Welcome to Season 6 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

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Hey, welcome back. I'm so thankful you're here today. If it's all right with you, I'm just going to

take a few minutes here at the beginning and tell you a little bit about what's been going on

with me and my family. Hopefully it will be encouraging to you and maybe even give you a little bit about what's been going on with me and my family.

Hopefully it will be encouraging to you and maybe even give you a few ideas of things you might

want to look into. Last week, Summer and Ella and Nick and I flew to Portland, Oregon to spend

five days there. We'd never been to the state of Oregon before, so we were pretty excited to check

it out. We'd heard how beautiful that it was Oregon before, so we were pretty excited to check it out.

We'd heard how beautiful that it was.

I had the opportunity to preach for the South Salem Church over the weekend, and that was outstanding.

We met some of the kindest and most wonderful people.

There were visitors from the other churches in and around the town.

It was just a really uplifting weekend.

And on that note, I feel compelled to say that there are thriving churches with incredible

servants all up and down the West Coast.

Last December, we took about 10 days and worked our way up the state of California.

We found Brethren in Anaheim and San

Francisco. So while there's a lot you can say about the politics, the further left you go,

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