11/22/2023 DAB Transcript pt5

And His word informs us on how to live our lives. So that’s been always the dream and the hope. And that’s been what we’ve tried to do every day that we’ve showed up here, to take the next step forward. Is to be true, to be pure, to be honest, to be vulnerable and…and to try to love, with the love of the Lord for each other. And we have done such a good job of that…that I don’t know any other place in the world like the one that we have here around the Global Campfire. I know there’s beautiful community everywhere, but to have a run like this of 18 years. Just trying to be openhanded and vulnerable and hold things lightly and be true and be honest and just try to grow together. That has caused remarkable, well, certainly remarkable things in my personal life. And in the lives of the people in my family. But it has caused that to happen all over the world. Because we’ve been the recipients of these stories as they come in. As the community speaks of what God does through His word and through the Global Campfire community here and through the app that we share this gift through. So anyway, back to the story. Coming out of…out of COVID, as COVID was kinda getting over, just as the lockdowns were starting to be sort of lessened just a little bit, we kinda came to a point in technology where we really had to take a new direction. And actually even…even make some changes in the development team and really, really whiteboard and focus what we’re trying to get done here with this technology. What it’s really supposed to do stably, and how it’s supposed to work every day in a manner that’s useful and helpful and that the resources that are in it, like journaling and Prayer Wall and interaction, that these things, that these things work reliably. Because we had built something very beautiful and very elegant and definitely on the cutting edge of things, but resourcing all of the needs of that technology has been a challenge with our ever-growing family here.