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I hear you guys. You're asking if you can afford a private Christian college tuition and all the things, the great things that connect with it. I got this question in our Facebook group. So if you want to join head on over to Christian College Girl community on Facebook and they're wondering like, is it really possible to afford a Christian college? Well, yes. Now, of course, it depends on the college and I'm not sure if this college that I'm going to tell you about is right for you, but you might as well consider all available options, right? Have you ever heard of anchor Bible college has extremely low cost tuition, which like is strangely extremely low and you'll hear it more how and why, but a lot of it is due to volunteers and donations that believe in this mission, which gives you even more credibility and like why people believe in it and would want to go there. So if you're interested, hang around as we talk about this particular institution, this godly institution, that you could get a great education at a low cost tuition. I wanted to pitch their YouTube channel for you if you're not near them or interested in going, but just want to learn more or just learn more about God and the Bible head on over to their anchor Bible college YouTube channel. I do have a link in the description below and just in case you're looking for the right one, the picture is blue and white with an anchor on it. Anchor Bible college has some great content with Daniel, who I spoke with today. So it's pretty cool. All right guys, let's get into it. Hey girl, welcome to money and mental peace. Do you want to find scholarships and avoid student loans? You find yourself Googling, easy scholarships and how to pay for college. You feel overwhelmed with life in general that you can't even think about paying for next semester. Hey, I'm Cara and in college, I too was worried if I was good at money. I couldn't find scholarships that worked specifically for me and I didn't know how to get started while juggling homework and all the things, but that changed through prayer and God's direction. I tested out of classes, learned to budget and found those perfect scholarships and even had $10,000 left over in the bank after graduation. At BTW, my parents weren't able to help me financially either. If you're ready to find scholarships specific to you, manage your money well and just stop being broke. Then grab your cold brew and TA89 because class is now in session. Hey guys and welcome back to money and mental peace with my friend. Actually, from back in the day, I haven't seen him in years, but Daniel Manueler, welcome to the podcast. Tell us just a little bit about yourself in one random thing about, I don't know, where you want to travel in the world. We'll go with that. I love it. It's going to be here with you Cara and yeah, we haven't connected in a while, but I know we reached out in connection to some of the things I'm doing with Anchor Bible College and even the start of some YouTube content, which seems relevant to maybe some of your audience and then just what we're doing in general. So yeah, I've grown up as a PK, a pastor's kid. I have five brothers and I have had a track in life that first mostly led towards engineering studies, led toward a job that I work in that and have been fairly successful in that, but have also felt really called to have that as an enabler for ministry and the biggest ministry things that I'm involved with right now is something where we here at our church and with other Christian leaders in our area are starting a Bible college and that might seem crazy to someone of how to even start a college. And I certainly didn't know that about two years ago or so when we started this, but it's something that has not existed here in southeast Michigan. So that's where we're located in Ipsilanti, Michigan right next to Ann Arbor and there has not been a Bible college, something with high quality biblical education in the Detroit area, the southeast Michigan whole metro area. So that was really the motivation for this. Several Christian leaders who really felt that that was something that needed to happen that God was putting on their heart and then I've kind of jumped fully into this with helping to do all kinds of different things. So that's the background, the context and then let's see fun fact. I guess somewhere I would want to travel in the world. Well, our most recent video talked about somewhere I traveled in the world last year to Israel. I would love to go back. It might be a little bit of a crazy place to go right now, but I think that would still be near the top of the list of somewhere I would want to go. That's awesome. Well, I mean, I'm sure you can't really see Israel going once. Like it seems like you can barely see Ipsilanti, Michigan in a few days, you know what I mean? So I love something you said is the what you're working in your job and income is an enabler for ministry because I was literally reading this morning in devotions. It's a funny connection. How in giving, the Bible indicates how we're growing in character like Christ intimacy with him like the whole like blessed to give them to receive. And there's other aspects to you're actually literally helping people and it's volunteering. But there's like a personal growth in it to compare to the opposite side. So and also around Ipsy, I went to Eastern. So I know the area. It's perfect, but you're a Michigan student, right? Go blue. That's right. Well, yeah. So I went, actually, you know, first I went to a community college, Washington Community College for a year and a half. I would recommend that to anyone and then went to the University of Michigan for a total of four years to finish my undergrad and then do a master's degree. So definitely familiar with the education scene. Definitely felt like I got a really solid education even, you know, worked as a graduate student instructor and like really, really almost thought like I thought about going toward a PhD working in academia, all of those things and certainly could have but felt God's calling in a different direction. And now I can swear to see why how some of those pieces fit together where I didn't need to get a PhD in engineering and going to academia that way, but instead needed to get the education I did and then help pursue some further academic things with this Bible college. That is so cool. What a way that God leads and connects it. Like, I remember when I was going to college and trying to do it debt-free, I would write notes on how I was doing it. So I was like, I got to use this for something. Never thought of a podcast, you know. So everybody listening, stick around because we are doing a second episode of him really telling his college journey because it's really a blessing the testimony that all this went into. But we're talking about the college, YouTube channel, everything started two years ago. I didn't realize that's pretty recently. Let me, before I go off on a tangent, I'm going to go back to outline me agreed. Yeah, so kind of we're going to start and end it with a YouTube channel because I feel like that is what people probably go watch if they're like Alaska or something. I know you probably as connections to Alaska. So tell us what in the world this is new thing you've made. How can people look it up on YouTube? What is the purpose of this? I like it. So yeah, we as a Bible college, our mission is to be training Christians in the knowledge of God's word and in ministry for his kingdom. And the main core of that has been offering classes and either certificates or degree programs for folks in this area. But we realized we have an amazing opportunity to both connect with folks and create content that will further our mission on a platform like YouTube that can connect with so many people. And so this is something that starting probably earlier this year. I had this idea talk to my brother, John, who's a year older than me and has a decent amount of experience with video editing and other things. Who is a financial advisor? Let me throw that out there because we're finance conversation. Go ahead. You got it. I love the plug. So yes, he also works a job that is helping with this in ministry. And the idea was why don't we make some high quality educational and interesting content about the Bible, maybe even questions that people have about the Bible or things that they might want to know. And put that out there. Share it with folks. Send it to folks. Let YouTube share it with folks and develop a wider audience. And we've done two videos released so far, have several more in the pipeline and certainly plan to do more content. The first two videos, one was, was Job in the Bible a real person talking about some people think maybe Job is a parable of myth. What does the Bible say about this? Talking about there's several other biblical authors who reference Job. How do they do that? How they look at it and doing it in a fun, interesting, engaging way. And the second video was, what does biblical prophecy say about modern day Israel and thinking about maybe even leading mentors? What should we as Christians think about current events in Israel and what is our mission as believers and connecting it all back to scripture and biblical principles? So that's been our mission to connect people to learning God's Word and enabling them to share that and just producing good content that people would want to watch to explain things, show them things and get them connected to the mission of anchor Bible college. I love that. And I love how you mentioned it like the high quality videos because sometimes YouTube channels start pretty janky, which is totally fine. You got to start somewhere. But I remember DMing you, and I was like within the first week, it was like over 200 subscribers and almost 1000 views getting started. Great. And we're going to talk about on here and also on, you know, on on shameful, shameful plug. I don't know what it is. Shameless. Shameless plug. Y'all could really easily slip that into a podcast, the audio, but we're digressing. So yeah, so anybody out there listening, go ahead and check out ankle ankle anchor Bible college to watch these videos, get interested in the content. I love how you do it. I'm a second with a friend recently, very much you need sources. You know, we're not just somebody had sent me a video about that Jesus had gone to India as a kid and learned Buddhism and has watched this video is like, there's no sources. It's just like, so I love how you're really explaining things even to literary analysis, biblical explanations. Anyways, thumbs up for that. Why is it called, unless if you had more to tell us about the YouTube channel, go for it, but also like, why is it called anchor? Why ankle Bible college? And anything you want to tell me more about the YouTube channel or just lead into what is the story of anchor Bible college? I love it. Yeah. So just wrapping up the idea with YouTube channels, we really want this to be something that everyone can go watch. And I maybe give one little pitch for something that maybe say, I have lots of things I watch. I don't know if I'd be interested. If you're someone who even just cares about this kind of content, if you go and watch it, if you subscribe, it will cause YouTube to promote it more, right? Maybe you know that person who they should watch that. So it might seem crazy to think that you could change the world by watching a video, but like watching a video is your vote for that content. And so if you check that out, if you watch it, share it, subscribe, you're supporting what we're doing, kind of voting for that content on that platform to then be shared with others. I love it. Yeah, because that would be my pitch to anyone. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's YouTube algorithm, you know, the algorithm really doesn't, it really favors popular creators already. So it can be hard to build it up again. Yeah, absolutely. So that's, that's my pitch to someone to say, you know, check it out, support what we're doing, share it with others, subscribe, watch. That's the, that's the goal. But yeah, the story of anchor bot, Bible college, it really grew out of something where, so my dad, I mentioned I'm a PK, he's the pastor of our church. Our church has was established by, by my dad, my parents and a couple of other families who met together in college. And then after going different directions for a few years, my dad was the pastor back where he was born in Alaska, came back to Michigan with several others, said we are called to start a church. And that was just over 30 years ago. And our church has grown steadily, but significantly over those years to be a pretty sizable church. And there are an immense number of young adults, young people in our church who really have this desire to, to know more, to grow more, to be ready for what God has for them. And maybe they're pursuing other things like I did in engineering or something else, but they want the opportunity to, to grow in a deeper relationship, the Lord, knowledge of his word, and preparation for ministry. And so this was kind of the backdrop for then my dad feeling really strongly in a way that actually wasn't just strategic or like trying to put the pieces together, but like, oh, wow, this is something that I was praying about and feeling that God put on my heart that we need to think about offering Bible college classes. And the first thought was maybe well, let's reach out to a couple of Bible colleges across the country, because there isn't anything in this area and say maybe you would want to do a satellite operation here. But most Bible colleges have shut down those kinds of things. They're just promoting online, which has its benefits. But I think we really can see the importance of in person discipleship oriented classes and education from instructors who have that heart for personal interaction and discipleship. And so in conjunction with some of that kind of feeling out the scene, we got connected with a few other folks in this area who said, we really want to see something happen here. So one guy, Dr. Jean Mayhew, he helped to found what was Michigan Theological Seminary, then got absorbed by Moody's, Moody Theological Seminary that operates here in Plymouth, Michigan. But again, that's a seminary, right? It's for graduate level studies, you'd have to have a college degree, it's higher level. And he says, we need to have something that's accessible, affordable, something that people can latch on to to connect with. And so he was really excited about this. A couple others were as well, and we said, let's get together, let's start something. And a whole process of what it takes to communicate with the state of Michigan, to get proper approvals, look into accreditation agencies, follow that track to think through everything. Another big thing that you asked about is, hey, what do we even call this? And so we thought, I think it was about six months of, you know, we're planning this thing about what do we call this? And the name that really stuck was this idea of anchor Bible college, thinking we are a Bible college. And this idea of anchor were anchored in God's word. This is a perfect name. And also, the church that this is operating out of that my dad is the pastor of is Hope Community Church. And there's a perfect Bible verse that mentions anchor, it says we have this hope, hope in Jesus as an anchor for our souls. And so I think I wonder if that was the connection. You got it, you saw right through that. And that's that's really the idea. And I think that everyone who hears that, it almost sounds, you know, a name is go to people think they've heard of it even when they haven't. And so I think that's the idea of what we're going with. Oh, I love that. I love that. And we're going to get to it in a minute, because when he talks about it's affordable, guys, it's like, obnoxiously affordable. Okay. But I love that because it's there's so much behind the scenes of this. People don't see like you said six months, like building up on it. I mean, I know what a really tiny, small scale, even like, you don't just start a podcast, like I had to build up to it and plan it all. So that's immensely, probably overwhelming, but amazing. Amazing view on things. And I also think it goes a lot with kind of the unconventionality. If that's a word of your guys's church, because you guys now own what used to be a school, you know, there's a lot of homeschool families in there that have been able to use this building as other learning and training places. They're like training up the next generation. It's an amazing story. I don't know this, but randomly I've told people just like the cool concept of how just God led that for y'all's church random topic. Did you know that our dads went to seminary together at Trinity? And yeah, my mom was one of the secretaries and your dad would come and drop off the mail to her. And so anyways, it was a funny story. So I thought that was a good segue, because I'm learning how to segue into college. They were in college. Yeah, my dad wasn't, it was social work. But so tell us about college, why in the world, to the risk of sounding blunt, just why in the world did my listeners think about this, you know, like, like, why would they want to look for affordable education? Why would they want to look for Christian education or values? And then we're going to lead into how in the whole wide world can anchor Bible college be so affordable, if you can kind of tie it. Yeah, I like it. Absolutely. So one question, right? Why should you care about Bible college? Why should be interested in that? And I think the answer is education is something that is fundamental to who we are as humans in needing to grow and develop and learn. And if you do that, you want to do that in a way that's almost an investment in yourself, right? You want to grow, you want to be better prepared for things. And so if I went to college for engineering, that was an investment in my own knowledge and ability and even certification to get a job in that field. Now let's think about Bible college. There are Christian or nonprofit careers that you could get a Bible college degree in and then be trained and qualified to do that. And so if there's someone who's interested in that, this is perfect, right? If you want to go into working in some kind of either Christian ministry or even nonprofit, you might want to be a missionary working even just at a church or children's ministry, this is perfect. But there's something even deeper than that, right? Career track, that's great. But I think there's a higher calling than career around each of our lives. And that's service to God, right? Christian ministry. And that may not always need some certification to go start a Bible study, but you do need training and you do need encouragement and you do need structure and the ability to make that happen. And so that's why we've also tried to make this as affordable as we can, because if you're training for a career, let's say I'm going to U of M for engineering, they might be able to charge a high tuition and have all kinds of resources and expenses because they know it's going to pay off, right? Which, you know, pay off financially. With Christian ministry, there's no guarantee that you're going to make that money back, right? In fact, it's unlikely for most folks, you know, you're going to start a Bible study, you're not asking people to give you money, but you are giving them something worth far more. You know, Peter said, silver and gold, have I not? But what I have, I give to you. And so that's what we're trying to do to people, right? We're saying, we don't have silver and gold, we're not, you know, trying to make this something that we're going to charge an arm and a leg and make a big profit on, but say that we want to give you something worth far more. And so that's the value of it. Even on our website, we have something that shows the course tuition, it says it's just under $200 a class, and then it says the value of this is infinite, right? And so I think that that speaks to the importance, the value, but then how is it so affordable, right? How can you offer college, legit college classes for what is less than $200 a class, or just under $70 a credit? The way we can do this is because of our connection with the church that offers facilities and support for what we're doing, and then also just so much volunteer staff or help, and even just supporters who are donating towards making this happen. So we still pay our instructors something to compensate their time. We still have technology resources, other things that are important to pursuing accreditation, to be working towards other kinds of resources, putting out content, things like these cost money. But we have people who have donated toward this, we have students paying some nominal tuition, and we have a church and other folks who are supporting what we're doing to all put those pieces together to make this be able to happen. That's fantastic. Honestly, when I was at community college, and I'm sure it's more expensive now, it was like $100 a credit, which is insanely low amount, but let alone at Eastern, I was paying like $1,500 a class, and that was a state school. And let alone, I know we have M's usually more expensive than that. And let alone, if you're going to get a Christian education at a private college, we're not nothing to sneeze at, right? So that's insanely low, but I love how you explain that, especially for two reasons. One, that it's people believe in this enough to volunteer and give money for it, which is huge, which means there's potential ongoing success for this. And then another way, it also shows that it's not a scam. It's like, oh, you just 200 bucks, how can the world can you just start $200? But I love that because it shows like a community coming together for it, right? That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, I like that. And I like what you're describing that, yes, it's not a scam or clear about what we're doing, right? This is where we're at. These are the classes we're offering, the degrees we're offering. We're offering things in the path towards institutional accreditation, which is a word that most people don't understand. But really, that's something that's an outside body, recognizing the value of what we're doing. We also are authorized by the state of Michigan to be offering degrees. We have transfer agreements with currently about six different colleges or seminaries in the area and certainly plan to expand that. And so it's really a process of development, but really saying we offer high quality biblical education in an affordable and accessible way that trains Christians in the knowledge of God's word and in ministry for his kingdom and enables them to either transfer those toward other things or simply do this for their own edification or pursuing the degree programs we are offering. And it sounds like discipleship with it too, because sometimes people talk about wanting discipleship, but it's really good to have sometimes friendship or just kind of one-on-one mentorship discipleship. You don't always have to make it so official, but sometimes that just doesn't work out. This sounds like more of even some structure for discipleship that you're investing in. I love that. Yeah, one aspect that we do is that each class is meets for three hours once per week. And that might sound like a lot of just lecture blah, blah, blah. But really, it's interactive in the classroom. And then when we reserve the last half hour for purely just discussion and prayer or even sometimes worship or something that is not lecture. It's hearing from what's happening in each student's lives and praying for one another, the instructors who are all pastors or have a pastoral heart coming in and saying, here's how I can disciple you and encourage you in one another. Oh, praise God, that's awesome. That's awesome. Showing the example of that kind of sounds like it's community with it too. And also, I like how you acknowledged, authorized by state of Michigan, very important, separate from church, right? So, you know, there's different institutional bodies so that clarifies that. And transfer degrees, even. That's kind of extra. I like that. So that somebody could proceed onward for like a four year somewhere else. Is that how that works? Yes. Yeah. And that's really the idea is we want to be clear about what we're doing, but also provide the kind of opportunities for even further things. So let's say someone is interested in getting a degree in education or even engineering or IT or, you know, something where we're not offering that program, right? We're exclusively offering programs in biblical studies, which is again, great for Christian ministry, great for missions of angels and things like that. Someone is called that. But if someone is called to something else, but they want to take classes here that are legit college credits were, you know, offer authorized to offer degree programs were recognized in these ways by other institutions who say, we'll accept your credits. We have broader degree programs and it just provides that much broader opportunity for our students and be able to facilitate that. That's awesome. I love that. And it sounds, it sounds both quality in the sense of like you talked about worship and volunteers that believe in it, whatever, and also very legit from the like institution of an authorization of that you've given it. All right, thumbs up to that. So tell us a little bit, unless if you had something else to finish with that, of course, tell us a little bit about classes for next semester. And that'll kind of lead into, are you talking about those things on the YouTube channel is the YouTube channel kind of like separate ideas. So kind of tell us, tell us what's going on with the actual physical place in classes and whatever. And then also YouTube world kind of ties together. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So classes, I mentioned the classes meet for three hours once per week. And that's really the idea of making these accessible to folks as well as affordable. And so you only have to drive in once per week, you could live, you know, an hour away and only, you know, come in once per week to be here and taking advantage of this opportunity. And the classes meet on later afternoons or evenings. So we have two time blocks on several different days of the week from either 4pm to 7pm or 7pm to 10pm. And so that's what we do with our class times and structure meeting on either Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, and we're opening up a slot on Fridays to be that three hour time block later afternoons or evenings. And we've expanded the number of classes we've done each semester. So we started with just launching with just two classes, and we had about 30 students and two classes. And at this point, we have this past semester about 70 or 80 students. And we had eight class, we had eight classes, and you know, just continue to expand our degree program. And so that's what we're doing again next semester with eight classes. I can briefly list them. We have a Christian theology course, a course on the Christian family. That's again, a really ministry oriented course, an Old Testament survey, again, just digging through the Bible, something that's going to be really interesting, intertestamental history. So I saw that on the website and that kind of sparked my interest. Well, Carrie, you need to take this class. You know, you know, I'll have to look into it. Both also, after you list all of these things, tell us when they start. I like it. Sounds good. But I'll follow up with you about that class. But yeah, so that'll be a really great class studying that the history of the time between the Old New Testaments and the world just before Jesus and what was he stepping into. Another one that we really great is a ministry oriented class called preaching and teaching methods. And again, it's both maybe training for someone who wants to be preaching, sharing God's word, or just teaching, teaching in the home, teaching in a Bible study, all of these things, really important, practical, and also, biblically grounded. Another one that we really great is the book of Hebrews. So we've had these upper level Bible courses really honing in deeply studying scripture and seeing how it ties together the entirety of the Bible and the story of salvation. That's six classes. The seventh that I would can mention is something called we call introduction to human relationships and Christian counseling, or it's really just it's Christian psychology that's grounded in the Bible. So it's what we label as a psychology class. We've had a great number of people say, I would love to take that. That looks really interesting. Finally, one that hits your audience really well, I think, it's a practical math class. There we go. Yeah, so four topics, critical thinking, finance, logic, and probability. And that's actually one that I will be helping to teach along with one other guy who's connected with our organization to be teaching really practical math and life skills. So that's what we have. You wanted me to mention winning these classes start. This is for next semester. So the winter semester that starts the second week of January and runs through the end of April. So 15, 16 week semester, typical college semester that winter January to April. I love that. Yeah, not only not only the the practical math and finances, but I actually minored in math. So that's up my alley. I love it. I love it. That sounds like great growth from like two classes to eight. And again, let me reiterate the fact of facilities and volunteers and whatnot, indicating that people believe in this. This isn't just kind of like a one-off thing. Yes, absolutely. And what a unique thing. Like I've heard of churches starting like elementary schools or something, and then it's like a private, which is fine and good. And like that can be pretty expensive and whatever. But such a fascinating insight into this. So how does that connect into the YouTube channel? And are you like doing parts of these different classes on that, or just kind of like what you feel drawn to like, people seem clueless about Job. So I better talk about Job. Like how does this connect? And also pitch your YouTube channel for us again, please. I love it. So maybe one connection was we've been doing lecture recordings for our classes, making those available to students. And we've actually been doing that by live stream and YouTube as an unlisted live stream and then posting that for students to watch. So it's not available to everyone, but it's something that we were already doing with YouTube and our students connecting with. And then I was thinking, well, why not post some of, you know, a part of a lecture free to everyone to let them connect with that. And we've actually done that through something we just recently started with weekly newsletters to our entire supporters, community students, all of that, so that we call anchor tidings, tidings is a I think a fitting term, both in terms of anchor and nautical things. And yeah, it's been really good to connect with folks. And then we post that as an exclusive lecture. So if someone here is interested in saying, hey, I want to get that, you know, connection to maybe getting to watch some of these lectures, go to our website, go to the support and connection tab and sign up for a newsletter. And then you'll be able to get on that list for exclusive lecture content that is on our YouTube channel, but is unlisted. But from that, then, yeah, sorry, sorry, I was saying, and then that can kind of draw because some people might find this fascinating, but like they kind of just want to dip their toe in like they're not sure what this is all about. It sounds different than going to a university, but like, good, go ahead, dip their toe in. So yeah, yes, so that's connecting to your asking, do we put these lectures on YouTube? And the answer is sort of, but not for everyone. But if you want to get signed up, you can get some close to sneak peek. But for these videos, we talked about Joe, we talked about one about Israel, we have more coming up. The next one we're playing on doing is does the Bible say it is better not to get married? And that's going to be a really interesting topic. I'm going to have to watch that one. So very relevant topic, right? And there's actually a lot of the Bible says some even church history, Christian history surrounding that. So the idea with these YouTube videos is to help connect people with our mission of training people in the knowledge of God's word and in ministry for his kingdom. And if people get either hooked on that connected with that, it can lead them to more, right? And so we haven't done anything yet with saying, you know, and here's the class that parallels this video. But we plan on doing things like that where we're able to stay. And even with the outro of every video, I say, you know, if you're interested in learning more about this kind of content, check out our website, even consider donating to support what we're doing. And so that's maybe the final pitch I could give to everyone about the YouTube channel is again, this is your vote for this kind of content, right? Share it, watch it, subscribe to our channel and say we want to see more content like this. And that even helps to enable us first to know that people want this. But even as it grows, it could be a revenue source for the Bible college and certainly could connect with folks who are then willing to donate to support what we're doing. Because again, we're trying to make this as affordable and accessible to people as we can. We're not trying to make a profit. We're trying to make this something that people can learn to grow from and connect with people who might even want to support that. Wow. Praise God, that's awesome. And I love, I want to do like this ending connection of how you were looking into possible future academia, whatever. And then look where God kind of directed you to. And a lot of times I'm talking to people who are like, what am I supposed to do with my life? You know, not only paying for college, but what am I supposed to do in showing kind of like how the puzzle pieces fit together or the stepping stones of everything. And this could be definitely whether they go and watch the YouTube videos or like literally going to take some classes, a stepping stone, you know, in lives and everything. So I love that. But is there anything else that I missed to ask you want to tell me about and also everyone listening. Remember to check back in pretty soon because next we're doing an episode on his college story and testimony and how you truly can graduate from college debt free. So yeah, anything else I missed for us, Daniel. Maybe just one thing that I think could be cool is we talked a lot about how people could connect, watch our videos, take classes for anyone anywhere in the world. Just pray for what we're doing. Pray that God would use us to be able to further his kingdom. And I think that's something that anyone can do with whatever time or interest or support you want to have. Just pray for us and pray that God would work through what we're doing. I love that. It's it's it's both free to receive and to give for prayers and it has like unlimited impact. I love it. Awesome. Thank you for coming on, Daniel. Guys, to ground, we're going to do next episode after we probably take a water break. And thank you so much. Until next time, we're going to help y'all have enough money and mental peace to get through college, hopefully debt free. See you guys later. Hey girl, I hope you enjoyed today's episode. If so, would you take 30 seconds and share it with a friend who wants to get scholarships and avoid student loans just like you? Okay, now I'm off to hopefully play some ultimate frisbee. I'll meet you back here in a few days for another episode. Bye!
