How to gather settings in an admin system?

Hey, so I am trying to make a small little admin thingy, and wondering how I could gather all these settings into my MainModule script. I have made this basic example of settings, don't know if it is correct or not. I was thinking like a sort of "gatherSettings" function in the module script. Something like that, I do not know what I would put in the function however and how I could get the settings, maybe like return? I really do not know.

function gatherSettings()

end

The settings

-- loader

local setup = {

    admins = {"CharlieTinsley3", "Admin"};
    kickMessage = "You have been kicked from the game!";
    banMessage = "You have been banned from the game!";
}

require(2695624202)(setup)

The module, although it is empty.

local load = {}

function gatherSettings()

end

return load