Shed Studios: Welcome to Across the Globe. This is the official podcast of the Global Methodist Church. ⁓ this is a space to unify, to inform, and to tell stories of God's work through the Global Methodist Church as we make disciples of Jesus Christ and spread scriptural holiness around the world. If you are just joining us, or maybe you've listened to a couple episodes, we want to encourage you to like, subscribe, share, do all the cool stuff. Tell your friend, tell your neighbor, tell your mom, all of them. ⁓ we just want to make sure everyone hears about everything that God is doing in the Global Methodist Church. ⁓ my name is Jason Nix, and I am honored today to be joined by our very own COO, Mike Schaefer. Mike, how are you doing today? Hey, doing great, Jason. It's great to be back with you. It's been a while since I've joined one of these podcasts, and I'm looking forward to this conversation. Absolutely. We are we are looking forward to jumping in here. We are talking General Conference 2026. ⁓ and specifically with all the things going on, we're gonna be talking about the mission experience that is planned for Johannesburg, South Africa and ⁓ my first time meeting him and maybe your first time meeting him, but we are honored to be joined by Mr. Tim Beardsley. Tim, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. It's so good to be here. Absolutely, man. So before we get going into all the cool stuff and stuff we can be looking forward to and all the ways we can get involved. ⁓ we just want to pause a second and Tim just tell us a little bit about yourself, like where are you from, ⁓ family, any of that kind of stuff. We just want to get to know you a little bit. Okay. ⁓ my name is Tim Beardsley. I live in northeast corner of Maryland, right by Delaware and Pennsylvania. ⁓ little unheard of pocket of Maryland. And I serve two churches in Elkton, Maryland. They are Saint John's Louisville Church and Wesley Church of Elkton. I'm in the Northeast Conference of the Global Methodist Church. I'm an ordained elder, just ordained at our convening conference. ⁓ I'm an Asbury grad with Master Divinity. So that's a little bit about that part. I also ⁓ have been called to Africa. We'll talk about that a bit more. ⁓ but the the interesting thing is, ⁓ my wife Margaret and I, we don't have children. We have family. We don't have children, so ⁓ God has allowed us to make lots of children as our family through the church. So we give God thanks for that. Yeah. And Tim, you ⁓ I sorry, Jason, I was gonna say I I wanted to fill in for y'all to really get to know this guy. You do a little like farming, firewood cutting. What do you do on the side here that people need to get to know you? So for some of the ministry I'm doing in Africa, because I serve two rural churches, ⁓ the There's never enough funding, right? But God always has all the funding needed. ⁓ so what I've been doing for most of my life and I've just continued it and switched it into tent making ministry, is ⁓ I make ⁓ round bales of hay and I then connect with all the small ⁓ small and large farmers in the area through that connection. And also I ⁓ provide firewood, ⁓ lots and lots and lots of firewood for ⁓ the camping and Home heating industry around. So I think it's ⁓ it's right off. I think it's Acts eight eighteen, verse four and five. Don't quote me. But where it speaks about the tent making ministry. So yeah, God's been good. And that also provides lots of prayer outside of the church, lots of connection. And we've seen some people come to Christ and actually come to the church through those tent-making ministries. A little bit out of the box. Thank you. Thank you for reminding me to bring that up. Well, there's just not married no it's not every day that your your pastor's out there being Paul Bunyan, ⁓ preaching the preaching the word and and and splitting and splitting some logs. I love that. Absolutely. ⁓ how long have you served and you might have said this, so just ⁓ l length of ministry, have you always been in Maryland? Has there been any other season where you've kind of been ⁓ in in different context? No. I bought my father's house. So I live in the house I grew up in. But from that base camp. ⁓ so yeah, I've always lived here, but I've served in I actually served in a homeless ministry for years where we were doing ⁓ transitional housing ministry. We were leading people from brokenness, ⁓ whatever led them to be homeless, addicted or whatnot, helped lead them into sobriety, into now we had transitional housing. That's where God started me. God rescued me from a bad path, ⁓ of of of brokenness. So God put that ministry in front. We created 501 C, did that for five or six years. ⁓ and then from there we ⁓ I felt a little that little small voice speaking again, calling me into the ⁓ United Methodist Church. And I served there for years. And ⁓ when it came time to to cross cross over to the GMC, God provided that very clearly also. So I I I think I served for about ten years as a a local pastor in the United Methodist Church before being global Methodist. So I love it. So you are on the podcast today because in case in case you've been living you're listening to this and been living under a rock, we have a general conference coming up in Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁓ this fall. Well, late summer, early fall. ⁓ and so there is so much going into that. ⁓ Mike and the entire team, the bishops, the superintendents ⁓ around the world ⁓ are all really working hard as we as we look towards ⁓ Johannesburg, South Africa. But you are the team lead for the mission experiences. So you have ⁓ been a part of that. Can you just kind of explain what is that and and h how did you come about ⁓ to be a team lead and maybe what caused you to say yes? I'm gonna break your question apart and start with the middle. That's the way to do it. I like it. Yes, sir. Okay. So how did I get connected to Africa? I've given you this story up to some little place called Elkton, Maryland, that no one's heard of off exit 100, right? ⁓ where I live. But ⁓ back in in when there started some discussion about ⁓ when there started being some discussion b in our previous denomination about ⁓ some of the issues around changing the discipline, I connected with ⁓ one African in Liberia. And that was ⁓ Reverend Dr. Jerry Kula. So we became friends and my first trip, actually I'll leave it this. My my email communication ended with this. If it's God's will, maybe we can meet one day. That was in 2019, April. I flash forward now, I start my Master Divinity at Asbury. I go to Asbury Seminary. I hear on my first day there ⁓ in the basement of one of the ⁓ buildings, I forget which one, but I remember hearing from Dr. Michael Voytz, he said, We have today a very special guest or on Wednesday a special guest speaker from Africa. And I spoke up and said, Is it Dr. Kula? He said, It is. I said, and out loud, of course, because I can't keep quiet all the time, I said, if it's the will of God, we shall meet. And at that moment we met and it was just amazing. I thought, okay, this is where it ends. Go forward a little more. ⁓ we have ⁓ that COVID thing in 2020. He's he and I messaged back and forth. I let him know my wife is very sick. I've had to take her to the hospital. Please pray for us. ⁓ my wife got better. And then after we both got better, I messaged him and said, Why don't we try to do something on Zoom? Everything shut down. So I brought him all the way from Liberia in as a guest speaker on Zoom. We logged out the Zoom account quickly with over a hundred families that day. And from there, later in the year, I needed to go do some practical ministry experience. So I went to Liberia, first place in Africa. And from there, ⁓ as we got deeper into our friendship, I got connected with the Africa Initiative and then was connected in ⁓ ⁓ Nairobi fo with the Africa Initiative ⁓ and actually preached on GMC morning, the small devotion before that was presented. So that's where I got connected with all of Africa by each of us sharing our friendships with one another. And I I don't know how a I don't know how a guy from basically a rural community that's not connected too far outside of our rural community ends up in Africa at multiple countries at multiple times, except by the will of God. So from that, ⁓ Jason, I think that's how God led me to this thing called the General Conference Commission. and I I'm not the only one connected in Africa in this way, but it was a right season for me to be part of this ⁓ commission and part of this ministry. So to and to get back into your original question, how did I connect with how did I So let's let's try my mind in the morning. I think the way it comes down is this that was a connection and then from there I've never been to South Africa. Been all over Africa and I prayed one day I met some South Africans at at ⁓ at the general conference twenty four in Costa Rica and I thought I told him, If it's God's will I'll come South Africa one day. I should have known those that language creates an open path. So God's will was fulfilled and When I was asked to be on the commission and we realized we were gonna be going to South Africa for general conference, ⁓ the mission experience seemed a natural part for me to be part of. And I'm glad some leadership asked me to do that. So, Jason, we were my wife and I and Becky Wood, our director of the project manager for general conference. The three of us traveled to Johannesburg last August. ⁓ to kind of scout things out, meet with people and everything. And Tim shows up ⁓ while we're there, others came in and met with us, but Tim happened to be there too. And so he got that was your first time, right? To Johannesburg, Tim, that that trip? It was. It was. I was in southern part of Africa and I just got a plane ticket to jump over there and see what was going on. That is that is incredible. ⁓ again, the across the globe exists to tell the stories of how God is at work in the entirety of the life of the church. ⁓ Tim, you could have answered that question ⁓ the th in all seven parts that I gave it to you. ⁓ you could have answered it ⁓ any number of ways. But I love that you just gave us a story of ⁓ one personal your journey, ⁓ to the journey of how God has connected the dots and ⁓ by his will, just kind of orchestrated things in his time and in his season. ⁓ so ⁓ now that now that we've kind of got that story, which again is so beautiful, what is the mission experience? It for for the folks who maybe heard of or went to Costa Rica in twenty twenty four, there was ev evangelism and it looked in one context there. So kind of explain for us and and maybe even just kind of ⁓ I w I don't know if I could answer that question effectively. So ⁓ to educate me. What is the what is this mission experience that is a part of General Conference 26? So in 2024, I was actually part of the mission experience in Costa Rica. So I'm gonna speak from my experience, not from my knowledge. Let's go. Okay. All right. So we registered to be Marshalls in 2024, which is a volunteer position But we weren't needed, I say we, my wife and I, we weren't needed the whole time. So I jumped on a bus. Okay, let me let me change that. Everyone knew where I was going, and I got on a bus. ⁓ and when I jumped on the bus, it took us all the way out into some ⁓ village where there was a mi a orphanage mission. And they were having to build a security wall. So at that place, before we even got on the bus to go out, ⁓ we had one of the bishops ⁓ pray for all of us mm and we were gathered together in and the sidewalk of the ⁓ of the general conference building in costa rica and the idea was that we would go out and we would do meet some people, do some ministry. Well, we get on the bus, one one young ⁓ person stands up and starts speaking about how he came to Christ and and how he was in Fiji and how it was the ministry ⁓ I forget exactly what I think it might have been Samaritan's purse ⁓ ministry through the shoe boxes led him to Christ. Well, I just share this because we became friends and very close friends, and it was just from that interaction on a bus. And I didn't realize that the the ministry of evangelism would also be internal, right? Where we could we could support one another and end up creating basically a class meeting. So from this thing, We were able to sign up, go out. I think there was spirit and truth training. There was some one day they did some construction work. Another day they did some ⁓ prayer ministry on the street. The day I went, we were building a wall, using scaffolding and concrete. And I'm gonna tell you, man, it was beautiful. ⁓ there were there were people I saw mixing concrete, pushing wheelbarrows that are pastors I know, that are ⁓ lay leaders. ⁓ ⁓ executive of a hospital was there. And it was cr ⁓ for me, I was like, this is amazing. We're seeing God doing things through people that they would never do in a place they probably never would have gone. And we're seeing the community built. So that that's where it started. Where it ended up was it ⁓ for this one, we're basing our ministry of this ⁓ twenty twenty-six on the model that I just shared with you. Yeah. We're not gonna have ⁓ we're not gonna be mixing concrete and doing construction in South Africa. It just didn't work out that way. But we're gonna have ⁓ the Spirit and Truth training, which is an evangelism prayer training ⁓ that I believe ⁓ Dr. Matt Reynolds is on or while or you you should know him. ⁓ but he's gonna be leading that training with a team before conference starts. ⁓ so that everyone can go. All delegates can go, all ⁓ reserves, all alternates, observers, people from the streets of Johannesburg. This will be held at a location ⁓ in Soweto at a place called Uncle Tom's Community Center. And so some guy named Tom was probably an uncle and he put this place together. ⁓ so that thing's gonna there's seating in there for almost a thousand people in that building. Come on. So we did this intentionally so that it would be outside of the Santa and r the all the people there on the twenty ninth of August can gather in this one location for training. But the training is more about the community gathering, right? Just like my experience on the bus in Costa Rica. ⁓ yes, sir, go ahead. Well I was gonna say, I mean, d to hear your experience in Costa Rica, that fire that was lit And you there and the passion and and for you to get to experience so many different aspects of the mission experience and meet so many people and and then you this opportunity to lead it in Johannesburg is put in front of you, coupled with your passion for Africa. I can't even imagine what was going on inside of you at that point. What when when you were first handed the opportunity, what Did God lay on your heart that was going to be most critical as you put the mission experience together in Johannesburg? Well, the first thing is, you may not know this. I denied leading it right away. I said, Give me two days to pray before I agree. Then God agreed that I should lead it. So That's a very way to start. Again, if it's the will of God, right? We're back to those couple words. So yeah. I'll be honest, I didn't have a great feeling like ⁓ like this is a position or anything. I believed it was a mission of God to do for the kingdom of God. and it's not about us going to South Africa ⁓ and leaving. It's about all of us gathering in South Africa together and seeing how God if it's the will of God, use those words while we're in South Africa because I believe all of us are gonna be better after being together. In South Africa. So Jason, you you're picking up on this, but when you meet this guy in person in South Africa, people are everything to Tim. If you walk anywhere with him, he's gonna get to know everybody around you and ⁓ start in in some word probably start talking to about Jesus. ⁓ so he not only has a passion for people, but he he definitely has the gift of evangelist. Definitely. I'm c so I'm curious, what with the way that the Lord has orchestrated just in your own story and how that has blossomed and blessed ⁓ the the larger body and ⁓ all these different contexts, what is what is for you, Tim, like what is the most meaning why is why is this mission experience, ⁓ everything that again is planned and then all the things that are unplanned that it's just gonna be the Lord doing ⁓ doing the work? Why is it so meaningful that this is taking place ⁓ in Africa? Like how does how does that land for you? For me? Well, I'm I I may not have mentioned earlier. I was commissioned as an evangelist to ⁓ Africa. Yeah. But here in the States, you know, Africa's big. There's like 53, 54 countries in Africa. ⁓ Africa's huge. So that's a that's a ⁓ give God thanks, ⁓ for the mission field. So I When to hold general conference on the soil of anywhere in Africa is new. It's breaking, right? Hasn't been done that I know of, right? Never in a GMC and probably never in my lifetime, any anytime. ⁓ so this is really big breaking news. And to gather there, we you know, we can do holy conferencing well, right? We can have nice cameras, we can have beautiful ⁓ audio systems. I I mean that's I believe it is lean even gonna get better and better as years go. But one thing that I see is mission experience that'll set the Global Methodist Church apart from anything else is where holy conferencing, and remember that's the day, that's the thing where we ⁓ where we do spiritual and also deal with business stuff, right? We do the as ⁓ as a holy conferencing's happening, I believe concurrently this is where ⁓ the mission experience will bring the street ministry to the out on the street, the practical way that Methodists do ministry. And something that's becoming new again, right? Because we sort of lost track of that during the pandemic and during the last few years for multiple reasons. But we're now we're coming alive. We're we're awaking from our our ⁓ amnesia, right, fro of of of of of doing ministry in this way. And it's gonna be big. Being there, ⁓ being there on the ground visiting all these churches in South Africa that where we're going to be doing the ministry, it's God's gonna bless it, I believe. ⁓ my God. Yeah. No question about that. So Tim people may not know this, but we out of the general church funds, we fund general conference. And it takes a lot of money to bring all those people together, to get a convention center, all the hotels, meals, everything that's involved. But The General Conference Commission intentionally chose to separate the funding for the mission experience out of the budget. In other words, to no, we're gonna we're gonna give people the opportunity to invest in the mission experience. So tell us a little bit about it, how that how that works, how people can give to that if they want to, and and you know, anything else you might share around that. Okay, yeah. Thank you so much for that question. ⁓ the funding. So The the funding for the mission experience is two part. ⁓ one part is gonna be covered through the general conference budget or whatnot for this. It's a small budget. That's the administrative part. Now people've asked why why are we fundraising for ninety thousand plus ten percent, ninety-nine thousand. And that was actually coming from my team to the general conference commission that we wanted to fund this through. ⁓ reaching out as a form of evangelism that we can reach out to other churches, individuals, districts, conferences around the world, so they'll have ownership in the mission experience. They'll have the ability to ⁓ we know that first people need to pray, right? Everyone pray. Please pray. Pray for us. We'll pray for you. Secondly, if you're praying and God leads you to giving, they can give. And that's somewhere on the website. We'll have Jason share that. ⁓ the third thing is after general conference, when this is ministry is finished, it will give people the opportunity to share ⁓ the sacred story of what God has done through the mission experience. we know that we know that holy conferencing will happen inside the building, and that will be very ⁓ it'll be very proper and well. The ministry of mission experience will be on the street. ⁓ I'll say it'll be very proper and well in a whole different setting. So the funding comes through people's hearts being led by God to give. And we're praying for everyone, ⁓ whether they give or not. So and and so in in line with everything else you shared with us, Tim, if it's God's will, then we that's entirely here we go, right? ⁓ so if th if that is something that's stirring in your heart right now. So ⁓ as Tim has described, kind of all the different ways, ⁓ that this mission experience is going to be taking ⁓ delegates, leaders, superintendents, you name it, just the Global Methodist Church ⁓ that has gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, taking them out into the highways and byways to pray for people, to preach the gospel, to connect with local churches. ⁓ if that's stirring in your heart and that's something that the Lord is telling you that you need to support, you need to go to beauty of holiness2026.org. And then click on the mission experience section and there will be instructions there for how you can give. I know annual conferences are giving. ⁓ I think three ⁓ annual conferences, Tim, you said have have stepped up to give. There's three more that are discerning steps ⁓ to give at a conference level. But again, we we are not simply a a conglomerate of conferences. We are people seeking to have the Lord work in and through us according to his will. And so if the Lord is stirring your heart that he wants you to be a part of this, then again go to beauty of holiness twenty twenty six dot org and click on the mission experience section and there will be instructions there for how you can give to support specifically this mission experience that's going to be taking place in South Africa. Did I do an okay job there? Did I cover cover all the bases? Absolutely, man. Come on. So yeah, ⁓ those three conferences of given And plus some individu a bunch of individuals has given twenty and fifty and hundreds also. But those the the three big gifts are three USA conferences. There's three more USA conferences discerning. But did I hear a question in ⁓ through the Holy Spirit say, Well, what about outside of the USA? Yeah. Yes. So I directly have had contact with two Africa GMC conferences that are right now discerning and gonna vote in the next one or two weeks. ⁓ and it doesn't have to be big money because any any funding that comes in shows the power of prayer and God's will. It's my prayer that every conference can contribute either ⁓ a a couple copper coins or whatever else it ends up being so that we can we can be together in in ministry ⁓ through prayer and giving. And I and I just want to encourage people as you pray about that, ⁓ remember the stories that Tim told earlier from Costa Rica. Think about that. If you if God's touched your heart to give here, that's what your investment is gonna produce and and and help fund and resource. So some amazing stuff's gonna happen. You can be a part of that, even if you're thousands of miles away somewhere else. That's beautiful. So I'm if if y'all will give me just 30 seconds of personal privilege. ⁓ so I'm an ordained deacon in the Global Methodist Church in the mid-Texas Conference. Right. ⁓ so ⁓ I serve a a remnant church, ⁓ church plant. We we have we're remote, we don't even have our own building. ⁓ and there's this thing that's stirred up as I've been going through my course of study education and as I've been ⁓ pastoring this local body and connected to this conversation right here, which again is just the Lord. That's crazy. ⁓ guys like me that don't have ⁓ divs or doctorates, like why why do they give this guy a mic? ⁓ but you just see the Lord working through all that. But I would just say this, Tim, as you have ⁓ shared with us today, it has just reminded me that ⁓ you know, if we always kind of in this season, we've been a whole lot of, well, you know, what did Wesley say? And let's get back, let's reclaim Methodism. Let's reclaim the the Orthodox ⁓ roots and tradition and foundation of our faith. ⁓ and yes, Wesley was a theologian, yes he was an academic, but he was also a field preacher. And in and so ⁓ we can do holy conferencing and and I love what what has kind of just spurred out of this, which is like, yes, we will the the conference room will be large, the cameras will be big, the lights will be on, ⁓ there will be a an order and something that we're really familiar with. But I think if if if all we're doing is reclaiming ⁓ a a theology, if all we're doing is claiming an academic prowess, ⁓ if all we're doing is reclaiming those pieces, we gotta reclaim the fields. We gotta reclaim the heartbeat that says, Here I am, Lord, send me. I don't care where it where to, ⁓ what it looks like, where where it's at, you know, because again, Wesley famously detested field preaching. He was just like it was not his favorite place to be, but that's where the Lord called him to. And so I love that in Costa Rica and in Johannesburg at our first two general conferences, these gatherings of the global body, we are we are reclaiming the entirety of what we are as Methodists, which is that we're gonna get out into the highways and the byways and we're gonna proclaim the name of Jesus. We're gonna trust that as we proclaim the name of Jesus, that all men will be drawn unto him and God will do the work according to his will. Back to you, Tim. Thank you. So moment of personal privilege over, but now that I've kind of set that up and given maybe a little of that framework, Tim, ⁓ as the team lead for the mission experience, ⁓ for all those just right now speaking to all those who are who are planning to be in Johannesburg for General Conference. ⁓ how would you frame this, encourage them, invite them to be a part of what is going to be taking place throughout the General Conference in Johannesburg through the mission experience? All right. So first of all, everyone in the world can't show up in Johannesburg at one time. ⁓ so I'm gonna invite everyone in the entire world, GMC or beyond, to pray. Yeah. ⁓ because if it's the will of God through the Holy Spirit We'll all be there connected. So those that are ⁓ right now that are delegation, those that are ⁓ alternative reserve observers, some are ⁓ gonna be marshals like myself or others that won't be needed every day, please reach out to hm, I one of the people that Mike Schaefer's gonna let you know who, ⁓ to get to get in contact ⁓ with the ⁓ Opportunity to sign up for some of these experiences. Some of those are some of these are already full. Others we're still loading. ⁓ we've again the Spirit and Truth Training Day, that one's completely open for everybody. We've got room for a thousand. I think we're gonna fill the room, but we're gonna fill it with whoever signs up on our side to start. ⁓ and then others. That same Saturday afternoon we'll be in ⁓ Soweto doing some ministry ⁓ near the Soweto Global Methodist Church. So All ministries we're doing are gonna be at sites of Global Methodist Church or even startups. ⁓ there's a remnant church startup right now that we're gonna be going to also. So the way to the way to be connected is that way if you're physically there. The other way is again, as we've shared, if people want to give, ⁓ pray and give, by giving, you're there also by the physical act of your heart ⁓ and your your your monies being connected to the ministry there. I I I hope and pray. My hope and prayer, I I don't believe I'll be on the general commission next go around. We need to make room for others. But my hope and pray that God will use this experience for the next general conference to come for a team to go even further than what we ⁓ went with this. So that's that's really where we're at. And Jason to frame this personal moment. ⁓ today is also Charles Wesley Day where he came to Christ while we're doing his podcast. So we're living in historic faith. Okay. All right. I love it. All right. So we we like to close out these conversations with a very specific question. And it is you've told us so many stories today. but let's get take us back to Maryland. Can you give us a story from your local church of where God is moving ⁓ or something that you've seen the Lord doing, where the Lord's been at work in the local church where you serve? I'll give you two. one one is when we came into the Global Methodist Church, the one local church I'm at had no pastor. I was then appointed there when they came into Global Methodist. They had s ⁓ under 20 people. They had over seventy-five thousand dollars in debt from coming out of and then into the Global Methodist Church. This is past debt. ⁓ so The first vision was and I got God blessed the leaders because they had faith to get to that point. ⁓ the first vision was let's finance this for twenty years at nine and a half percent interest. And I sat down, did a little math, I said, Let's pray. If it's the will of God this to get paid for without a loan. Twenty something people by prayer with no fundraisers, just by asking God to provide, that debt was paid off in ten months. Wow. Amen. So God set that church debt free. Now, do we still have ministry needs? Yes. Does it still have but when God showed his hand through those people, all those people, within a few months of that, all of a sudden something started happening. New people started showing up. And I have a saying, new people bring new people. Mm. It doesn't mean that they ⁓ it just means their social circles are bigger so they can bring a few more. So we've seen new people coming to Christ. We've seen ⁓ the other story I want to share with you as far as new people coming to Christ. During the pandemic, ⁓ it was pretty hard in Maryland. It wasn't like Texas, okay? In Maryland, we were locked down, we were shut down. You know, it was it was a whole different thing. ⁓ but I had a confirmation class that started back in twenty twenty. It had to stop because and then I lost track of this one family, this one young man. I knew he wasn't baptized. They moved away. He started coming to one of my ⁓ churches. And ⁓ I've cornered him one day and said, Do you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? I do. And I said, Therefore, be baptized. What date will we do this? I baptized him. He's not a young, he's not a small teenager. He's a very big, tall guy, twice my size. Took him down the river at low tide and by God's grace was able to get him back out of the water after baptizing him. But we've seen God moving in ways like this. So if God can do this at the small local church, what can God do through the general connection of the Global Methodist Church? Amen. I wouldn't want to guess. The will of God is bigger than us. Let's go. That's awesome. I love it. Well, Tim, thank you so much for being with us today. ⁓ thank you for just obedience and saying yes to the Lord. I'm excited to hear the stories ⁓ over the next few months. I'm excited to hear the stories that come out of South Africa. I'm excited to just continue to see God at work in his people at work ⁓ in his church and and ⁓ and we as Global Methodists that we that we get to say, man, this is not a guessing game. We're we are seeing the Lord actively moving and shaping us as a people. ⁓ Tim, so grateful for you and ⁓ praying for you. Again, all of the ways that ⁓ he has kind of let us know ⁓ how we can support ⁓ through prayer, through giving, ⁓ through if you're if you happen to be in Johannesburg, South Africa, ⁓ in late summer, early fall, then you absolutely can get on with ⁓ board with one of these mission experiences. ⁓ all of the above, ⁓ people of God, we're we're This is your call to to get involved and get plugged in ⁓ to what God's doing. I'd like to share this also in closing. Come on. The team is not the Tim Beardsley team. The mission experience sub team has ⁓ people from South Africa, both lay and clergy, male and female. Yeah. Liberia, Zimbabwe, one gentleman from Fiji, ⁓ and then several from the States. So I want to give a shout out to them. They are doing amazing work. And I give God thanks for them. Thank you so much. Damn, you were you were incredible. Thank you for being here with us. And I just it I I'm so excited people can see your passion for missions, your passion for Africa, your passion for these projects at General Conference. And we can't thank you enough for joining us today. Absolutely. And thank you for listening to Across the Globe. ⁓ if you enjoyed this episode, we said it at the beginning, but I'm going to say it again. If you enjoyed this episode, if something stirred up in you, ⁓ if you are just joining us for this, this is your first episode or you've listened to the last couple, like, subscribe, share, ⁓ tell your neighbor, tell your mom, ⁓ tell everybody. ⁓ just let them know about what God's doing in the Global Methodist Church and how you can hear about it here at Across the Globe. We're so glad you joined us today, and we look forward to hanging out with you again.