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An extension of the ministry of Stone Oak Bible Church. Stone Oak Bible Church is located in North Central San Antonio, TX. We would love to have you join us.
Welcome to the Stone Bible Church podcast, The SOBC Pod. It's an extension of the ministries of Stone Oak Bible Church. This is Craig and I have a new guest with us today on the pod. I've got Phil with us. Hey, Phil.
Phil:Hey, what's going on, Craig?
Craig:Phil is one of our deacons. You've been at Stone Oak for, goodness, a while now. Four, five, I six
Phil:think it's been It was when we were at
Craig:What's the place? The Shrine?
Phil:Yeah, the Shrine.
Craig:Okay.
Phil:Yeah, I was there. I've there about six months, six, eight months, maybe a year.
Craig:Okay. So you've met with us probably four ish years, probably Yeah, somewhere around yeah. Nice to you. Yeah. Well, Phil, introduce us to who you are.
Craig:Tell us about your family. Tell us about, Start there. Tell us family.
Phil:Cool. My family. My family. So it's me and my wife, Wanda.
Craig:How long have been married?
Phil:We've been married. Oddly enough, it's going to be twenty seven years on the May 22. Look at that.
Craig:You got any We
Phil:may go to your home state.
Craig:Heading to Missouri.
Phil:Yeah. Little Branson. Beautiful. Beautiful. Little fishing.
Craig:Table Rock Lake.
Phil:Yeah. So I think we may we may venture out there because we went we went the one time and we just loved it. Yeah. So yeah, probably do that. Yeah.
Phil:Twenty seven years, met on the volleyball court, which was really cool.
Craig:So tell me, tell me about volleyball, Phil. You are a volleyball man.
Phil:Yeah. Yeah. I played high school, college, and a little bit of the Pro Beach tour. So it was Has
Craig:it always been sand or you do
Phil:indoors? I I started indoors. I started indoors as a freshman in high school, and I didn't know how I'd like it. And I fell in love with it and then dropped my other two sports and just focused on that. Yeah.
Craig:Do you still play?
Phil:Oh, yeah. I try to I haven't It's been a little bit. The last six months. I've taken a little bit of a break. Yeah.
Phil:But no, I if I can get on the court tomorrow, do
Craig:it. Fantastic.
Phil:Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Kids. We got got four kiddos.
Phil:What my my son Todd, who's 33 from a previous marriage. Great kid. He lives in California. My stepson, Derek, who lives out by him. They hang out.
Phil:They do things together. Also, our daughter who's out here. Yeah, that's kind of the reason we made it out here. It was came out from Cali and and decided to kind of help her out. She was going through a rough time.
Phil:She had a couple of grandkids. And so so we had to kind of help her out. Yeah, you
Craig:came from the grandkids. We know we
Phil:know how this works. Exactly. Yeah, it came from the grandkids. Then we have our 27 year old Ryan. He's out here with us
Craig:as well.
Phil:So, yeah. That's awesome. It's good.
Craig:How long have you been in Texas for?
Phil:Since 07/31/2021.
Craig:Okay. Yeah. So you're new ish to Texas.
Phil:But I think I can consider myself a transplant Texas. I think I'm
Craig:good. Yeah, me too. It happens fast.
Phil:It does.
Craig:Where in Cali were you guys?
Phil:SoCal. I got in Redlands, Loma Linda. Lived in a big medical community.
Craig:Nice, man.
Phil:We get back there. I get back there frequently. In fact, I'll probably have to go back in May. Still run my real estate business out there.
Craig:Okay. So, yeah. Phil is, in case you're wondering if you've been in any of our kind of big cookout events that we've done, Phil is the hot dog guy. That's
Phil:funny.
Craig:How'd you
Phil:get into the hot dog? So the hot dog thing. So that was when we were in California, I had an opportunity. So my mom, I'll back up a little bit. My mom said she's a culinary person.
Phil:She's she's that's what she's done all of our life. Okay. Really good cook.
Craig:And so that's great to grow up in that household.
Phil:Well, and I was an only child, so I had So no I ate really good and always loved to be in the kitchen. So it just kind of was an extension of that. I had an opportunity to buy a hot dog cart and I thought this would be a great addition to my real estate business. So we started doing parties and things for clients and moving parties, which was really cool.
Craig:Then it
Phil:just kind of grew into this crazy thing during COVID when COVID started. Yeah? Yeah. And it was weird. And so but it was fun.
Phil:We had a lot of fun doing it. And we were doing events and things like that because a lot of the places out there, you know, they shut down. Yeah. And everybody was kind of running rogue. And so that's kind of what we did.
Phil:And it was what so kind of developed a little bit of a name, but then I brought it out here. And now I have like a standing gig with Lowe's Corporation. So I do some their pro events where I go and I just serve dogs for like four hours and they just pay me to do it. That's great. So it's cool.
Phil:So I do that.
Craig:It sounds weird. If you haven't had Phil's hot dogs, it sounds, it sounds weird. It's like, wait, we're talking about hot dogs? Yeah. But these are like gourmet dogs.
Craig:These aren't like Costco hot dogs.
Phil:Yeah. They're not your grandmother's hot dogs.
Craig:Yeah. It's like the three types of hot dogs that are the best. It's like campfire hot dogs. That's like my number one. Right.
Craig:Second baseball game hot dogs. Definitely number two. And then Pops dogs. Right? Is it not the names?
Phil:Pop pops.
Craig:Yeah. Pop pops dogs. Yeah. That's that's number three, Phil. You've done it.
Craig:Well done. Yeah. Thank you. Phil, you're one of our newest deacons. Yeah.
Craig:You came on with us as a deacon officially. Yeah. Goodness. Is it three, four weeks ago now?
Phil:I think so.
Craig:Yeah. It hasn't been super long. What excites you about being a deacon at Stone Oak?
Phil:So I didn't even know much about it. I mean, I've heard of them, but I didn't know. And I knew we kind of had a couple, but didn't really think about it a whole lot. So I mean, I'm loving to see what what God has in store, you know, and I think that I think it's just a really good time to or a really good opportunity to serve the body that I mean, I've grown to just love Stone Oak and love the people there. Yeah.
Phil:So it's it's I love that part
Craig:of it. How'd you find Stone Oak?
Phil:Oh, boy. So we were in when we first moved here, we went to we were in Boerne. Yeah. And we were just there for a short time. It's going to went to Oak Hills a little bit.
Phil:Yeah. It was good. I mean, Max. Absolutely. Yeah, Max a good guy.
Phil:So I went there, but just too big. Just nothing like my home church in California.
Craig:It's it's a massive church.
Phil:It is huge. And so you can't get plugged in. Yes. So it was just like I was kind of starving. And I talked to my pastor a lot in California and it was super interesting.
Phil:So I was looking online and, you know, I just saw it. I went Stone Oak Bible Church. I'm like, Okay, it's a Bible church. Good. That's what I came from.
Phil:Just a Bible church.
Craig:And
Phil:I, I listened to one of Justin's messages and I go, Oh, I like this guy. Yeah, I like him already. So when when I first came, we had just moved And it was a ways from burning where I was living. But we were right in the transition of moving over there. We just closed on our house.
Phil:And so we were getting over there. So that was that was neat. And I didn't really have to do a whole lot of church shopping. I looked at messages and podcasts and stuff like that. It's one
Craig:of the joys of it being, I think, the online atmosphere post COVID. It's very difficult now to find a church who doesn't have some sort of video and audio recordings. You can go and you can kind of get a feel as best you can from a digital presence of what is this church like. At least you can listen to sermons and you can hear, this sermon wise, is this going to fit now? Relational, cultural, all of those things you can't really get a feel for, but you listen online and you kind of get a feel for
Phil:who Yeah. It So went one time. That was it. So and it was I was sold.
Craig:Hook, line and sinker. Look at that.
Phil:Been there since that. And Casey got his paws into me real early. Hey, you look like a strapping young guy. I
Craig:I can You look like you have two legs, two hands, and we could use you on setup team.
Phil:That's right. Exactly.
Craig:Yeah. It's one of those things though where like us being mobile and having a setup team, it stinks. Like, there's no way around that. Right. Like sweat equity every single Sunday before and after service is difficult.
Craig:Yet, it is one of the best ways for specifically guys right now to connect with other men in our church. Right. So if you're listening to this, if you're a guy and you're like, Hey, I want to figure out how to connect with what's going on at Stonant. Yeah. And talk to Casey Abel.
Craig:Yep. He will get connected to serving on the setup team.
Phil:Right.
Craig:And it's not hard. Yeah. It's a lot of setting up chairs is a lot of what the work is. And you get to talk with some of the other guys and kind of get to know them during that time period.
Phil:It's great. I love it. And I think it's good for the body. I really do.
Craig:Really, do.
Phil:Really good.
Craig:So, Phil, I wanna hop on here and and talk with you. Not because you're just Phil and because I like you and not just because you're a deacon.
Phil:And I like fishing.
Craig:Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Phil and I talk about fly fishing quite a bit.
Phil:Just have to get the chance to do it.
Craig:I know. We haven't gone together, but anytime either one of us goes out, it's like, Hey, I went out and here's what happened.
Phil:Here's what happened. Yeah.
Craig:I want talk to you about Crisis Response.
Phil:Okay.
Craig:So you lead our Crisis Response Team. Let's just start all the way back at the beginning. What is the Crisis Response Team?
Phil:So Crisis Response was kind of it was born out of when the floods and hunt happened, I had to go out there. Just I don't something drew me out there. And because we knew people out there, I just and my best friend, Bill Ryan, who's the GM at Lowe's in Kerrville, had got a hold of me and said, Hey, that this is bad. Yeah. He's like, We need to be on the ground.
Phil:And I said, I agree 100%. I said, I just don't know where to go with this. So we drove out there on day three. Okay. I cried all the way down.
Craig:Yeah. I just couldn't. If you have a mouth there, even still today, you can see just it's dark. There's no way to describe it. The force of water ripped through that community.
Craig:And if you've never experienced something like that, just to go out there, even today after we're coming up on a year almost, even today, it is still fresh out there. It's a fresh open wound that you can go out there and see. Three days afterwards, made a trip out there just by yourself.
Phil:It was me and my wife. She couldn't help but want to go out there. And so we went out there, we drove through, just taken back. And then on the way back, we went to wearing the little town right there off the 10.
Craig:Yeah. And that's hold on. I can tell you're from California just right there. Warren? No.
Craig:The 10.
Phil:The 0, yes.
Craig:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anybody who's out of California, it is always the and whatever the number is, it's always the 10, the 16O4.
Phil:Yeah, I'll tell you a quick story. The gal at the DMV or the Department of Texas DPS, when we went to get our licenses, she said that exact thing to Oh, you must be from California because you say that. And from then on, I haven't done it. I can't even believe I just did it. Gotcha.
Phil:You got me.
Craig:Yeah. All right. Sorry. Continue. You're heading back and you
Phil:guys pull over off Pull the over and wearing, and we run down this road to where and this is like 30 miles from the real impact in Clearville. And it was absolutely devastating. And we went down there and there was a couple of people. There was a fireman, a neighbor and somebody else. And they were looking.
Phil:They were looking for people. And so we, for the next like four hours, we just kind of hunted we hiked up and down the riverbed the riverbank. Yeah. And just kind of helped them and and the smell that there was a lot of dead fish, but you couldn't tell what you just don't know. Don't to this day, I don't know if they ever found anybody down that far.
Phil:Think they did. But it was but you just had to, know, we just it was just so crazy. So from that, I I just I really felt God, like, I guess prompting me to get involved and to do something. And what better place than the body of Christ? And what really spurred it on was just prior to the flood.
Phil:I don't know if it was like four or five months. Dan, Dan Holman was at church and me and him connected and we started talking and then we started texting one another. Okay. So immediately, I text Dan. Yeah.
Phil:And I said, You're coming to hunt, right? He goes, I'll be there in four days or whatever it was. Yeah. And so that's what kind of sparked it. I'm like, Man, how do we support him?
Phil:How do we support Reach Global? How do we do that as a church? And so I know he he was kind of instrumental in that and getting me motivated. And he's like, hey, he's like, how things at Stone Oak, you know, do we Do we need volunteers? He goes, We need bodies.
Craig:So let me connect the dots there. So Dan Holman was with us, goodness, probably about year one, maybe two, Dan and his wife, Christie, and their kids were a part of Stone Oak Bible Church. They became members, and Dan began to kind of lead our men's ministry for a good season with us in the early days of Stone Oak. Fast forward a few years and Hurricane Harvey came through and devastated the Houston area.
Phil:Right.
Craig:And through that, kind of a similar story to what you're saying regarding Hunt. Dan just felt that call. And he responded to that call and began to serve with an organization called Reach Global, which our network is called the Evangelical Free Church of America, EFCA. A wing of that is Reach Global, which covers crisis response from a national and from a world perspective as well. And Dan began to work for Reach Global.
Craig:We sent him out. To this day, our church still financially supports the Holmans and stays connected with them. He's gone to whenever the fires went through Paradise, California. Dan was boots on the ground and they kind of set up there for a number of, I want to say it was like three, four years. We ended up sending a team out there to Paradise to kind of help with the recovery there.
Craig:Once things happened in the Kerrville Hunt area, we assumed that Dan would be coming. And so we kind of reached out and sure enough, Dan Holman is coming. And so it gave us that immediate contact, which was so helpful for us. Of the challenges anytime one of these crises happens is there are a lot of people that want to come and help, but whenever it's so unorganized, it's actually detrimental. I remember in the early days, like day one, day two, day three, people were flying their personal drones over the flooded river area looking to see if they could find any survivors still.
Craig:What ended up happening, though, is they clogged up so much of the airspace that many of the actual helicopters that were responsible for this couldn't quite do their job. While there were people trying to help, it actually ended up hurting. That's what we see a lot of times with crisis response is whenever there's not an organization that you go with, whenever there's not some type of structure to them, you might be thinking that you're helping when in actuality you're actually slowing things down and kind of making it more difficult. And so for us to have Dan, for us to have Reach Global was just such a huge blessing that God was working behind the scenes so many years ago for us to to already have that relationship established. So you reach out to Dan and take us from there.
Phil:And so, yeah, he's like, I said, Let's hook up when you get here. And so I went out and then I went out, if I can remember everything, I went out one time, we just talked. He said, you know, we're going to need people to do, you know, demucking, everything else. And then my first trip was to Heart of the Hills, went to Heart of the Hills. So we went out there, just kind of worked where we needed to and did whatever we could.
Craig:What's that look like at the beginning? Is that pulling brush? Is that
Phil:Yeah, it was a lot of shovel work because there was a lot of mud, a lot of pulling drywall off in the first two floors at part of the hills. It just got flooded solidly. So a lot of pulling drywall, demucking. So a lot of dirty work. But were 70 people out there
Craig:the first
Phil:day that we were there, and that was super encouraging. And there was one group heritage heritage boys ministry or something like that. They were from Waco.
Craig:Okay.
Phil:And that just warmed my heart because these were all young men.
Craig:Yeah,
Phil:like 14 to 19, just working like mad. I'm like, Man, this is great. This is amazing.
Craig:I remember my son's high school football coach. He's in middle school right now, but the high school football coach grabbed the whole football team and said, we're doing a serve day. Nice. Took them all up there. I was like, that's what it looks like for young men to be able to I mean, young men can outwork either one of us for probably twenty hours additional.
Phil:That's
Craig:right. And they were able to do some strength and conditioning in the midst of just kind of caring for that community.
Phil:Yeah. So, yeah. So that's kind of how that went. And then we had a trip with then Justin and I went out and met with Bill, my buddy Bill and Dan. The four of us went to Bumblebee, the little community of Bumblebee.
Phil:We were in there and talking to them and he was walking Justin through and just saying, Hey, these are the things we're doing. Because both Dan with Reach Global and Bill, they were doing what they call red vest days with Lowe's. They would take the employees, and they were doing the same thing. So kind of the down the road thing we're hoping that happens is that we can connect that type of or we can come alongside Lowe's and they can come alongside us on other type of responses. That's what we're hoping on a larger scale.
Phil:So we'll see. And we had some good conversations.
Craig:Yeah. That's fantastic. Yeah. So fast forward, how many total trips have you personally taken to that area now?
Phil:Oh, boy, that's a good question on exactly how many. I'm going to say I've been there six times.
Craig:With
Phil:the team, we've done four or five trips, I believe. I I was there for the evening of one. Yeah. But but it was a it was a it was a week. It was it was what they call a half week.
Phil:Yeah. But but like some of the other folks from the body, Julio and his kids and and a couple others were there and they just had a had a great time and really kind of got to see what was going on.
Craig:So you guys have a trip coming up again. When's the next trip? May 2. May 2. Served Saturday, call it.
Phil:Served Saturday.
Craig:And what's it look like if our listeners, if people in our body want to join you on May 2? What's the next step that they need to take, Phil?
Phil:Right. Next step would be go to either Church Center, sign up on the website, look up Crisis Response. It's one of the icons there. And just log in. Just let me know because it'll alert me to let you join the group.
Phil:Join the group. And then we have all of our documents that we need to sign.
Craig:Yeah, there's some forms you have to fill out.
Phil:Right. For REACH, just some disclosures and some liability things for So we do that. And then we put you on the list and you show up. And so usually, we usually meet at Baptist Church on that Saturday morning around eight ish.
Craig:Yeah,
Phil:in the morning, and and then they sign us to where we're going. You know, it could be Japonica, it could be wherever, Bumblebee, it could be wherever the need is right then. They're in all stages. Like everything is like all the houses are in different stages. Yeah.
Craig:This is a big part of what Reach Global gets to do, is the initial response is clearing debris. And now the response is caring for people. Yes. How do those two things relate of how do we go and, you know, you're clearing drywall. You're mucking out all kinds of mud.
Craig:How does that relate with our call as believers to care for, to evangelize, to discipleship? Like, do you see those two things linked together looking like?
Phil:Right. See it as we always talk about, and in the group, talk about being the hands and feet of Christ. So that's the practical part is the demucking and things like that. But it's interesting because it's for such a higher purpose And and and somebody else is calling you to do that. But and it gives us such opportunity because there's homeowners there sometimes they're there sometimes they're not.
Phil:Yeah. But in our case, we've had homeowners at a lot of our things. They're just, you know, we've gotten to pray with people and, you know, cry with people. And it's, it's, it's crazy. I mean, and so to to puts it puts it puts teeth to our faith.
Phil:Yeah, I think. It's it's it's a labor of love. It's not it's I don't know, it's you have to experience it. Yeah, you really do. Because you see that they are the devastation is unbelievable.
Phil:It's beyond what you can even fathom. Yeah. And and to see these people still standing and and and getting trying to put their lives together. And a lot of them don't have Christ. So that's like Dan has always said, listen, our first objective there is to be with the homeowner, is to administer to them.
Phil:Put your hammer down if they want to talk. We could care less about the drywall right now. We could care less about the mucking. If that person's in need, that's the first objective. And that's what we're constantly looking for.
Craig:It's not rebuilding houses. It's rebuilding lives. And a piece of that, just imagine your home gets completely destroyed. You lose a lot of the stuff that matters to you. It's in a time of desperation and despair.
Craig:And a group comes in and does this for free and offers hope, not just hope in the physical home, which that's needed and necessary, but a hope far greater than my drywall, than my flooring. A hope in Christ in the midst of despair and devastation. There's the aspect of bringing hope to to people who Right. Truly need it in those moments. Yeah.
Craig:Which is is the beauty of crisis response.
Phil:Mhmm.
Craig:It's crisis response, all that it is. It's a different avenue Yeah. To proclaiming the gospel.
Phil:Right.
Craig:To caring for people. And it just so happens that crisis is what can be that doorway for groups like us that get to hop into a homeowner's house and give a couple hugs and assists on what's needed inside that home. Do you have any stories you want to share with us about Crisis Response and
Phil:what's Yeah, been going there's some cool. The one that really sticks with me is the first day out. And if you go to the website, you'll see some photos on there. And it's us standing next to there's like 20 of us and we're standing next to a gentleman named Don. And Don was the first and all we did on Don's property.
Phil:And it was just a corner of his property, a good sized quarter, but it was just getting like all the garbage and stuff like that and piling it up and take and taking
Craig:it away.
Phil:And he just kept saying he'd walk out. What? Why are you guys doing this? And we said, Well, we're working with Reach Global and Dan sent us over to kind of help you out. He thought maybe you'd need Oh, yeah, that Dan guy.
Phil:And then the other the Brandon guy and him and they seem to be real nice. Well, he lost his wife not in the flood, but he had just lost his wife like three months prior to
Craig:the flood. Oh, yeah.
Phil:So when this happened, he had a whole story about him and his grand, which was pretty crazy.
Craig:Yeah.
Phil:But so he had his he was on his he was on his Rhino and he's driving around the property and he comes up and he starts talking to us and we all paused. We all just came over and listened to him. And he's like, You know, I'm going to go down to because he was right across from the Guadalupe. All you have to do is cross the highway. That was where his property ran.
Phil:And he had a dock and everything else, and his wife used to go swim in the dock and everything else. He showed us. He was rebuilding that area and putting up a little swim step in remembrance of his wife. Man, he got emotional. We got emotional.
Phil:And it was cool because we got a chance to, you know, just ask him what we could how we could pray for him. We were able to just pray with him right then and there. And it's been good because I know we've been back and he still remembers that. Like, I drove in one time I saw him in the driveway. Yeah.
Phil:And and or I know I was leaving. I was leaving and I saw him in the driveway. I pulled in and I and he's like, Hey, how are you? You know, and how are you doing? And and he's like, I'm all right.
Phil:You know, I said, Is there anything we can do for you? Yeah. And he's like, No, just, you know, I'm doing all right. Like, Good. I'm like, So, yeah.
Phil:Anyway, that's beautiful, man. Yeah, it was neat.
Craig:Let me talk just on the personal side. How this, how has Christ's response, how has it helped to shape your faith on just the personal side of things?
Phil:Wow, that's a good question. Confirmed It for me on a personal level, how much how much we need to be in the mode of being equipped to always share our faith. And in different ways. Like with this, like you said, it's crisis that brings it home for these people. And just such it makes your faith, it makes everything really solid and grounded.
Phil:I think there's so many aspects of that question that I could probably go off tangents on. But I think it just it is, it's put a lot of, you know, perspective in it and it causes you to love people more. I think because of that, because you I mean, we get so tied up in our own, in our own world and everything. It's, and like, for me, you know, I'm, I'm really, I'm really running on faith, being in Texas. Yeah.
Phil:And because I left a lot. Absolutely. And, and this, this just brings it to such a reality. And it confirms that I believe that this is where God has me for this season on a personal level. So, but it's, I mean, you just, I don't know.
Phil:All Yeah. You see in the whole realm of this is the gospel and the opportunity to live that out for these people with not only your brothers and sisters, but with the people that that need the gospel. Yeah. Which we all do. Absolutely.
Craig:It's it's that peace of every time you you leave and every time you take a crew up there.
Phil:Right.
Craig:We're going with the hopes and the prayers. Yeah. The the gospel go forth in in some way. Yeah. It's it's that prayer of, god, would you allow me to be interrupted today as I'm picking up trash from the corner of this property.
Craig:Allow me to be interrupted in the work that I have for your work to be accomplished. And that's, I think, just a piece of what it means to live out our faith is just lifting our eyes, understanding the things that do matter as crisis response is dealing with people that have lost all the things that in our world and a society would say are the things that matter. And for many of them, they no longer exist. They're having to rebuild those things. And yet the hope that we can see in them is just beautiful.
Craig:Christ's response is a sweet spot in my own personal heart. My father-in-law works for disaster relief with Southern Baptists, so he's done it in Missouri. He was a director. He did it here in Texas for a while as a director, and now he's in Georgia as the director. My wife and I both, we came down after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, came down soon after that.
Craig:And I remember just the amount of water is just unfathomable, where you walk into a two story home and you see this line just on the drywall. It's like, how was water this high? And so you sit there and you start moving people's memories is what you're doing in their house, of moving things from house plants to stuffed animals to the chairs and the couches that they used to reside on. And the whole time, it's, Man, I have things so great. And it gives you that perspective.
Craig:And at the same time, it gives you a perspective of, do these people still have such hope? Why do they have so much joy after they've gone through this? And the answer ultimately is Christ has given them hope in the resurrection, a hope in their salvation apart from the circumstances that they just went through. And Crisis Response is one of those things where the team gets to come in and be a part of that and hopefully put some smiles on some faces and bring joy. And then there's also the piece of it's a great way to get to know others.
Craig:Right. Being in the foxhole with another, sweating and and digging holes and Picking up glass. Yeah. That that can help to bond individuals together. Yeah.
Craig:And the local church too, which is is wonderful. Yep. So let me hit it again. You've got one coming up. So May 2, you have one coming up.
Craig:If somebody's interested, they're to head to the website. They're going to sign up for the group there. We'll get up some forms that they need to fill out just from the Reach Global side of things. And then from there, Phil, you're going to reach out to them and let them know all of
Phil:the We'll get a text, an email, and a phone call.
Craig:All of the fun things of what to wear and what to do and all of those nitty gritty details.
Phil:I just got to give a shout out real quick to Dan They and Karen stepped up and got us our shirts. And we got some really nice shirts and everybody's commented on them as far as the comfort of them when we're either in heat or in cold. They're the dry fit stuff.
Craig:You look awesome whenever you wear them.
Phil:They do. They're pretty neat. I may even wear mine to church one day.
Craig:Look at that. You should. I should.
Phil:Anyway, I just wanted to give them a shout out because they've been unbelievable. And I know that they can't physically go, but they're always with us.
Craig:Yeah, absolutely.
Phil:They're awesome.
Craig:Well, anything else you want to hit, Phil?
Phil:No, I think that's good. I mean, again, if you guys are out there and you want to go, again, shameless plug for coming with us because it will broaden your perspective on what God is doing in the world. And it will shape you just a little bit more like Jesus.
Craig:Is there an age limit, Phil?
Phil:No. If you have kiddos that want to go, which is amazing, you just have to if they're 18, they just have to sign a waiver. Okay. And we'll find something for them to do. We always
Craig:do. Perfect. Yeah. Awesome. Well, brother, it's been great.
Craig:And thank you so much for just being a part of Stone Oak Bible Church for being a deacon with us and for leading out in this ministry. Church Here's another way that you can get involved with what's going on at Stonehill Bible Church. Looking forward to seeing you next time we gather.