Serving Nashville Together: The Mission of Operation Andrew
In this episode, Mike Glenn sits down with Linda Leathers, the Executive Director of Operation Andrew, to discuss how churches can unite to serve their communities effectively. Linda shares the incredible 25-year journey of Operation Andrew, which began as a collaborative effort following the Billy Graham Crusade and has since grown into a vital network supporting pastors, mentoring young leaders, and partnering with local schools.
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Mike Glenn: Hi, I'm Mike Glenn, and I am the president of The Engaged Church Network. We're glad that you have joined us today for our podcast. Joining us as our special guest is Linda Leathers. Linda is the, uh, executive director of, uh, Operation Andrew, which is a, a group that formed out of the Billy Graham Crusade.
Mm-hmm. And the pastors that worked together, uh, for the Billy Graham Crusade, after the crusade was over, decided to stay together and, uh, and, and minister to the community. And it was all kind of exciting. How long has Operation Andrew been going on now? 25th year this year. 20... Is it 25 years this year?
2025, yep. I, I knew it was, uh, uh, several years. Uh, and, uh, have, have been meeting city needs and, uh, and working together, pulling churches together to solve, uh, common problems and that kind of stuff. So we are grateful that, uh, that Linda is here. Uh, Linda, kind of take us on a quick tour of Linda [00:01:00] Leathers' life and how you ended up at Operation Andrew.
Linda Leathers: Okay. Well, first, thanks so much for the opportunity to be here. I love what you're doing, and, uh, nothing like in, uh, the joy of being able to, you know, encourage pastors. Yeah. So I'm all in. So for, uh, for me, I started in Florence, Alabama- Okay ... and really with a mama who loved Jesus. Mm-hmm. And it was very, um, very clear to me that I wanted that Jesus, and so-
Mike Glenn: And went to UNA.
Linda Leathers: You gotta love it. University of, uh, I like to say the Vanderbilt of the Shoals area. University of North Alabama. It's tremendous opportunity- Yeah ... for me. After that, uh, great opportunity. I, I just went to Jacksonville, Florida, out of... And, and did computer science, um, sales of computers, and if you knew me, you'd realize that's a joke.
But God was gracious, and the beautiful thing about being in Jacksonville is I landed as a 20-something in the most nurturing, caring, loving church family. And they just made... I was f- their family. And so for six years, during that time, um, I sensed a calling to ministry. [00:02:00] So I was loving this work, uh, life, but, you know, even I was at the bottom and then the top of the, of the sales chart and really began to see my, my joy was not there.
It was in my local church work. Mm-hmm. And, uh, God put some wonderful people around me to sort of say, "Hey, your next logical step in ministry or in life would be to go to seminary." And I thought, "What in the world?" Yeah. Um, then I went to Southwestern, Fort Worth. They were good to me there. Got a chance to serve on the local church staffs.
And interestingly, when I went to, to seminary, I, I, I learned like my first couple of weeks that 50% of the population in the country were, uh, were single adults. And I was single, but, you know, I didn't really think I was single. I just wasn't married yet. And, and they were lost, and they were not connecting with the local church, so maybe that might be God's calling on my life.
So I did minister with single adults in a couple, three churches. And then, uh, landed in Nashville, the Vatican of Baptist life. You know, so I thought, [00:03:00] "What in the world?" At First Baptist Nashville, and they gave me an opportunity to serve single adults, but also community ministry. Mm-hmm. And it was there that I was a part of a, a startup.
God was so gracious to call us the Wild group of praying women. Had a building in the heart of the city that was sitting empty. A- and God, you know, b- really rose up a, a local nonprofit called The Next Door Recovery now. Mm-hmm. Women striving, um, to... Well, they were struggling with addiction, mental illness, trauma, uniquely women coming out of incarceration.
Mm-hmm. So for 17 years, God was so good to allow me to serve in that role of, of, of leading that organization, serving that population, and learning so much about His grace. Then I sensed sort of, um, it was time for me to transition. I love that word. It was time to transition. So, but y'all, I felt that God had, um, another opportunity for me.
And, and then, oh my, interestingly enough, um, I came to town in, [00:04:00] in 1999 And right before the crusade, and I had no business being in the room, but I got an opportunity to volunteer for the crusade on the Citizens Committee. And I saw, you know, people like my age now- Right, right ... crying out to the city for, crying out to God for our city.
And it's, so putting together the Billy Graham Crusade, and I saw it, and I thought, "That's something special." All these people coming together. Who cares who got credit? They just wanted to... People to know Jesus. Um, and so now here come some 20 years later, I have a chance to be a part of Operation Andrew group, which formed, as you said earlier- Is that right?
Mm-hmm ... right out of that cr- crusade.
Mike Glenn: For people who don't know- Yeah ... tell, g- give them a, a brief overview of what Operation Andrew does.
Linda Leathers: Well, Operation Andrew group is this group that unites the body of Christ. We partner with the local church to love God and our neighbors. We live out our calling in three initiatives.
One is United for Pastors, [00:05:00] which is we care for, support, wanna come alongside pastors in some key areas of their personal life, their leadership in the local church, how they can develop other pastor, uh, friends and supporters, and then how through all of that, as our pastors are, as you well know, as they, as they thrive, our community thrives.
So pastors' work. Then we have a, a mentoring work called The Oak Project. Young adults partnered with a couple of more, uh, seasoned profe- s- so let me just start that over, in that The Oak Project really works. It's a young adult mentoring program, but it unites generations. Um, one-year commitment. Uh, more seasoned professional like me really leaning with, um, two young adults.
It's just been really transformative what those relationships can be. So we got United for Pastors, we've got The Oak Project, and then the, the program that is we're known really well for in the community after now 12 [00:06:00] years of working with public schools. We partner public schools with, um, a local congregation, and we really have seen that have tremendous impact.
Um, and so if, you know, if there's a pastor out there who says, "I really wanna get to know my community, I wanna serve," well, the public school's a great way to do it. Right. And so we sort of have this, um, pack and play. We, we've done the work with the district. They've said, "We want churches involved." Sure.
"Stay in our lane." And we do that both in the Davidson County, Metro Davidson County, um, and, uh, also Franklin Special District. So, so it's this amazing group that just, uh, wants to support the local church. We believe very much in these key areas in which we do it.
Mike Glenn: Yeah. What, um... And, and you took this over, um- In '20.
Yeah.
Linda Leathers: 2020
Mike Glenn: Yeah, Mike, Mike, Mike stepped away and... Has it been that long?
Linda Leathers: No. Did I say that right? Uh, yeah. 2020. 2020. Yeah. Oh. So so it's been- I'm getting old. No, never. I'm [00:07:00] just, I'm just sitting here right
Mike Glenn: in front of you, getting old. Um, any, any time, uh, you have a transition like that, uh, there's an excitement of, "I'm gonna get to do this," and then there's that moment of, "Oh, my word, what in the world have I gotten into?"
There's so much to do, and I am... You know, the ocean is so big, my boat is so small. Yeah. When did that moment happen to you? Well,
Linda Leathers: interestingly enough, I am a uniter. Mm-hmm. And I love that part of the role. And so when I got in, I saw, oh, my word, we've got all this opportunity. Yeah. We've got all this capacity to grow.
I'm a growth-oriented person, too, which drives some people nuts, but... So I see it, and it became pretty quick, uh, that I realized, hey, we can't do everything, but let's do what we do really, really well. So it wasn't long till I realized, okay, we, we really need to understand our messaging- Mm-hmm ... know who we are, look at our vision statement, [00:08:00] really be able to communicate well who we are, and then go after it.
So I would say, um, you know, first three months. Yeah. But then I realized, okay, uh, my visions are great- Yeah ... but we've got, um, we've gotta bring along a lot of folks and, um, we were at a great... Our board, um, was so open to what's it gonna take for us to be, um, really relevant to the local church? How can we come alongside?
And, you know, we're kingdom people, so how can we partner well with others? So, you know, trying to figure out what's our niche-
Mike Glenn: Yeah ...
Linda Leathers: and how we can position it really well. Yeah, I think this is, this is a
Mike Glenn: key point. Mm-hmm. I wanna sit down. Any, any time, because our pastors are aware of all the hurt in their community, and they want- Yeah
to do everything.
Linda Leathers: Mm-hmm.
Mike Glenn: But their church and they themselves are called to only do a few things.
Linda Leathers: Mm-hmm.
Mike Glenn: And we trust that the other churches will do what they're supposed to be doing. Mm-hmm. Uh, but, but t- uh, [00:09:00] walk us through that, how you and, and Operation Andrew came to the conclusion, like, "Listen, here are the three things we do."
And there are a lot of other things, uh, ministry or mission that, that, that you could have chosen, but you chose these three. So what was it that's, that allowed you to say, "Hey, as you look at Operation Andrew, when you look at the needs of the city, here's where we, we fit"?
Linda Leathers: Here's our niche. Yeah, here, here's the- This is who we are.
Yeah,
Mike Glenn: yeah.
Linda Leathers: Well, we- Was
Mike Glenn: it the makeup, the board? Was it the makeup of the members? Was it ...
Linda Leathers: Well, some was some legacy. Yeah. Um, so we had this United For Hope program that all it needed to do is be given some encouragement- Right ... and some capacity to grow. Yeah, a
Mike Glenn: little water. A little water. At least, or, or lots
Linda Leathers: of it.
You know, let's pour it on there. And then we had this OAK project that was just an idea that was growing, but we knew mentoring was so important. Mm-hmm. And so, um, you know, let's invest and [00:10:00] let's have, grow capacity. Mm-hmm. And then really, we were in a situation of though we knew, uh, the, the needs of churches, and we wanted to do so much, we realized we had a gap, and that we were not serving, um, at the capacity we could- Right
local churches, the pastors. Mm-hmm. And so we started, uh, about three years ago now, United For Pastors, and it was based on what we were hearing, and we were a little disconnected from pastors. And so, but we were hearing from research nationally that they were, you know, questioning their call to ministry.
They were overwhelmed. We were just really ... When I started, we were just in the heart of COVID.
Mike Glenn: Yeah. And
Linda Leathers: so what the, the-
Mike Glenn: Yeah, COVID wrecked a lot of
Linda Leathers: pastors. Oh, my word.
Mike Glenn: Yeah.
Linda Leathers: And so how could we ... So it took us a year. We hired someone, Adam Bazaar, to come on and sort of lead that. So he did a ton of ... Just went and he, he interviewed.
Mm-hmm. He talked to, "How may we best serve you?" Um, and what [00:11:00] happened out of that, um, is the State of Nashville. We partnered with the Barna Group- Right ... to say we wanna show- Yeah. I was at that conference ... as, yeah, as a gift to the community- Yeah ... how can we provide some data for pastors to, to really help them in their ministry journey?
And so that has been really game-changing for United For Pastors for us, 'cause we've been going and sharing that story. I mean, they can get, I mean, pastors can get State of Nashville on our line. It's free of charge, and it's, it's tremendous data. And, and through that data now, we've, uh, we've created, um, some pillars around United For Pastors to, to show our impact.
Right. And so it's just based on, um, it's based on the research. So interestingly enough, when we went back and looked, our community, through that research, said, "Hey, young adults are struggling in our community. They can't find their place. They need people to speak into their life. They want people to speak into their life."
Well, hey, [00:12:00] that affirmed the OAK project. Let's invest more in the OAK project. Again, then we learned, hey, our community is really concerned about the education of, of all, uh, Nashvillians and, and people in the region. Okay, we've got this partnership to put believers in the public school to live, uh, the grace and gr- really, to live out their faith to serve the local schools, the students.
So, okay, that affirmed our, really our stance that United For Hope, our educational initiative, is solid and is need-based. Mm-hmm. Our mentoring and our pastor network. So, um, it really has helped us understand, again, our uniting. Um, we want to do that well. Um, these are our three areas, and what we really wanna do is, is all goes back to our heart of our verse, you know, John 17, that, that really we may be one.
That we, as an organization, Jesus-loving organization, partner [00:13:00] well with other Jesus opport- Jesus organizations who are doing some similar work, but we all have our unique niches. And so, how can we come alongside and be great partners, which is part of our mission. Right. So, how, how did we do it, is we just, we were doing some things.
We realized there were some things we did not need to do as an organization, so we... And they were good. We made those hard decisions. Let's transition from those. Let's focus our resources- On best ... and now let's grow.
Mike Glenn: On best.
Linda Leathers: Yeah, and it's so easy for- The,
Mike Glenn: the hard choices in life- Mm-hmm ... aren't between good and bad.
Mm-hmm. We do pretty well with that one. Yeah. It's between bad and worse. Right. And good and best. And you know, in our hearts- Yeah, yeah ... as believers- Yeah ...
Linda Leathers: is to do so much. That's right. Because we were do- But it's been really, um, it's been, um, gracious of God to give us these three things that we can flourish in.
Mike Glenn: Yeah. What'd you find out about pastors in your data?
Linda Leathers: Our, our pastors, um, oh, my. [00:14:00] I, I just read it right before I came. You know, 60% of pastors questioned their call, uh, over the last year. You know? 54% of pastors, um, felt lonely over the last three months. Mm. So, what we found is these amazing individuals Needed to be encouraged.
And they need people to come alongside them that are for them and to remind them of who they are in the Lord. I mean, they're pastors. They're, they know this, but just to be, have people just come to say, "Hey, you're amazing just as you are." It is not your performance, uh, is not the basis of your relation- So it's, it's that type of...
We found that, you know, just they were stressed, and they were anxious, and they were wondering, "Do I wanna continue doing this?" And so our role is, um, to come alongside them and, and help them realize, um, the [00:15:00] importance they play in the kingdom here in Middle Tennessee, and how can we s- how can we support?
These are some
Mike Glenn: talented pastors. Oh, mercy. Uh, yeah, I mean, they're... You know, we always assume that it's, uh, it's Bubba down the road whose, whose church is struggling, he's struggling, all of that. It's, it's not. No. Uh, the, the names that you would know and that I would know would, I think, would surprise-
Linda Leathers: Right
uh,
Mike Glenn: our, our, our listeners now that why, why are they struggling? Right. Um- I think,
Linda Leathers: too, um, I wish Adam Brazar was here 'cause he would, he spends so much of his time with pastors. But i- and his pastors saw churches from, you know, 15- Mm-hmm ... a house church of 15 to many, many thousands. We c- our identity can be wrapped up in what we do.
That's right. And we lose sight, and our family relationships lose sight, and then we don't really have friends to call- Mm-hmm ... 'cause who can we trust? They're our church members. Right. I mean, they may be on the finance committee, and, you know, I'm telling them I'm struggling. Mm-hmm. And then, and then you've got, you know, other [00:16:00] pastors.
They, and then the, and then there's some competition going on. I don't measure up. And then, oh, my word, my membership's going to the next church 'cause they got better music. Yeah. And so it's like, oh, there's so much. So we j- we just wanna come alongside the pastors- And just give a safe place ... and say, "We, we're for you."
Yeah, yeah. "We're with you. Um, we wanna provide you resources." You know, it, it is, for me, especially with my work with The Next Door, I just embrace that, you know, anxiety, you know, addiction- Mm-hmm ... mental health, it's everywhere. Yep. Now, let's break down those barriers. Mm-hmm. And, I, I mean, pastors absolutely could be right now listening to this and they're going, "I'm depressed."
Mm-hmm. So we also wanna be an organization, we- To refer Yeah So if you, if you're- Facilitate that conversation Yeah Right, yeah And if, if we're not the organization that you're looking to- Mm-hmm ... for, for support when you're down, reach out to someone. Right And so there's no judgment here 'cause we're, you know, they're, they're- It's just your turn [00:17:00] Yeah.
Hello. Everybody gets,
Mike Glenn: everybody gets a turn. Right. Right You know, life is gonna get you sooner or later. Right Life will ambush you.
Linda Leathers: And so- And, uh- ... but we are, we're, we just wanna say to pastors we're for them.
Mike Glenn: Mm-hmm.
Linda Leathers: We wanna provide the support. I mean, uh, and Adam said, you know, the needs are so great that we're hiring two new people.
Wow. Uh, one to help with, uh, sort of the wellness- Mm-hmm ... to coming alongside, and one to help with the leadership 'cause the challenges of leadership, I mean, I'm speaking to, hello, the, um, such a leader in church work. Um, but I just, um, I just, w- we just wanna be that organization to come alongside them. Well, our next
Mike Glenn: conference is about-
Linda Leathers: Great
Mike Glenn: uh, sur- It's called Surviving Monday.
Linda Leathers: Mm.
Mike Glenn: And, uh, Henry Crouch and others will be there about, hey, i- if, if you're not doing these things and being proactive about taking care of your own health- Right ... then, then everybody pays, uh, out of that. Your family pays, your church pays, and all that because you're not [00:18:00] mentally, spiritually, physically Uh, and emotionally ready to lead, to lead this congregation.
Linda Leathers: And isn't it so... It sometimes puts so much shame on pastors-
Mike Glenn: Yeah ...
Linda Leathers: to realize, hey, man, I should be, I should be knowing what I'm talking about. Or-
Mike Glenn: Yeah ... but, and- I should have it all together, right ... it
Linda Leathers: is, and it's not the case. You know, I, I, my personal moto- uh, motto in life is live in freedom. Yeah. You know, and, and even as church leaders, we live in the bondage of expectations and m- expectations- Yeah
or whatever those things are. And, but f- you know, Jesus really wants us to be people of freedom and joy. And, um, I'm not Pollyanna. There's tough things out there, but how we deal with our situation is out of the freedom that Jesus gives us, not the bondage. Right. So it's so easy to fall in bondage. Mm-hmm.
And so, um, it's heartbreaking for us, and we, we want, we want pastors to, as you do, flourish- Right ... in their community. And so what's that gonna take?
Mike Glenn: Mm-hmm. So what's the future look like?
Linda Leathers: Future's bright. Like, [00:19:00] 25 years. Yeah. I, I can't get over it, 25 years of- Yeah. So we're right now just sort of praying, asking God to open up doors for our next 25 years.
Mm-hmm. Or we'll take it the next six months- Yeah ... for that matter. That's right, yeah. I mean, um, but, uh, it's, it's doing more of the same. You know, it's looking at- Mm-hmm ... you know, how, how can we put believers in public schools to support the schools? Mm-hmm. And, you know, well, all that effort, I'll just tell you right out front, it's not an evangelistic effort.
They g- we go in with the four spiritual laws. Mm-hmm. But you know what? What we do is we go in with relationships. Yeah. And once you get to know someone, when there is a need, we want that principal or those teachers to know, "I can call XYZ church 'cause they have been- Mm-hmm ... and paid the price of relationships."
And then it's amazing things what can happen through that. Right. Mm-hmm. So w- we feel like we want every school, uh, in middle Tennessee to have a church partner. Game-changing. Uh, we want young adults to flourish in their careers and their lives. We know as young adults, they're [00:20:00] making some of the biggest decisions of their life.
Mike Glenn: Right, and, and, and they are less prepared for those decisions than, than we were. Hmm.
Linda Leathers: Yeah. As
Mike Glenn: the, as the lifespan has extended, so has each part.
Linda Leathers: Right.
Mike Glenn: See, my dad, my dad was a man, when he was 14. Mm.
Linda Leathers: Yes.
Mike Glenn: See, he, he could take the wagon to town and all that. Right. And he was, he was accountable for his actions when he was 14.
Linda Leathers: Yes.
Mike Glenn: Uh, my mom became an adult when she was 12- Mm ... because her mom died of breast cancer- Wow ... when my mom... And she had three little sisters.
Linda Leathers: Mm.
Mike Glenn: So she became an adult overnight. I was 18. Uh, people thought you turn 18, y- you better have, you better start getting it together. Now it's 30.
Linda Leathers: Right. Right.
Mike Glenn: And so we're having young people, uh, make forever decisions- With, uh, a s- a, uh, less [00:21:00] developed, uh, decision process emotionally and mentally and all of that-
Linda Leathers: Right
Mike Glenn: because of, of, of the way our society's turned.
Linda Leathers: And interestingly enough, what we've also found is mentoring is so important for the 20-something, young 30-something. Right. But we've also got this massive amounts of believers out there, massive amounts of believers. We have this, um, wide open door of opportunity for believers who are, you know, 55 and up- Right
that are, uh, considering retirement and w- have got so much to give. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And they're, they're looking for purpose, and so The Oak Project sorta unites generations- Yeah ... in building faith-based leaders. And so- I used to tell
Mike Glenn: senior adults all the time, "Don't join another senior adult Sunday school class."
"Go join a young married Sunday school class."
Linda Leathers: Right. Right.
Mike Glenn: Uh, because they have not seen what a marriage of 45 years looks like.
Linda Leathers: Right.
Mike Glenn: Uh, their parents are divorced, [00:22:00] whatever their s- they haven't seen that. They haven't seen a, a man live out a godly life and career and all of that. So the ability of, of senior adults, and I used to tell 'em, I said, "Every good rancher circles back-
Linda Leathers: Mm.
Yes ...
Mike Glenn: to make sure the herd's still healthy."
Linda Leathers: Yes. Because
Mike Glenn: as these little ones run off or wander off, not paying attention, I said, "You gotta circle back and make sure those, those young ones get caught up." Uh, and, a- and, the, uh, uh, the fascinating thing is, is how many senior adults are stunned at how happy these young adults are to have these senior adults in their life.
I'm
Linda Leathers: telling you. And- How many times did you as a pastor hear the, "Hey, you know- Yeah ... Brother Mike, do, do you have anybody that can mentor me?" Yeah. And, you know, and then the senior adults, or when I say senior, just, you know, that, you know- Yeah ... they've got a lot to live there, and senior- Yeah. [00:23:00] Nobody, no, no
Mike Glenn: one's here for me.
I don't know how to do Twitter. I don't know how to do... They don't care.
Linda Leathers: No. You know? They, they really want... And so- Yeah ... both ends of that spectrum- Mm-hmm ... are looking for purpose.
Mike Glenn: Right.
Linda Leathers: And y- and mentoring provides that, so I love that program. Yeah,
Mike Glenn: the, the early church, the early church used to, one of the great things of the gospel was it would recreate family.
Linda Leathers: Mm. Yes.
Mike Glenn: Okay? 'Cause it, you know, if you were a Christian, some cultures, you show up, "I've been thrown out of my family."
Linda Leathers: Oh, true. I,
Mike Glenn: I, um, I don't have any... And the pastor would go, "Mm, there's your dad." He goes- Yeah ... "Go, there's your mom. Those are your brothers, and there are your grandparents." Uh, you know, I would tell, I would tell senior adults, "Okay, your current kids live in Texas or California.
You got a boatload of grandkids on a pew next to you, in front of you." Yes. "Spoil them just like you would." Uh, y- your own grandchildren. Show up at their ball games. Do that, do the things that you wanna do but can't because of distance.
Linda Leathers: [00:24:00] Right.
Mike Glenn: Do that now, and oh, game changer. It really is. Game changer. And
Linda Leathers: so, you know, so- It's always,
Mike Glenn: you end up being, you always, you're getting more than you give.
Yeah. Absolutely. And more blessed than, than you end up blessing, so.
Linda Leathers: And so where does Operation Andrew group, what does it look like in 25 years? I can't wait to, to see. Mm-hmm. But what we're doing right now, we are, we are asking God to, um, open doors of opportunities for us that are, um, for His glory- Mm-hmm
that we can walk through for, to build a kingdom here in Middle Tennessee. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And, uh, it's, it's such an exciting time to be in Middle Tennessee. It's, such- Oh, yeah ... I mean, it's like- Yeah. And so we have this tremendous opportunity as uniters to work well together- Mm-hmm ... as believers to care well together, to honor one another, to respect one another, and not- To put the
Mike Glenn: system in place.
Yeah, come on. But that's, that's so important because if I'm a, if I'm a church member or a pastor of a church, I, I want to [00:25:00] do something, I know I need to do something, I don't know how or what. Right. But one phone call to Operation Andrew can get things initiated, and as you say, you've already got the, already got the material ready to hand to me- Right
so I can go minister to my local school. Absolutely. So how do, how do people reach out to
Linda Leathers: you? So I think the best way to, to reach out to us is, is basically through the web. Mm-hmm. So,
Mike Glenn: uh- That's operationandrew- .org ... .
Linda Leathers: org. That easy. So we're there, and, um, I was just looking at our website. It's pretty good.
Yeah. It really tells who we are, and, um, and finds, um, you can find out there how to get involved. Mm-hmm. But we really are, we want to help the church be involved in the community. Yeah. And I think as we do that, I think it's, it's not just me, Scripture tells us that- Well, it, it's- ... we do it well- ... it's
Mike Glenn: the best form of evangelism.
It w- It really is ... people
Linda Leathers: will see believers- It is ... working together. Mm-hmm. It'll draw, it'll draw people to Himself. Mm-hmm. And so that's what we're trying to just be faithful and watch God do something that only He can do. Mm-hmm. [00:26:00] That's Operation Andrew group. That's good.
Mike Glenn: Nice. Listen, you and I know there are some things you learn only in obedience, that you can go to school, you can take all the tests, but there are some things you learn only by doing them, and there are some parts of the Kingdom that you understand only through kingdom action, and that is the importance of Operation Andrew and the pulling together of the partnerships of all the churches throughout Middle Tennessee.
Linda, thank you- Thank you ... for being with us today. You can reach Linda at, uh, operationandrew.org. Of course, we are the Engaged Church Network. I'm Mike Glenn, and I'm grateful you joined us for this time.
