You guys open to franchising in some other counties?

We are working in other counties, and I'm glad you mentioned it.

Awesome.

Thank you, Mayor, Madam Pro Tem, and members of the council.

My name is Ernest Smith.

I'm the Transformative Justice Director for Communities in Partnership.

I'm going to speak briefly about one aspect of the work that Communities in Partnership does.

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So how is your business and how are you evolving as you help people in more different ways for themselves as they're going through this?

And so, man, so ever since I was young, I always kind of lived with a kind of a mindset of like, I want to challenge myself because the goal of it was, is that I always knew or felt like when I became a father that I would want to be able to take my children and introduce them into all these different activities.

And then I'm going to find, hey, they don't like riding a bike because they fell off it five times.

They scratched their knee, hit their head, did whatever.

They just don't like it.

You know, so that might not, you know, I might not get them to be a cyclist, you know, but they may gravitate towards playing hockey or doing jujitsu or doing some other activity, jumping out of an airplane that I've done.

And because they resonated with that, I was able to get them a mentor.

And that's

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... he's not, so.

Success may bring fame.

It, it may bring the money.

It may bring the things that we think are important, but it ultimately doesn't give us what we long for.

What we long for is hope, for peace, for joy, for real life, and those things can only be given to us by God.

So how do we get there? Like, how do we receive those things in our lives? Today we're gonna look at kind of an obscure story from the Old Testament.

Hallelujah.