Penetrating the Spirit of This Age — Mel Esh

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Well, praise the Lord, it's good to be standing on American soil again and seeing all your faces. It was such a joy this morning to come into the house of God here, see familiar faces and all of you who are very dear to my wife and I's hearts.

Missionaries do send greetings to you all. As you know, as maybe some of you don't know, my wife and I were over in Africa for three weeks and just came back this past Tuesday. We were spending time there on behalf of the mission board, visiting the mission stations and also spent time there at the retreat with all the missionaries together there.

And so they give you all their greetings. Brother Aaron, I think you're here. Klaus told me to give you a hug. I know that you went through a lot last weekend and his heart was going out to you. And that's the way that he expressed himself to share with you.

So praise the Lord. Well, let's stand for a word of prayer and then we'll move on from here. Father in heaven, we do worship you this morning. We thank you that you're so good to your children. Father, thank you, Lord, for redeeming our souls from destruction, Lord.

We have heard those testimonies this morning and we know that all of us together, Lord, could have our own story to tell how that you redeemed us out of a life of sin and darkness and hell and destruction and the power of Satan and his grip and hold on our lives.

Father, we bless you this morning. And we do pray, Lord, you know, we've been born of your spirit and yet our souls need to be fed continuously. And Father, I ask you this morning to give me grace to feed this congregation of believers here at Charity Christian Fellowship.

Enable me by the power and demonstration of your spirit, Lord, to ably and aptly bring forth the Word of God to bear upon our hearts, Lord. Pray, Father, that it would, Lord, that it would apply, you know, that you would make application to each heart and life and soul in this room.

Thank you, Father. We love you. I trust you for this. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Well, welcome to all the visitors. I see many of you here this morning and many of you, I know, it's a joy to see your faces this morning among us.

I'm sure some of you are here for the baptism and we're all looking forward to that as a congregation. Well, let's turn our Bibles to Philippians chapter two, Philippians chapter two, and I'll start reading in verse twelve through sixteen.

Verse twelve, Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings, that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.

And I'll conclude there. You know, as I went over, as my wife and I took the journey over to Africa, I began to notice even on the plane already there was, you know, many Ghanaians were traveling with us over there, whether they were from this country or were going back to their home country.

Many of them were in the plane there and immediately I began to realize, you know, as much as some, I realized, you know, this world continues to take its downward path. You know, all the just the worldliness, the immodest apparel, and it just struck me.

And even in Africa, it struck me in the cities as I looked and, you know, beheld the influence of, I know the influence of America, much of it, and your, you know, with the television and all that they've seen, it's really influenced and is influencing the cities, especially there in Ghana.

My heart was grieved. I was watching behind, in front of me, was on the way over in front of me. These days on the planes, they have little TVs for each seat. And so in front of me, I was, I just happened to glance every so often in this, this African woman was watching a very filthy movie and my heart just again was bleeding for those that are being sucked into the spirit of this age and all.

So that's some of where my title has come from, Penetrating the Spirit of This Age. And I'd like to have a subtitle, The Sanctifying Effect of Our Missionary Brethren. Penetrating the spirit of this age and then a subtitle, The Sanctifying Effect of Our Missionary Brethren.

I'm going to interweave our missionary experience, you know, visiting missionaries with the message this morning, just interweave the, you know, some of the sanctifying effect that our missionary families and brethren had upon my heart, from my wife and I, and just bring that into some of that, into much of that, into the message here this morning.

After an all-night flight, we left here at seven o 'clock and arrived over there at five o 'clock your time, which would have been nine o 'clock their time over there. And Matthew Wollman was there at the airport to pick us up.

He's our business coordinator there in Accra. Many of you know Janelle and Matthew. They were here for, Matthew and Janelle were here for a number of years. And after they were married, they moved out to South Dakota.

So there are business coordinators there in Accra. And Matthew took us back to the mission house there. And as much of you, many of you have seen the Accra, those of you who have traveled over there. And I was just amazed at this, how much of the, how the roads are generally in Ghana, you know, this at this time.

There's many, Matthew was sharing on the way back. There's many, they have these huge top heavy loads. I mean, they may be, I don't know, 18 feet in the air sometimes. And some of these trucks actually topple over because of going through these bumps, you know, these holes.

And they sometimes topple over and crush vehicles, you know, that are passing them. And that happens, Matthew said. And I can see how it does. I can see very well how it happens. They're so very top heavy.

So we got to the mission house, Janelle, Brother Aaron and Janice, it's your daughter, greeted us very, very hospitably. She has such a hospitable spirit. It's a beautiful place there. They have a little and I'd like to just go through a few things this morning, because I know many of you are have just come into the church maybe the past year and are not familiar with Africa and our mission stations there and so forth.

So I'd like to go just explain a few things about the missionaries and their surroundings and, you know, what is happening in their station there. But anyway, they have a beautiful compound, a grassy plot there and it's there's a wall around the entire place.

It's a beautiful place. Just all of you who have been there and maybe have seen it even on slides know that it's a very beautiful setting there. So Matthew and Janelle, they're doing very well, very well with their two children.

I would say as I as I as I beheld their station, as I looked upon their lives, there was there's two things that stand out in my mind and that is joy and faithfulness, faithfulness and service and doing it with a joyful spirit.

And that's some of what I'd just like to share a little bit at this time. You know, Matthew is a he's faithful. He goes out to the out through those out through the city and long lines of traffic, especially because of the road construction that is that is taking place.

There's long lines of traffic, bumpy roads. Faithfully, he's going out there into government offices and doing paperwork for the missionaries. Sometimes he goes into an office and is told, hey, you have to come back tomorrow.

That's how Africa is. I mean, you know, they'll make you wait for three or four hours sometimes only to tell you at the end that they can't do it until tomorrow and then you have to come back the next day.

And so in all of that, you know, our business coordinator, Brother Matt, is faithful. And that's what I'd like to just bring out in our lives, the need of being faithful to the calling God has placed us in.

You know, you may be an employer this morning or you may be an employee this morning. God is calling you to faithfulness right where you're at on the job site. That little task that has been given you, children, God looks at a faithful man and woman.

He looks for those who are faithful to what he's placed before them. And let's just turn our Bibles, I don't know, you pray for me, God to give you wisdom, what to let out and what to what to share on this morning.

I have limited time here. Let's turn our Bibles to Colossians four. Just wanted to bring bring a few points out in our everyday lives in this area of faithfulness. Colossians chapter four is talking to employers, to masters.

Colossians four, verse one, masters give unto your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a master in heaven. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving, with all praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance to speak the mystery of Christ for which I am also in bonds, that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak, walking wisdom toward them that are without redeeming the time.

Let your speech be always with let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man. Near I see Paul, I see Paul sharing with the church here at Colossae, he's addressing masters and he's saying, be faithful to the calling that you have been placed in.

First of all, he treats them to be fair to their to their servants that are under them. But then he exhorts them, masters, you have time on your hands. Many times you have time. You have time to involve yourself in other matters.

Your servants are out on the job site. They're under, yes, they're under your watchful, they're under your supervision and management, but you don't always need to be there. You know, you might have a manager who is a foreman who is watching over the the employees and Paul is exhorting them, the masters, and saying, you have time on your hands, you have time to pray, continuing prayer, watching the same with Thanksgiving.

Pray for those. Pray for those who are sharing the gospel. Paul says here that for me, that a door of utterance might be open to me, that I may speak forth the mystery of Christ. And I believe that was Paul's heart to the church there.

I mean, to the to those who he who he saw were masters. He realized they had time on their hands and he exhorted them to be faithful and to redeem their time. And thus be able through prayer and through through, yes, through prayer and through some other things that he shares here to be able that the gospel might penetrate the spirit of the age that they were living in.

I believe that was Paul's heart, that these masters, he says, redeeming the time because I guess it doesn't say because the days are evil here. I think that's another passage. But anyway, I just I'm just getting us down into our everyday lives, that we are faithful to the calling God has placed us in and thus be able to penetrate the spirit of this age.

Faithful as servants. Maybe you're an employee this morning. Just turning quickly to Titus chapter two, Titus chapter two, verse nine, exhorts servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things, not answering again, not purloining, but showing all good fidelity that they may have adorned the doctrine of God, our Savior, and all things for the grace of God that bringeth salvation of the peer to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this in this present world.

And, you know, very clearly it's bringing out here again that servants are to obey their masters. Servants are to be at a place where they're not purloining or holding back. That word purloining means to hold back, to hold back what you could actually be giving to your master.

But the opposite is true. If you are giving of your whole heart, giving of giving everything, you know, with the with the ability that is within you, that you are adorning the doctrine of God, our Savior and all things, you know, that's the heart of God that whatever we're involved in, we're faithful to that calling and thus we're adorning the doctrine of God.

We're adorning the gospel of Jesus Christ and we're showing forth in that way, showing forth the gospel that is able to penetrate, like it says in verse twelve, this gospel teaches us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.

And that's that's the heart of God. He wants us in our everyday lives to be able by our lives, by our example, by the godly lives that we live, to be able to penetrate the spirit of this age, teaching by our godly lives that denying ungodly and worldly lusts is necessary to be, you know, to be clear with God and to to experience his righteousness in our lives.

OK, let's go on. Faithfulness says in Proverbs 20, most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find the just man walketh in his integrity. His children are blessed after him.

Then in Proverbs 28, 20, a faithful man shall abound with blessings. So let's remember in our callings, whether it's the mundane things of life, like Brother Matthew going out to town, going out into the city of Akron, those long lines of traffic and that dusty roads, he's faithful.

And through faithfulness, we can penetrate the spirit of this age as we live godly, virtuous lives before the Lord and before our fellow man. Joy, joy in hospitality. That's one thing I noticed about the station, too, is there was tremendous joy there.

I just took note of that. Janelle, she's full of joy as in her service for others and as she makes meals and serves the missionaries in one way or another. They experience joy in serving others, a cup of cold water or the joy of the Lord is our strength, serving others, whether our children, a neighbor or a friend, and doing it with joy.

Yesterday, yesterday we had a unique little experience, was that yesterday or the day before, Barb? Cat in the tree there the day before, I guess. We had a unique little experience where there was a we have some cottages off to the off to the left coming in our drive.

And my wife heard this cat just meowing and meowing. She just heard her cry for a long time. So she decided to walk over and see what's going on. And here there was this cat went was up about 60 foot in the air, up in up in a tree.

And the and the neighbor said there that it's been up there for four days and nobody wants to climb or they had even gotten the fire a fireman out to see if there's some fire equipment to get up in there.

And and so there was just nobody who wanted to take the time to an effort to to rescue the cat. And so I thought about a brother in church here whose father is a tree trimmer. And I thought, OK, I'm going to give him a call.

And sure enough, the brother came over, joyfully climbed that tree with a weeping woman at the bottom. And I believe the glory of the Lord has manifested through it all. He climbed up 60 foot feet with the harness, you know, his tree climbing equipment and the cat was rescued.

And the testimony of the Lord goes forth as we are involved in those type of things with joy in our hearts. We do it with joy. The the woman testified, a woman shared with my wife, she said, nobody wants to nobody really cares.

She said only one other person cared. I think it was the fireman who had come out and looked if there was a possibility of getting the fire equipment in there and so forth. But anyway, let's do let's serve others with joy in our hearts, with a you know, with with care.

And that's what I seen in Matthew and Janelle station there. They served others with love, with care in their hearts. And and does the you know, the power of Christ is manifested in the joy of the Lord.

Shines forth and yet we know that joy penetrates into the joy is what we heard this morning. Many are looking for before they come to salvation in Christ. OK, let's go on to the next station, Brother Kloss and Geraldine Cowan and their four children.

They're the brother Kloss is the headmaster there at Wawasi in the school there called Victory Christian School. And as many of you know, Victory Christian School has gone through many tumultuous times in the past.

I know that many of you were involved in praying in our Saturday morning prayer meetings. We prayed much for that station just seemed to be a spiritual stronghold there. And, you know, much of much as it was taking place there with sometimes teachers needing to be dismissed and and and the town being somewhat, you know, somewhat resistant, even sometimes to our presence there and so forth.

What I evaluated, you know, our brother and sister and the ministry that God has placed them in. I was I was just so blessed again. And I'd just like to share some of what the Lord is doing in that station.

When I think of that station, I think of the fear of the Lord. The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. It also says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.

The fear of the yes, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil. And that's what I see happening in that station. The fear of the Lord is coming upon that village like has never like hasn't happened before.

The fear of the Lord is coming upon the teachers and beginning to come down upon the students. And God is God's spirit is moving and working. You know, a year ago, I think Brother Emanuel shared a year ago how that there was much cheating taking place in the school.

There was much even the teachers were sometimes involved in helping the helping the children cheat, especially during test time. You know, that's a big thing in Ghana. When the exam time comes, they you know, everyone, of course, they want to pass.

And the parents want their children to pass. And the school teachers, they want to you know, they want to be known as you know, they want their school to be known as a good school. So they forge people through despite bad grades or somehow, you know, they allow them to they give them the answers sometimes.

And much of that takes place in Ghana. In fact, you can find a fight. You can basically not find a public school where there's not teachers involved in helping their students cheat and so they so they can pass.

Anyway, Klaus in Brother Klaus last year took a very clear stand, took a very clear stand against all that cheating and all that corruption that was taking place. And as you heard our brother Emanuel share last year, there was at that time, basically all hell was breaking loose upon him and his family.

And that's what was and that's what took place. There was, you know, parents were beginning to parents would hold their children back from or be on Klaus's back for what it was, you know, what he was doing there.

The children scoffed at him, the town gave him the cold shoulder and even had the even had the public school officials saying he can't take this strong of a stand. So it looked dark a year ago, very dark, looked like maybe school would be closed down by the public officials.

And so things didn't didn't look real good a year ago. In the midst of it all, Klaus, our brother, remained unwavering. I learned so much just just watching his life. A few days I was there, but he just steadily moved onward and forward with that call of God that was upon his life and lifting up the standard of the truth of God's word.

He held to it uncompromisingly, let's let's turn our Bibles yet to Deuteronomy Chapter 21, just one one short scripture here, Deuteronomy Chapter 21. I won't read the whole passage here. It's verse 18 through 21.

Here it brings out about a stubborn and rebellious son and what the children of Israel were to do with with such in one. In verse 21, it says,. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he die.

So shalt thou put away, so shalt thou put evil away from among you. And all Israel shall hear and fear. And that is exactly what has happened. The consequences for sin were brought down upon the people.

In other words, they face consequences. They were not going to pass their tests if they weren't diligent in their studies. They were held back. They were flunked. There was consequence for for sin and teachers being dismissed because of, you know, them allowing cheating in the classes and so forth.

And the town and the you know, it began to settle down. Like it says there, if they were to stone, this was a consequence back then for rebellious and stubborn son, they were to stone him that all Israel, so that all Israel through the consequence of their of his sin would hear and fear.

And that's exactly what has taken place in Wawassi. They have heard. And now the fear of God is taking hold of their hearts and praise the Lord, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. It's the beginning of wisdom, and that's what is taking place in the hearts of the teachers, the students and also the parents.

It's affecting the town there. And I just think of how it says in Isaiah, it says when the when the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. And that's what has happened.

Yes, all hell broke loose in a sense a year ago, but God's spirit has lifted up a standard against the flood tide of evil and wickedness. That came against, it came against the work there and against our missionary friends and family there, and God is truly raising up a standard.

And I'll go on just a little, I'll come back to that in just a little here. It says it says in Ephesians 415 that we are to we are to bring forth the truth in love. And that's another aspect that I learned as I watched our brother work through as he shared, especially as he shared how he worked through things and difficulties in his station, despite lifting up the standard of truth.

There was not a rejection of the person. He kept he shared it and I don't exactly know how to explain it, but he shared the truth in love. And as his love, the love of God went out, even for teachers that were dismissed or fired and and parents who were upset, there was one parent who was very upset at him.

You know, he would he would walk past the school daily, wouldn't look, you know, class would try to greet him and he just looked the other way or just he wouldn't say a word. He was you could tell he was very upset at his child and not being able to continue there.

What was the victory Christian school? And and so, you know, that's some of some of the things that he was some of the things that he was facing were people coming against him because of because of things that, you know, difficult things that that they were up against and, you know, children being dismissed and so forth.

And the parents were getting upset and in at all in in all of that class continued to love. He continued to show forth. He continued to bring forth the truth in love, continued at times he would heap coals of fire on on the on his enemy.

And he especially had one enemy there who who really was an antagonist. And today I can honestly say the town is at peace. The children are happy in the school, the teachers are unified, the town is getting more and more friendly and God is at work through the standard of righteousness that was lifted up.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A year ago, it looked like everything was going to be shut down. But God through our brother taking an uncompromising stand, God has lifted up a standard.

And the Lord is at work in the hearts of the teachers and in the hearts of the parents. One of the parents said in this last parent, every I think every three months or so, they have a parents and teachers meeting.

And one of the parents shared after the last meeting, this is the best meeting we've ever had. The parent and teachers meetings are completely at peace, peaceful, usually those parents and teachers meetings where the missionaries basically dreaded them because of all the, you know, the parents griping about things and wanting sports in the school or wanting, you know, Independence Day marches and so forth.

But today that station is at peace. I mean, I'm not saying there's no, you know, there's no difficulties at all, but God has tremendously broken the backbone of that spiritual principality that we were praying against, you know, the last number of years.

And I thank God, I thank God for all of your prayers. I know that the Lord has used our prayers and breaking the backbone of that power and evil principality and power of darkness that was operating in that station.

So let's take a lesson, brethren, you know, when I think of the fear of the Lord, you know, some of you as parents, maybe you're lax sometimes, maybe we're lax as parents sometimes in bringing consequence upon our children, but it needs to be lifted up.

The standard of righteousness needs to be lifted up in our homes, you know, to bring forth that there is consequence for sin that others may hear and fear. Others may hear and fear. Maybe we're lax as pastors sometimes.

And of course, it needs to be shared in love. So I bless God. My wife and I, we were just so blessed in hearing, you know, how God has raised up a standard in that station there, there at Wawassee. Truly, the spirit of this age is penetrated through effectual prayer and lifting up the standard of truth in redemptive love.

OK, let's go on to Tanner and Rebecca's station. Tanner and Rebecca Leiby, they have two children and Dale and Camden, they're back there in Tulaway working with the Goonja tribe. And we went up with classes, Saturdays we went up with classes and then somebody met us with a vehicle which we drove back into their station and almost at their house.

They have this they have this huge gully and this is a rainy season. So the gully was, you know, quite full with water. And so I was wondering, you know, Tanner was actually driving. He came out to meet us there and it probably came up to the lorry about this high.

The lorry is the vehicle there. And he drove right through with his diesel diesel engine and out the other side. So, you know, it looks back there, Rick, or you haven't been to that station yet, not to Tulaway, you've been to Kafaba.

But anyway, they were sharing, it was interesting, they shared that just recently, just recently, there was a few, I think, two young men or a boy and a girl, whatever, walked through there. And and one of the one of the young men put his foot down to take the next step.

And here he felt this slithery thing moving, you know, from underneath him. And here he had put his foot on a crocodile that was down in there. So I don't think he was hurt, but the the town is very, you know, this is a big thing.

I'm not sure if they even trudge through there anymore, you know, without a moto motorcycle or I know they go through their motos, if I'm correct. But but anyway, that they live back in. Oh, their house is right in the in the town of Tulaway there.

Like I said, Tanner is working with the Gunjas. And when I think of Brother Tanner and his wife, Rebecca, I think of the scripture where it says in in second Corinthians four, it says we are perplexed, but not in despair.

It says we're cast down, but not forsaken. We are persecuted, but not destroyed. Always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal body.

And that's what I see happening with our brother. You know, his wife at this time is is laid up quite a bit with she's been diagnosed with Lyme disease. Many of you know that and are praying for her. Continue to pray for she is.

She does get fatigued very quickly, making of a meal basically almost wipes her out. So pray for our sister. She's on treatment presently. The treatment came just before we came home here. An oral treatment that she's taken by a local doctor here that prescribed it.

But when I look at their spirits, I see a rejoicing heart in the midst of it all. In the midst of it all, their spirit is at a place of rejoicing and joy and vibrancy. There's faith there. They're not down and out and discouraged and living in the slough of despawn, but they are.

Their spirit is being sustained. Through continued faith in Christ and His grace and trusting His grace to be sufficient. That's what I've seen in their station. God is God is at work despite the sickness, despite some of the things they've gone through.

Tanner actually came here home here in May, as some of you know, for some important meetings here. And they've actually only been in their station. Let me see how many days in the last three months. I forget exactly about 10 days, maybe.

But it was very till we had gotten there. They had hardly been in their station. It was 10 days before we got there. They had been in their station. So they were basically out of their station for three months with Rebecca's sickness.

They had moved to Accra. But in the midst of it all, God is God is working and lifting up a standard as well. He has a little carpenter shop there and he's building. I just love it. He has this little carpenter shop and, you know, he's there planing with the hand plane and sawing with a hand saw.

And here comes these. I didn't see it, but he was just sharing with me that the village, you know, the men of the village usually in the evening, especially they come and they just sit around there and watch him and talk.

Of course, he knows he knows Gunja by now. So they're sharing freely with one another. And and his aim and goal, his desire is to build a relationship to such a place with them that when he gives them the gospel, they can't easily shrug it off.

You know, he's built that foundation with them of of all of establishing a relationship. You know, he's living there in town and that's he's among these people. So his desire is to establish relationships with them.

And then, like I said, that the gospel can't be shrugged off easily. There's a blind man in town who's beginning to open his heart. I was blessed, I went with him to see the blind man. The blind man is there and he mentioned something about and I can I can I know from being a missionary in Ghana in the past, I know some of the words in Gunja are the same as the dog money that I, you know, that I know.

And so I heard a few of the words and one of the he was asking the blind man was asking him something about Jesus, Jesus, which, you know, is Christ. And and Tanner told me later, yes, that he is opening up his heart more and more.

He's saying at this time he's still confused. You know, what about Muhammad? What about Jesus? These are Muslims. What about Muhammad? What about Jesus? You know, where does that all fit together? And at this time he's saying, you know, I want to be in heaven with Muhammad and Jesus.

You know, he's still not totally persuaded over into the Christian faith, but he's beginning to make comments. Another thing that Tanner is known by, he's known in his village as a man of God's word. And that really blessed me to hear that he's known as a man of God's word in the village.

So a foundation is being laid again, I believe, by example, seeing their lives, seeing Tanner and Rebecca live their everyday lives with a joyful, vibrant spirit, with the many sicknesses and difficulties they've gone through.

And also, you know, as he's beginning to share the gospel, he's beginning to be known as a man of God's word. The spirit of this age is penetrated through dying and behold, we live not I, but Christ. That's what I see happening.

It's not them, but Christ living through them. And it's beginning to penetrate the town of Tulaway there just in small ways. I'm not saying there's anything great yet, but we're trusting God that more will take place in the month and years to come.

OK, then going up to Weston Station, Weston Libby. I've never seen the roads worse and they aren't gone at this time. I mean, the roads are bad. I'm not sure if it has to do with the government, the new government.

They have a new president in there since the first of the year. And the roads are just very, very bad. OK, Weston and Charity, they have two children, missionaries to the Kakumba tribe who Daniel also works with.

And it so happened he had Ross told me the day before that we're to leave early in the morning that that they're having a sunnah, which is an out they call it in English. It's an outdooring. It's a baby naming ceremony that they have for children in Africa.

Once they're basically the way the Old Testament had it, you know, the child was circumcised. And from what I understand, a name was given, given the child at that time. I'm not sure about the circumcision part, but the the child is named about eight days after after the child is born.

And as you know, Weston and Charity recently had a child. Stephen is his name. They had it there at the Nalargo Hospital. So they had the outdooring the day that we arrived there, and that was very interesting.

There were many, probably about 100 people showed up Hudson, which is their first son. His name means God with us. And then then West got to share a little bit with the with those who were there. And he said he said Stephen means that it is well with us.