1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,360 Is designated from a church budget that George establishes 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,160 with the help of the leaders. And we have categories of, of 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,360 spending for, you know, like the overhead of the church. 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,360 You know, our rent here and utilities, you know, run us 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,960 probably 90,000 a year that comes. 6 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:23,760 We pay that because of what you guys were able to give. 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,640 We have other expenses. We have, I believe it's 13 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,640 people on payroll. No one's getting rich here and 9 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:36,600 no one's making more than what the average person would make in 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,760 a job out there. Some people are part time. 11 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,600 We also have the expenses of, of Grace FM, which is is pretty 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,880 high to, to run the radio station, the the building out 13 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,560 front. We've been praying about 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,440 possibly expanding. This used to be 1 big building 15 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,840 with the Family Dollar when they were there. 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,200 They're gone now and the landlord said you guys might 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,760 want their clothes, right? Whatever goes out of business, 18 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:07,760 I'm thinking, well, that's never going to go out of business. 19 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,680 Well, guess what? They're out of business or their 20 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,640 clothes, right? So there's 8000 square feet 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,800 there and we love to be able to do that. 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,120 So we, we talked to the landlord, had you guys praying 23 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,680 about it and they want $18.00 a square foot, which is like more 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,800 than we can afford. We, we spend about, it's about I 25 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:33,120 think it's $5.60 a square feet, square foot for 13,000 square 26 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,280 feet, which we have here. So we're not going to go and 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,080 spend that and triple that to have that small space upfront. 28 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,160 So pray that the landlord might change his mind because the 29 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,000 sign's been up for a long time and no one's talking about 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,960 renting it. So maybe they might come back to 31 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,840 us and say, hey, you know, this might be good for you guys, 32 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,320 we're going to give you a better deal. 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:57,040 So if they would, then we could expand and, and have that space. 34 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:02,720 And then we also have a fund of savings for future need if down 35 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,120 the road something opens up. There's a church that contacted 36 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,600 us a while back that may be interested in selling their 37 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,440 property. And it's, it's a really nice 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,080 facility and we would have it as our own instead of renting. 39 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,240 But in order to do that, we have to have money to do that, right? 40 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,760 And we wouldn't ever do anything to put the church in financial 41 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,960 upheaval or pressure. You know, it's something we're 42 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,960 just praying about. But we we habitually save also. 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,760 So there there is maybe something to help us down down 44 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:38,200 the road in the future. So giving is an act of worship. 45 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,920 It's it's not they're leaving. They don't like the message. 46 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:43,840 Our money. I'm just kidding. 47 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,160 You know it, it's it's part of the worship like we sing, we 48 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,000 worship, we're in the word, we worship, we take communion where 49 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,080 we worship and giving is part of our worship. 50 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:03,600 Jesus said seek first the Kingdom of God and his 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,320 righteousness and everything else you have need of will be 52 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,880 added to you. So the more you understand that 53 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:15,680 concept and you put God first in your budget, the more and this 54 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,920 isn't a prosperity message your gospel here. 55 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:22,480 It's just the reality of if you, if you so abundantly, you'll 56 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,880 reap abundantly. Cindy and I always and I didn't 57 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,600 have much money when we first married. 58 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,880 We always understood the principle of giving and it was 59 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,440 always the number one line item in our budget. 60 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,240 You know, had mortgages and cars and raising kids and all that 61 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,960 kind of stuff, entertainment, vacation, those are all part of 62 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,120 the budget. But we all, we, we never 63 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,920 circumvented putting God first in our finances and he's, he's 64 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,640 blessed us because of that. We've never been in a situation 65 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,840 where we've been out of work or needed to beg for money from our 66 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,920 parents or anything like that. He's just provided so 67 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,800 faithfully. So it's a principle of giving. 68 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,280 Jesus says layout for yourselves. 69 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,120 Treasures in heaven versus treasures on earth, where 70 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,400 treasures on earth moth and rust corrupt and thieves break in, 71 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:21,320 steal away cars rest as great as it is when you get a new car, 72 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,280 eventually it's not a new car anymore. 73 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:25,880 It's dinged up, right, John? And that's how you make money 74 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,760 fixing cars that are dinged up it it's funny, man, you ride 75 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,800 passes graveyards of cars and you see that all those, all that 76 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,560 metal in there rusted away. And how much did we spend for 77 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,000 our cars at one time, right? You got to be cautious about 78 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,160 that, I guess, But and then you know, people can rob you. 79 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,480 I remember when we were first married, we lived in a motel 80 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,560 room as efficiency in Atlantic City. 81 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,840 And somehow someone got in the door with a key and I didn't 82 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:56,320 have it locked properly. And next thing I know I wake up 83 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:01,240 and someone's in a room. Like thank God I chased him out 84 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:05,240 and and we had our money, our paycheck in our pockets of our 85 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,640 pants instead of on the table. So he didn't get much. 86 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,080 He got a camera and I think A8 track tape recorder or 87 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,320 something. And that was, that was it, you 88 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,160 know, but it was gone. And, you know, we didn't have a 89 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:21,440 whole lot back then. But when you find that you, you 90 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,760 have a budget and, and you got to, you got to pay your bills, 91 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:30,760 you got to pay your taxes, you got to take care of your kids 92 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,360 and your mortgage and your car payments and all the, all the 93 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,520 things are important. You never want to not have the 94 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,880 Lord in your, your budget because this is, this is what 95 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,000 this is about. Because of them being faithful 96 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,120 in how they manage the offerings. 97 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,320 They didn't have to tell the people, hey, these people in 98 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,400 Jerusalem need some help. So we're going to have another 99 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,360 offering today. It was already there available. 100 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,320 So we have that in the bank account for crisis as we have 101 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,640 that in the bank account for benevolence. 102 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,120 When someone in our, our Community Church here is in 103 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,600 crisis, we're able to help them and, and help them get through 104 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,400 some tough times temporarily. And, and that's a blessing. 105 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,480 So this is the purpose of, of the giving. 106 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,560 And it wasn't a duty, but it was a responsibility. 107 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,920 And it wasn't like, I'll give whenever I feel like it. 108 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,680 It was systematic where like every week or every month, some 109 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,360 people give by month, some people give by week, whatever. 110 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:37,080 It was like program like I, I can't tell Verizon like or my 111 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,840 cell phone. Hey, you know, I'm a little 112 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:41,880 tapped out this month. I'm not going to pay my bill. 113 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,640 Guess what, I'm not going to have any cell service or my gas 114 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,800 bill or my water bill or my electric bill. 115 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,760 And but it's, it's interesting how I don't know we, we know 116 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,360 those things are important, but we don't think about God's 117 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,160 Kingdom that way. But but God doesn't need our 118 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,040 money like he he can, He does what he doesn't regardless of of 119 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,320 what you give or what I give, but we get a privilege of being 120 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,960 part of that giving right. And and so he says in my 121 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,760 father's house are many mansions. 122 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,400 If it were not so, I would have told you. 123 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,360 And if I told you I'd go to prepare a place for you that 124 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,120 where I am, you may be also, guess what? 125 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,200 There's going to be mansions in heaven. 126 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,760 And whatever you invest in God's Kingdom will be somehow tied 127 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,840 into the type of place you have in heaven. 128 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,400 I don't know what it's going to be like. 129 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,480 There's no socialism in heaven. And, and it's interesting, the 130 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,200 Lord knows who's who's on his team and who's really involved 131 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,200 in supporting his Kingdom and those who are sort of 132 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,640 lackadaisical about it, right? And so, but we won't be thinking 133 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,960 like we get to heaven, boy, why does Eichelberger have that big 134 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,800 house? And I have a small one, right? 135 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,880 And the Lord said, well, well, Steve was really focused on my 136 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,000 Kingdom. And, you know, he, he, he was 137 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,960 really, you know, studious and he gave his income. 138 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,360 And I know you helped too, Clark, but you didn't help us. 139 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,160 And it's not be that way, OK, we're not going to be jealous or 140 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,640 wondering why, why that, but but the ability to experience the 141 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,320 Kingdom in a in a deeper and richer way is going to be 142 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,240 predicated on how much you were involved in in that Kingdom. 143 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,600 And so that's why he says invest in treasures that aren't on 144 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,040 earth, but invest in treasures in heaven. 145 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,760 And so the early church met on Sundays and that was not out of 146 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:28,920 coincidence because Jesus rose from the dead on Resurrection 147 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,400 Sunday. And we just left chapter 15 148 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,159 where it talked about the resurrection. 149 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,159 And now we're in 16 and he's talking to them about meeting on 150 00:08:38,159 --> 00:08:41,159 the first day of the week, which is, which is Sunday. 151 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,880 So Paul didn't ask for special collections. 152 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,440 He assumed and, and, and planned on that church being prepared to 153 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,000 help with this crisis in Jerusalem, which they were able 154 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,240 to do. We have a big missionary focus 155 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,040 in this church and we'll talk about that in a minute. 156 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,680 The missionaries we support, why we do and all that kind of 157 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:05,200 stuff. But giving is a personal, 158 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:11,760 individual deal, has nothing to do with me or anybody else. 159 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:16,000 It's between you and God. And giving helps with outreach. 160 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,520 It enables us to do things that we could never do without being 161 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,000 a team together and what it is we do do here. 162 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,320 One of the the toughest things when you're a pastor is when 163 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,760 there's a snow day and your church got to close, right. 164 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,040 The church is closed. Guess what, there's no offering 165 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,000 that Sunday, right? And so God catches up with it. 166 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,320 But I I looked at that Sunday that it snowed. 167 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,080 The church lost $7000 that week. That's a lot of money, right? 168 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,040 Does it the, the catch up? Well, the Lord where he guys, he 169 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:49,840 provides and the church has caught up. 170 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,600 But we don't have to worry about, you know, the finances 171 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,720 because as long as we do it the right way, God's going to bless 172 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,920 the finances. But everything's based upon 173 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:04,120 Matthew 2820 where the Great Commission says go into all the 174 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,720 world and preach the gospel to every living creature. 175 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,560 In order to do that and to send people out and to plant churches 176 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:15,560 and have missionaries, it requires revenue or cash. 177 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,440 God tells us that we're to give as he's prospered us In Second 178 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,400 Corinthians Chapter 9 verse 7, it says we're to give 179 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,640 cheerfully, not out of constraint or guilt trip. 180 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,920 I love this verse. It says let each one give as he 181 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,880 purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity. 182 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,560 For God loves a cheerful giver. So if you're not cheerful and 183 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,560 giving, don't give. Don't, don't. 184 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,680 Whatever you do, do not give because it's going to burn. 185 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,080 Don't think like, well, you know, I, I should help this 186 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,120 church out. So I'll throw 5 or 10 bucks in 187 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,040 the box on the way out. But I really don't want to do 188 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,480 that because I'd rather go to Longhorn for lunch, right? 189 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,600 But you know, if you're thinking that way, don't give. 190 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,520 You know, God only wants you to give if you have a heart and a 191 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,480 desire to give, right? It's supposed to be joyful, not 192 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,480 a not a like have to, but I want to. 193 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 I remember one of our teachers in Bible colleges, a funny 194 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,680 story, he was talking about the word to give hilariously. 195 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:19,720 And what does that mean? And I don't know if he was a 196 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,520 golfer or whatever, but he said, yeah, it's like you're playing 197 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,640 golf and you get a hole in one and you're so excited. 198 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,800 You go to the 19th hole where people have a beer or a glass of 199 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,720 wine or coke or whatever their interest in drink, and he goes 200 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,760 in, he's so happy because he got that hole in one. 201 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,560 He's a drinks for everyone and he doesn't care about how much 202 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:40,360 it's going to cost. He's just so excited. 203 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,800 He got the hole in one. And so this sort of an 204 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,080 interesting concept that you want to have that kind of energy 205 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:51,680 and that kind of joy and giving cheerfully and you you give 206 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:54,520 proportionally. Like obviously everybody has 207 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,000 different budgets. Some people are really tight to 208 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,760 the line and they're only able to give a certain amount based 209 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,880 upon their income. Some people say you give 10%. 210 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,560 Well, I know people that are focused on giving 2030405060. 211 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:12,280 There was a guy, RJ Letourneau had an engineering school in 212 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:15,280 Texas. He was very wealthy, aerospace 213 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,240 kind of guy, long before aerospace was a big deal. 214 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,160 He's an engineer in flight communications and Letourneau 215 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,280 Institute and he wanted to challenge God based upon what 216 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,520 God bless them with. He said, Lord, I want to 217 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,240 eventually live on 10% of what I get. 218 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:37,520 God made that guy so wealthy multimillionaire that the 10% 219 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,480 was nothing. He eventually was able to give 220 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,160 90%. Very fascinating story. 221 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,720 So people give as God purposes in their heart. 222 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,840 So if I'm making say 500,000 a year, which I don't, I wish I 223 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:58,120 did, but I don't, 50,000 is 10%. Well, someone else is making 224 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,440 10,000 a year gives 1000. I'm, I'm not any better than the 225 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,160 person that's given the one proportionately, but if God's 226 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,160 blessing me and I have bandwidth financially that I can afford to 227 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,120 give to his work and his work isn't thus Calvary Chapel. 228 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,400 It's every ministry around the world that you might be 229 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:21,840 compelled to be involved with. If I'm making 500, maybe I can 230 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,840 afford to give 30,030% of my income or someone else has given 231 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,720 10%, but there's no number on what God says you give as far as 232 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:35,760 percent, 10% is a good place to start, but it how can you out 233 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,640 give God? And if God says to me, Clark, I 234 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,720 want 10% of what you have, I'm thinking that's a deal, Lord, I 235 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,360 can keep 90%, right? That's what it was like in the 236 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:51,360 Old Testament, 10% was a very small percentage of everything 237 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,960 got in, entrusted the people with right. 238 00:13:54,920 --> 00:14:01,400 So those who earn more obviously have the ability to give more. 239 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,880 So what percent is that? Well, that's something you and 240 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,600 the wife or the family or individual, you, you, you get 241 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,240 before the Lord and you talk about your budget and then you 242 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,680 manage what it is that He's given you. 243 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:17,400 Now in this church, George is the pastoral financial manager 244 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,680 of the assets of the church along with the elders. 245 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,640 And we vote on things and we pray together before we do 246 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:25,840 anything. No one does anything 247 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,720 arbitrarily. Lewis and I have no ability to 248 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,640 control anything that happens here. 249 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,400 It's through the body of Christ and through the leadership. 250 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:37,720 We pray and we steward what it is that God entrusts us with. 251 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,720 So the books are always open. If you're ever concerned about 252 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,840 anything, you can ask George and he'll show you the categories 253 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,200 and what the church has done. If you're, if you're a serious 254 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,600 person who gives and you have any time the opportunity to get 255 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,200 a hold of him. If you're concerned about 256 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,680 anything regarding how the church handles its money, we 257 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,160 have nothing to hide. Total 100% transparency. 258 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,160 If you don't give, then you really have no business looking 259 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:11,120 at the budget, right? If you give 2%, I don't know, I 260 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,480 don't think you should really even be concerned about the 261 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,800 budget. But if you're giving a 262 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,960 significant amount of your income and you're questioning or 263 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,240 you're ever concerned, you always can look at it and we 264 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:28,920 have nothing to hide. So enough's enough, right? 265 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,640 I covered enough of that, right? Does anybody not understand what 266 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,800 I said? Is everybody, anybody like what 267 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,240 I said? Raise your hand because anybody 268 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:41,920 don't like what I said, raise your hand. 269 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,600 OK, we'll talk outside. Get your boxing gloves on. 270 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,360 OK. We're going to talk about 271 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,840 missions now, right? And what what happens in the 272 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,320 church regarding regarding missions. 273 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,840 I'm going to move his chair here so I can see a little bit 274 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,160 better. So put the first slide up. 275 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:04,520 This is Joy in and Hope Coda. Hope grew up at Calvary Chapel. 276 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,880 She was a teenager, young girl, used to sit in the back, never 277 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,280 talk. We're really shy. 278 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,480 Her and her husband, Christian, they're both church planners 279 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,920 now. And as coming out of this 280 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,440 church, this is a fruit of this ministry and we want to be 281 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,560 involved in helping them with what it is that they do. 282 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,080 So there are significant missionary support team. 283 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,320 They're in Chile working with young girls, Bible studies, 284 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,960 outreach. Chili's a predominantly dead 285 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,960 country as far as Christianity, and so there's a lot of work to 286 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,880 do, but they're they're planning the church there. 287 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,080 She was involved in the Calvary Chapel Bible College in Peru 288 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:47,840 and, and met her husband Julia in there. 289 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:52,000 And and so they got married and then they had a heart to go 290 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,960 plant a church in a unreached community and country. 291 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,280 So that's where where they are in Chile. 292 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:05,079 They just glow for the Lord. Very, very humble, just just a 293 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:08,040 real blessing. And I saw her at the pastors 294 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,920 conference last year. And sometimes you, you see the 295 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,040 countenance of someone and she just glowed. 296 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,280 She was so beautiful. I said, are you pregnant? 297 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,640 You know, usually when women get pregnant, they glow, right? 298 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,520 And he's. Her husband said, no, no, I 299 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:24,680 don't think she's pregnant. Yeah. 300 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:30,000 No, it was Jesus. She was so excited about what he 301 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,320 was going to do in Chile. And so pray for them. 302 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,560 That's one of our main missionaries. 303 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,280 Next one is the Marquis. Marquis. 304 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,600 Wonderful people. They were in Ukraine, Budapest. 305 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,280 Eventually they had to flee Ukraine in the midst of the war. 306 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,040 They're in Budapest now, planting other churches, but 307 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:54,920 still going back and forth to Ukraine, helping the the people 308 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,040 who are leaving Ukraine and going to different parts of the 309 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:04,280 country like Budapest, Hungary. And that's where they live now. 310 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,600 His father was a dear friend of mine. 311 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,720 I met him at a pastors conference when there was only 312 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,280 200 of us there. And now there's almost 2000 of 313 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,560 us now Calvary and East Coast. And we developed such a close 314 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,000 friendship. He, he said, Clark, would you 315 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,400 come to Ukraine and help me there? 316 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,280 I said, man, I just started this church a month ago. 317 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,200 I said, I believe I'm supposed to stay there at the, at the 318 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,240 church in Greensburg. But he had such a heart. 319 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:34,120 And so he came out and, and shared and, and this he planted 320 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:40,280 over 2530 churches in Ukraine, 2530 churches in Ukraine. 321 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:46,840 And so hold on just for a second with the Marquis, his wife is 322 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,320 writing a book on what it's like to be a wife of a pastor. 323 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,440 All, all his sons are on fire for the Lord. 324 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,560 And so so we support them as Calvary Chapel missionaries. 325 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,920 Next one's the bail bonds. Anybody remember Christian on 326 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,520 the left when you came or some of you folks remember him when 327 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,440 you were here in the church? Christian Belmont, Just you 328 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,000 remember him, don't you, Christian? 329 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,040 Wonderful. Remember how shy he was, him and 330 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,800 Hope and now him and his wife. He's married, got a couple 331 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,120 beautiful kids. That's his mother-in-law or I 332 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:23,800 think it's his pastor and his wife. 333 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,680 They visit him. They're in Albania and so 334 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,480 they've just started the church and go to the next slide. 335 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,320 They, they grew up obviously at Calvary here Westmoreland. 336 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:41,040 And so we, we support them. And next slide, that's one of 337 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,200 their Bible studies. Next slide, that's their church, 338 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,640 very humble, small at this point in time, but the Lord is 339 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,640 beginning to, to fill it up. See where are we going next 340 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,880 year? This is Pakistan. 341 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,160 That's Phi Lehman. He's been a dear friend of mine 342 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,920 since the church started. He's on the left. 343 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,000 His dad was a pastor in Pakistan. 344 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,320 His dad preached in our church and many, many years ago, very 345 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,080 humble man. He took his shoes off when he 346 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,920 went to the pulpit because he said that sacred holy ground, 347 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,800 that was their culture. And that's a very impoverished 348 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:23,200 area. 1% maybe Christian. Philemon had to flee the country 349 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,200 for religious persecution, passing Bibles out. 350 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,840 His friend was martyred. He came back home. 351 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,240 His family was left there. They were safe and took him two 352 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,240 or three years to get them to the US And we helped with that. 353 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,080 And they live in Philadelphia now. 354 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,520 But he goes back and forth to Pakistan so that we've been 355 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:47,120 supporting them forever. Next slide more pictures of the 356 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:53,680 kids in Pakistan that they help. Next slide this is Paul and Pat 357 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,760 diet sort of distorted but he was one of the missionaries new 358 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:02,400 tribes mission when we Cindy and I went to Bible college and he's 359 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,960 like a hero to me. I was 20, some early 20s and he 360 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:10,880 was in his mid 40s and good looking strong guy and this a 361 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,240 real pioneer. He get down the riverboat, you 362 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,920 know, to these unreached people groups in Venezuela and learn 363 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,040 the languages. His dad was one of the first 364 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,480 martyrs at New Tribes. He lost his dad when he was a 365 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,640 little boy, but he grew up and his mom was one of the groups of 366 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,600 people that went back to the people that killed his father to 367 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,920 share the gospel and they eventually got saved. 368 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,720 And because of that, there's so much new birth in the jungles of 369 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,080 Venezuela. And Paul, he was captured in a 370 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,480 plane. They took his plane and he, he 371 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:42,960 was, he thought he was going to die. 372 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,040 And, and his story and remarkable, he told it in the 373 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,160 church here a couple times and how he was able to sneak out in 374 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,840 the middle of the night. The people, the guards were 375 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,560 blinded. They couldn't see him moving 376 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,200 around. He was able to get into the 377 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,720 plane. There was just enough gas to get 378 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,040 out of the jungle and and get safe again. 379 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:05,880 This amazing, amazing story, Paul, Paul die, they're still 380 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,680 alive. He's been battling cancer. 381 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,080 He was involved with flight training, training missionary 382 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,320 pilots and now he works in prison ministry. 383 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,600 So they just sent us a card recently. 384 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:22,120 Next slide, This is a Dawson's working in Venezuela. 385 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,520 They use the Google Maps to find like different places in in the 386 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,080 jungle. They used to think that they had 387 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,880 reached most of the people there and all of a sudden they see 388 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,960 these openings and the openings represent where people are are 389 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,120 migrating. They're nomadic people. 390 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:40,360 And so when they move around their jungle huts, they just 391 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,040 destroy them. They've taken pretty much all 392 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,320 the produce or whatever was available there at the time. 393 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,320 And then they moved to another place and they've been there. 394 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:53,120 Mike's my age, his mom and dad are missionaries. 395 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:58,880 They went there when she was pregnant with, I think Gary, his 396 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,920 brother. And when they got off the plane, 397 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,160 the missionaries they were replacing, they said to them, 398 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,600 you guys got to be the biggest fools I've ever met. 399 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,320 And the guy says, why you bring your kids down here to this baby 400 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,760 and then this jungle. And then, well, the Lord did 401 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,040 miracles through this couple and the mom and dad were there and 402 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,000 now they're with the Lord and, and the kids have been there for 403 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:25,920 over 50 years or 60 years now. And next slide, they were the 404 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,960 first. This is a tribe here that 405 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,360 they're sharing the torches with. 406 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:33,880 We talked about last fall, little device that has a light 407 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:39,920 on empowered by sun energy. And then it has the gospel in 408 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,680 their own dialect language, which is remarkable. 409 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,600 And it also has the Jesus information on Jesus movement 410 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,880 movie and all that. They go around, they take 411 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,200 projector and they go into these villages at night and they show 412 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,000 the the Jesus movie and the passion of Christ. 413 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,040 And these people never saw a movie before. 414 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,680 So hundreds of them get together and they don't move. 415 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,440 They just sit there. And then the tears start coming 416 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,440 down their eyes because they start to realize that Jesus died 417 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,000 for them. And because of that, there's 418 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,840 believers all over the tribes of Venezuela, and they're so 419 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,200 thankful that this horrible government event, Venezuela, has 420 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,840 been toppled now so that they can have gas to get into the 421 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,360 villages, because that guy that was running it before really 422 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,800 made it very, very difficult for the missionaries. 423 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:32,600 So that's the Dawsons, that's the torch there. 424 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,520 And that we keep trying to help supply more of those so that 425 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,520 they can have more to keep getting the gospel. 426 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,080 This is next slide. This is my brother, Pastor Mark 427 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,120 Abrams. He spoke at Calvary Philly here 428 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,440 from Calgary, Philadelphia, initially. 429 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,240 And he's in North Philly now. Big earth when we spoke in our 430 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,560 church last year, Very dear, close friend of mine. 431 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,480 He's a big earth, wind and fire guy. 432 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,240 And anybody like earth, wind and fire in here. 433 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,560 Yeah, I always get him to sing. That's the way of the world 434 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,560 every time we see each other to Congress, come on, sing some 435 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,600 earth, wind and fire for me. But anyway, he's got that high 436 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,360 falsetto voice and he's he actually leads the worship 437 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:14,240 there. His voice is unbelievable. 438 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,560 And he he's in an impoverished area in in Philly, North 439 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:24,120 Philadelphia. We support that ministry and 440 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,960 they do all kind of outreaches. Next slide. 441 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,640 They go into the community in the city and food giveaways and 442 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,480 clothing giveaways in the parks in the city of Philadelphia. 443 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,760 Some of the former Eagles help him with the Bible studies 444 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,160 there. It's just really exciting 445 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,360 ministry. This is Christian counseling 446 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:44,160 associates. We're involved with them. 447 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,440 They are a wonderful organization that has counseling 448 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,160 ministry and three states local and then Arizona and some other 449 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,000 places. They will provide counseling for 450 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,120 anybody that's in crisis, OK. And if you don't have the money, 451 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,440 most counselors will say we we're sorry, we can't help you. 452 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,680 They'll charge only 15 bucks or something like that that you 453 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,160 would pay for a McDonald's meal to help people. 454 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,440 They don't turn anybody away and they're having a banquet coming 455 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,880 up. We support them, wonderful 456 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,840 people. Our brother back here and his 457 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,600 wife, they're involved in serving in that ministry. 458 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,240 Stand up once. We're thankful for what you guys 459 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:31,040 do in that ministry. Thank you and what else we got 460 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,960 here. Turning Point USA. 461 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:39,680 This is an organization's faith that we are involved in to. 462 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,320 It's not a political organization on our side, but it 463 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:48,880 is a conservative organization. And the purpose of TPUSA faith 464 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,840 is to get the gospel out to be salt and light in the community 465 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:59,240 with outreaches and ministries into the county commissioners 466 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,120 meetings and the school board meetings and the high schools to 467 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:07,680 help the young people that are leading these groups and most of 468 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,680 the high schools around here. Tuesday night we had or Thursday 469 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,840 night we had a young man from Ligonier High School, 17 years 470 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:21,080 old, talking about the issues of the culture and they need to get 471 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,040 the gospel out. Very, very smart, sharp young 472 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,320 guy at 17. If any of you young teenagers 473 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,840 are looking for a guy that you want to possibly date, let me 474 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,440 know and I'll hook you up with him. 475 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,360 He's a good looking guy and, and he's got his act together. 476 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:39,920 Believe me, not too many guys and they're 1718 have their act 477 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,960 together. This guy is solid. 478 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,080 So Fred back there. Fred, stand up for a minute. 479 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,240 He's our local point guy of turning point in our church. 480 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:53,280 She's a retired military Colonel from the Air Force, right? 481 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,480 And, and so he, he understands the dynamics of what we're 482 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,960 doing. Also the midterm elections that 483 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:03,560 are coming up and the big ones in the, in the fall, these are, 484 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,680 these are critical for conservative people to vote. 485 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,920 And so we want to have a voting drive to get people registered 486 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,440 to vote so that all Christians are voting. 487 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:18,560 Last election, 30% of the Christians didn't vote because 488 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,720 they didn't like Trump. 20% of gun, gun owners didn't vote. 489 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,840 Push all that stuff away. Trump will eventually not be 490 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,640 present anymore. Right now he is. 491 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,920 Thank God for the sake of the safety of our borders and these 492 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,160 kind of things. A lot of things he does I'm not 493 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,080 real happy with either. But he's the better of the 494 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,760 choice at that time, right? So you got to vote the lesser of 495 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,160 two evils because you only get two people to choose from, but 496 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,440 you need to vote the Bible. We're going to have Bible 497 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,080 training voting classes so that people understand when they 498 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,560 vote, they're voting biblical principles, not personalities. 499 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,080 OK, That's very important. And if we can get the vote out, 500 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,160 we won't go backwards again. So TPUSA faith is something 501 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,920 we're involved in. Next thing, Grace FM, this is 502 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,680 the the biggest ministry that we're involved in as far as 503 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:16,960 missions. Let's see here the budget of, of 504 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:23,000 our mission in the church is 20% about $75,000 of what you guys 505 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:30,400 give goes toward missions and Grace FM is, is one of the, the, 506 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,720 the biggest things because of the expense of running it, 507 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:41,400 building it and the to build that station about $130,000. 508 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,960 And the church was able to pay cash for that along with a 509 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,760 partner that we have, Bob Stevens, who is involved with 510 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,160 partial ownership of that station. 511 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,440 Christian guy who owns a lot of radio stations. 512 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,800 He has classic rock, country, easy listen and pop. 513 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,760 We're in the process of getting some ads on those stations to 514 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:07,720 point people to the sister station, which is 91.7 Grace FM. 515 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,760 So pray for that to be able to reach a secular audience with 516 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,120 letting people. Another Grace FM is involved in 517 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,320 the community. That station reaches far and 518 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,000 wide and people were able to hear the gospel. 519 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,320 Some of you were here because you've heard Grace FM and you 520 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,880 listen to it. And that's that's very, very 521 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:30,720 exciting.