March 2019 Facebook Live Discussion
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In this episode, Ron talks about the AFA's newest event, AFA Charming the Plow, and what to do if you are a new AFA member or newbie to the organization. He also talks about some of the things you can do to get involved in AFA.
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For any of you watching this later, I'm just kind of giving it a few minutes for a couple
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people to show up here hey guys got Ryan and my lovely wife Mandy downstairs
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hey Ron Josh good to see you I'm not a lot Ryan just kind of enjoying a good
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evening here at my house I got a friend of ours in town a good friend Julian's
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here staying with us so he just fixed us a nice dinner and I'm relaxing and
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having a glass of Chianti here, and trying to reach out and talk to my AFA family tonight.
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Connect with you guys. Had a really good time last month, so hopefully it's something people
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enjoyed, and if y'all do, we'll keep doing it. Well, since last month, when I last spoke
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to you guys I had an amazing time down in Texas the AFA charming the plow it
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was really really nice it was something that the black Sun kindred and folk
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builder Clyde Brown and his his lady Christina put a lot of work into it was
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a very nice event I met some great people it was the first first official
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AFA event in Texas and I think it went off very well met some really great
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people the camp was beautiful and I had a great time so you know big thanks to
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them for putting that on and making that happen yeah so it's happy about that
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starting off this month if any of you were interested in able coming up the
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weekend of the 23rd yeah the 22nd 23rd and 24th we've got AFA charming the
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plow coming up in North Carolina. We would love to see you guys at that. It's going to be
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fantastic. It's being put on largely by the AFA's Upper South region. It's one of our fastest
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growing and most dynamic areas. And I'm really looking forward to seeing AFA family, not just
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from the Upper South, but also from the Deep South. And then I believe we're going to have
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people coming in from the Northeast as well as people from all around. So if you guys can make
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that at the end of the month I think you'd be well worth your time and I'd
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love to see you guys there so we've got plenty of stuff going on to talk about
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but kind of the the focus of this is to see if you guys have any questions or
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anything you would like me to talk about so the people we have here tonight does
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anybody have any questions or anything they want to want to ask or you know get
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word from you on and if you do ask questions and I don't get to them I
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learned last time not all of the questions come through like they should
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so if I miss anything I'll try to go back through tomorrow and in the
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following days and answer any questions folks have I know that's important to
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people. Well, so one thing that we've noticed so far this year that's been huge is we've
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had a massive increase in AFA membership and people signing up. And it's been really neat
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to watch because it's not coming from any one area or any one type of folks. It seems
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like an enthusiasm that's been all over the place, geographically and all different, you
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know, all different ages and all different types of members. So that's been really, really
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nice to see. And I'm kind of, I don't know, in awe of just why that is, but I'm very thankful
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for it. And I think that it shows that we are doing something right and that our AFA
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leadership and volunteers are putting in some really good work and doing good stuff. So
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really happy to see that. So does the AFA offer any educational programs for newbies? No, not
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officially. What I think is probably the best option on that is to talk to the AFA Gauthier
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closest to you because they would be able to help. There's a lot of books and a lot of ways that we
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can recommend. And if you get with one of our GoTar, we can set that up and we can give you
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some advice on where to go and stuff for newbies. But I think the idea of some educational programs
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or at least some materials and maybe a new reading list would be really nice for people
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who are new so maybe a lot of folks would enjoy that all right Steve
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unfortunately currently it is not in New Mexico as Steve asked he mentions that
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we have new new kindred in Italy in South Africa I'd also say since we last
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talked we have a new kindred vote on southern kindred in Australia so very
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excited to see growth in those areas um but yeah he asked where vfa is seeing its biggest growth
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and he points out that we're not seeing that great of growth in new mexico but i'd love to
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see that change all it takes is for a couple of people in the area to get together and to start
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flying the flag and getting together and doing things i think we'd be surprised at how many
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people come out of the woodwork where we're seeing our biggest growth a lot of
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areas that do really well the Upper South is certainly growing as always and
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that's been very steady we are seeing a lot of international growth lately not
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so much growth in membership but in people coalescing and getting more
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involved. Certainly we're seeing that in Australia and New Zealand. We saw this unprecedented new
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growth in South Africa, which I think is an area that's very important for us to see growth and
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something that a lot of us, it's very near and dear to our hearts and something we would really
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like to see. Seeing growth there, as you mentioned, we've had a big influx in Italy and that's exciting
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to see over there i think those are our biggest you know like in this last month growth areas
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but we've seen a lot of growth in the midwest over this last i don't know since 2019 started and
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yeah i'd say upper south um the northeast up around new york massachusetts uh pennsylvania
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a little bit we've seen quite a bit of growth in the last couple of months those areas are all
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them really good oh thanks Ryan I'm glad you guys like the physical excellence
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page I think it's really important and I think it's absolutely a spiritual thing
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that we get our bodies healthy and that we look our best and try to get in the
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best shape we can be I think one of the things that's a hallmark of our faith is
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its holistic approach to things and every facet of our being of our life
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for our existence should be about being the best we can possibly be in the
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easiest and most readily accessible thing we have access to is taking care
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of our bodies taking care of our physical state in and doing work on that
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it's been so nice to see people do that and I mean it goes without saying a lot
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of folk especially here in the United States but I think the West in general
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we have this obesity epidemic and I think that's something it's really cool
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to see people getting on top of and trying to work with um so i'm really glad to see that and
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like i said if you you look good you feel good and you carry yourself better you carry yourself
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with the pride that you wouldn't otherwise have um all right um
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Um, Jezka Vex mentions that, oh, about the Black Sun Tribe study sessions via Facebook.
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I didn't get a chance to catch it, but I think that's kind of a cool idea, and it can get
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people from a great distance to be able to come together for a study group.
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I thought that was a really good idea, and I think it was really innovative for them
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So I hope that's working out good for you guys.
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Does anybody else have anything they want to ask tonight?
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If anybody does at any point, go ahead and say something and shout it out.
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I'm glad to hear that you that again Jessica Vex says that the the event was
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really good with the Black Sun study group and I'm glad that's good and I'm
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sure they'll do more of that so it's really good to see yeah while I have you
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guys you may have noticed in this math last month we started really talking
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seriously about making the second half for the Austria folk assembly happen we've been very
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blessed we have people that are very generous and we've been been really successful in the last year
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and we are at a point where that's a serious thing that's taking shape we're very seriously
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looking at properties and financing and making half to happen I think you guys would be pleasantly
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surprised with how quickly we get that established that's an amazing thing to be able to do just a
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couple short months after paying off Odin's Hoff and that's thanks to you guys your generosity and
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and sticking with us and your support so thank you guys very much for it i'll keep you guys appraised
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as that moves forward and we're working really hard behind the scenes on it something we're all
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all very excited about Ryan's asking about any new podcast plans soon AFA
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official I don't have any AFA podcast planned if you know anybody that does
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podcasts that wants either myself or one of our go thar to do an appearance on
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there I think we'd be very interested in doing something like that yeah Ryan we
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have none of them on the on the docket right now but I'm always hoping I'd love
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to talk to people and get our message out there and what we're trying to do
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and kind of also brag on you guys and share the good things we've been up to
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and the good things we've been able to accomplish and I think our go thought
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would love to get a chance to speak to people too and share that so if you know
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anybody who's doing it or who wants some interviews please do send them my way
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because, like I said, I'd be very happy to talk to them.
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So we've got some new people that have joined in the last few minutes here.
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So someone in the chat room is letting us know, just as a point of interest, if the average
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AFA member were to donate $50 per quarter to the Hoff Fund, we could average on one
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half per year I haven't really looked and checked those numbers but if the
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average AFA member were to donate 1% of their income which is you know less than
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kind of the Christian tradition of the tithe but just 1% would allow us to get
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get a half as well as maintaining all the other financial commitments we have
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we'd be able to afford a new half every every other year with just 1% of income
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from members. And I ran the number for 10%. If all of the AFA members across the world
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gave 10% a year, we'd be able to build like five Hoffs a year of equivalent value to Odin's
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Hoff. So not that we would rush out there and do that, or we have the folks in the right
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places to support that, but it's just kind of an idea if people were donating on that
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level. That's just kind of a response to Matthias' comment on that one.
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Yes, there will be an itinerary for Ostara in the South sent out.
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What you want to do, it's probably only going to be sent out to people that register for
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it, but if you're curious and you have questions, Paul Hester at phester at loonstone.org, he's
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kind of taking point on running that and putting it together, and he'd be very happy to let
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you know what's on the docket so far, and as it gets shored up and there's more information
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about an actual itinerary, he'll be able to let you know, and he could also hook you
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up if you need any accommodations or help with getting there and getting it figured out.
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We would love to have you there, so please do reach out to Paul.
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Merlot is delicious, and if we break into another bottle, it will probably be a Merlot.
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When I was younger, the only reason I tried it was because it used to come in those little
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straw baskets, but I learned that I really do like it.
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In what area is the new Hoff going to be? I hate to be too specific until we're really
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finalized on a property and it's all in the books, but there are certainly areas that
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we are looking for. And one of the standout areas, and I don't think this is any secret,
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been um the northern plains our folks in the northern plains um shored up by the good work
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of our dothar coordinator blaine qualls and the really hard work of last year's folk building
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excellence award winner jason gallagher they've done an amazing job they've got a really good
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community they've got three solid kindreds up there putting in towards it a lot of really
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committed folks so i do think that that that tends to be towards the front of the line
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but once we once we're really settled and we've got something secure will be a
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little bit more forthcoming about exactly what what we're doing on where
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it's going to be but yeah those are the kind of things that we are looking at
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difference in membership levels I'm going to be completely and totally
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honest, as far as what each of the levels mean in terms of your interaction with the AFA or your
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ability to participate, absolutely nothing. The difference is at those different levels,
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you're able to contribute more to what we're doing and help us accomplish things at a faster
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rate. It's very appreciated if you do give at a higher level, but other than the way that we
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benefit as a church and as a folk because of it there's not really a big membership difference
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folks have talked uh kind of on the back end about maybe changing that and i'm open to some ideas
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but right now it's just um a way of you being able to give if you're able at a higher level
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and like i say all that's appreciative and appreciated and the fact that people are doing
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that has enabled us to be in this position to look very seriously the second half you know like i
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said, just about two and a half months after paying off the first one. So that's the only
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real difference at this point. Josh asks, who would we contact to donate a percentage
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of our pay directly from our payroll department? So what Josh is asking about is something
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that we have instituted as an option as the beginning of this year. It's called the Hof
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toller. And it's a way to do percentage giving based on your paychecks. There's different ways
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to work around it, but very often your HR department can just take a regular percentage
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cut out of paychecks. And a lot of people do this towards their churches. Like I mentioned
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earlier, it would make a huge difference for what we're trying to accomplish. And Josh,
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asked who to contact um your folk builder is jason plurred but anyone out here your folk builder is
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the primary person you should contact on it and we've got a really great woman who's helping us
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make the hoftoller work who you're also free to contact her name is verona qualls um that's uh
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blaine our gothar coordinator's wife and she has generously stepped up to help out
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So if you guys are interested, either Verona or your folk builder,
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and if you need to know who your folk builder is, there's a list at www.ruinestone.org.
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I hope you guys already are in contact with your folk builders,
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and they would be very happy to get you set up.
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And Josh, if you are considering that, thank you very much,
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because that level of commitment helps a lot, and it's much appreciated.
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If anybody also has any questions, just get with me, send me a message,
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and I can direct you towards your folk builder, and I can get you all set up.
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Looks like Ryan's leaving us, he's got to go back to work.
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It was good to have you here and good to talk to you.
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Alright, looks like Jezka Vex will be at Ostara in the south.
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I'm very much looking forward to seeing you there and I'm glad that you registered and
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Like I'd say, I encourage everyone here if you can, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of this month,
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Mandy and I will be attending, and we would love to see folks there.
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That thing that you just wrote and shared on Facebook was really, really cool about
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stepping up and seizing the day and taking action on things i found it really inspiring and i'm glad
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you shared that with people hey anna anna lee is one of the uh great people i got to meet when i
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was down in texas list this last month it was a it was a really good time and one of the one of the
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standouts was us getting to meet her. Good, I'm glad you're joining us tonight.
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him being a member automatically makes his wife and kids
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No, it doesn't automatically. Something that we
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have talked about if you choose to donate by Hof toller that's kind of a family
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income thing and certainly that would make the other adults in your home
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members just the way we do things and how we've structured things from just
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legal things and other reasons and honestly it's something that predates my
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time all of our members are adults so I would encourage your your children if
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they'd like to sign up once they become adults then we'd love to have them as
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members. But this goes without saying, your family is welcome at any AFA event. So yeah,
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when you sign up, they're not members. I'm not sure exactly how the form looks, but they're
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absolutely, they're with you and they're welcome and we would love to have them there. We love
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families, especially kids. And kids at our events are free. So we would love to see you guys there.
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Hi Mark Bolt Odenson is also a gentleman that I got to meet down in Texas I'm glad to have you on
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this yeah he had a good advice on some shrimp and barbecue po boys after the event that I
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still appreciate and enjoyed good to see you here with us Brian Wilton's letting us know he's gonna
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to be at Osara, that's always a good time. I say this unequivocally, I believe that
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Brian Wilton is the best natural speaker, not only in the Ausatru Folk Assembly, but
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in Ausatru in general, in our day and age, and getting to hear Brian speak is always
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a great thing. So that'll be exciting and definitely something you guys don't want
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to miss also just the ability to chat with Brian afterwards and and at the
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event I think he's got a lot to share and he's a he's certainly a great guy to
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ah Matthias you want to look up Terry Rumpf are you mph on Facebook and look
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there it was something he shared earlier today and it's got it's illustrated with
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really cool some kind of a picture of the Allfather with Hugen and Moonen on his shoulders.
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It was just kind of a very inspirational thing he wrote, and it's always a good idea to send
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Sean McDonald, hey thank you, I'm glad you appreciate it.
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So, thank you and your words of encouragement mean a lot.
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So I'm looking forward to seeing you and your family there.
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Brian, I talked about the Nexhoff, where were you?
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And we also talked about our growth in the world. For anybody that did miss it, we are getting very close to our second half. I've talked about it a little bit. We're looking into funding, and we're looking into locations right now. As I mentioned to folks, one of the front runners certainly is the Northern Plains region, because we've had great things going on there consistently for, I think, about four years this year. So they've really done great things and been very consistent over the past little bit.
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Oh, where else in the world does the AFA have new chapters?
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We talked about this a little bit earlier, but I know some of you are just joining us.
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Big growth in Italy, big growth as far as new kindreds in, I know Cameron's working
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We just have a new kindred in Australia, like I mentioned earlier, Botan's southern kindred,
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have wanted to have an AFA kindred in South Africa and help be there in a very
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real way for our folk in South Africa for a long time and it's beautiful to
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see that happening there and I'm so proud of it all right if you're if you're
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over 50 and you are venerable in years and you would like to join mr. Terry
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Rumpf in an AFA over 50 group. He's putting the word out there. I hope anybody who meets those
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qualifications joins that group. I hope one day we can all reach those qualifications and join
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that group. Yeah, I think that's a great idea and I would encourage anybody who's who is over 50 in
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the AFA to join and give Terry some support with what he's trying to do.
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Looks like we got another happy customer on your Astro Book of Days, Brian, and so you
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got somebody looking forward to meeting you for sure at Ostara.
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Always, Terry, I thank you for taking the initiative on setting up that group and trying to get people going.
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It's always cool to find more ways for AFA members to connect with each other, so that's really a nice thing to do.
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Terry, in case you can't see it, Steve is wondering how to join that group you talked
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So yeah, Steve, if you send Terry a message, maybe he'll answer you here in chat.
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But if not, if you send him a message after this, I'm sure he'd be happy to get with you.
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And if you guys don't connect communication wise, let me know and I'll get you guys in
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touch afterwards. Well, it's great to have so many of you with me here tonight. Does
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anybody have anything else they want to make sure we talk about or any questions they might
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have, anything on their mind they want, I don't know, me to say something about or to
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react to or give you all my perspective on Brian says he'll be joining you all
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in the the venerable AFA members group here in a couple of years but he's
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taking his time to get there trying to elongate his uh his youth brian i don't think if you told
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so Brian touched on something it was kind of what I was going to default to here until somebody else
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had had a question something wanted me to answer I mentioned last time I spoke to you guys about
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increasing piety and i appreciate that brian is bringing that back up about ways to make the gods
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real to people and i think that one fundamental and it is something i wanted to speak to you tonight
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about is your your own home practice and i don't know how many guys out there have um home altars
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to a lot of people this would be an ancestral altar um some people refer to this as as the
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hearth cult because originally this was around people's cooking hearts in the
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center of their home so to our ancestors this was the most fundamental way of
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accessing the other world and in spiritual things and the smallest unit
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of worship to our ancestors wasn't the individual it was the family so I think
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that the folks in your house and having the family gathering around an altar to
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your ancestors into the the gods of your family is essential and I think it puts your home in the
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right order I think it helps the energy in your house be a healthy one and I think it brings
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people together at the most basic and fundamental level in a way that that puts us on a spiritual
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trajectory for the way that we react with the rest of the world and interact and coming before
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your your family altar with regularity builds up habits that are extremely helpful and it puts you
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in a very spiritual frame of mind and it also enlists the holy powers in a way that's that's
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beneficial to your life in its most basic sense I think that's a real fundamental and I think all
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of the rest of our spirituality can be built out from there so I'd really like to encourage you
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guys I'm not sure how many people do that but to have an altar that you
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regularly you know pour out a libation on burn some incense on let your
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ancestors in the spirit of your family of your clan know that you're there that
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you're receptive that you're listening and reaffirm your resolve to do good
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things it's another question it's just brief to touch on here but people often
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tend to shy away or be hesitant to pray in a Christian or in a heathen context because the
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only way that we know about it or the most accessible way we know about prayer is in a
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Christian context. But I don't think there's anything Christian about beseeching the divine
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and speaking to our ancestors and to our gods. One of the best ways to do that is in your home
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and in front of your ancestral altar to make a little offering and to reaffirm commitments that
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you make to do things, to accomplish things, to live your life in a certain way, to uphold duties
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that you have. I know that's been very beneficial to me, and it's something that's been very nice
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in Mandy and my new home to make a place for the gods. It was really essential to us. The first
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thing we did when we moved in was set up that that family altar so hope you guys
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Ask if there's any plans for the AFA to put out in-depth literature with a heathen, with a heathen world.
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I think I understand the comment. Are we going to start putting out more in-depth things?
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I know we go over 101 stuff a lot and I think that there is a great hunger for things of a little bit higher depth.
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and up to this point very often that comes in personal conversations and discussions and i'd
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like to see that get formalized a little bit i know that our gothar are hard at work on building
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up the institution of our priesthood and developing those things that we can provide to you guys a
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little bit more detailed on that if you have questions please do reach out to your local
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go for you or feel free to reach out to me and i'd be happy to answer them um and yeah we'll try to
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work on on coming up with some literature that way i think it's a good idea and i think there's
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definitely need for it I think that's a great comment what I love is doing is
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every morning sending my intentions and goal uh goals for the day and asking guys to assist in
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those goals i think the idea of living your life intentionally with a set set goals and set manner
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that you want to live and that you want to address the concerns of your day i think it makes you more
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effective i think it makes you more driven at what you're trying to accomplish and in general
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i think that's really sound advice and i'm glad that you posted that um some people are different
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some people like to approach their their family altar at night to other people it's a good way
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to start the day on the right track to some others the nights closer to them and they like to uh to
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end the day on that note and i think either of them is valid and i'd encourage you guys to do both
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yeah Kevin I I really agree that with that I think that it's essential and one thing that
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does separate us from a lot of other people and how they practice their faith we're also true when
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we get up we're also true when we're husbands when some of us are our fathers or at work or
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in how we're sons or and how we relate to our families and how we relate to our neighbors we
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should be also true and all that we do and being very aware of that is
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fundamental and it builds something really powerful within us it builds
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character and it builds ourselves I would encourage us to find ways to do
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that in every aspect of our life if we can and I think that things like meal
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blessings and again that that that hearth cult worship really adds to that
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I will alert Mandy that there's a good opportunity
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If any other ladies out there are listening
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and you need yarn, Jessica Vex has the yarn hookup
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on I guess a good deal on a going out of business sale
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I believe we've got 13 AFA babies either already here
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that ladies have put in to making sure that each new AFA
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baby has a special baby blanket made by our folk, the ladies of our folk, taking care
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of our own. It's a really nice thing and it's something very special that they're doing
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and I can't thank them enough for it. I know it's touched a lot of people and it's a really
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beautiful thing to see all right we got a happy happy penguin looks like it's
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going for a hug. I appreciate that. Does anybody else have questions or stuff they want to make
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sure we talk about tonight? I'm happy to talk about anything you guys want, anything you guys
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like discussed it looks like I may have missed a discussion about about hell
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earlier and I think it's as far as how she connects I don't want to answer
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wrong and lead people astray on anything but i think as far as order and chaos are developed
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i think that she certainly serves a function within order the fact that she rules over the
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land of the dead and provides order in in that structure i think there's certainly a darker
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aspect and the darker element but i think we when we take um our myth cycle too literally and we
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yeah when we take it too literally and we try to overly associate people uh
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gods and goddesses and different mythological figures into two very uh very rigid frame
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works as far as you know, their their paternity and their relation to other gods and goddesses.
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I think sometimes we extend we extend that a little bit too far. And I think that it's
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worthwhile to. View and research hell in her own right, and not as just as some kind of
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monstrous extension of Loki, certainly as as his other children, Fenrir and Jormungandr.
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think it's definitely something to look into i think brian's points about a uh a dark aspect
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to the major female goddess as it relates to other pantheons does certainly play a part in
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our imagery of hell i think it deserves a little bit more looking into but like brian says i don't
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she is certainly not somebody that i would read regularly reach out to with my worship
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but i do think there's there's something to be looked into there and it's not nearly as
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Terry, what do you want to know about the status of your AFA membership?
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I would encourage you to reach out to Trent East, I believe, is your closest folk builder.
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And he can tell you and get you squared away if there's anything strange about it.
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I can also check for you if you want to reach out to me Odin's Volk that is a
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really complex question and not one I can answer in anything one word as far
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as new traditions being created we're living in a vibrant people and I think
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we need new traditions I think there was an initial phase of Alcitru that
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involved a lot of rediscovery of things that were lost to excuse me things that were lost to us
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but i think new traditions are essential and i look forward to being part of creating and enacting
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those with you guys um how symbolism and lore play into new traditions i think that's far too
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broad of something for me to be able to give you a substantive answer on but i think that our lore
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should always serve as a guidepost for us in helping to craft new traditions on how we do
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things so i think it plays in but i don't think we should be trapped by it or we should be trapped
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in a in days gone by on it i think new traditions need to be relevant to the world that we're in
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and the situations we find ourselves in i think that's certainly in keeping it in the spirit of
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our ancestors and it's it's not only something we can do but it's a duty of ours going forward
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I wanted to make sure it wasn't something to be asked or relevant to our conversation
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Is there anything else you guys would like to have me touch on or any other questions
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that you might have about what we're doing, where we're going, anything involving the
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Like I say, I really do enjoy this opportunity to talk to you guys.
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a different time or a way it could work a little bit better let me know but yeah
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everybody who's who has showed up so far thank you guys for joining I noticed we
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got three more people just joined the conversation
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Okay, looks like Mandy's helping Terry get any of his membership questions
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Alicia, Shane, Corey, it's good to see you guys.
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I know you guys are joining a little bit later.
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Do you guys have any questions or anything you wanted to hear me talk about
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tonight for those of you kind of joining a little bit later in the game?
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Yes, David, I did mention the new Hoff, but I'm so excited about it that I will mention it again.
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Two months and seven days after paying off Odin's Hoff, we are very seriously exploring
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financing and location for hoff number two it is happening it is happening quickly and we are very
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excited about it and folks are putting in a lot of effort behind the scenes on it one person i do
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want to acknowledge that's put in a lot of work on it is our law speaker gothi alan turnage he is
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invaluable when it comes to things like this um it's very much in his sphere of influence and
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stuff that he is more qualified and comfortable dealing with than a lot of us and he's done a lot
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of the heavy lifting on it behind the scenes so we'll have him to thank for a lot of stuff when
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that becomes a thing and i want you guys to know what's happening and quickly and the only reason
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we're able to do it this quick after paying off odenshoff is for you guys being generous
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and you guys supporting us throughout the years um i've told you guys this for a while now and i
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know it's a tough sell but the quickest way for a hoth to happen close to you is for us to pay off
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first odin's off and now for us to establish and figure out that second half because as soon as
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these hops are paid off it is absolutely our intention to continue building them because we
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need places of worship for our gods in midgard again it's long past time and it's beautiful to
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be at a day and an age where it's actually occurring you guys are a huge part of that
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this is a special time that our children and our children's children will look back on and see the
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things that we're accomplishing with pride and like i said your guys generosity and support is
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a huge part of making that happen and i thank you guys so much for doing that but yeah half number
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two is on its way. Yes, and Mark McLeod, our folk builder coordinator, has built us two
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lovely redwood showers with warm water outside of Odin's Hoff. There will be showers, and
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we would love to see you out there. I'm excited that you're going to make that trip out to
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the Hoff. We always love having our folk come out and see the Hoff. It's something to be
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proud of it's okay Alicia we're glad that you're here playing some board
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games I hope you won but yeah thank you for joining us coming in lakes better
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coming in not at all so good to have you. Hey Mark good to see you tonight and I'm
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gonna have to agree with Terry Mandy is a great person I'm kind of fond of her
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see I'm excited for you guys to get a chance to meet at Midsommar. Do I see a
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a lot of expansion in 2019 as it pertains to membership? Yes. Now, the real world doesn't
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always happen in the bounds of a calendar year, so some of this growth has been since
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December, but we have seen, and I can run the numbers and try to do the math, but we
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have seen about 130 new applications since December, which is huge for us. So growth
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has been amazing so far in 2019. We are being extremely blessed and very fortunate. And
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a lot of our people are waking up and a lot of our people are coming home. So we've seen
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a ton of expansion so far in 2019, and I only imagine that's going to continue as long as
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we're doing good things and moving forward. And I think if we can hurry up and get
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established on that second HOF, that's always a good thing to drive more membership as well.
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It's one of the cool things about having HOFs is something tangible in that way really gets
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a lot of people that sit on the sidelines and are maybe hesitant to join when they see real
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things real activity and real accomplishment something they can reach out and touch it's that
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extra thing that gets them to join and it's a really nice thing it's certainly um i think as
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uh brian wilton may have said to me before it's a force multiplier so i'm looking forward to that
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but yeah i see a lot of growth in 2019 hey eric good to good to see you eric from bottle for
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stoneship kindred's joined us well Terry I hope you get that because we'd love to
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see you come out to Odin's Hoff it's really something to behold our members
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in in Northern California there have put in so much work to make that place home
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and to make it very special for our folk and our gods we would love to have you
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come out and see it and be a part of it. I want everybody to know that these Hoffs aren't just,
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you know, the exclusive property of the membership in that area. As a member of the
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Auschwitz Folk Assembly, that's your Hoff. This second Hoff that we're going to make,
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that's your Hoff too. You guys are part of our AFA family and those things are all of ours
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and something I want everyone to be able to experience, to enjoy, and to put their might
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in their main and their truth into maintaining and getting to worship that and so if you contribute
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to them and you're helping out even though you're at a great distance i want you to know that we all
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appreciate it and it raises us all up and like i said we're going to keep going until we get one
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very near you once we get that one we're still going to keep going so it's very exciting time that
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way yes John this is live right now David no we don't ever coordinate with the
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odinic right and certainly not opposed to at present there is no relationship
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between the AFA and the Odenic Rite for good or for ill. I know a number of
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the Odenic Rite members and have a lot of respect for them. I have a lot of
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respect for Heimgist. The things that I've seen from the Odenic Rite and that
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I've seen them do I like and I appreciate but so far there hasn't been
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much interaction. AFA has tried to reach out a little bit and we certainly would
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love to hear from folks in the Odenic Rite. And because it is an organization that we
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do have a lot of respect for, any Odenic Rite members that do want to come to AFA events,
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we certainly welcome that. Make sure you get in touch with the AFA folk builder in your
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area and we can get you squared away. But that's kind of where we stand as far as any
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official relationship with the right as it is right now. But David, if you know people
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or you want to see that change or something, let me know or send them my way,
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and I'm always very, very happy to speak to any representative of the right.
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The further things sink in society at large, the more we have people looking for something,
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and looking for something wholesome and authentic
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to help build their lives and their families around.
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And I do think the worst things may get out there
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because we do our best at providing something meaningful.
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And I'm glad so many people are finding their way home.
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John, could handouts be made to help spread and can the AFA name be used in doing so?
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Yes, but if you do want to use the AFA name, I do need you to run that up the chain and
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Contact your local folk builder and if you have an idea for something you want to do
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Get with your local folk builder, they'll get with me.
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We'll make sure something good happens if that's something you'd like to build.
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Alicia, I think that the HOF is very handicap accessible.
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I think that all depends upon what the disability is and what that person may need.
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but there is a ramp into the Hough and out of the Hough I know the doors
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between the main hall into the kitchen area are plenty wide enough so I
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guarantee you it's it's good we can make something happen and if we need to you
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know put any elbow grease in to help and facilitate any of our members that do
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have disabilities and getting around I'm sure we've got plenty of strong young
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guys that would love to help out and make that happen so if you have any
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special needs that way and you need something particular please reach out
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we'll make sure to make it happen we want all of our folk to be able to
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experience the Hoff and and get to share midsummer with us so if it's something
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you're thinking about please do reach out we'll do what we need you to make
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happen hey Harley good to see you Trent's asking how one would go about
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applying for the AFA gothar program so we start a new class at midsummer so we
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You want all your applications in by the end of June.
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I'm checking something really quick on our website
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and it tells you a little bit about what's required
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if you'd like to be a Gothian the Austrifolk Assembly.
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to download the AFA Gothar program application for 2019.
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and you meet the qualifications listed on the site,
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So we're very selective about who gets in the program,
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we would encourage you to continue to try again
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Hmm, so we got a couple of more folks that joined us,
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or maybe something that you thought I would talk about
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guys. It's been about an hour with y'all tonight. I have really enjoyed it. This is the second one
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of these that we've done and I've had a good time with them. I love my AFA family and I think getting
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a chance to speak to you guys in this kind of a candid setting is really nice. I hope you guys
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enjoyed it if if this is something you like doing I'd be happy to do this
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monthly if you guys have any suggestions on ways to improve it or something else
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you'd like to see please let me know yeah but it's been a fun time thank you
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guys for coming out and participating and asking questions so I got another
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questions popped up about the current strength of the folk services fund we have a number of people
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that set up regular recurring donations to folk services folk services fund is doing really healthy
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right now um i'm not aware of a time that it's ever done better than it is it's plugging along
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pretty good and um fortunately we've been able to help a lot of our folk that have had needs
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and reached out in a in a substantive way we've been able to provide some help it's kind of a
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special thing that we're able to do that i'm really proud of we try our best to look out for
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our own anybody who doesn't know about folk services um it's a fund that we have said we
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have funds set aside in case any of our members have you know unforeseen catastrophes in their
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life and they need some help to get past them any kind of emergency you have a family emergency
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health thing. We don't pretend that we're of a scale and a scope that we can fix it for you,
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or we, you know, we can't always give you back anything that might be lost, but we can help.
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We can get you through, you know, we can get you through the night, we can get you through a couple
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of days. We can do what we can. And the other thing besides money that's actually sitting in
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the folk services, what we also do is once we know, and if you guys are willing, we understand
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that some people don't want any of their uh information to get out there but if you're
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willing to work with us we would also be very happy to help fundraise and help get funds to you
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if you find yourself in need or your family in need and that's really something that i'm proud
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of we're able to do as a church for one another so do reach out if you have any problems to that
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are an emergency you know we don't we do have a little bit of looking into it and seeing if it's
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something that meets those qualifications, but if you need folk services, please reach out to your
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folk builder. Last thing that we want to ever hear about is one of our folk going through a
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catastrophe in their life and us not knowing about it and us not being able to be there for them
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and help them. Our GOTHAR want to help them spiritually and the rest of us, including our
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GOTHAR, want to help if we can materially. So do please reach out if anything does come up.
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And if you know another AFA member in your area that has something come up, please reach
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There's very few things I'd rather do with my time than get to speak to my AFA family
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and talk to you guys and share with you and kind of share an evening with you.
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I've been talking about that second Hoff all evening.
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Less than three months after paying off Odin's Hoff,
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we're at a stage where we are securing financing
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anything you wanted me to touch on tonight, please speak up, and I'd be happy to try to
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answer those for you guys before I duck out here. Yeah, Brandy, Karen, Adam, Bodie, Ben,
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thank you guys very much for showing up. Anything that you missed, you can watch a replay of it. I
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think it'll take a few minutes when we're done here for me to get that in. All right, last chance,
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anybody who just joined have any questions hey buddy um terry i uh i appreciate your vote for
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a location of the second hoff i think that the upper south region is a very strong contender for
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a hoff in pretty quick order we will absolutely look into it and think about it i don't make any
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great promises on that but um the your region is moving in the right direction for us to get that
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going and make that happen so all right guys thank you so much for coming out tonight and uh
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and listening to me and answering er and asking questions and participating um like i say i love
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my fa family i'm very proud of you guys and i look forward to these so i will see you guys next month