1 00:00:05,810 --> 00:00:09,210 What are we in for today? I don't know if you know the 2 00:00:09,210 --> 00:00:11,250 name Chris Venance. He preached here a little while 3 00:00:11,250 --> 00:00:13,290 ago. He's the man who planted 4 00:00:13,290 --> 00:00:18,210 Glenridge Church in Durban, which in turn planted 3 CR 25 5 00:00:18,210 --> 00:00:21,690 plus years ago. And he preached a while back on 6 00:00:21,690 --> 00:00:25,010 Revelations Chapter 2. It's the it's a part of 7 00:00:25,010 --> 00:00:28,850 revelation where Jesus is writing to his bride and he says 8 00:00:28,850 --> 00:00:30,810 in the you know, he says you've done this well, you've done this 9 00:00:30,810 --> 00:00:33,440 well, you've done this well. The one thing that I want to 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,600 address is that you've lost your first love. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,520 And Chris spoke about how it's not that we need to go back to 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,840 this you know, woman, fuzzy googly bear first love of our 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:44,240 relationship with our heavenly Father. 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,120 Because the next verse says return to those things you did 15 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,480 at 1st. And it came as a word that is 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,200 very much a Plumb line according to us as a community to hold to 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,720 that very thing that God established this lampstand in 18 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,840 the city for. And the primary reason why 3CI 19 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:04,760 exists is to be a base church and to resource and plant 20 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,320 churches. And so this morning we don't 21 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:11,360 have a pulpit but we you're going to hear the loudest sermon 22 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,640 you've ever heard in your whole entire life because we want you 23 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,840 to cap be captivated by the culture of three CR. 24 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,560 The very reason why God planted this lampstand in the city and 25 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,440 that is to be a base church that resources and planted plants 26 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,120 churches around the world. And for that, I have the 27 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,200 privilege of sitting with the VVRPS this morning, Jeff and 28 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,640 Jane, Kirsten, why don't you come up. 29 00:01:55,050 --> 00:01:57,130 So we're just going to, we're going to cross for traffic 30 00:01:57,130 --> 00:02:02,210 report quickly man. It is so good to have you here 31 00:02:03,290 --> 00:02:08,410 who here by show of hands have never met this couple before and 32 00:02:08,410 --> 00:02:12,090 you look at that. Yo. 33 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,920 Hello, everyone. Well, that's Jeff and that's 34 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,440 Jane. Why don't you just quickly 35 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,520 introduce yourself? Jeff introduced Jane the way 36 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,040 you've always wanted to introduce her. 37 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:30,240 That's. So cool. 38 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:38,200 Well, should be on. There we go. 1/2 I love that I 39 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,640 haven't met so many of you. This is why we were this is the 40 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,400 only, this is the reason we were part of this. 41 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:49,400 And this is on my journey with Jesus, the Most Gracious. 42 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,640 I know he gave me salvation and the cross and all that stuff, 43 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:55,600 but then he gave me Jane. I don't know if it's an upgrade 44 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:00,080 or part of it or like it's part of the package, but it's an 45 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,920 upgrade on me. Yes, but I can't give an upgrade 46 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:08,240 on the on the cross. But I want to tell you I'll say 47 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,560 something today. But you can listen to this lady, 48 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,600 because she is the most gracious gift that has ever been given to 49 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,120 me. But also, I believe, one of the 50 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,360 gracious gifts of God to this church. 51 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,880 She was an important so I married her into the church. 52 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,640 But I don't think any of you, even those who know her, will 53 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:34,240 never know the powerful woman that she is because of what she 54 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,400 can carry. And I just want to say to you 55 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,120 like I want to ask you, not because she's my wife, but 56 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,200 because I think she carries the DNA on three CR. 57 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,560 Could you open up your hearts to what God's done in her and wants 58 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,080 to do through her? Beautiful. 59 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,560 She's. Done it for days. 60 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,600 Can we just in the lights a little, Jamie, do the same. 61 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,200 And then also tell us about your children. 62 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,800 OK, come on. There we go. 63 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,160 Yeah. So we have three beautiful 64 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,040 children. Taylor, Travis and Kylie. 65 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,480 Taylor and Trevor sitting in the front. 66 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,640 Just raise your hands, guards. I won't get you to stand. 67 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:13,400 OK, here we go. But and then Kylie was Adam as 68 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,120 she's going down to Super City today which is, yeah, maybe 69 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,640 she'll come back. We don't know. 70 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,240 That's yeah, the the kids are they're amazing. 71 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,520 They are literally the Champions of the story. 72 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,640 They have gone through the most insane challenges and 73 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:35,240 difficulties and they have overcome so many things and they 74 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,840 have come out flying. I mean we are incredibly, 75 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:41,960 incredibly proud of them and it's you know, whenever you do 76 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,520 an international move or any move for that matter, there's 77 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,240 challenges. But you always as a mother and 78 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,960 as parents you worry about your children. 79 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,440 What are they going to, you know, what's going to happen to 80 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,720 them? How are they going to respond? 81 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,480 And it wasn't easy at all. I think the biggest challenge is 82 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,240 being our children and just what they've faced and what they've 83 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,160 gone through. But they have come out flying 84 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:15,140 and they are incredible. So take us to the beginning. 85 00:05:16,220 --> 00:05:19,660 How did you guys know that you were called to plant a church or 86 00:05:19,660 --> 00:05:27,340 wanted to plant a church? So the moment of like knowing 87 00:05:27,340 --> 00:05:30,160 we're going to plant in Lisbon, it's probably at the end of the 88 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,680 journey, like now it's done. That was the end of the journey. 89 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:39,080 I think it was probably we both grew up in in spaces and homes 90 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:43,320 where the gospel got hold of us. I think sometimes in our 91 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,480 intellectual world, and especially because we're all 92 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,560 exposed to so much media and availability to the gospel, in 93 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:54,080 some ways we can take hold of the gospel, but for us, the 94 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,400 gospel got hold of us. It got hold of us at a young 95 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,160 age, and then we came into three CR and we didn't realize that 96 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,680 that was just the taste. And then the gospel got hold of 97 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,560 us, the Kingdom of God, when Jesus was introduced, like the 98 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,600 Kingdom is at hand. The Kingdom was at hand. 99 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,120 Once we built, it was like there was something about the DNA of 100 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,880 this church that got hold of us, and part of that was that we 101 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:20,360 existed for others. I remember clearly on that 102 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,720 corner of the property where there's an exit myself. 103 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,080 Grant asked him. Who leads the bridge? 104 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,360 George who leads Highway The three of us stood at the bottom 105 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,120 there with Nick Davis who was leading the church. 106 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,480 And Nick looked up at this property. 107 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:40,080 It was just long grass, a pigsty where the toddler's area is, a 108 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,600 little pump house and a farmhouse that was full of 109 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,960 termite hills inside the house and it was pink and some strange 110 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,360 humans living inside of it and I don't know how. 111 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,240 And we stood there and Nick looked over the land and he 112 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,640 said, let's build an army to change the world. 113 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,560 Let's let's what? What did he say? 114 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,400 He said, let's build an army that'll take the gospel to the 115 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,240 nations. And I think that day God got 116 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,640 hold of me even more. I I remember clearly we were 117 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,520 looking up at the grass. He said, let's build an army 118 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,760 that'll take, they'll take the gospel to the nations. 119 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,680 And so I think there was a, there was something that stirred 120 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,280 inside of me. I think we got married. 121 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,480 We there was a people were speaking that into our lives 122 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,000 that we would plant a church. There was an excitement and a 123 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,240 fear, but essentially I think what got us to the point was we 124 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:30,280 learnt that you don't plant a church because it needs to 125 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,680 happen. You plant a church because God 126 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,640 is prepared to humans. And we realized there's a lot of 127 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,880 preparation. And so how did we know we called 128 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:37,960 plant a church. How did it happen? 129 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,120 Well, I got welcomed in like a lot of you 23 years ago into 130 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,760 this church. The church was smaller than this 131 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,600 group of people on the stage at that stage. 132 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,240 And at that moment, God just infused his mission into my 133 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,480 heart and he got hold of us and he shook us and that's how we 134 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,120 planted a church. So by the time I walked into 135 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,640 Rory's office and it all just happened, we had said yes to 136 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,280 loving our friends in this church. 137 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,360 We had said yes to older couple that we didn't. 138 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,520 I didn't really know that someone said, well don't you 139 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:09,680 want to go visit them once a week? 140 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,800 I said yes to leading a lot, many life groups. 141 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,280 I said yes to leading the youth when there was no leader, but he 142 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,280 said yes to starting a a student ministry. 143 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,960 He said yes to and then we were petrified and said yes to coming 144 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,760 onto eldership, and we just said yes to a whole bunch of stuff. 145 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,080 And so when God spoke, He had prepared us, He taught us how to 146 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,440 say yes, and I think He built something into us. 147 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,000 It was just the next natural step. 148 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,640 Sure. So who raised it first? 149 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,679 Yeah. So it actually it happened at 150 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:45,600 the beginning of 2019 where the the first mention of Lisbon came 151 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,720 about and that was Dan and Starla. 152 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:52,600 And Starla is Ashley Bell's daughter who planted through CR 153 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,120 and we were having lunch with them after having been here for 154 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,520 a meeting and and out of the blue, I mean it was the most 155 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,360 random thing anyone could ever say. 156 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,880 I mean, we're talking about, I don't know, children and 157 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,200 something else and whatever cheer bites of bread. 158 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,560 What we were eating, I don't know, it was like, it was so 159 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,440 left wing when she said she just looked at us, suddenly she 160 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,480 stopped and she's like, have you ever thought of planting a 161 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,760 church in Lisbon? And we're just like Lisbon, 162 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:28,920 where is that? And she actually didn't know 163 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,760 that. So I'm half, 40 years, but my 164 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,560 family comes from the island of Madeira. 165 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:37,760 And so I've never been to mainland Portugal before. 166 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,800 I'd never been to Lisbon, but I'd been to Madeira very often 167 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,080 to see my family and Star didn't know that. 168 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,240 And and that actually is more the reason I was like, hell no, 169 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,520 I'm not going anywhere near there. 170 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,800 Not because I didn't, you know, it was just, it was so different 171 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,120 with the culture, so different. I wasn't raised Portuguese, I 172 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,040 don't speak the language. It was just, but I had the 173 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:05,760 passport and so did our kids and and so we left that thought 174 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,000 completely like we were. We left that conversation. 175 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,640 We were like, there's no way, absolutely not. 176 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,920 We're not going to, we're not even going to consider it. 177 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,480 We laughed about. We'd just bought our home like 178 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,840 we were here. We were on team. 179 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,440 We'd yeah, we were going into a building project almost. 180 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,400 Yeah. And and then it just didn't stop 181 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,880 two months later. There's too many things to tell 182 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,960 right now of how God spoke to us and how he moved our hearts and 183 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,560 and at the same time, it wasn't just us that he was speaking to. 184 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:36,760 And I think that was what was so beautiful is it was a collective 185 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,000 of people. It was it's where that scripture 186 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,000 says it's it was good between US and the Holy Spirit and it was 187 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,520 Ru and Mao felt something. I mean, there were so many 188 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,200 others that came with us that had their own stories, that of 189 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,680 remarkable, remarkable things, of how God opened up Portugal 190 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,000 for them to come so. So the first whisper in 2019, 191 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:02,040 you're in Portugal in 2020. I wonder where you're going to 192 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:02,480 be. You're going to. 193 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,720 It's the This is why we've stopped everything for this 194 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,840 because we are trusting that God awakens something of this call 195 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,640 of three CR in our midst. Bloom Fontaine is calling. 196 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,360 OK, so you started just as lockdown started. 197 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,880 Hey, what is the first year like locked up in a foreign country? 198 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:31,760 Well, your. Firstly, I mean, S Africans, 199 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,240 come on, we are brave people. People. 200 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,760 We have been through a lot. And so when we heard the 201 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:42,080 rumblings of COVID, we're like, Nah, seen nothing. 202 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,880 Europe, we've seen it all. So we were very like, yeah, we 203 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,200 were brave. That's not going to hit. 204 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:54,760 We were brave for a for a short while very confident for a short 205 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:01,080 while and then it hits but it's it doesn't matter thing because 206 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:03,440 to be honest I don't know how we did it. 207 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:07,080 That guy you mentioned Chris Vena and said he knew of at 208 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,000 least 40 or 50 church plants at the same period as us and not 209 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,800 one of them decided to carry through the all just went back 210 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,200 to where they came from. So that's that idea like that's 211 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,640 scarier to look and I'll probably just pride inside of me 212 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,160 and need to prove something. I don't know. 213 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,560 But it's that South African thing inside of us. 214 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,800 And and I got to say I think Covid's a good example because 215 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,440 everywhere we go in the world you find South Africans leading 216 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,920 churches. And I just thought I don't want 217 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,520 us to be the last generation of. So that's that learned to say 218 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:39,200 yes when the rest of the world says no. 219 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,960 And and there was something to that COVID came and it was like 220 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,920 COVID was in our face and it was almost like a taunting. 221 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,760 Are you the last. Was that the last generation of 222 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,400 South Africans to be bold, to be brave, be full of faith, to be 223 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:54,560 people that believe the father. And I was like no like. 224 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:00,720 No. It became, it became and she was 225 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,240 like, maybe, yes, we're the weak generation. 226 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,120 No, but. Did you ever did you ever think 227 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,800 of packing it in? Over the last few years even. 228 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,320 Was it hard? Was it the worst season of our 229 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:17,240 life? Absolutely. 230 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,440 Was it? Did we almost die? 231 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:21,760 Absolutely. Was it? 232 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,720 But that's the thing. We didn't feel like Jeff and 233 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,640 Jane were trying to do anything in Portugal. 234 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,160 We didn't go there thinking like, yes, we're going to do 235 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,840 something for the Kingdom. I meet lots of young people who 236 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,360 want to do something amazing for the Kingdom, and then I yawn and 237 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,440 wait for them to get over it. And then until they actually 238 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:40,880 realized they're part of something greater. 239 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,160 And I think we realized that we were part of God's church plant 240 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,480 in Lisbon, that he had a heart for those people, that Isaiah 241 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,720 4243, that section of scripture was very, very much part of this 242 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,280 church plant. And he says there, you worship 243 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,360 me and I will bring my sons and daughters from the north, the 244 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,480 east, the South and the West. And so I stood in a meeting with 245 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,680 well, on a day with hundreds of people. 246 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,000 And I just said there was a Day in History where I walked the 247 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,160 streets of Lisbon and God said, I want you to plant a church 248 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,120 here. I said, But that same day he was 249 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,640 busy working in your lives and orchestrating that you would be 250 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,240 here. So I don't know which of those 251 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,320 calls, which of those moments, which of those whispers was more 252 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,240 important. I actually think yours was 253 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,760 because I could be like speaking to an empty room, but actually 254 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,880 God's busy building an army of people that could go to the 255 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,640 nations, like, like, what's his name? 256 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,840 Nick Davis said. And so I I think being in the 257 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,560 middle of COVID, we realized we're not trying to accomplish 258 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:37,920 anything. God's busy doing something. 259 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,840 He's going to do it. He's got a role for us to play 260 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,480 for a season in the life of this church in Lisbon. 261 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,720 And it's like, it is almost like an invitation. 262 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,080 It wasn't a taunt and it's just like, will it be you or will it 263 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,480 be someone else? And I think like when you 264 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,000 realise, when we realise we could be some part of something 265 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,960 so huge and global in what he's doing, this is part of the 266 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,600 history of the church. It's like we could do no other. 267 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,640 And so I think that it ties into like this wasn't a decision from 268 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,640 Jeff and Jane. This is a life. 269 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,080 This is a we learned to hear, we watched people, and then we 270 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,160 realised, like we can do no other. 271 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,080 He got hold of us, the gospel got hold of us. 272 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,520 So we were just like, on this journey with Jesus and a bunch 273 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,440 of crazy people. So tell us. 274 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,480 Tell us about Freedom City. How's she doing? 275 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,000 We hear such good reports. We have people coming back with 276 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,840 bunches and bunches of grapes. Tell us some stories. 277 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:38,840 You can get tissue. No, it's honestly what God is 278 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:44,760 doing is absolutely mind blowing and it's not an isolation. 279 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,440 That's the first thing. Like it's it's happening all 280 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,880 over the world in very, very different ways. 281 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,880 And sometimes you you kind of reject it because you think it's 282 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,760 not in the packaging that you used to or the way that we've 283 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,920 been taught or the way we we see things in scripture. 284 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:06,560 And and so we have met the most incredible people, the most 285 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,800 remarkable people, but also the most lost and the most broken 286 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,280 and the most far from God people I've ever met in my life. 287 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,000 I mean, we're talking witchcraft, tarot cards, spells, 288 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,200 crystals, psychedelic drugs, orgies, you name it. 289 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,520 We've seen it all. We've heard it all. 290 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,160 It's just we haven't watched those. 291 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,360 But well, not, I mean we saw one happening above. 292 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,400 Yeah. In a in an apartment building 293 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,880 and just close the windows. But no, it's just it's crazy. 294 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,200 I mean it's it's it's so different that it's hard to 295 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,040 describe, but the people are beautiful. 296 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,880 The people are incredible, and yet they don't. 297 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,600 They don't know God. The majority do not know God at 298 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,320 all. You do not meet a Christian on 299 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,320 the street. You do not hear a prayer parade 300 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,240 in a restaurant. It it isn't like, yeah, there 301 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,920 are so many churches all over the place that are full on 302 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,000 Sundays. There are churches all over the 303 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:11,000 place but they're empty and they're ancient and but yet 304 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,560 something is happening and there is rumbles all over the place, 305 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,240 the Catholic Church included. It's like unbelievable what 306 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,680 we're seeing. So we've yeah we've there's so 307 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,520 many stories I don't even know if we. 308 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:30,680 OK so I have a a dear friend. Well, she's a dear friend now 309 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:37,360 and we met her through Jeff, one of the the, so Portugal kind of 310 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:40,720 did lockdowns differently. Things were never fully closed 311 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,080 for long periods of time. So they would close for a 312 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,240 certain period of time, then they would open up and then we 313 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,560 just had a whole bunch of regulations we had to adhere to. 314 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,360 And then we're just you know, locked down again for when it 315 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:52,120 got tough again. And so there was always this 316 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,000 period of like open, close, open, close. 317 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,400 And so in one of the open moments, coffee shops were open 318 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,720 and Jeff would go and just sit in a coffee shop and work and 319 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,600 and one day a guy from the UK was sitting across him and he he 320 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,400 just happened to say to Jeff, hey, I I like your kicks, which 321 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:14,920 Rory had given to to to Jeff his shoes and and and just like, oh, 322 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,000 cool, you know, and then they kind of got chatting and 323 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,960 whatever and then he he asked you what you did. 324 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,640 I was tired. Of making. 325 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,840 A story. And Jeff was very tired of, of 326 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,800 telling your stories about like kind of the long way round so 327 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,880 that we didn't get sworn at all, you know, told that we were 328 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:35,040 there to steal people's money and hurt their children and all 329 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:41,120 those crazy things. And so So he he, he started a 330 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,080 conversation. He just blurted out like, you 331 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,120 know, maybe you should tell that part of the story because. 332 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,520 I I said I'll try and explain stuff. 333 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,720 And I was like, we're planning a Christian Church, but it's like 334 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,680 we're having a conversation across the coffee shop, so 335 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,240 there's people in between US. And then he swore at me across 336 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,440 the people and then I carried on. 337 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,080 He carried on and then eventually he came and sat next 338 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,880 to me. He's like tell me more and we 339 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,640 started chatting and he's like, I hate I I want, I want nothing 340 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:07,680 to do with Christianity and stuff. 341 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,560 I just find it interesting that you can be that dumb. 342 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:14,200 So I want to find out why. So anyway everyone's listening 343 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,160 to our conversation. Long story short we became 344 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,320 really, really good friends. He was big in the music industry 345 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,560 and we. I eventually invited him over 346 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,080 for dinner and said bring your girlfriend with. 347 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:32,640 So so we meet her and she is honestly, I mean immediately we 348 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,960 connect but not on like any other level than other than just 349 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,600 kind of we just connected on on friendship level. 350 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:43,640 And anyway it's it's a long story but basically by the end 351 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:48,000 of the evening she was crying and Jeff had been explaining how 352 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,760 like just marriage because marriage is such a foreign thing 353 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,800 to a lot of people and especially the kind of way we do 354 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,160 it and and they've been asking us because they were dating and 355 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,680 and yeah they just got asking questions around how does he see 356 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,760 me and and all that and the next minute she's just sobbing and 357 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,840 sobbing and sobbing and sobbing. Anyway, Long story short. 358 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,600 Basically he moves across the table for the distances himself. 359 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:11,800 He couldn't handle the the pressure. 360 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,080 And she went back and then just said to him, listen, what is 361 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,880 this relationship like? What is this like? 362 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,680 We're living together. Like I can't do this if it 363 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,280 doesn't mean it's going to end in that. 364 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:27,560 And and so anyway, they broke up and she gave her life to Jesus 365 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:33,160 about six months later at on Christmas Day and she has been 366 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,160 radically, radically transformed. 367 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,120 I mean, absolutely. She's one of our worship leaders 368 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,120 now. She's leading our dinner, one of 369 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:44,800 our dinner parties. She is just she's become such a 370 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:49,240 dear friend and she doesn't look the part of a Christian girl. 371 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:55,240 And so she has experienced incredible rejection and even 372 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,400 within Christian circles and people that she's now met and 373 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,880 and and she often refers to herself as the woman at the wall 374 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,760 and and how God redeemed her and he has he has redeemed her and 375 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,800 we will fight for her. We love her. 376 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,360 We will no matter what she looks like. 377 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:14,920 No matter what she says like we love her so much. 378 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,080 And she has been so transformed over the three years that we've 379 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,640 known her to the point now where I mean she's leading others to 380 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,680 God. She is just, it's absolutely 381 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,120 amazing what's happened with her life. 382 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,680 I hear, Rubens, that your worship leader got saved at 383 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,240 Freedom City. Is that right? 384 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,160 Yeah. Yeah. 385 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,760 So Mitesh also Mitesh got sent the song Waymaker by someone 386 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:39,920 else in our community and and he was running down the promenade 387 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,800 listening to it because he loves music down by the river and the 388 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,040 next minute he just felt this overwhelming presence of God and 389 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,880 he ran literally straight to death. 390 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:54,000 He was at the the venue where we meet and he just ran in and he 391 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,720 just slammed the table down like this is I believe, I believe, I 392 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,440 believe. And he was a complete atheist, 393 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,080 hated the church, hated Christians, hated any form of 394 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,920 institution and he was radically transformed. 395 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,280 Loves music, loves people, loves food, everything that we honour 396 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,640 about. And he just him, his whole 397 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,040 family, they've got a little little boy now and oh, it's just 398 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:20,240 incredible to see this. Guy had one story so it's just 399 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,680 the well, I could tell you so many stories and I could tell 400 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,880 you about a Danish man that was on a 25 year journey looking for 401 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,880 God. He sold his business, 402 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,720 Distinguished Danish Man on a journey around the world, living 403 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,800 with shaman, living in caves, living in temples, living every 404 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,360 part of the world, looking for God. 405 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,200 His last stop before his kids had his children, had kids was a 406 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,960 Lisbon, his last stop. He sat on a couch like this and 407 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,640 he just said I still haven't found God and he heard an 408 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,240 audible voice say how long. I won't mention his name but I 409 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,200 just the stories are sacred and it's like how long will you keep 410 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,120 running from me all the way and who are you? 411 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:04,600 He said my name is Jesus so he's googled. 412 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,200 Jesus came up with obviously all sorts of weird things on the on 413 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,120 the Internet and so he thought, I don't know how to. 414 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:14,320 So he said Jesus in Lisbon and we had just finished doing a 415 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:19,960 YouTube series called Jesus in Lisbon and he watched every 416 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:25,680 single episode. So one day I got to church and 417 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,960 this very distinguished man walks up to me and he says good 418 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,400 day Jeff. This is my name, I'm part of 419 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,800 your church. I know everything. 420 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,240 I said, do I know you? He said no. 421 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,320 But I know everything about you, all your stories. 422 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:41,360 TV Evangelists I. Was freaked out and he went 423 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:43,800 downstairs and we were starting a series in the book of Jonah. 424 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,840 And I said before we start this series, I want to ask you one 425 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,320 question. So I don't know any of this yet. 426 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,040 I said how long will you keep running from God. 427 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,640 He just as you this distinguished branches broke and 428 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,480 it's like we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of 429 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,280 stories, most of them with people that have never been into 430 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:02,720 the church. I can tell you about the cafe 431 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,160 and how people have come in and none of them are Christians. 432 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,400 And sitting on the couch, a girl asking this girl saying, I know 433 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,520 you won't know this, but do you know anyone who might know who 434 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:22,160 might know where to find Jesus? An Australian girl asks this and 435 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,640 she says I found him, I can, I can show you anywhere. 436 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,640 And then she says no, I I found I bought this book that that 437 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,520 they call the Bible. She's like really? 438 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:32,880 You got one? She pulls it out of her bag. 439 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,800 It's this big purple thing. She was like, where did you get 440 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,000 that? She says I have to order it in 441 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,400 Germany because you can't get Bibles in Portugal in English. 442 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,920 And so she says that's my Bible and she pulls it out. 443 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,280 She the exact same Bible, same colour from the same supplier in 444 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,360 Germany that ordered it in the same week that didn't even know 445 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:50,040 each other. It's like, I can tell you story 446 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,000 after story after story after story about it's like just 447 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,080 seeing these baptisms. We've had that many people in 448 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,280 the last two months fly from other countries, buy 449 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:03,720 international tickets to fly to Lisbon to be baptized in this 450 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,480 church because they met Jesus on holiday in Lisbon or they met 451 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,440 him in their period that they were living in Lisbon because 452 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,840 it's super transient, like half our church won't be living in 453 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,520 our city probably in the next four months to six months. 454 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,760 So it's like it's a very different dynamic. 455 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,840 It's hard because of that, but the reality is people are 456 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,480 meeting Jesus for the first time. 457 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,000 And because they're meeting him, they then go back. 458 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,040 And we had, we had a girl fly from Barcelona. 459 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,800 She was moving to India. She said I have to be baptized 460 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:34,880 before. It's a crazy story. 461 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,480 I won't get into of how she knew she had to get baptized and she 462 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:39,800 flew. She had one day left. 463 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,440 She flew from Barcelona to Lisbon. 464 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,040 Duncan baptized a whole bunch of our guys. 465 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,440 A girl flew last two weeks ago. She flew from Norway to be 466 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,520 baptized because I met her in the coffee shop and it's like we 467 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,920 had people fly from Germany. A couple who also went on this 468 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,320 new age journey and we were in Bali and they found a Bible and 469 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,840 they started reading it. They read the whole thing on 470 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,600 holiday. They came to Lisbon on the way 471 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,920 back to Germany, the first time they ever walked into a church 472 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,680 on Easter last year, Easter last, that that meeting that you 473 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,720 watched, there was the was the meeting that they were at. 474 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,560 And they just wept and wept and wept. 475 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:18,920 I walked them off to us and said what's going on? 476 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,800 And they said we read about it, but now we've seen it. 477 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,000 They've never seen anything like this. 478 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:26,720 So I can tell you about people that are flying international 479 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,880 tickets and then they flew back from Germany to be baptized. 480 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,920 It's just people are flying in to be baptized. 481 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:37,480 And yeah, there's a pool right there and no one in Pretoria has 482 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,240 to go anywhere to find Jesus because of 3C high. 483 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,360 And I was like, this is radical. You don't realize what we've got 484 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:46,080 because the whole of Europe doesn't have this and. 485 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:51,640 So, so if you were to look at your church, guesstimate how 486 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,240 many of them were saved into the church versus how many of them 487 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,040 came already as born again believers. 488 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,760 But where would you land that slider? 489 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,320 It's so hard because of the transient nature, but I'd say 490 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,640 more than half. More than half getting saved in 491 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:07,200 the. Church. 492 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,760 Yeah, something was still being saved. 493 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,680 Ashley Bell, we planted this church, had a phrase I'll never 494 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,680 forget, he said. People are waiting on the other 495 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,520 side of your obedience, and on behalf of three CR and the 496 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,160 elders and all your friends, I want to say thank you. 497 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,480 Thank you for being obedient, because people are waiting on 498 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,360 the other side of your obedience as people are waiting on the 499 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,760 other side of ours. In closing, how can we how can 500 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,240 we get behind you guys as a couple? 501 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,880 How can we get behind your family? 502 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:44,800 And how can we get behind the church? 503 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:45,760 Is there something you're going like? 504 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:51,760 Yo, if you can send us 100 people a month to do that, tell 505 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:59,360 us so. I mean, we always need prayer, 506 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,920 so Please remember us in your prayers. 507 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:05,880 But actually a story comes to mind. 508 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,720 A few years ago, Jeff and a couple of the elders got to go 509 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,360 into the Sunnyside to see the underworld, and they spoke to a 510 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,320 police officer there who wasn't a Christian. 511 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,680 And I mean everything inside of the guy's hearts. 512 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,200 We like, how can we help? How can we, how can we get 513 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,680 behind what you're doing? How can we make trafficking go 514 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,240 away or the drug scene go away or whatever and all? 515 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,960 She said. She said if you can just carry 516 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:38,920 on loving Jesus, loving people and keeping people from becoming 517 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,680 the problem that are causing the problems, the human problem, the 518 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,720 the, the, the human decay. If you can, if you can teach 519 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,080 people the truth, the the ways of God, this is an unbeliever 520 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,840 speaking, she said. Because that changes, That 521 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,080 changes the the, the demand. It changes everything. 522 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,760 And I think what I would love to say is that actually what we 523 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:08,920 need is people to to continue to be radical for Jesus, because it 524 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,080 doesn't matter where you are, God will God. 525 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,560 God is busy. And I know that's not a direct 526 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,280 thing to us. I'm talking very broadly here, 527 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,400 but I think it does have a ripple effect because everyone 528 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,680 of you knows someone in Europe. Everyone of you knows someone 529 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,880 here, even that God is working in their lives. 530 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,080 And I think if we can just remain in a place of freedom, if 531 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,960 we can remain in a place where we know that we are accepted and 532 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,680 we are redeemed, and then we can be secure in who we are and 533 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,600 authentic and real in who we are, and then just love people, 534 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,480 it will have an exponential ripple effect. 535 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,320 And I think that's our greatest cry, is actually that people 536 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,640 will really love one another in our church. 537 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,400 And because it's it's one thing to say it like I love you. 538 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,920 But when you're confronted with someone who doesn't look like 539 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,360 you want them to look and you think you need to fix them or 540 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,760 you or they speak in a certain way. 541 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,800 And it's not fitting your paradigm or there's a a conflict 542 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,880 or there's an offence and you need to forgive. 543 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,480 And it's very easy to say I love people but when it comes to the 544 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,600 nitty gritty, it's not easy. And so that's what we're 545 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,240 trusting for is that people get a radical, radical revelation of 546 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:31,000 the love of God, Jeff. If yeah, if you had to leave us 547 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,280 with a charge, what would that be? 548 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:40,520 I'm thinking of the 400 people who just joined today. 2 1/2 549 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,360 thousand that are part of the furniture. 550 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:47,280 You say something. To the. 400, yeah, I think. 551 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,680 I see a hospital pass here to Jane. 552 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:56,400 That's what's happening. I think again, it's that, it's 553 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,800 that thing of becoming secure, becoming a son and daughter of 554 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,040 God firstly and then the house, this home, this place. 555 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,080 When you become family, there should be a freedom to make 556 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,760 mistakes. There should be a freedom to be 557 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:12,840 yourself. There should be. 558 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,760 But then there's also that that time where the children grow up 559 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,360 and they start to take responsibility and they they 560 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,880 started to to move into the things of God and to partner 561 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,400 with him and what he's doing. And and I think as as people 562 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,800 coming into this church, don't let it just be a dutiful Sunday 563 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,280 Sunday attendance. Let it be something that. 564 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,040 And the church is way more than just these walls and this 565 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,840 building. The church is everywhere. 566 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,160 It's everywhere you are. The church is and and so carry 567 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,400 the gospel. Carry the message of of the 568 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:51,040 Kingdom with you and and and and really let God change you. 569 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,280 Let God just move through everything in your life and and 570 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:56,400 and and redeem you. Yeah, I'd. 571 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,160 Say this place, this place is amazing. 572 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,880 Look at this building. It's like this place is amazing. 573 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,400 This church is incredible. Like, I trust the leaders of 574 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,720 this church with my life, with my children's lives. 575 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,560 I trust Freedom City with this church. 576 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:16,040 We don't feel like Jeff and Jane Brenton planted a church, 3 CR 577 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,760 planted a church, and we just see it as an extension of this 578 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,640 there. We feel like it's one church in 579 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,120 some ways. And I'll say that because as 580 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,720 amazing as this is, if you're a consumer in this place, you're 581 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,000 going to get bored quickly. Even in such amazing place, 582 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,280 you're going to get bored. You're going to get up to 583 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:35,440 nonsense because you're going to get bored. 584 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,840 But if you're a contributor, it is so much more exciting to be 585 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,200 part of the contribution of God's forward momentum in 586 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,640 something as exciting as this. And then you start to be part of 587 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:45,680 it. You get pulled into it. 588 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,440 And like that thing that I started with where the gospel 589 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,880 takes hold of you, that's uncontrollable, Then you find 590 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,600 yourself in places with people that you never dreamed possible. 591 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,840 You find yourself doing things that you like in the scripture 592 00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,200 said. You go before kings, and you 593 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,560 find yourself saying things that you never thought possible, 594 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,120 doing things you never dreamt of. 595 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,480 They're beyond your dreams. And so I want to say to you, 596 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,080 like, don't be a consumer in this place, be a contributor in 597 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,200 any little way, like I said, of our own lives, towards the step 598 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,560 of obedience of saying yes to God, like any little place, 599 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,760 inconvenience, silly, just do it. 600 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,640 Just say yes. I want to also just say to those 601 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:28,000 of you who have been here for a long time, the whole journey of 602 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,280 God with his people. We don't have to look far 603 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,520 through the book of Exodus. The whole journey of God with 604 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,440 his people is that he takes them and he says, OK, we're going to 605 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,480 do this. We're going to run away from 606 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,800 Egypt. And then I'm like, the Red Sea 607 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,920 is going to open like this, and this is what's going to happen. 608 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,960 And then they think, OK, cool, we know how God works. 609 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,640 And so Nick Davis leads this church. 610 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,000 One or two other people lead the church. 611 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,440 We see the goodness of God. I walked into that and I'm like, 612 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,200 OK, I know how God works. The problem is the next time God 613 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,520 works, he doesn't do the same thing. 614 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,720 And things start to change. And so we have to walk with God. 615 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,720 We don't have to walk. We can't create a picture of 616 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,320 what God's doing and then serve that picture. 617 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,920 He's not serving that picture. The Holy Spirit is moving 618 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,120 forward and he's taking a people on a journey. 619 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,280 And so if you've been here for a while, you think you know how 620 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,440 God's working in this church. You think you know the DNA of 621 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,000 this church, how God, no, no, no. 622 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,639 He's never going to work the same again. 623 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,280 And so when God decides to take another step, now it's going to 624 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,199 be the Jordan, then it's going to be this, then we're going to 625 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:21,000 go over a mountain. And you're like, why a mountain? 626 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:22,800 What's up with these leaders? Why they're taking us over a 627 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:23,960 mountain? Last time we just walked through 628 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,320 a Red Sea. It's like, could you walk with 629 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,199 Jesus? Could you open your eyes? 630 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,159 The criticism of the people was that you have eyes but you do 631 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:34,760 not see. You have ears but you do not 632 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,080 hear. The people of God always felt 633 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,960 trapped saying we want a king not a priest and it's like no 634 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,159 God's given. You priests, people that would 635 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,239 hear the voice of God lead you in a direction. 636 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,400 I want to say to you that have been here for a while, could you 637 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,199 also, You're the whispers of God. 638 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,320 Could you realize that when God moves differently to how he has 639 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,840 in the past, this is the most exciting season that this church 640 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,760 has ever walked into. And it's like you're about to 641 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,920 enter into something. You're one more step closer to 642 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,640 the promised land Kevin and Carolina are serving today. 643 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,800 I saw that lanyard over there over their necks. 644 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,560 I saw them carrying stuff. And I just thought, well done 645 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,520 for saying yes again and again and again. 646 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,120 And Tim Gillis says this. You, you have to cross the 647 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,480 betrayal barrier of moving from the past successes into the 648 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,520 future victories that God has for you, these battles that he 649 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,640 has for you. And if God, if Nick Davis was 650 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,560 right on that corner saying let's train up an army of 651 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,080 people, that'll take the good news of the gospel to the 652 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,320 nations, you're going to cross many betrayal barriers and say, 653 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,680 I have to say yes to God often and you have to sit next to 654 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,280 someone, you're going to have to inconvenience yourself. 655 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,480 The real hero, as Jane said it. I can tell you all the stories, 656 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:51,160 but those two kids over there, Kylie's amazing, but she'll do 657 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,960 anything fun. Those guys, they didn't choose 658 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:05,080 it, but they're choosing it and they're saying yes and we did 659 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,240 everything wrong that parents shouldn't do by doing this. 660 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,240 And they have had no sleep for 4 1/2 years and they have been 661 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:13,480 inconvenienced. And they've. 662 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:19,080 But they are strong. They can carry anything. 663 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:30,200 And I'm telling you when I look around, even in our church, the 664 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,640 children look weak compared to them. 665 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:38,840 And I want to say to your parents, do not, do not forfeit 666 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,560 your kids inheritance because of the inconvenience or causes for 667 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,680 you. You know how inconvenient it is 668 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,960 for us to like for have crying kids because they're tired? 669 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,600 You know how inconvenient it's been to make our kids do things 670 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,120 and feel like a a bad parent? Because parenting styles have 671 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,480 changed and we still want to stick to biblical truths and to 672 00:36:55,480 --> 00:37:00,360 follow Jesus when he says follow me and to keep doing that, but 673 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,120 I'll keep doing it because it's made them stronger. 674 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,400 And like parents don't want to say, like, don't steal the 675 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,200 inheritance because it's easier for you to stick to rhythms and 676 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,840 do this and make sure we never inconvenienced and stretched 677 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:15,920 because they the ones that will suffer. 678 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,480 And look around the church world today, young people want to be 679 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,560 part of something great, but they don't want to carry the 680 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,960 responsibility. And I'm like, let us not be the 681 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,800 cause of another generation that will not carry responsibility 682 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,800 because we protected them too much. 683 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,600 Sorry, that was like that's. Very good. 684 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:40,000 Very good. I know you've asked for prayer, 685 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,880 but in closing, can we ask for prayer? 686 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,440 You know, you see in scripture the laying on of hands where 687 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:52,360 this impartation of a gift. And I can I ask you, would you, 688 00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,000 would you pray for us? Would you stretch out your 689 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,160 hands? Something of this fire that 690 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,840 you've found that's been forged in the nations would come upon 691 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:04,600 us, upon this church, upon her call, upon her role and 692 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,520 responsibility in the city and in the nations, and then rules 693 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:20,280 going to close. Lord, we want to say like David, 694 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:24,200 we want to say with fear and trembling. 695 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:31,000 Yeah, we are. Lord, send us, send us into 696 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,240 three CI. Send us amongst the people. 697 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,400 Send us into the rattling hearts. 698 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,200 Send us into the lonely. Send us to the children of this 699 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,800 Church. Lord, send us in prayer. 700 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,120 Send us into the city of Pretoria. 701 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,640 Send us into this nation that desperately needs hope. 702 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,960 And then, Lord, send us into the nations that are barren and 703 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,960 bare. Lord, 45 church plants in Lisbon 704 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,400 in the last four years and 44 are closed, Lord, because cities 705 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,880 are waiting, desperately waiting for the hope of Jesus to come. 706 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,840 They're not waiting for institutions. 707 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,480 They're waiting for love, for people to be loved. 708 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,440 And I pray in this church, as I know the leaders of this church 709 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,280 have pointed everyone in this building towards the Father in 710 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,480 heaven that loves dearly. I pray that that love would 711 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,480 permeate in our hearts. I pray, Father, that not only 712 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,240 would we get a grasp of who you are, not only would we start to 713 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,560 understand how you work, but I pray the gospel would take hold 714 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,640 of us, Lord, The Kingdom of God that is forcefully advancing 715 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,440 would take hold of our hearts, Lord, that we could do no other. 716 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,960 That we would find ourselves taking steps of faith in our in 717 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,280 our jobs, taking steps of faith in our families there, taking 718 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:47,960 steps of faith in our relationships. 719 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,000 Lord, because we can do no other. 720 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:52,760 I pray that you would take hold of us. 721 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,560 A ruggedness would beset this Church, Lord. 722 00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:59,560 An abandonment of our own possessions, an abandonment of 723 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:04,440 our own ideas and plans would take hold of us, Lord, where 724 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,760 there's something greater that takes hold of us. 725 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,560 Something that demands more but gives us the delight of our 726 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,160 souls. I pray that you would come over 727 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,920 to this Church, that you would love these people in a way that 728 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:21,160 changes their decision making. I pray that this church would 729 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:26,160 always be a place like it is right now that sows into the 730 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,640 nations, that the nations of this world will be blessed 731 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:34,600 before you come back with love, with generosity, with faith, 732 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,680 with with people of peace. And I pray God that you would 733 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:44,000 raise up men and women in this place with fire in their eyes 734 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:49,240 and a burning belly, saying I can do no other Jesus name. 735 00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:05,860 I'm not sure if Andres and Zeli also here. 736 00:41:05,860 --> 00:41:07,460 Are you here this morning? And they come morning and 737 00:41:07,460 --> 00:41:09,340 sometimes evening? Are they here? 738 00:41:10,580 --> 00:41:15,560 Andres and Zeli, Where are you? Zeli, What are you? 739 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,960 Anisa Kan yose na kani Zeli Sini. 740 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,680 Where vaaz Zeli says da komisa ko ko Zeli. 741 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,320 I just want you to to look at become Satya Zeli. 742 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:44,040 But next to Mel just put your hand, your the camera on Jeff's 743 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:50,040 right arm and Jane's left arm. Just put that there come Satya 744 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,720 Zeli. You know what those mocks are? 745 00:41:54,720 --> 00:42:04,480 You know them. You think we will just sit here 746 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:09,800 and think like a really radical couple counting for God? 747 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,120 And they like, they dress trendy and they're all tattooed up. 748 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:22,080 And it's it's really cool. But Zelle's gonna tell you what 749 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:30,080 those tattoos mean. Oh, let me just stand here with 750 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:38,760 you. OK, so seven years ago, this 751 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:45,880 beautiful couple had the privilege of receiving a baby 752 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:53,360 with Down syndrome, not knowing what it meant, scared of what 753 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:58,520 the future holds. And God chose them to be the 754 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,520 parents. And he chose those two kids to 755 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:06,200 be the siblings of an incredible, incredible gift. 756 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:12,680 And this statue, it's 3 arrows showing up and it it means the 757 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,200 lucky few. It's a symbol of the lucky few, 758 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:24,880 and it resembles parents worldwide who are lucky to have 759 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,400 a child in their homes with Down syndrome. 760 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:43,120 So and it's just incredible how the world looks at kids and 761 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:50,840 people with Down syndrome and God wants to change that and and 762 00:43:50,840 --> 00:44:00,040 he considers us lucky to have a child with special needs and and 763 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,120 I just want to honour you the way that you you carry this mark 764 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,760 and if people ask you about it then you have the privilege to 765 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,520 share. Yes. 766 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,520 And may your may your daughter know the day that she was born, 767 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:19,280 we celebrated her birth where when my son was born with Down 768 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,800 syndrome, we received sympathy cards the day of his birth, 769 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,400 flowers and cards which said we we sympathize with the birth of 770 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,360 your son. And when I hear a baby with Down 771 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,000 syndrome born into a family, I say yes, yes. 772 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:41,160 How lucky you are. So, so yeah, this is just 773 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,880 incredible. We love you. 774 00:44:53,740 --> 00:44:57,580 So what's stopping you going? Because their whole support 775 00:44:57,580 --> 00:45:01,860 system is in South Africa. And Jane comes from a family 776 00:45:01,860 --> 00:45:04,780 where her sister had Down syndrome and her parents never 777 00:45:04,780 --> 00:45:08,320 stopped at serving Jesus. And so she knew when she had a 778 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,160 Down syndrome child, it could completely affect the whole way 779 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,160 they do life. I just looked at those tattoos 780 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:18,160 and I thought, those are marks of unbelievable faith. 781 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,360 You are heroes of this church, Jeff and Jane. 782 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,800 And they go, well, why did you come today? 783 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,520 Because we honor people. We glorify God, but we honor 784 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:27,920 people. I love you. 785 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,200 I really, really love you. I pray for you every day. 786 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,560 And I'm so proud of you. And it's incredible just to stop 787 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:43,240 everything sometimes and just say, hey, hey, this is what it's 788 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,400 about. It's about our family and our 789 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,480 friends. I want to put a a picture up on 790 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,680 the. It's called Lisbon is on. 791 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,480 This is in Harry Smith. My business is in Harry Smith. 792 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,040 And for those who don't know, when Jeff and Jane came and 793 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,320 spoke to me the following day, I went to Harry Smith on business 794 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,800 and I was driving through town. And you can see the L of the 795 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,560 window at the bottom is broken and the B is broken and it just 796 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:19,800 says Lisbon is on. You say, how did God speak to me 797 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:25,240 like that in a Portuguese fruit and veggie shop in Harry Smith? 798 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,000 I don't know, just keep it up there. 799 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,480 I don't know what the top part of it of your story is, but I 800 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:32,880 want to tell you the bottom part. 801 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,920 It's on. It's on. 802 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,680 Your healing is on. Your redemption is on. 803 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:50,640 Your baptism is on. Can you imagine how God used 804 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,800 stones or something to break the L and the B? 805 00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,280 To just speak to a dumb pastor from Pretoria in Harry Smith 806 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:07,680 about the beautiful DNA that he's given to you? 807 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:14,960 I want to say we're so proud of you, but today is like you're 808 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:18,360 standing on the stage with a yes in your heart to every person 809 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,600 here. And you might say to say, God, 810 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,360 how can I ever get healed? Healing is on. 811 00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:36,000 Healing is on. Restoration is on those little 812 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,160 tattoos. God knows your children better 813 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,040 than you do. He knows them better than you 814 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:55,100 do. Heavenly Father thank you for 815 00:47:55,100 --> 00:48:02,580 Jeff and Jane for Tay Tay for Kylie travel. 816 00:48:02,580 --> 00:48:04,100 Lord God, thank you for this family. 817 00:48:04,100 --> 00:48:08,720 Thank you for every person in this church that has made it 818 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:11,840 possible for us to plant churches. 819 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,720 Thank you for your generosity to us over many, many years. 820 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,600 Thank you for three stripes and an arm. 821 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,440 And thank you for a Portuguese passport. 822 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:27,880 What passport have you got? Why are you here this morning? 823 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,440 I just want to say these two words over your life. 824 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,400 It's on. It's on. 825 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:40,840 It's on.