Woo Jin-Cheol was the first to react
While everyone else was busy eyeing others around them, he quickly walked right up to Jin-Woo's side, pulled out his identification card and displayed it proudly for all to see
"We're from the Association's Monitoring Division . ".
Didn't matter whether you were a high ranked Hunter or a low ranked one, you'd inevitably tense up after hearing the name of the Monitoring Division . And this tactic was the right one
It was only for a brief moment, but a hint of nervousness flashed past the expressions of the Hunters Guild members, with the sole exception of Cha Hae-In
Woo Jin-Cheol seized upon this chance and carried on with what he wanted to say
"The identity of Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim is being strictly guarded by the Association . It is highly classified information that cannot be revealed publicly . ".
Jin-Woo could only stand back in dumbfounded admiration at Woo Jin-Cheol's skilful bullsh*tting
Heck, his expression and words looked and sounded so natural that one couldn't help but wonder if he practised it every morning while looking in the mirror or some such
Whatever the case may be, his intentions definitely got through to the other party . At the same time, Woo Jin-Cheol sent the slightest hint of a signal to Jin-Woo with his eyes
'We will assist you with avoiding unnecessary fuss when exiting from this place . '.
Jin-Woo had no idea why the Monitoring Division were helping him, but since they were volunteering to take care of the aftermath, was there a reason for him to refuse now?.
Jin-Woo nodded his head
That's what he wanted, anyway
The quick-witted subordinates of Woo Jin-Cheol quickly surrounded Jin-Woo like bodyguards
"If you have any questions, please send them to the Association . We shall escort Seong Jin-Woo Hunter now . ".
Not-so-subtle implication of 'We won't hear any of your objections' was apparent in his voice
All thanks to Woo Jin-Cheol's hardened attitude, hard enough to shatter a rock even, the members of the Hunters Guild had no choice but to rein in their questions and stay silent
"Shall we go?".
While being escorted by the agents of the Monitoring Division, Jin-Woo walked past the Hunters
'Well, I am grateful, but '.
Something felt a bit odd, just then . Why did Chief Woo Jin-Cheol do something no one asked him to do in the first place? Once they got to a sufficient distance away from the members of the Hunters Guild, Jin-Woo quietly asked
"Why are you doing this all of a sudden?".
"By any chance, are you thinking of signing up with the Hunters Guild?".
Jin-Woo shook his head . As if he knew that such an answer was coming already, Woo Jin-Cheol quickly made his reply
"What you did just now was to display the kind of power that exceeds rank S classification in front of the employees working for the largest, wealthiest Guild in South Korea . If you wish to avoid annoying matters in the near future, this method is the best one . ".
Indeed, he was right
No one could tell just what lengths the wealthy Hunters Guild might go to secure another rank S Hunter . Other Hunters would raise their hands and welcome that, but Jin-Woo was different
It was the same story for the Hunter's Association, too
And so, the interests of both the Association, trying to prevent the concentration of too much power to one specific Guild, and Jin-Woo's, who found the hindrance (?) of the Guilds annoying, lined up rather nicely
Since this wasn't one-sided goodwill coming from the other party but something that would help both sides, Jin-Woo didn't feel uncomfortable by the current situation at all
'Well, things have become more convenient thanks to the Association . '.
Because this matter had been resolved quite nicely in an unexpected manner, Jin-Woo could afford to float a thin, nearly-imperceptible smile on his lips
But, as they were about to exit from the boss room for good .
"H-hold on!!".
An urgent call came from behind the group
Unintentionally looking back, Jin-Woo spotted Sohn Ki-Hoon approaching them while being supported by his big-framed colleague . All of his external wounds had been healed perfectly, but his complexion remained pale as he had lost a lot of blood
'It'd be better for him to not move yet, though . '.
Despite Jin-Woo's worries, Sohn Ki-Hoon managed to stand before him . He then bowed deeply
"Thank you . ".
 On behalf of the raid team, I'd like to thank you . ".
If one believed the words of the Monitoring Division's Hunters, then this young man seemed to be burdened by some kind of circumstances preventing him from revealing himself
'With that kind of power, it'd not be too strange if he does have some kind of an unspeakable circumstance . '.
However .
He risked his identity being revealed to aid Sohn Ki-Hoon and the rest of the raid team . But, was that all? He didn't even ask for any compensation, either
He could've easily requested the Hunters Guild for the corpses of the monsters or for the cost of saving the lives of the raid team, but he backed off without saying a thing
So, how could he not bow down to this young man?.
" Thank you very much!".
His emotions now getting raw, Sohn Ki-Hoon bent his back forward 90 degrees once more . That sudden movement caused his aching body to scream out in pain, but he actually found that rather welcoming
His heart had welled up with emotions when he saw Jin-Woo kill the monster in the exact same fashion as how he had been toyed around with before . Thinking back to that moment was enough for him to thank this young man a countless number of times
The Hunters of the raid team saw their leader bow down to express his gratitude and finally snapped out of their stupor
'If it wasn't for that man '.
'He's our saviour, isn't he?'.
 '.
They scrambled to get closer and bowed their heads as well
"Thank you, Mister Port No, I mean, Hunter-nim . ".
"If it wasn't for you, we . ".
 ".

"Eiii, that's too much, dude . ".
"He's starting again . Someone stop him . ".
"Well, why don't you hug me instead, then??".
Hug
"Euh-heok?! You're giving me the creeps, so let go of me!!".
Wahahahahaha
For the first time ever since entering this particular rank A dungeon, the members of the raid team got to laugh to their heart's content
Jin-Woo stared at these Hunters, feeling content inside . He didn't help them out for their flattery or for their praises, but their genuine thanks did automatically bring about a warm smile to his lips
" Ah . ".
Jin-Woo walked over to the female Hunter jumping up and down by the corner
'Because she's so small, I nearly failed to spot her . '.
When he pushed forward the memo she gave to him earlier, the female Healer blushed and received it with both of her hands
"T-thank you ".
Inwardly, though, she was admonishing herself
'Ah-whew . Why did I even say those embarrassing things to him back then?'.
She now had one more reason to kick her sheets before going to bed if and when she ended up remembering today's event in the future
From the perspective of Mister Porter who could easily punch the dungeon boss to death, she must've looked really funny when she handed over a memo while saying it contained her final will
She slightly raised her head and found that, thankfully enough, he wasn't sneering at her . No, actually – he began speaking to her in a bit of strict voice
"Miss Healer . ".
"Y-yes?".
The female Healer straightened her posture right away like a student being reprimanded for her sloppy behaviour
"From today onwards, please refrain from placing your personal articles inside the raid team's luggage . It only serves to increase the volume . ".
" Pardon me??".
The female Healer became utterly speechless, her eyes opening up to form round buttons . Jin-Woo grinned in satisfaction
He said all he wanted to say . And it seemed that the other party had pretty much said everything in her mind, too . So, putting the dazed female Healer behind him, he coolly turned around to leave
"Let's go . ".
As soon as Jin-Woo began walking, the agents of the Monitoring Division moved together in one unit as if they had been rehearsing it
There was one exception, though
'Ah . '.
Only Cha Hae-In had failed to say something to Jin-Woo and she tried to reach out to him, but gave up in the end
'I wanted to ask him for his contact numbers '.
All she wanted was to ask him if he could find some time to talk to her . However, she might be misunderstood if she asked him that now, what with the current situation not being settled yet
It was then
A female Hunter walked over to Cha Hae-In
"Excuse me Vice Chair?".
"Yes?".
When Cha Hae-In turned around to look, the female Hunter pointed to her hand
"Why are you carrying a pickaxe?".
Cha Hae-In's gaze drifted towards the head of the pickaxe and her face began blushing rather quickly . She hurriedly lowered the pickaxe and cautiously asked
"You think he found me weird?".
The female Hunter, a mage, tilted her head and asked back
"Who did?".
And that caused not just Cha Hae-In's face, but even her neck to blush in the deep shade of crimson
*.
When they came out of the Gate
Woo Jin-Cheol took a look at his wristwatch and asked Jin-Woo
"We're planning to return to the Association but, well If it's okay with you, why don't you ride along with us and join the Association President for dinner?".
"What time is it now?".
"It's quarter past five . PM . ".
'Mm '.
Although he was cutting it close, he should be able to arrive at the promised location in time
Jin-Woo politely rejected Woo Jin-Cheol's invitation
"I'm sorry . I've already made a prior engagement . ".
***.
Shu, shu, fuu, fuu .
Yu Jin-Ho did his very best to maintain his calm by breathing in deeply several times, just like how he saw it in one of the movies
'My fated hour is approaching . '.
Indeed, hyung-nim's choice would decide Yu Jin-Ho's fate
His heart was palpitating faster, and he felt even more nervous compared to a few days ago when he was negotiating with his father for the right to become the Yujin Guild Master
'Let's go back to my original purpose . My original purpose '.
It was no coincidence that he chose the exact same cafe as the first time he met hyung-nim back when to propose his plan
'Without hyung-nim's help, I wouldn't even be here right now . '.
He began looking around the interior of the cafe while thinking as such, and he was able to see this place in a new light . Quite coincidentally, the table he chose was the exact same one as the last time, too
Ringgg .
Along with the doorbell, Jin-Woo entered the cafe
"Hyung-nim!".
Yu Jin-Ho discovered Jin-Woo and shot up from his seat with a welcoming smile on his face . He bowed down as his greeting . Jin-Woo performed a simple little greeting with a nod and settled down on the opposite side of Yu Jin-Ho . The latter sat down after that
"So, what did you call me here for?".
Yu Jin-Ho raised his head, only for his eyes to widen
"H-hyung-nim, your clothes . ?".
"Oh, this?".
Jin-Woo came running here right after killing the High Orcs so his clothing was understandably dirty . His shirt even sported bloodstains from the dying High Orcs, too . He spoke as if there was nothing to worry about
"I was coming straight from a dungeon, that's why . ".
'Heok!'.
Yu Jin-Ho was taken by surprise once more
He was nothing compared to someone like hyung-nim; after getting his Guild Master licence, all Yu Jin-Ho did was to waste time by drinking and partying . But, what did hyung-nim do in the meantime? He possessed incredible power, yet he still found time to enter dungeons to further hone his crafts
Suddenly, Yu Jin-Ho felt ashamed of himself
'As expected of hyung-nim '.
And at the same time, he held hyung-nim in an even higher reverence now
The reason why hyung-nim didn't bother to wipe away the blood on his clothes was probably because he was confident and forthright enough not to feel the need to hide his training process
'Well, the evidence of battle would be more like a medal of honour that he earned through his own two hands, after all . '.
Yu Jin-Ho's expression hardened . He was ready to follow hyung-nim's decision, regardless of which direction he'd take
So, he should come clean and don't hold anything back
"Hyung-nim, actually ".
Yu Jin-Ho didn't leave anything out and reported everything that happened during the negotiation with his father to Jin-Woo – even the event of Goh Myoung-Hwan's testimony revealing the truth of who saved the Hunters of the White Tiger Guild from the Red Gate incident, too
'That uncle, doing something unnecessary '.
Still, that man did that for Jin-Woo's benefit, so he couldn't get angry at that
Perhaps that was the reason for Yu Jin-Ho's expression to be a bit more glowing than usual when he was talking about the Red Gate incident
In any case .
Jin-Woo knew what Yu Jin-Ho was trying to say here
"So, in order for you to become the Yujin Guild's new Master, you need my help, is that about right?".
Finishing all he had to say, Yu Jin-Ho calmly waited for Jin-Woo's reply . He didn't grow restless or try to sweet talk like how he would do normally
'Well, I'm talking to hyung-nim here, after all . '.
Yu Jin-Ho was definitely thinking of leaving everything to hyung-nim's decision
Remaining silent as long as Yu Jin-Ho's worries were deep, Jin-Woo finally raised his gaze
"Hey, Jin-Ho . I am ".
Gulp
Yu Jin-Ho swallowed his drying saliva
***.
The Chairman of the Hunters Guild Choi Jong-In received a certain call . After answering that, he abandoned what he was doing, entered his private chamber, and began shouting out loudly at the phone
"What was that?! Seong Jin-Woo was present during our raids yesterday and today?!".
The newly-appeared rank S Hunter, Seong Jin-Woo
Such a man decided to present himself right before Choi Jong-In's own Guild, yet why did he fail to even notice that?! It was the same thing as kicking away the golden goose willing to enter his house
It was enough to make him tear his hair out, but
"Whaaat?! He was working for the mining team yesterday, and today, he was carrying luggage?!".
… . After hearing that revelation, it did make sense for him to not know
'Okay, for the time being, let's not worry about why he did what he did '.
He got this feeling that sweating over that mystery would only give him a case of a migraine and no tangible answer to chew on . Besides, that wasn't important at all
'After White Tiger, us Hunters also owe that man now . '.
Indeed, they were indebted to Seong Jin-Woo
Choi Jong-In wished to talk to that man as equals as much as he could before attempting to scout him, but now, his position was no different than that of the White Tiger
'Even still, I learned of the tenth rank S's existence before anyone else, so that's something . '.
That's right
The more pressing issue here was not the fact that his Guild received that man's aid, but rather, knowing of what his abilities were
"Hunter Seong Jin-Woo, what type of Hunter was he?".
- " . ".
As he listened to the explanation coming from the other side of the phone line, Choi Jong-In began talking progressively less and less
The person he was talking to right now – the Hunter who took on the role of the raid team's captain, Sohn Ki-Hoon, wasn't a fellow who'd lie about something that didn't happen, or embellish something minor as if it was a big deal . Even then, Choi Jong-In asked reflexively
"Are you telling me the truth??".
- "Yes, sir . That's all I saw . ".
'That's all he saw ?! Does that mean there could be more?!'.
If Seong Jin-Woo was that powerful, then .
"If you compare him to me, then how about it?".
Although he may have sounded a bit childish just then, there was no better way to ascertain someone's strength than this question
Sohn Ki-Hoon took a little time before continuing on
- "Chairman . Can you solo an upper-grade rank A dungeon by yourself?".
" . No, it's impossible . ".
- "However, that man did precisely that . He even dissuaded Cha Hunter-nim from lending her aid, as well . ".
'Cha Hae-In was there, too?'.
Something felt a bit off, but her being there was not a big problem to worry about
"Is there a chance that the dungeon was not an upper grade rank A?".
- "If it wasn't, we wouldn't have encountered so much difficulty, sir . That man saved us all . ".
" ".
Choi Jong-In was often referred to as the 'Ultimate Weapon'
From a certain perspective, one could argue that he was being roundly disregarded in this situation, but rather than feeling sour, his heart was pounding harder instead
'Me, Cha Hae-In, and then, Seong Jin-Woo . '.
This was the golden chance that his Guild could become renowned in South Korea, no, Asia, no, the whole world, on the back of Seong Jin-Woo's abilities alone
- "Chairman Choi . I know that I'm in no position to advise you on how to run the Guild, but ".
Sohn Ki-Hoon was definitely not someone who'd go beyond his stations and run his mouth off about the Guild . So, Choi Jong-In became even more curious about what he might say next
"No, it's fine . Please speak . ".
- "That man You must scout Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim to our Guild . With him, your dream might become reality . ".
Ba-dump
Choi Jong-In's heart began beating faster
He tried very hard to disguise his trembling voice as he spoke
"I'll do my best . ".
***.
In front of the Korean Hunters Association main building
The sea of reporters showing up to cover Rhee Min-Seong's rank assignment test had set up a camp in front of the Association building
South Korea's own Rhee Min-Seong, often referred as Asia's top superstar, becoming a Hunter!.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the cameras from the entire world were being focused here today
What with space being such a premium, the reporters began a war of nerves with each other
"Excuse me! We already reserved this spot!".
"Hey man! Are you blind? Can't you see how many people showed up today? Who cares about your spot or mine?! Your spot is where you're standing . ".
"Dang it ".
Meanwhile, a full-blown smile was forming on Rhee Min-Seong's face as he stared through the window at the sea of reporters extending as far as the access road while standing inside the Association building
"Indeed, this many people showing up sounds about right . ".
Deliberately wasting time and attracting the attention of the public definitely paid off today
"Excuse me, Mister Min-Seong? This will be tomorrow's headline, but what do you think about it?".
South Korea's top newspaper reporter showed Rhee Min-Seong the manuscript for tomorrow's front page and asked
"Don't you think using that as the headline is a bit dull?".
"You think so?".
"Hmm How about this one? 'The man who has everything, Rhee Min-Seong . He now grasps power transcending humanity!' . Well?".
"But, if we use a strong lead-in like that, don't you think a portion of the readers will feel uncomfortable?".
"Well, I'm not exaggerating here, and besides, no one in their right minds would talk rubbish about me in South Korea, anyway . I mean, both the media and my fans are watching closely with their eyes wide open, after all . ".
"Okay . Got it . We'll go with that one . ".
"I'll be in your care . ".
Rhee Min-Seong bowed his head good-naturedly, but when he raised it again, a deep frown was etched on his face
'He's going to do what I told him in the end, so why does he have to yap on about so much crap?'.
It was then, two imported luxury sedans arrived at the parking lot of the Association . Two men climbed out of their respective cars almost at the same time – they were none other than Baek Yun-Ho from the White Tiger Guild, and Choi Jong-In from the Hunters Guild
"Uh? Look at that!".
"It's Baek Yun-Ho!".
"Choi Jong-In's here too!".
The reporters blocking the front entrance of the Association building all rushed towards the side of these two men . Baek Yun-Ho and Choi Jong-In both frowned unhappily
'What is up with these reporters?'.
'Why is it so chaotic today?'.
The noises of camera flashes going off were ringing out loudly . Countless reporters surrounded these two men and began their barrage of questions
"Are you two visiting the Association to scout Mister Rhee Min-Seong?".
"As the Hunters representing South Korea, what do you think about Mister Rhee Min-Seong potentially retiring from the entertainment industry?".
"What do you think will be Mister Rhee Min-Seong's rank?".
"Please share your thoughts on Mister Rhee Min-Seong . ".
The famously short-tempered Baek Yun-Ho waved his hands around as if he found all this annoying
"I'm not here because of that man . I've nothing else to say . ".
… . While Choi Jong-In emotionlessly stated the facts
"Anyone related to this matter would know by now that Mister Rhee Min-Seong has already signed up with the Reapers Guild . I'm visiting the Association today on an unrelated matter . ".
 '.
'And I thought I might have a juicy new story . '.
'I got excited for no dang reason . '.
Still, none of them dared to express their dissatisfaction in front of a pair of rank S Hunters . Reporters returned to their spots and began their waiting for Rhee Min-Seong's emergence once more
Once the reporters left them alone, Baek Yun-Ho and Choi Jong-In met each other's glare . Baek Yun-Ho greeted his counterpart first
"I heard the story . Hunters Guild almost got into a big tangle yesterday, too . Or so I hear . ".
He even deliberately emphasized the word 'too' as well
"Well, it wasn't much of a big 'tangle', compared to how the White Tiger had to lose their newbie rank A . ".
The two men's war of nerves was just as fierce as the one taking place among the reporters . Baek Yun-Ho was incensed for a little bit there, but eventually, he sighed out softly and spoke up
"In any case, both the Hunters and us are in that man's debt . ".
"We really were kissed by Lady Luck yesterday . If he wasn't there, my second elite team would've been wiped out . ".
Even though both men knew that person's name, not mentioning it could be considered the final act to their war of nerves . Choi Jong-In took a step closer
"That is why, out of principal, I'd like to 'definitely' bring that man over to our Guild . ".
Baek Yun-Ho didn't back down . He and Choi Jong-In got close enough for their foreheads to nearly butt against each other
"We even had suffered casualties . Looking at the need to replenish our combat force, wouldn't you agree that person joining us makes more sense?".
"Just what are you planning to do by recruiting a rank S to shore up your combat force? Are you thinking of invading North Korea or something?".
"What about you? Since when did you worry about principals and the like to talk about your principals here?".
Flames erupted out from the eyes of the two men
'… . Huh?'.
Master of the Reapers Guild, Im Tae-Gyu, was arriving at the Association building just now to match the timing of the press conference . When he saw those two growling at one another, a mocking smirk formed on his face
Wasn't there an old saying for that?.
Didn't it go, counting chickens before hatching or something like that?.
For Im Tae-Gyu, this sure was an exciting development, since he always lost out to their two Guilds when trying to secure resources until now . He did his best to not to let the corners of his lips arch up and approached the two men
"Oiii, two Guild chairmen over there . I hope you aren't acting like that over my Min-Seong, no?".
And then, both Baek Yun-Ho and Choi Jong-In's heads spun at the same time towards Im Tae-Gyu . It was hard to tell who was first, really
'What the hell is up with this moron?'.
 '.
Im Tae-Gyu flinched in surprise and took a step back when two rather terrifying glares landed squarely on him
'What is up with these two b*stards all of a sudden?!'.
***.
'What's this? Choi Jong-In, and Baek Yun-Ho, too?'.
Rhee Min-Seong grinned deeply
He already familiar with Chairman Im Tae-Gyu when they met during the signing of the contract
Rhee Min-Seong signing up with the Reapers Guild, which had been criticised for being a shell of its former glory, while disregarding the country's top two Guilds, was a calculated move on his part
'I mean, with this, I'll enjoy the image of someone willing to stand up for the underdogs . '.
Crudely speaking, celebrities survived on their public image . And Rhee Min-Seong was really meticulous about maintaining his
'The best Guilds in Korea are fighting over me '.
He wasn't thinking of carrying on this Hunter lifestyle for long, but still, that sight naturally made him feel even better about himself . Soon afterwards, his manager entered the reception area
"Min-Seong-ah, they say they are ready now . Let's go and do the press conference . ".
"Alright . ".
The manager took the lead .
Just like he'd been told, he was stopping by the Association three days later
'Why is it so noisy here?'.
However, it didn't look like he'd be able to enter the Association at all under the current circumstances . Of course, there were plenty of ways to go around these people, such as using 'Stealth', or jumping over the reporters, or even by finding a back entrance
But then again, his re-evaluation test had been reserved in advance three days ago, so he didn't feel like going through the back entrance just to avoid this wall of reporters
'It's not like I committed a crime or something anyways . '.
He had no reason not to use the front door at all . Jin-Woo then proceeded to push away the tightly-packed throngs of reporters and made a path for himself
"I'm coming through . ".
"Oii, what are you doing??".
"What the hell?".
"What's wrong with you?!".
This was the physical strength of a rank S Hunter . Reporters were all helplessly pushed away, deep frowns etched on their faces . The path forward was opened up in the blink of an eye, and Jin-Woo could walk up the steps leading to the front entrance of the Association
However, even before he could take another step, a large, muscular dude suddenly blocked Jin-Woo's path
"Oii!!".
He was Rhee Min-Seong's manager .  You work for the Association or something?".
Jin-Woo didn't bother to avert his gaze and met this manager's glare squarely, before shaking his head
'Huh? Would you look at this b*stard?'.
The manager's thick eyebrows quivered
"Can't you see all those reporters behind you?!".
Jin-Woo took a short glance at the reporters . They were all shooting him with unhappy glares . Even Jin-Woo could understand that they were trying to do a press conference here . However, it wasn't as if they had rented out the whole entrance, now had they?.
A private individual had no right to chase away the reporters, and conversely, they had no right to chase him away, either .
"Go back to where you came from . You can't go through here . Get lost, punk . ".
The manager blocked the path again and tried to shove Jin-Woo's chest away . The light in Jin-Woo's eyes changed immediately
'… . What was that?!'.
The manager was taken by a huge surprise
He was a melee-type rank D Awakened, and pushed this young punk away with the full intention of embarrassing him, but the guy didn't even budge from the spot as if his legs were nailed to the ground
The manager had used enough force that would've injured a regular person greatly . Jin-Woo also knew that fact very well
" . ".
That was why he wordlessly glared, and that alone was enough to gradually drain the manager's face of all colour
"What the heck? What's the matter with that guy?".
"What happened? Are they going to fight?".
Bustle, bustle
The reporters present all sensed the atmosphere becoming rather strange, and they became noisy quite quickly
Cold sweat was pouring out of the manager
If there was no one watching, he'd have conceded already and stepped aside . However, never mind the reporters, his employer Rhee Min-Seong was watching him from behind at the moment
Rhee Min-Seong walked closer to the manager and whispered with a deep frown
"Argh, hyung, what are you doing?  ".
"Uh, uh . S-sure thing . ".
If he showed a shameful sight here, then he'd lose his job without a doubt . The manager's expression crumpled unsightly and he raised his voice up high
"You can't pass by here, so get lost already!".
"And just who said you can block the entrance like this?".
'Uh?'.
The reply didn't come from the manager's front but from his back . The manager quickly spun his head around
The Hunter's Association President Goh Gun-Hui stood tall in front of the glass doors . The eyes of the reporters grew extra round . They were so shocked that they even forgot to operate their cameras
"G-Goh Gun-Hui?!".
"President Goh Gun-Hui's here?".
The once-chaotic bustling atmosphere immediately cooled down with the entrance of someone completely unexpected . Goh Gun-Hui walked right up to the steps and spoke up
"This gentleman is my guest . ".
And then, Goh Gun-Hui stared at Rhee Min-Seong
"I hope you haven't forgotten who gave you the permission to hold a press conference in this place, Mister Rhee Min-Seong . ".
Rhee Min-Seong recovered his wits right away
"O-of course, sir . ".
The first day as a Hunter, he falls out of favour with the Association President and loses the location of the press conference – Rhee Min-Seong couldn't afford to suffer such a humiliation when there were so many eyes watching him right now
Rhee Min-Seong frowned and quickly signalled his manager; the burly guy bowed slightly to both Goh Gun-Hui and Jin-Woo and voluntarily stepped aside
"Please, follow me, Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim . ".
Even until Jin-Woo disappeared into the Association building under the guidance of Goh Gun-Hui, the gathered reporters couldn't hide their confusion at all
Noisy, noisy .
"What was that all about?.
"Who was that man, and why is the Association President personally coming out to greet him?".
"Does anyone know who that man is?".
Reporters felt frustrated and raised their voices, but there was no one answering them
< Chapter 92 > Fin


GUILTY BHOY
Celtic fan who invaded pitch carrying toddler, 2, after Hoops scored against Rangers is given three year footy ban
by Connor GordonA CELTIC fan who invaded the pitch with a two-year-old boy to celebrate a goal against Rangers has been banned for all football matches for three years.
Anthony Smith, 32, was over the moon when striker Odsonne Edouard scored a goal in the 2-1 derby win at Parkhead in March this year.
Smith ran onto the pitch holding the young boy in his arms, took out his mobile phone to take pictures and waved his arms.
He pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to committing a breach of the peace.
Smith was ordered to do 225 hours of unpaid work by Sheriff Valerie Mays and banned from UK football matches for three years, but was spared jail.
Sheriff Mays said: “The nature of your conduct could have caused significant trouble at an Old Firm match and there was lack of concern for the child.
“The court cannot tolerate that behaviour at football matches.
“I can deal with this as an alternative to a custodial sentence, just.”
The court heard Smith leapt over an advertising board with the child in his arms to join fans on the pitch.
Prosecutor Graham Macdonald said: “He waved his arms around and took photos.
“He took a selfie with himself and the child.”
Lawyer, Gary Miller, defending told the court that Smith was on the pitch for a minute with "40 to 50 fans".

“It wasn’t the wisest move to take a two-year-old to a derby match.
“This is something he intends to learn from and is something he will never do in future.”
Smith, from Glasgow’s Parkhead area, was acquitted of a charge of causing the child unnecessary suffering or injury to health.


What a week it has been for us in Utopian! We’ve had some amazing announcements and made some important changes. In addition to all the good news in this post, this week we also say goodbye to a friend.
In this post:
- All You Need to Know About the Utopian.io Mini-Hackathon
- Getting a Higher Upvote on Your Contribution
- Moderator Comment Rewards
- Contributors Wanted - Build Utopian.io v2 with Us!
- Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves
Utopian.io Mini-Hackathon Announcement & ALL the Details
As promised in last week’s update, here it is: Everything you need to know about the awesome upcoming Utopian Hackathon (in collaboration with @steemstem).
You can find all of the details in @Steemstem’s announcement post, but we’re going to tempt you to click with this bit of information. The prizes will be:
- First Place: 100% upvote + 300 STEEM
- Second Place: 80% + 150 STEEM
- Third Place: Upvote based on moderation score + 50 STEEM
Get a Higher Upvote from @utopian-io with @steem-plus and Steeditor
This week, we announced an exciting partnership with Steemplus, a well-known browser extention that adds many useful features to users’ Steemit and busy.org experience.
This announcement included a way to get bigger Utopian upvotes for your contributions. All you have to do is post using SteemPlus, then select Utopian as a 5% beneficiary and Steemplus as a 1% beneficiary. That 6 percent will be covered in the upvote, plus you’ll get an additional 10% increase in the upvote value corresponding to your contribution score.
Here’s the formula. For example, if you were originally to get a 20% vote from Utopian, you would get instead:
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But that’s not all! You can also get the same upvote increase by using one of the built-in Utopian templates in the awesome Steeditor by @jakipatryk. The beneficiary assignment is built in!
A Change In Moderator Rewards
If you’ve contributed to Utopian in the past week, you may have noticed that the moderation comment on your submission received its own comment from Utopian, and an upvote. In an effort to have greater transparency, and to counteract the decreased value of the currency, we are now rewarding moderators for their work directly in the comment of each submission reviewed, and we’ve doubled their rewards. To balance that out, we’ve eliminated the bonus awarded for moderating more submissions.
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As you probably know, our development team has been hard at work in creating the base for the next Utopian.io, with features and functionalities requested by the community. Now, we welcome you to take part. Submit your development contributions to the GitHub and Firebase repositories!
If you are not a developer - you can still help! We are still accepting applications for the Utopian v2 closed beta, and will gradually onboard more applicants. Visit beta.utopian.io/ to read more and sign up.
Utopian.io Open Source Radio Show on MSP Waves
We had a great show this week. CryptoTYM from Team StoneCoin visited us to talk about the rebirth of the StoneCoin cryptocurrency, and @raycoms, one of the project leads of Minecolonies was live on the air, talking about current developments and new features, as well as the challenges in recruiting and maintaining an active and dedicated development team.
We also raffled off codes for two courses on Udemy, and caught up with some interesting news from the Open Source world in the automotive and entertainment industries.
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I mentioned recently our plans to move to new hosting servers and followed this up with a guide to receiving all your email during the move and a guide to dealing with database-driven sites during the move.
We're now moving hosting accounts to the new hosting servers and in relation to this I'd like to outline the DNS changes you will need to make if you are not using the Hosting Reborn nameservers.
Once your hosting accounts have been moved (you'll be notified via email), change any DNS records for <IP_ADDRESS> to <IP_ADDRESS>.
That's it.
If you are using the Hosting Reborn nameservers you will not need to make any changes.


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a.j. Jones. Yes sir. How are you? Well thank you. What's your favorite thing about today?
About today. What I made for dinner was my favorite thing about today. Do tell. Well my
spaghetti squash didn't turn out very well. It turned out kind of like sand. So I think it must be
really old. So I made zucchini noodles instead and a cashew, creamy cashew sauce with garlic and
basil and all things good and shrimp. I had an apple with some cashew butter.
Show off.
Just living the dream.
Um, this week, I was looking through our week and basically all we did was be in meetings,
but we did do some fun stuff this weekend.
We did.
What do you want to start with?
You can start with what you did.
All right.
This weekend, our church organized a dad and me camp out where all the dads take their
kids away and they all go camping.

And they don't really like camping.
No.
But God bless, Marti and Julie Curly are wonderful children's pastors.
They said, Alan, if you would like to skip the camping part, we would make provision for
you and you could just come up for the day.
With the kids.
And I was like, that's very kind of you.
But in listening to the girls be super excited about this weekend, I realized once I got
the plan that what they were excited about wouldn't happen because all the stuff they're
excited about happened outside of the window of time that we were going to be there.
Except for the zip lining.
Except for the zip lining.
Which is why we just set up a wire with a coat hanger and just let her go at it from
the roof of the house.
And it worked surprisingly well the first time.
I mean, it was amazing.
So glad you didn't let go.
So we decided to set up a tent in the back garden and me and the two girls would sleep
there.
But what was the problem?
You didn't fit.
The problem was it was a two man tent, but I'm not sure what two men would fit in that
place.
Well, I thought one man and two little girls would probably work.
But it didn't.
No.
So we didn't really try.
What?
No, I can even get in the tent.

Yeah, it would fit in my back pocket.
Never mind my backpack.
It's pretty small.
So the girl slept in there.
Yes. But as a responsible parent, I didn't just want to leave my children out the back garden overnight.
In case the bunnies got them. So I slept and I say slept in the loosest of terms in our
screened in porch in an upright chair. With the bugs. With the bugs. And the sprinklers.
And the sprinklers and all our neighbors are conditioning units, which come on and all throughout
the night. But they seem to have a great time. And then the next day, we did an extravaganza
of daddy daughter date. Yes, you did. And I made a slight faux pas. A slight faux pas.
Well, I took the kids to five guys for lunch. Well, first you fed them waffles.
That was a stroke of genius. There was no faux pas there. I understand, but they have tiny
tummy. Right. And then I took them to five guys, and then I took them to Sweet Cece.
And in between that, they you took them swimming. And they all had chocolate. But it was Abigail's
first time ever drinking a Coca-Cola and she was a chipmunk on speed.  I'm not surprised. And she just talked and talked and talked and repeated herself.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, you were a women's self-defense class.
I was. We hosted our second women's self-defense class and actually one of our guests today was
referred to by the man who hosts the class as a ninja. Did you learn anything new at this women's
defense class that you didn't learn last time?
Um, it's, it was the same class.
It was a good refresher of things that I had forgotten.
Um, I just really like, uh, Ken's passion for women not, you know, being vulnerable
or whatever.
Yeah.
So he's, he just does an amazing job of teaching the class and also telling you what to look
like so you never have to use the stuff you just taught you.
I watched a bunch of the videos of the women kicking the living daylights out of the man
and he takes a beating.
- 20 women, that's why only 20 can do each class.
20 women get to kick the tar out of him, basically.
Yeah.
- All right, let's jump into our main topic for this week.
Last week on the podcast,
we talked about destiny and walking into your destiny,
the process of all of that.
- Yes.
- And we looked at the life of Joseph
and talked about like, how do you manage life
while dreaming about what you think you're called to?
And it was great, he said.
Yeah, we were awesome.
We were amazing.
Perfound even.
But then we went to church this morning and passage F preached an incredible message on
exactly the same topic.
Yes.
But his message was all about the language of promise and he lived the life of Joseph.
And as he was sharing and teaching and we'll put a link in the show notes because it's such
a great message.
I was thinking about our dear friends, Josh and Sarah Parsons.
Yes.
Josh and the ninja Sarah Parsons.
Josh and the ninja Sarah as she's known around her office because their story just intertwined
so brilliantly with everything we were talking about last week on the podcast and what Jeff
was speaking about this morning. So we've asked them to come on the show. Welcome Josh
and Sarah Parsons.
Yeah.
Hello.
Wait, can we talk about why I'm a ninja? Did he really say that?
He called you a ninja. He was talking about.
I'm so honored.
Beerseness.
And he said, I think he called you scrappy first and he said she was in ninja.
Scrappy.
Mm hmm.
Is it not because you're Asian?
Pardon?
If I am.
I don't know.
She's got gumption.
And then he compared Michelle Vouterstee when Michelle was like kicking him and stuff
because he was like, wow, I didn't expect you to be able to kick that hard.
You're like last class is ninja.
Oh, yeah.
That's awesome.
I'm going to add that to my Twitter profile. I think you should ninja ninja.
Josh and Sarah are the worship and creative arts pastors at Grace Center. And before they were that,
we worked very closely together at the School of Supernatural Life where they were the school
pastors. And we've wanted to have you on the show for a long time. Like every time I sit here,
like, why don't we ask Josh and Sarah on the show? And we could, I mean, I've got a list of questions
running in my head about like arts and about, you know, the whole worship experience because it's
It's just unbelievable.
And so we're going to have to have you back on that because what I wanted to ask you about
was if you could cover some of your story about how you ended up in Nashville, because
I know you've only been here, what?
Five years in September?
Yeah, about four and a half years.
But a lot has happened in five years.
Yes.
And it's a great story.
And I'm always encouraged when I hear and I am sure our listeners are going to be super
encouraged.
So, Riddle me this, how long have you guys been married?
- It'll be nine years in August, August 5th.
- And you guys met in school?
- We met in college, Sarah saw me from afar and--
- Was it all over you like a rush?
- Just admired me greatly.
- Who could blame her really?
- I asked her out, well, I asked her
if she would wanna go see a movie with me,
and we dated for a few months,
and then she broke up with me.
- Oh dear.
- It was a riveting experience.
And then 13 months later,
after a lot of growth and time with the Lord,
we got back together.
(laughing)
- Yay.
- And now we're married.
- We're very glad that you did.
- Yeah, me too.
- Me too.

Tell us the story of how you came to Nashville,
why you came to Nashville.
Start there.
- Well, after college,
I had gotten hired to play guitar for a band that lived up near Chicago.
And I played with them for about four or five years and met a lot of people from Nashville at that time.
And during that time, we were touring with some people.
And one of the guys on the bus had been telling us about podcasts from Grace Center.
And we were familiar with Bethel and Bill Johnson's teachings and Jesus
culture and all that. And so they said, it's kind of like that they're in Nashville. So we got a
hold of some of the emanate podcasts of you and AJ teaching. And we would just listen to them in the
van on the way to shows and stuff. And Sarah used to listen to them a lot.
Yeah, I would, I was working as a studio manager at a photography studio at the time, and I would
edit photos for hours and listen to your guys's teachings.
Which is so surreal.
I know it's so strange, isn't it?
I never think about people listening to them in other places.
Right.
Yes.
It was like amazing because I think we were still relatively new to the things of the Holy
Spirit, but we're very curious.
And you were teaching practical ways to grow in the prophetic.
And I was curious about what is speaking in tongues?
What is the Holy Spirit baptism?
And then you had a teaching on curious about speaking in tongues.
And so it was just really what I was looking for at the time.
It was amazing.
really life giving.
So you were, you were, where were you?
You were working in a photography studio.
I was a photographer.
We did mostly wedding photography and studio family portraits.
And there's a some Valparaiso.
Valparaiso and you know.
But Josh was always on the road.
Yeah, he was touring about 200 days a year.
Just playing guitar.
And that would have interesting dynamics on marriage.
And driving a lot.
Yes.
It was very interesting.
But the one thing you'd have in common is you're listening to the same podcast.
Well, he's the one who told me about it because we had wondered why we were living in Indiana
and not Nashville or just somewhere else.
We were always intrigued about it, but never really considered moving here just because
we thought, well, we'll just stay in Indiana for now.
And then our jobs just kind of started changing.
We were just wanting things, wanting more, wanting to do more.
And I knew that, well, I knew that there was a good church in Nashville.
And I was like, well, if anything, we'll know we could go to Grace Center and have kind
of the same church that we had in Felparaiso.
And we could just kind of figure things out.
I knew that I wanted to keep playing guitar a lot more.
And all that, honestly, it was just kind of like, well, maybe we should check it out.
It was just kind of a hunch.
Like...
Yeah, we didn't really, we knew we didn't want to settle down in Indiana.
I think our friends were on their second and third baby and buying homes.
And we just felt that it wasn't a long term place for us.
And the only other place we had considered was Nashville.
And it was mostly because the winters were pretty brutal up in Indiana.
So we knew Nashville would be warmer and we knew there was a good church.
So you didn't know visitation of an angel.
No word of the Lord.

It was really just a hey, that might be something. And then that's what we did. We thought, well, we could visit. Maybe if we, you know, we'll visit Gray Center, we'll visit the town and we'll just see if what it feels like.
I mean, it really wasn't anything significant. It was just a hey, that might be the next step.
Don't you just love those?
Yeah, this probably isn't significant, but...
Yeah, but actually it's probably the most significant.
Yeah, so we came, we had two visits, we came down
once in February and I think we both were like, well let's just pray for favor
and see if there's any open doors.
I see if it just feels like a good fit for us and we were excited to come to emanate
to meet you guys or to at least hear you guys
- Yeah, 'cause he were like celebrities to us.
(laughing)
- We're real celebrities.
(laughing)
And M&A was canceled because of like this sleet rain storm.
- No.
- They said snow storm.
Now where we came from, it was like a dusting.
- Right.
- So we were very disappointed when it was canceled.
- Oh.
- And we were heading out of town.
I remember it was Tuesday, it says,
- Yeah, Tuesday after Monday and we stopped in Whole Foods
and I heard this Scottish accent behind me at a table
and I was like, "John, I think that sounds like Alan Jones."
And I had no idea what you looked like
but I had been listening to your podcast
so you know, the past year.
And I was like, "Okay, this feels like favor
"or something significant."
- I didn't think it felt like favor.
I said, "I'm going to the men's room.
Don't do anything weird."
Because you were clearly in a meeting with someone already.
You were meeting with someone,
and I was just trying to be, you know,
keep an appropriate distance.
But then that meeting ended, and I was like,
"Oh, wow, I think I should go meet him."
If that is Alan Jones, I'm going to go over and just say hi.
That's so funny.
Because that's so random seemingly.
So I walked over and introduced myself,
said, we're thinking about moving here and great to meet you.
And that was that.
And that was actually, that was enough for me.
I was like, Oh Lord, thank you for that.
That seemed incredibly significant.
I just wanted some kind of connection.
And so that was the favor I think I was looking for.
That's amazing what you saw that as favor.
Well, it just seemed significant.
I had prayed, you know, we were so excited for Emonee.
And when it didn't happen, I just thought, Oh, I really thought we would have met Alan and
and then when you were there, I just thought,
oh, well, that's what I was looking for, great.
- I have a vague memory of you.
I think I was sitting on the left
of that kind of the round part in the green hills.
And I think I remember who I was meeting with,
which is unusual, and they just left.
And I think I remember that very brief interchange,
"Hey, you know me, my husband, everything,
"and moving here."
And I was like, "Oh yeah, that's awesome."
But I'd completely forgotten it until you told the story.
But I remember that.
I remember the second time we met.
Do you want to talk about that?
- So the second time we met was in April, we had,
so by this point we had decided,
okay, we're definitely gonna move to Nashville.
And in April, I got asked to come down
and play guitar for something.
And so we came down and we thought,
well, we'll make a little trip out of it.
We'll look at apartments or at least check out
some different areas of town.
'Cause we didn't, other than I'd been here a few times,
the time in February was the first time Sarah had ever visited.
So I was like, we don't even know what Nashville is like
in terms of the city.
So let's just drive down, I'll do this little showcase thing
and then we can look around
and we wanted to come to church again.
So we came to church and I believe it was communion Sunday
and we went down to the front to get our elements
and you guys were sitting right there
And they said, "Just gather with some people near you.
We're gonna kind of take this family style."
And you guys, you kind of waved us over like,
"Here, you guys can join us."
'Cause we probably looked like loss.
Well, we don't know anyone.
We have no family, you know?
- I don't know why you waved us over.
- I know why.

Everybody's coming forward for communion.
And I just happen to see you guys walk past
and I just think, "Hmm,
I don't know who they are, but they fit here.
So for me, whenever favor lights on somebody,
I always go and inquire what that favor is.
So like for whatever reason,
I mean there's hundreds of people at Grace Center
and there's lots of visitors,
but out of everybody, you guys stand out.
You didn't do anything,
you just went forward and got communion
and yet the Holy Spirit highlighted you guys
and I didn't know what that meant,
but a bit like the burning bush,
I just went over and said,
"I wonder what this thing is."
And so that's why I went over to you guys and said, hey, come here to see what it was.
Isn't that funny?
That's amazing.
And then we had lunch.
You invited us for lunch.
That's right.
We went to Garcia's.
Yes.
We're eating lunch with Alan and Ete.
We don't even live here yet.
So what happened was we connected over communion, something as simple as communion.
And I thought, gosh, I want to get to know them a little bit better.
Again, just following that favor, like we see favor on you.
So we go over and see what it is.
We're still not sure what it is.
So we go the next time, say, can we have lunch together?
And we need to talk about favor at some point, continue.
So we have lunch together.
And have you moved it there at this point?
- No, you guys were like, well, let us know
when you move here, I guess.
We just connected and we got to know each other more.
We told you a little bit more about our story
and that we were coming down in September.
And that was that, we moved in September
and everything in our life seemingly felt like
it was falling apart.
- Yeah. - After we came.
Yeah, we got here feeling so favored.
Which we were.
We were at the church, but all of our job stuff,
it just seemed to like.
Well, talk about that.
So you move, and presumably you have some expectations
in your head of what it's gonna be like.
Yeah, we had met with our pastor in Indiana,
and there was just like a big yes,
we believe in you, this feels right.
And then after all of our visits to Nashville,
and the favor just felt like, yeah, this is right.
This isn't a good move for us.
And while things were winding down in both of our jobs,
at least in my mind, I thought, well, Shirley Lorde,
you're just gonna take us on to bigger and better things.
And I'm gonna get a better job doing what I love to do.
And Josh will get an even better gig in music.
- 'Cause he's in the music city.
- Yeah, of course.
And we're moving to a really creative town.
And you're saying yes, you're saying yes to go.
So Shirley will all just be easy.
Not so much.
It was not easy.
It was really hard actually those first six months when we came.
Every door that was initially opened, Josh had had a couple interests in him coming out
with some guys on the road and those doors closed and I had some photography possibilities
in those doors closed and we started to run out of money.
we were like looking at each other like, "What do we do?"
- Yeah. - What if you said, "Yes,
"I remember all of the words
"and we had such peace about coming here.
"What are we doing here?"
And so we ended up getting jobs at coffee shops
and just doing what we had to do to pay our bills
and we're just feeling a little bit lost.
- Like I'm sure in the middle of it,
you don't have a clue what's going on.
Now, looking back, do you have any insight
into what was going on?
- Oh yeah. - Yeah.
- There was a moment, I think for me at least,
where I was sitting on our couch in our living room,
just crying, like, "Lord, why did we move here?
"What are we even doing?
"Do you even hear my prayers?"

And then I was like, "Did I just ask that?"
It's all the time that I've had the Lord,
you know, powerfully move in our lives,
and all, like, in my life, and all of the testimonies.
I can't believe that my faith is so shaken
because of our present circumstances.
And I now, looking back,
feel like it was really important for me to realize what my faith was built on and that it was
pretty shaken by my circumstances and I needed to change some things which was incredible. I didn't
think I knew what I believed until it was challenged. So I think it was really important for us to go
through that and to make sure that we knew, yes, that the Lord's God has, yes, that his promises are
true, even when it doesn't feel like it presently.
What about you, Josh?
Yeah, I just remember thinking, you know, it was kind of like the
Israelites when they were led into the desert where they were
kind of like, well, at least in Egypt, we had food.
And I remember hitting a moment where we were like, well, let's
just move back and ask for old jobs.
And you know, even though we weren't feeling fulfilled and
necessarily like wanting to settle down in Indiana, at least we
had food, at least we had favor in those jobs. And oh, you know, I guess I could just do
that. That'd be fine. You know, I guess I could, I could decide to be happy in that.
And you know, I remember feeling kind of like Lord was like, well, that's it. That's all
you want. And I just didn't know, I didn't know what else to do. And I remember we actually
went back through Valparaiso over Christmas. We were driving up to Michigan to visit family.
And I remember going through town and thinking, "This is it. We're going to reconnect with
our friends and the town." And I just remember feeling like this doesn't feel right. We're
not meant to be back here. And for the first time, that was when Nashville felt like home,
though like our apartment, we still had boxes stacked up like in the corners like, you know,
it just, I just thought. Was it the bat apartment? Yes, we, you know, we hadn't discovered that
it was infested with bats yet, but yeah, that came later. So I just, but I remember thinking,
even though like, yeah, the neighborhood we were in, it was pretty shady at the time, it's beautiful
now, but at the time it was really shady. I was like, uh, this feels more like home than that did.
but I'm still very uncomfortable.

But was there any sense that you guys were dying?
- Oh yeah.
- Like as in, you're just expecting,
so you're both super skilled creatively.

And of course you're in this city
that really, really values and endorses those things.
I wonder, was there a sense that you were thinking, okay, this is the avenue that's
going to fulfill us.
Just all those things just died.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
I think we both had expectations that it was like onto bigger and better things because
we both left college and found favor immediately in both of our professions.
So we just felt like, Lord, thank you, of course.
Onward and upward and it was not happening.
It's so funny because what you're doing now,
I'm again, I'm just guessing here's a crime from wrong.
What you're doing now, I would imagine isn't what you would have want to have done.

And along comes Lawrence's, hey, why don't you guys be pastors?
Like, yeah, that would just be like, no, no.
No. So I remember thinking, so I had, I think I was confronted with the reality of maybe
I'm not, maybe I'm not as good as I thought I was. You know what I mean? Like, I just
thought, oh, we have all this favor. We have these opportunities. We're going to get there
and it's going to be perfect. We're just going to walk right into these awesome jobs.
And when they all fell through, you know, a lot of them fell through for just random
different reasons that nothing we could even be mad about. It was just like, oh, that makes
total sense.  You can't be mad
about that. Random things like that. But then when nothing else would come along, like every
connection or thing that seemed promising, I remember getting an audition for a really
now incredible country band and thinking, "This is it. Here we go. This is two months in
and never heard anything back. And I was just kind of shattered. I just thought,
wow, I must have had like American Idol syndrome where I thought, yes, I am the next American Idol
guitar player. And I was just completely wrong about myself. So the only thing we had going at the
time was our coffee shop jobs. And there was plenty of church services to be at. So we would come every
Sunday and Monday and take every free class that was available.
And I remember even thinking, man, I'm probably not even good enough to play at church.
Like boy, I went from I would love to tour stadiums to man, I would just like to be
able to play at church.
If somebody thought I was good enough to play at church, that would be cool.
That was it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you guys were getting promoted in your coffee shops.
So we've got had you.
He was promoting you, but it didn't feel like life at the time.
That's true.
Yeah, that was true.
We did have a lot of favor there.
And we looked at where we had favor, which was seemingly only the church.
And so that's where we got involved, which is one of the following favor.
And yeah, that is we signed up for everything we could.
And it was the first time in our marriage that we were together that much.
So we really grew a lot together, learned a lot.
I wish people could see your faces.
Oh my goodness.
Life like we just course and changed our entire life.
Took day Ramsey,
by and it learned about our money.
I mean, it was just a really challenging
but good season for us in our marriage.
And then the Lord started putting on my heart.
Like, maybe we should do a school.
We've never been together this long.
You know, we considered Bethel
or just some kind of ministry school.
And then you announced the school of supernatural life
and something just dropped in my spirit.
And I was like, oh, yeah, that's why we're here.
That's it.
That's what I want to do.
But we had no money.
And I still thought that would be really great for Sarah
to do that.
I'm going to get a great gig and pay for her to do that.
That would be great.
It still wasn't on my radar.
So funny.
But we prayed about that.
And then you guys asked us to dinner, I think,
over at your house.
And we didn't know why.
We were still like, what?
Why?
And you asked us to help you be leaders in the first year of the school as you were launching it to attend for free and then to help lead and learn how to lead a small group.
And I was just like, Oh, Lord, wow.
Like I was trying to come up with a way for just me to go and then maybe Josh could come later and you just completely open the door for us both to go together and to learn together.
And that was the beginning was indeed.
I love listening to this story because when I listen to this story,
I think of how it could have turned out.
How do you guys made any other decisions, which the Lord would have honored?
What advice or comfort or wisdom do you have for people who were,
who are in the season of life we just described where you're gifted,
you're talented, you have passion.
And yet the only job you can get is serving people coffee,
working in an environment you don't want to.
Like, how do you balance that between, you know, what you hope for, what you thought
God was going to do, and yet you find yourself, you know, not excelling in those areas?
Like, what cancel would you give people?
I would say that God's timing is always good and that.
So in my experience, when I would pray or journal about God, these are the desires of
my heart, get me out of this coffee shop, or any other thing that I felt like was killing
me slowly.
I felt like he kind of gave me a choice.
He was like, "Okay, I know you want to do this.
Would you do this?"
And it was like, "I know you want to play guitar for a living.
That's all you really want to do."
Hey, but for now, would you consider doing this school?
And every time I felt like the only thing I could do was just say,
yeah, yeah, I guess I would do that.
You know, and it was just kind of like these little choices.
I know you really want to do that.
Would you do this?
Would you consider doing this?
And it wasn't in the opposite of what I wanted to do.
It was just kind of like a, Hey, that's really great that you love that.
Look over here for a sec.
Would you do this?
And I felt like every time that I kind of felt frustrated
or wanted to quit or whatever,
he would just present me with another little,
hey, would you try this?
- And how ironic in a one sense
that what he's asking you to do
doesn't get you any closer to what you want to do.
- Yeah.
- Right?

Would you just do really, really well
on your boss while pouring coffee
for a really grumpy businessman, right?
Or hey, would you go to school or whatever?
And you're like, I will go do that Lord
because you've asked me to, it's a bit like Peter, you know?
Well, okay, carpenter boy, we have been fishing all night
but because you say, well, and so you doing all those things,
even saying yes, doesn't make it look like
you're getting any closer to your goal.
But suddenly God goes,
Why don't you guys run the whole worship and creative arts of this church that's known
around the nation for worship and creative arts?
Or even before that, really, like coming on staff as the pastors at the school, like you'd
learn how to manage people already, you know?
And grumpy people who wanted their coffee and wanted their, what you're doing mean?
Snickerdoodle.
It was all training.
It's just you had no idea you were actually in training.
Yeah, I would absolutely agree with that.
Nothing is wasted.
Everything, exactly where you are right now,
is used and useful.
It's either building character or experience
for what's to come.
So I think my greatest thing I would tell people
is to not quit to keep moving forward.
Yeah, I think because the Lord is so faithful,
like he's gonna work it all out if you keep saying yes.
'cause there was so many moments where you could have been like,
"We're done with this, this is too hard."
But it's always better with the Lord.
So I can't imagine not continually saying yes.
- I think with that too, I was looking back.
I'm really thankful that he didn't give me
some of the things that I really wanted.
'Cause I've talked to people that travel full time
and they're gone seven months in a row before they,
I talked to a friend who's like,
I've been on the road for the last eight months and I've slept in my own bed with my wife six times.
And the amount of time that we've been able to spend together over the last four and a half, five years,
it's more than we've ever been able to spend together.
And I wouldn't trade that for, you know, the best guitar playing job in the world.
Oh, oh, let's hold hands.
You can't see this right now, but we are embracing.

You absolutely did not want to be a pastor.
Yeah, not at all.

And it was like, it was the kindness of God that he just sort of wooed you into, "No,
look, see, see, I built you for this."
You know what I mean?
"Look, it's not as bad as you think it is."
That kind of stuff.
So I just, I love that about your story too.
I love that you guys were obedient and followed,
but I love God's heart towards you.
In that he kind of wooed you into finding out
what he actually made you for.
- It's funny because my yes to him wasn't even a strong yes.
We've talked about this before where I think
it was the second year of the school
and even asked us to come back and kind of help
lead the other small group leaders.
And literally, you know, I was journaling about it,
God, should I do this?
And I felt like the Lord was saying,
would you do this?
And all I wanted to do was to not do it anymore
and just go play guitar some more.
And, but I wasn't at a point yet where I could do that
full time.
So I was still like working at a coffee shop.
And I remember like holding up my hands like,
Do the school keep working at a coffee shop.
I guess I'd rather keep doing the school.
Okay, yeah, I'll do it.
And it was like literally that much of a yes.
Like I guess I'd rather do that.
This is a worthy investment of my time
at least serving their vision.
- I think that's just so funny
that God will use our feeble yeses.
And I wonder if the reason you didn't get to go
play more guitar is that thing hadn't died yet. Yeah. Yeah.
  And you know, the Lord, you know, this is what you do.
 That whole thing of good is often the worst enemy of best
Mm-hmm, and yet we often don't agree with God's best. Mm-hmm. Like how is this best?
Or we don't even know what his best is
But God was so faithful like he was so gentle with us
Because you guys asked us to come back and we were like I guess so and you had said we want you to try on being a pastor
because of course you didn't know what you needed in the school.
And then that second year was like, wait, are we pastors now?
Lord, the only favor we've gotten in the church is in pastoring.
And prophetic words now are coming in about pastoring.
I want to pay attention to what you're saying, but now I'm really confused because my heart
is still burning for things that are creative and Josh is still really wanting to play guitar.
Then in his kindness, he sent another prophetic word from James Goll.
Oh yeah.
And we were so funny because it was nearing the end of that second year.
And we were just like, wow, okay, Lord, we want to be obedient, but this is feeling hard.
This is so not what we had planned.
Are we even pastors?
And James Goll came to emanate and had delivered, you know, a couple of prophetic words.
And then at the end, I was like, actually, I had one more word.
It was a dream.
Last night, Charlie Brown came to me in a dream and said, "Find the Parsons.
The Parsons are pastors."
Yeah, that was pretty clear.
I just felt like, like, the floor weeping because I knew, I knew, obviously, that word
was for us.
Oh, I was hoping my brother was there and it was for him.
We were so funny, but what was the significance of the Charlie Brown thing?
Because I remember that was significant for you.
We just, my whole family.
We just always loved Charlie Brown.
We would watch, we'd start watching Charlie Brown Christmas
in like October and put it, you know,
the vinyl on the stereo and stuff.
And we've just, oh, we had like all the movies,
like it's Christmas, Charlie Brown, you know,
it's Christmas again, Charlie Brown,
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown,
it's the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown.
And we would read the comics
and I had all these little, you know,
woodstock and Snoopy Pez dispensers and stuff.
like it was just this thing that we loved.
And so for James Gull to say,
Charlie Brown appeared to me in a dream
and said, find the Parsons.
And it's a play on words
because the word "Parson" means pastors.
The Parsons are pastors.
And I just like,
I would say that was the beginning
of the real dying process.
'Cause that was the first time I knew.
Really the Lord was clearly saying.
- I think we both were,
I mean, we were both seeking the Lord,
but we're still feeling really confused.
Like if you've put these dreams and desires in us,
but you're only opening doors here, are we missing it?
And I actually prayed like, I journaled,
"Lord, please take this other desire away
"so that I can align myself with what you're calling us to do."
I'm just so confused.

And like, we're all in.
we're gonna, you know, we say yes to pastoring.
- But here's the thing, you say we have no other choice.
You could have walked away.
- That's true.
- You could have said no, that was for my brother.
- We almost did walk away that summer
because we were still like that summer,
why I say it was like the most dying moment
was because after that year of the school,
I think James gave us the word in March or February,
and we finished out that school year,
And it was during that summer that we had more than four visits from bats in our apartment.
We got Salmonella poisoning.

That's true.
I'm in a river.
That's a little rock bottom.
I literally hit rock bottom in a river and our car broke down and we were like, God, if you want us to be pastors, that's great.
But we need a car that runs.
we need, you know, we need health.
- Can we talk about the saddest conversation
that we've ever had?
- Yes.
- 'Cause I wanna talk a little bit about the role
of leaders.
But before we do that, I think it's so important
that just seeing you guys telling your story,
one of the things I wanna tease out of it is
favor isn't enough.
Favor will show you the direction,
but favor without obedience.
- And faithfulness and hard work is diddly squat.
- Yeah.
- And so, you know, I think a lot of people get disillusioned
because there's favor, but then there's hard work.
Everyone loves favor.
Not everybody loves the hard work.
- Absolutely.
- And you guys worked hard everywhere.
And that was one of the things we would just look at you.
You were hard workers everywhere.
You know, you're hard workers in the restaurant,
in the coffee shops.
You know, when you were with us, you were hard workers.

Let me talk about the role of leaders in your life
and that you guys can comment on this.
So I remember, A.G. and I would meet with you,
as your leaders at that point in the school.
And we'd just meet and just talk about how are you doing.
And I remember one time we were at Frothy Monkey
in downtown Franklin.
And we were out on the patio
and you were just going through the season
that you were just describing.
You had bats, an infestation in your,
I mean, it was just this comical list
of desperate situations.
- Ridiculous. - Oh my gosh.
And yet what you didn't know was your leaders, me and AJ and Jeff and Tony and McGlaurin,
had been speaking that very weak about recognizing the call of God that was on your life, like
just recognizing like guys, like, you know, he is faithful and the small, you know, will
be given much and we just watched you serve us so faithfully and we were about to officially
make you pastors.
We're about to put you on staff.
We're about to give you like a salary you could live from because prior to this, we were
just giving you like a step-end. And so you were, you know, you were being barely surviving.
Like you were having to work really, really hard other jobs to come and work with us.
And you know, we were like, okay, I think, you know, the school's doing well enough that we could
afford full-time pastor salaries, but we didn't know when we were still praying about it. And so,
you know, we're listening to you just go, you know, everything you just said, like, is this
even going to work? You know, maybe it's at the point where we now need to just think about our
family and you need to make a living and we can't say anything and you don't know that
your pastors behind closed doors are planning your promotion literally.
And I remember we went looking at houses together.
Yeah, we went by apartment.
Oh yeah.
And you were just in despair because you're like, "How could we ever afford this?"
And we're like, "We know what your salary is about to be.
You will be able to...
But we couldn't say anything."
And so hard.
And in the gap between what God's planning and where you are, how did you survive that?
Well, we asked you, we asked for your wisdom.
We got prophetic words that we held on to.
And I think we just we believed them.
So we kept moving forward.
We were close to quitting.
Oh, yeah.
Once once I once I knocked my tooth out, that was really, I don't know why, but it
was like if you could say hitting rock bottom, it was literally like, that's it.
Now I don't have a tooth.
And for some reason, that was the last straw.
Like you don't have the money to fix your money.
Exactly.
There was, you know, there's bats in our apartment.
We had bats, mice, roaches, all kinds of crazy stuff.
And then our car started having issues and we were like, we were having real
conversations like, so at what point do you kind of cut your losses?
And, you know, we were talking about like moving back to Michigan and living in
my parents basement and becoming substitute teachers or something just until we could
figure out what to do next.
And to be fair, you're trying to be,
you really weren't running away from anything.
You were just trying to be practical to the cards
that life had dealt you.
Like, we need to be responsible.
We've done Dave Ramsey.
Like, right, you know, this isn't,
and we're just like, and what was interesting for us is
we can't manipulate.
We can't tell you, and we can, all we can do is pray.
And our hearts going out to you going,
I know that probably within three weeks,
we can make you an offer, but right now I can't say a thing.
right? I remember you guys being you were encouraging you were like, you were so gracious and so
just hang in there. You know, it's unto something, all of these prophetic words. And I think,
I think we did, we held on to that as long as we could. And I think the Lord knew that too. And
then the seasons changed. And they changed significantly. You've had a suddenly. We did. It was,
Well, I remember you gave a prophetic word.
You were M seeing and it was August and it just turned to August.
And you said, eight is new beginnings.
And this is the eighth month.
So this is the season of new beginnings.
And I was like, yes, it is.
That was for the whole group.
It wasn't just for us.
I am taking that, you know, as a personal word, though, God, let this be a new
beginning.
And then it was that week.
It was all within the span of that week.
You guys met with us.
We were offered to be the school pastors to come on Grey Center staff.
And then we went house shopping.
Yeah, we were.
Just another story.
I don't know how many details you want, but it was just all of a sudden.
The apartment that we thought we wanted didn't happen in Josh.
We'd been researching and dreaming, you know, for months about things we
was hoping for, but never seemed possible.
All of a sudden felt possible.
And we ended up looking at a house.
Our offer was picked over the other offers.
It all happened within like one day.
We made an offer on a house and that day it got accepted and you got given a car and we got given a car.
We yeah, because our car was still broken.
So someone had called the church and I was saying, Hey, I've got three more weeks paid insurance on this car.
We purchased a new one.
Do you know if anyone who needs to use a car in Tony was like, Oh, there's a couple moving.
Yeah, I'm sure they could use it.
So we borrowed the car and then the next Sunday, he came with the other set of keys and said,
we just feel like the Lord told us to give this to you.
So it was like new job, new house, new car, all within the span of a week.
It was amazing.
Amazing.
Everything changed in a week.
Everything did change in a week.
But last people, because the danger is, and we've taught, you know, the four of us have
talked about this a lot, there's a danger that people listen to this and think, yeah, well,
that's you or they just.
what they don't see is behind the scenes, you were making declarations.
Yeah.
One of the things I just want to honor you for Sarah is you are the declaration queen.
So you didn't just listen to a prophetic word and go, "Yeah, well, let's see if new
beginnings happen." You were like, "Yes, before it happened, I declare that there will be new
beginnings." And I declare that we're going to have this size. And I declare that we're going
to have this car. And I've just seen time and time again. You guys declare things and they come to
to pass. It's amazing. It's kind of crazy because we had coffee one time and because we just kind of,
we knew that declaring things was a value. We valued that. So we would get coffee.  And I had this wish list right there.
Well, I mean, Nashville. Right. I got to it. It's really good coffee. Okay.
There's no Tim Hortons here.
So we had this wish list on my phone,
and it was like extravagant wishes.

And Sarah was like, well, I want my own computer.
Put that on the wish list.
You know what, I want an iPad mini too.
Put that on the wish list.
And I want a three bedroom, two bath house,
and I want a new car.
And so we just wrote all these things down.
- I mean, this was like pie in the sky dreaming
of the time. - Oh yeah, everything.
- I just felt, wow, maybe someday Lord.
- And we were looking at it what, like a year ago,
I was just flipping through notes on my phone
and I found this wish list.

And we made another one with other cars,
with like specific models,
'cause we do this all the time now.
And we literally outside are those two
exact specific models of cars
that we just randomly got crazy deals and...
- Can I speak into that for a second?
- Absolutely.
- Because I can already hear some of the thoughts
of the listeners, like thinking,
"That's food, dude, that's witchcraft."
That's just, you know.
- Name it, claim it.
- Name it, claim it.
- You know, blab it and grab it.
And the thing is that those principles are working
whether you're making declarations or not.
Exactly.

You're thinking, you know, probably the best
I can ever afford is X and the best your level of forward
is X.
So you're actually partnering with those principles
whether you know or not.
So you may as well take authority over what your mind
is thinking and actually speak things that are in accordance
with God's will.
We need to do a proper teaching on that.
Yeah.

You know.
No, you're not.
You're amazing.
You're amazing.
You're amazing.
Well, I mean, if we believe the Bible, it says, "I love it though."
It's made me think.
Well, it always reminded me.
 And eventually he was just like, fine, I'll give you what you want, just so you'll stop
pestering me. And it says, how much more does the Lord love to answer the requests of his children?
And basically, the premise of the Bible study was if you have, you know, if you have something
that you are dreaming of that you want from the Lord, he wants to know what that is. And so to
tell him and he talked about like, if a child goes to their parents and says, I really want
this red bicycle for Christmas. Dad, I want this red bicycle for Christmas. Dad, I want,
I really want this red bicycle for Christmas. Like when Christmas rolls around, they know
exactly what to get him because he's been telling what he wants. So I don't know. So
I just thought, well, you know, if God's a good dad, then let's try that. So I'm like,
Lord, I want this car with and I have it.
It's weird.
I don't it sounds weird, but it's it happens.
It is amazing.
Guys can absolutely amazing.
All right.
Let's bring this to a close because we're only like a quarter of the way through your
story.
Yeah.
Oh, right.
Well, right.
So you do the school.
That's amazing.
And we have the opportunity where we need somebody to help look after our worship
team.
And we saw the fruit that blossomed. You know, we put you, it's a bit like Joseph,
we put you in charge of the school and things just blossomed and flourished. And so we're like,
great. You know, whatever you're touching is flourishing. Would you just steward the worship
team while we are interviewing for worship pastors? And what did you guys think?
Well, I thought, wow, I'm really honored.
And it kind of caught me off guard at first.
I honestly have to be getting thought.
Seriously, me, there's got to be somebody else who's way more qualified.
Kind of what I thought every other thing that you've asked us.
Would you guys be interested in doing this?
There's got to be someone way more qualified.

It kind of makes sense.
I thought, great.
Yeah, absolutely. I would love to help out until you guys find the right person for this job.
And it was probably months that I would still think, man, I wonder who's going to be the new
worship pastor. And it just never, it didn't dawn on me. I don't know. What do you think, Sarah?
Oh, well, I think we were both a little like, okay, we, I mean, we're just helping out. We're
running to serve however we can as there was some transition going on. We were really involved
in the worship team. Josh was always playing and I had painted a couple times and many of our
friends and community were already on the worship team. So it was fine. It was more just like,
okay, we'll hold down the floor. We'll do what we can, but we also have this full-time job in the
school. Right, but you'd never really wanted to be worship pastors. Oh, no. I don't think we'd ever
considered that.
Right. I remember, well, in my head too, because neither of us are singers, I thought,
oh, that wouldn't make sense. Right.
 So it wasn't like the
the pastor was also the main worship leader.
So they kind of had to do everything.
I just remember thinking, oh, that could be cool.
You know, I wonder who would be good for that job.
And I remember the Lord kind of going, you might.
Like just like that.
And I immediately was like, no, no, no, I couldn't do that.
You know, I don't know, not like, not like completely denying it
or saying no, but just like, no, I don't think that.
And I thought I was being prideful,
like who are you to think you could be,
the worship pastor at Grace Center?
Like there are amazing people
who have been the worship pastors at Grace Center.
- For sure.
- And honestly, that was one of the things
that I was really intimidated by.
I was like, you know, you have people like Luke Finch
and Chris McLaurney and who are like--
- Amazing people.

Kind of, you know what I mean?
Like I just thought this is so far out there.
- But what happened because obviously you now do that.
And obviously we came and offered you that job,
but like how did your heart begin to percolate thinking
this might be something you want to do?
Because the difference when, you know,
Jeff came and asked you guys,
would you like to be the worship pastors?
It was, we didn't get the sense that was,
you were just being obedient like you had in the previous.
It definitely felt like this fit.
Your passions came online.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
At what point did that happen?
- It was like six months or something.
And during that time, the Lord had really been speaking
to me about believing what he says about me.
And 'cause when I would journal,
I would, you know, when you journal
and you ask the Lord, Lord,
well, how do you feel about me?
And he says these wonderful things
and you write them down, but to, I don't know,
to talk about those just feels weird.
So there were things that I had,
I felt like I had heard the Lord said
and I had written down.
But then going from that to like being asked,
"Would you be willing to do this job?"
The amount of work that it took the Lord to do on my heart
between that time was crazy.
And, but I feel like, I mean,
I'm still kind of wrestling with it a little bit.
Like, "Am I really doing this?
"Am I really cut out for this?"
And I'm still having to choose to say, God, I believe you.
I believe what you say about me and that I can do this.
- I think during that time, we both, we had one moment,
I don't know if you remember this, Josh,
but we both were standing in the kitchen.
And I think it was just after you had had that thought,
like, I wonder if there would be ever like a pastor
that oversaw all of the worship people.
And I was like, driving home from church,
I was wondering if they would ever be a pastor that would like oversee all of the creatives
and the musicians.
Like you remember that.
And we had this moment where we talked about it and we're like, okay, well, it's nothing
that we could make happen.
So we just let it go.
And we just didn't talk about it.
We, I think both didn't feel peace about bringing it up.
And we trusted the Lord would talk to our leaders in the right time.
So we actually, you know, we didn't know what you guys were thinking and I knew that many
people were sending in applications and yeah, so we were just trying to be faithful with
all of that.
And then Jeff in November straight up asked like, what do you, what do you guys love?
What do you really, really want?
That's right.
And we both were like, well, we're both worshipers.
We love creativity and arts and music and that's what we would do.
Even if we weren't paid, that's what we do in our spare time, that's what we do already.
I don't know what that means, but that's our heart.
Then that's the process of basically just creating this new role and position for us,
which is so like I get emotional thinking back on it because we could have never done
this on our own.
And we couldn't have even known that this would have been what we wanted,
but now because of this series of many yeses over and over and over,
we're now in this role that feels like too good to be true and better than we
could have ever imagined and perfectly fit for us.
And we're just at the beginning of it.
So.
And what's crazy is I think the dying process made room for these new dreams.
Yeah.

The land had to be kind of scorched.
Yeah.
New plant seeds could be planted for this thing to blossom.
I think too, like one of the things about your story, which is just a really good
example is you guys didn't crowbar your way into anything.

But I think you guys have done so well at that.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I was just laughing that in all the jobs you've had at Grace Center, you've never applied
for any of them.
Yeah.
I remember when I was like,
when you were thinking about making us the--
- Small group leader.
- Small group leader leaders.
And you didn't even know that I had managed
your experience or really had any idea.
I was like, oh, well, I can help maybe
with some organization.
- But that's so funny to you.
- That just tells you too.
Like God, I mean, God was talking to us about you guys
when we had no idea about that stuff.

One of the things that so my brain works very, it's very linear, like a straight
line. So I remember.
So when James Gull gave us that word, that was actually, that was obviously like a
life changing moment.
And I remember thinking, I remember journaling with the Lord and him just kind
asking me, what do you think? And I remember thinking, well, I feel like it's obvious that you want us to be pastors. And he was like, yeah.
And he said, what kind of pastor do you want to be? And I just thought, well, I'd like to do, I like playing guitar still. That hasn't gone away.
I'd love to do stuff with musicians and artists and things like that.
And that was probably that was probably when James gave us the word.
So a couple of years ago, but I still never, I never thought it was for any, you know what I mean?
Like I just thought, oh, that was a nice question.
You know, but I never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that we would be the
worship and arts pastors at Gray Center because.
But here's the crazy thing.
And with this, I want to bring this to a close is once we've made you that offer,
you start looking at all your old prophetic words from like five, six, seven years ago.
And they all pointed to this.
Yeah.
Crazy.
But you would never have interpreted them in those light.
Mm hmm.
You know, it's just, it's back to that prophetic words are easier on the student
hindsight than they are in foresight.
Yeah.
You know, Jeff was speaking this morning and had some great lines,
but one of the things he was talking about that verse in Psalms where it talked about how the word
Tested Joseph, you know until you know a certain time and Jeff said this he said you want the you know
Whenever you get a prophetic word what we want is we want the word to fit us
But what God wants is for us to fit the word
Yeah, and I thought that oh my gosh if that's not the whole summation of walking in the prophetic I
I don't know what is right and so that whole five years that you've been here has been death for resurrections purpose.
Yeah, and I love it.
It's so good where can people find out more about you guys you guys are on instagram twitter your websites talk about that what if people want to find you follow you see what you look like.
Will we both have twitter yeah my instagram this is josh speaking not Sarah my instagram is at underscore josh parsons.
And my twitter is the same thing my my space is also the same in my you have a my state of a live journal.
It's a live journal for your feelings no I never did.
- I'm not very, you're feeling mom.
- I saved all of those.
- Sarah, what are you on Instagram and Twitter?
- I am, I, Sarah Parsons on Instagram and Twitter,
and I think we can be found on the Grace Center website.

- Oh, I do.
- Oh, I do.
I do, but you actually helped me build.
Thank you very much. - Oh, it's a beautiful website.
- Yes, you can see all of my artwork at parsonstudio.com.
dot com.
Yes.
Come or net?
I think it's net.
Oh, no.
I'll put a link in the show notes.
You think I should know that people can go have a look at her artwork is stunning.
If you haven't seen it, it's remarkable.
We have one in our front lobby as you come in her house.
It's one of our prized possessions.
All right, let's wrap this up.
We are coming to the end of our window for you to apply for the School of Supernatural
Life.
If you go to schoolsupernaturallife.org, you can find that information about the grace
in our school is an incredible eight month opportunity. You heard Josh and Sarah talk
about doing that. They've done the school, they staff to school. Last question for you
guys, what would you say people coming to the school would get in a sentence?
I think the number one thing that people can expect to get from the school is eight months
to completely devote their time and resources to the Lord and growing closer to him and
just blowing their expectations out of the water of what he is capable of speaking to them about.
I would say acceleration. I've seen just huge things that would take maybe others five years to
achieve when you set aside eight months to go deeper with the Lord in all areas spiritually
and practically. There's just been tremendous acceleration on the students and all in our alumni.
All right. Well, we're done. If you would like to show notes for this episode, go to
Alan and AJ.com/55 for the 55th episode. If you would like to ask us a question that we can answer
on air, head over to Alan and AJ.com/ask and we'll do our best to answer your questions.
Our great thanks to the wonderful Josh and Sarah Parsons. Thank you for giving up your
evening to come and share your story. We love you guys and to our listeners. Thank you for
tuning in once again. We will see you next week. See you next week. Buh-bye.


| Psy::Strings::Strings |
Psy::Strings::Strings
Version 0.01
Quick summary of what the module does.
Functions for use on strings.
use Psy::Strings::Strings;
returns the maximum length of a string (first match)
Splits a string on -regexes, inserting '-insert' between them.
Starts at begining of string, each successive regex must be found after the first.
®exSplit('-str' => $s, '-regexes' => \@r, '-insert' => ' ')
I'm sure this could be done much more efficiently with look-ahead/behind.
=cut
| sub regexSplit { | |
| my %raw_params = @_; | |
| my %default_params = ( | |
| '-insert' => ' ' | |
| ); | |
| my %params = (%default_params, %raw_params); | |
| $params{'-str'} || return; |
my $s = $params{'-str'}; my $n=0;
for my $r ( @{$params{'-regexes'}} ) { print "$r - "; if ( $s =~ /(.{$n})(.*)($r)(.*)/i ) { print " [$1] [$2] [$3] [$4] $n";
$s = $1.$2.$params{'-insert'}.$3.$params{'-insert'}.$4; $n = length ($1) + length ($3) + 2; } print "\n"; } # cheat - collapse >2 spaces to nothing $s =~ s/\s{3,}/ /g; return $s; }
A simple reverse compliment a string (DNA). Only handles 'ACGTU' and '[]' and '\?' for regexes. Mayhaps move to DNA?
Returns a single regex that should search against an set of input patterns
Given an array -strings and a character -char, deletes all fixed positions within that string for that character
Given an array of integers return a block of each length
duplicates string2Blocks in a cleaner way...doh
returns a hash of 'word index' => { 'word_end', 'word_start', 'char_sum_start', 'char_sum_end', 'word_length' }
| parameters are '-line' , '-offset' (added to char_sum_start and char_sum_end), '-regex' (the word/pattern to search for) | |
| with help from http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=299194 |
see lineWordMeta returns a list of words (ordered) as demarked by a hash produced by &lineWordMeta
Returns a string containing the alphabetized (read 'sort') letters of the input string.
alphabetize('cba'); # returns abc
Returns an array containing the offset positions for each instance of $chars in $string zero = 1
Pilfered from ``http://www.newts.org/~troc/perl/uniqchar.perl'' returns the number of unique characters in a string =cut
sub totalUniqueChars () { my ($str) = shift; use integer; my %c; for (split //, $str) {$c{$_}=undef} scalar keys %c }
returns an array of the unique characters seen in a string
returns ord()
instead of chars
needs a list (text to pad, character to pad with (assuming single character!!), total length
| Returns a right padded string of a certain length | |
| &padright('foo', ' ', '24'); |
length of the longest string in an array
the max number in an array
Returns a hash count of all strings of length $len occuring in $str, stepping by +1
This is equivalent to overlapping kwords?
Short form. Return a sprintf to 2 decimals.
'Matt, <m{j}yoder@{tee}[aye](em)(you).domain4unis>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>, or through the web interface at
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Psy>.
I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
Some here.
Copyright 2005 'Matt, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
| Psy::Strings::Strings |


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