I made the decision to make the recordings a little shorter when only I am able to turn up. That way every call is only as long as it needs to be and I can use the rest of my available time making myself available to anyone and work on specific things that I believe will benefit the community. So praise God you are hear and about to watch this call as I know it will bless you.

Hello Forging Growth! My name is Jed, and I am currently operating just outside the Greater Toronto Area in Canada. I desire to grow in the Personal area of my life, and here's the major goal I have: I want to continue to get over my fear of talking in front of a camera by completing the Higher Upper Wellness Challenge. Making 1 daily video for the rest of this year, with no edits or use of filler words while speaking for a minimum of 1 minute. The reason why I created Forging Growth is that there have been many times in my own growth journey where I felt lonely, lacked clarity, lost spiritually and was lured into laziness or lassitude (that's an L word for burnout); and I know my past experience isn't uncommon. Most of you who are reading this have felt or perhaps still feel like I once did. I want you all to have what I sometimes didn't. The right like-minded Christian friends, mentors and community that can make you that much more effective at being faithfully driven and become ambitious stewards of God's resources and calling. I'm excited to see what we will be able to harvest through this community for the Kingdom of God. Until our next call, have a lovely day! Jed

God showed up in this meeting. Although small, messy, and imperfect, God moved and will continue to move through this recording and use it for His kingdom. To all the people who will inevitably join this call by watching this recording: Prepare your heart with expectation as we are about to pray for this community and YOUR VICTORY in your Personal Growth journey. Additionally, we will go over the basics of who this weird, hairy guy named Jed is and why he cries like he's trying to personally recreate the flood from the story of Noah when he prays.