking forward to
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getting that direction.
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Another thing, let's.
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Go talk about one more thing and hopefully end this.
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Pushing at about 20 minutes now. Interviews. I haven't stopped
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doing them.
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I am trying my best to get with preachers and
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do some more interviews with preachers. But everybody's schedule has
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been kind of crazy with camp meeting and stuff like that.
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I had some medical issues that I was facing that
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I had to pull through on. I wasn't able to
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do some interviews that I had scheduled. I had to
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reschedule them and try to get them done. I'm working
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on getting them rescheduled. Some of the other ones that
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I'm on interviewing in the coming weeks.
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He's going to help us. I know he will. He
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always has.
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came in a mighty way and helped me. I'm so
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very thankful he come by and helped me. I do apologize,
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but we are going to be doing the interviews soon.
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As we can.
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Not forgot about them. We've not discontinued them. We're not,
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you know, canceled it or closed the app, you know,
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the podcast. We are just getting there eventually. We appreciate
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you all for taking the time to listen to this
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little update. Please feel free. If you have any questions, concerns,
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or issues, please send us an email. You can send
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us an email at MediaFoundation.org. Or you can also send
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me a personal email. It's Dylan.DamrelFoundation.org. Either email will work.
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If you send an email to the media, basically it
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goes to pretty much most of us. Some of them
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that don't have access to that email. But them are
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really for general questions, concerns. If you would want to
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contact me personally, and that's, you can just, bendylan.damrel, wellnessfoundation.org.
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You can always send me an email. If you prefer
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me to call you, just send me an email and say, hey,
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you know, Brother Dylan, call me. Might be one I'm
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glad to reach out to you. Hope this little podcast
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episode wasn't long, and we're very excited to see where
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the ministry's going. We're truly excited about our app, truly
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excited about our website. A lot of good things is coming,
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and I hope you guys stay tuned. Thank you all
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for your support, your kind words, and your continued commitment
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to our ministry.
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God richly bless you all.
