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Good morning, Resurrected 
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My name is Richard. 
I'm the high school youth 

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director here at Rez. 
I want to tell you how excited I

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am that you're here today. 
I was at the gym this week, ran 

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into an old buddy of mine, and 
he began to tell me his story, 

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how his son is taking off and 
started living his own way and 

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not living the way he raised him
to live. 

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And he gave me a chance to share
the story that comes from the 

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Bible where Jesus is talking 
about the prodigal son, how the 

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son took off, turned his back on
the dad and just lived a life of

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sin and debauchery and all the 
ways that dad didn't raise him 

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to be. 
But that son finally came to his

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senses and made his way home. 
But what's key about that story 

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is that the father was there 
waiting for him to come back 

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with open arms. 
The father didn't say, hey, you 

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did this, you did that. 
He didn't start bringing up the 

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stuff that he did. 
He welcomed him home. 

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And whether you've been here for
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years, or you're new to this 
whole Jesus thing, I want to let

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you know that the Father is 
standing there with his arms 

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wide open saying, come home, I 
love you, I care for you, you're

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safe with me. 
So Jesus is the way to the 

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Father. 
Would you stand and worship with

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us this morning? 
Let everything there is breath, 

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praise the Lord, praise the 
Lord. 

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Let everything there is breath, 
Praise the Lord, praise the 

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Lord. 
I'll praise in the valley, and 

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I'll praise on them now I'll 
praise with them. 

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Sure, I'll praise with them, 
I'll praise with our number, 

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I'll praise with surrounding. 
This crazy is the water my enemy

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is rounding. 
As long as I'm breathing, I've 

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got a reason to pray. 
The Lord, Oh my soul, praise the

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Lord, Oh my soul. 
I'll praise when I feel you now,

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praise when I don't. 
I'll praise kiss. 

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And no, your silly control. 
Because praise is whipping. 

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It's more than it's my praise is
the shout that brings Jericho 

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to. 
As long as I'm breathing, I've 

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got no reason to pray the Lord. 
Oh my soul. 

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Pray the Lord. 
Oh my soul. 

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Oh, I won't be quiet. 
But God is alive. 

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How could I keep it inside? 
Oh my soul, I got so good. 

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He's been so good to us this 
year. 

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He deserves some praise this 
morning. 

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Here we go. 
I'll praise, I'll praise. 

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Kiss yourself. 
Praise. 

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Kiss you rain. 
Praise kiss. 

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You rose and defeated the great.
I'll praise. 

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Kiss. 
You're faithful. 

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Praise kiss, you're true. 
I'll praise, Kiss this nobody 

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greater than you. 
I'll praise Chris yourself. 

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Praise Chris you reign. 
I'll praise. 

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Kiss. 
You rose and defeated the grave.

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I'll praise. 
Kiss, You're faithful. 

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Praise kiss, you're true. 
I'll praise, Kiss this nobody 

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greater than you. 
Praise the Lord, Oh my soul, you

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know. 
Raise the Lord, Oh my soul. 

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Raise the Lord, Oh my soul. 
Raise Oh my soul. 

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Oh, I won't be quiet. 
My God is alive. 

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How could I keep it inside? 
I won't be quiet. 

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My God is alive. 
How could I keep it inside? 

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No, I won't be quiet. 
My God is alive. 

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How could I keep this Lord? 
Oh my God. 

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Let everything, let everything 
that is great praise the Lord, 

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praise the Lord. 
Let everything that is great 

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praise the Lord. 
Praise the Lord, Praise the 

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Lord. 
Praise the Lord, Praise the 

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Lord, Praise the Lord. 
We're going to keep praising 

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because our God's good and he 
deserves some more praise. 

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Amen. 
When he sees my soul, I'll 

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testify the blessings on 
blessings and poured on my life,

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and I shall remember it. 
How could you be? 

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It turns away tears and new 
brains, chains of depression 

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broken by cranes. 
When I start remembering. 

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How could you be? 
Yeah, you can so, so, so, so, 

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so, so care to me. 
You can so, so, so, so, so, so 

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care. 
There's something there's always

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weapons fault in the ground 
armies with every always round. 

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We now show from nether rain how
you carry my cross. 

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You call me my name, love me 
like I was If you didn't leave 

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me that way. 
We stand now on live get it let 

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you take. 
Oh, you've been so so so so so 

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so get to me. 
Can you been so so so so, so so 

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get to me from morning to night,
girls in their eyes I look back 

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on my life and no need to see. 
Can you been so so so so. 

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So good, so good, so good to me.
Every day, every night, you're 

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always so good to me. 
We praise you, Jesus. 

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Say God is good, you say all the
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When I say all the time, you say
God is good When I say God is 

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good, you say all the time. 
When I say all the time, you say

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God is good. 
When I say God is good, you say 

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all the time. 
When I say all the time, you say

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God is good. 
When I say God is good. 

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What will you say all the time? 
When I say all the time, you say

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God is so, so, so, so, so. 
Guess me. 

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Yeah, you so, so, so, so, so, so
guess me. 

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Yeah. 
Good morning to God, the Lord in

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the eyes. 
I look back. 

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My life can only see the morning
tonight, those in the heart. 

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I look back on my life in order 
to see him in so so so so so so 

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good. 
Praise King Jesus, he's so good.

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All right, guys, take a seat. 
It's going to be a little bit 

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different of a Sunday. 
We started doing this a couple 

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years ago. 
The last Sunday of the year. 

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We take a little bit of time to 
look back at the year and 

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celebrate the things that God 
has been doing in the life of 

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our church. 
And so we're going to do that 

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today. 
Our church has the never ending,

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never changing mission of the 
Great Commission. 

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Every church has the same 
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If you are a Bible believing 
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with the Great Commission and 
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But we have a culture here at 
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We have things that we value 
and, and the way a certain way 

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that we do things and that 
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ministry, how we form our goals.
And so we are on a journey right

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now, a vision that we believe 
that God gave us about two years

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ago. 
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God will. 
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this journey. 
We're in kind of a three to five

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year window of time where we set
some goals of the things that we

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believe that God is leading us 
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And so we talk about those every
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It's part of our churches 
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We are finishing up year 2 of 
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So we're going to talk about 
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things that we see God doing in 
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course of this past year. 
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parts to our vision. 
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We'll kind of celebrate a lot of
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context of those four areas. 
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years ago that are we, they're 
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audacious goals. 
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Some of these are big, some of 
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And what that means is either 
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or we're going to look foolish. 
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of faith should live. 
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invest in four areas. 
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of those today. 
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we look back is not to pat 
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biblically, if you read the 
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generations in the Old Testament
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done because we're such a 
forgetful people that it doesn't

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take us very long to forget how 
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past. 
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a little bit of time today and 
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realize God has done some 
tremendous things in the life of

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this church. 
It gets easy to overlook when 

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life gets busy or you're going 
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It gets really easy to overlook 
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And so this should do three 
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I hope it should encourage you. 
It should excite you, and I hope

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that it inspires you. 
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that I hope that is that I 
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comfort are the primary enemies 
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We get comfortable and we get 
complacent and we stop pursuing 

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Christ the way that we were 
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And then we wonder why faith is 
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And so I hope this stirs you up 
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I hope it stirs you up to take a
next step, whatever that next 

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step might look like. 
We're going to give you lots of 

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information and opportunities to
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church. 
We have handouts celebrating 

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some of this stuff. 
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all kinds of next steps. 
I think there's like 9 or 10 

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different next steps of things 
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course of this next year as you 
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the Res Church family here, 
we're going to celebrate a lot 

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of numbers. 
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Every one of those numbers 
represents people who have real 

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stories, who are being 
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And so as we celebrate some of 
that man, there's so many fun 

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stories. 
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stories, but we won't even get 
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But God has been good to a 
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ways. 
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is not just to glorify Christ 
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when we see Christ in someone 
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you. 
And we want to call that out and

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encourage you with it. 
And so we're going to start with

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a video. 
Logan is going to walk through a

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ministry that launched in our 
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And I want you to check this 
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Hello, everybody. 
My name is Logan, and I'm 

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celebrating the work that God 
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regeneration ministry here at 
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Earlier this year, myself and 
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commenced from this program, and
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completed the 12 steps of 
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In Regen, they really emphasize 
confessing your sins both to God

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and to other people. 
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down that idea that we have to 
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least pretend that we do. 
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confront that sin, we're more 
comfortable talking about it and

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in talking about it, that is how
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And it's benefited myself by 
helping me grow out of lots of 

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bad habits. 
It helped a lot of the other 

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graduates, and I know it's going
to keep benefiting Rez Church in

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that way. 
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already from region. 
We had a pilot program where we 

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trained leaders for a year and 
they recently, about 2-3 months 

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ago, launched the first, the 
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at our church. 
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about having a recovery ministry
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There are groups already in that
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And, and Logan is just one of 
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We, I told you there are 4 main 
vision items that I wanted to 

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kind of classify or categorize 
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And the first is this concept of
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And here's what that means to 
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We believe that our culture has 
become increasingly isolated in 

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the past decades, in fact, 
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training entire generations to 
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relationships in lieu of 
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God calls our church to stand 
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and we believe this means that 
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close relationships that look 
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The hardest part of many 
disciplines in your life is 

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simply showing up. 
The hardest part of getting fit 

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is showing up at the gym. 
The hardest part of reading our 

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Bible is opening it. 
The hardest part of building 

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relationships is showing up for 
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And so we put a focus on showing
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growing spiritually. 
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to be in the process of building
deep, meaningful relationships 

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with other believers and 
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Lord. 
We want to do things that foster

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these deep relationships. 
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keep finding new ways to 
introduce places for you to get 

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connected and to find people 
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church. 
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clarity on what it would look 
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in community and in your 
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And so throughout this process, 
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consistent urgency to be known. 
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intimacy to be ever present in 
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engage in community, I want that
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you're missing out. 
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you're missing out. 
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years. 
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person at res to understand what
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growth process. 
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confusing. 
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first three years, and we're two
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300 plus people attending group 
every week and 60 or more groups

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meeting weekly. 
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church to be able to honestly 
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others in the church. 
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known. 
Richard. 

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We pray over that. 
Yes, Father, thank you that you 

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sent your son to show us what 
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He was never alone. 
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Lord. 
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may our church be a church that 
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we would have intimate 
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Lord that we would have 300 
people attending group, that we 

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would have 60 plus groups 
meeting every week and every 

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person in this church could 
honestly say that they feel 

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known by other people in this 
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real community. 
Lord, thank you for this and 

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bless it in the name of Jesus, 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
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and and if you just think about 
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link to this like why? 
Why do we have a check in system

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on Sunday mornings? 
Why do we print name tags and 

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ask everybody to wear them? 
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foster an environment where 
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Anonymity is not your friend, 
being known is your friend. 

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And so one of the big things 
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many people showed up to a 
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Yeah, this is amazing. 
So we have 289 unique group 

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attenders. 
That's an amazing number. 

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That's 200 and 92189 people 
getting in homes, sitting on 

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couches, getting vulnerable, 
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transformation in their lives, 
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It's an amazing number. 
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attendance is important. 
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encouraging one another is very 
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But you can really understand 
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small group attendance because 
it's easy to hide, you know, on 

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on in a Pew, on a Sunday 
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But you get in a small group 
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That's. 
Right this past year we want to 

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celebrate this as well. 
We have 37 new members in our 

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church and we'll talk about at 
the end here an opportunity, if 

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you feel called to membership in
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next step in that area. 
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brunches. 
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We had a couple women's brunches
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attend, 85 ladies attend per 
brunch. 

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The ladies are turning out. 
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They're turning out to get some 
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It's an amazing thing. 
We had 99 people this year who 

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gave to Res Church for the very 
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That's pretty cool. 
You you actually have a story 

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about you came to the last 
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Yes, I was here at the women's 
brunch. 

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Tell me all about that. 
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I was here with some fathers and
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care of the kids so that the 
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ministered to. 
Well, what happens in that while

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there's goldfish flying juice 
boxes everywhere, Just help 

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fathers watch kids. 
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women come in and clean it up. 
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out with the childcare. 
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We're going to have more of 
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We, we want to continue to find 
more opportunities for you to 

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meet people in the church and 
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really awesome opportunities for

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women to not only start to build
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with the Bible open hearing from
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build relationships. 
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coming this year in February. 
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It's been my desire for about 3 
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photo directory of all of you. 
Now, I probably won't give it to

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you, but I want it. 
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you by name. 
And there are a lot of you, a 

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lot of you like, like a lot of 
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And so as I pray for you, I 
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face and by name. 
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mornings as you come in, there 
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here asking to take your 
picture. 

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It's not so that we can create 
some sort of government 

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database. 
Watch. 

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You, they already watch you. 
You're on Facebook. 

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It's so that we, the elders who 
pray for you, can pray for you 

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by name and by face again, 
because we think being known is 

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actually really important. 
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in February if you want to take 
your picture. 

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There is a reason. 
It's because I told them to. 

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You can blame me for it. 2nd is 
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have not yet attended a group, 
if you've not joined a group and

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I'm going to keep putting 
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group and and figure out if 
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It's not whether or not they're 
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you're weirds match. 
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In fact, I want to encourage you
with a story of of somebody who 

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joined a group and found their 
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then Christ began to transform 
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So check this out. 
So, Michael, we want to just 

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talk about your experience and 
getting plugged in. 

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First of all, how long have you 
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Consistently for about two years
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OK, two years, yeah. 
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right? 
And tell me everything you're 

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kind of plugged into right now. 
So I'm in a community group with

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Don Van Sickles Community group,
which has been absolute blessing

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to be a part of. 
It's that has led to so many 

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other chances to plug in here at
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And around December, I mentioned
joining the worship team and Don

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kind of gave me the motivation 
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auditioning in February, I 

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played my first, my first 
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And it's just been amazing. 
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you have, you invited me to 
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And that's just been oh man. 
And the mentorship group has 

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been phenomenal. 
This has been so fun. 

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It's awesome. 
It's been, and I love to see 

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somebody that has just really 
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Right, you, you've. 
Stepped into serving, you've 

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stepped into almost every 
aspect. 

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You even told me that it's kind 
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or view on on giving at 1.0. 
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You wanted to say anything about
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We, you know, I, me personally, 

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I would always kind of be a 
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and be like, Are you sure 
that's, you know, OK, can we 

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afford that? 
It's something we can manage. 

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And then just recently, I've 
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take it all, you know? 
So, yeah. 

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And then just everybody at home 
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astonished by how, like, the 
whole family dynamic has changed

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just from being able to serve in
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much. 
It's just like they see the 

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difference. 
They see the growth. 

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So it's just been a total 
blessing. 

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Michael, thank you for talking 
to us. 

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Thank you, Dave. 
You're welcome. 

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Love you, brother. 
Love. 

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You awesome. 
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that we rolled out two years ago
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10, and I want to explain what 
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been working on over the course 
of the last couple years when it

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comes to this. 
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Christ's plan for sharing the 
hope of the gospel to a broken 

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world. 
And we believe that as a church,

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we are specifically called to 
impact the community that is in 

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close geographic proximity to 
the campus itself. 

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And so like, we believe that 
this church should be full of 

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people from this neighborhood. 
And when we rolled out this 

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idea, actually less than 50% of 
our church lived within 10 

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minutes of the the church 
campus. 

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And so as we looked around the 
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the demographics of this 
neighborhood changed pretty 

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substantially over the last 
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And so we spent a lot of time 
kind of looking at the 

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demographics, like what what are
the needs in these communities 

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and neighborhoods around the 
church? 

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And how can we go about meeting 
those needs? 

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Because when you begin to meet 
those needs, you earn enough 

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trust to be heard when it comes 
time to share the gospel. 

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And so we have built outreach 
teams that would allow us to 

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meet needs and to better 
understand those needs. 

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We're going to celebrate a lot 
of areas in this this category 

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of ways that we have engaged 
this neighborhood. 

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And our goal is that our teams 
and these initiatives would help

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us to learn how to better care 
for the homeless, to make 

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connections in this community at
local parks, to establish a 

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presence on our school campuses,
which we've done and other 

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potential engagement 
opportunities. 

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And so we set these goals two 
years ago that in the next three

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to five years, we would launch 
an independent daycare or 

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preschool that primarily serves 
this local neighborhood. 

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To create a community centre 
that is accessible to the local 

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neighborhood. 
To renovate our park for 

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community use. 
To put ministry on campus at 

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Bakersfield College and have 150
plus new people from the 

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neighborhood attending church at
Res. 

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Elder Don, will you pray for our
initiative to Love the 10 Love? 

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To Heavenly Father, we are, in 
our view, your sovereignty, 

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power, presence. 
We praise you at all things. 

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I bring before you the 148 
thousandth souls who live within

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10 minute drive to reach our 
church's doors. 

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Each carries joys and burdens, 
hopes and fears, stories known 

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to you alone. 
Some are simply trying to 

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survive, some on the streets. 
You know who they are. 

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May you bless these families, 
these people, the workers, the 

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children, the elderly, the 
lonely, and the thriving alike. 

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Let your spirit move among them,
bringing peace where there is 

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conflict, healing where there is
hurt, and opportunity where 

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there's need. 
Make Resurrection Church be a 

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beacon of welcome, a place where
neighbors find belonging and 

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where love overflows beyond our 
walls. 

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Guide us to serve faithfully so 
that every person nearby may 

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know that they are seen, valued,
cherished, and loved. 

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And may you, the Holy Spirit, 
work in their lives that they 

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would know that God knows them, 
loves them, has a plan for their

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lives. 
And if they don't know you, I 

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pray that they may come to know 
you, to have an encounter with 

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Jesus Christ and their lives be 
changed for eternity. 

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We pray these things in Jesus 
name and for His sake. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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One of the ways that we begin to
to push into this area is we 

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built some outreach teams to try
to find a way to impact the 

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local community and local 
churches, missions and outreach.

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And so we sent 67 different 
individuals from our church last

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year. 
Yeah, we did. 

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00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,320
To either other church campuses 
or to parks, outreach centers of

455
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,880
the Daughters Project, I mean, 
Keepers of the Cross, you name 

456
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,680
it, we were sending people out. 
And we want to celebrate the 67 

457
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,880
individuals that went out into 
the community last year, 

458
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,760
specifically into our partners 
and partner churches. 

459
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,280
Because of what you have done, 
there are people in this room. 

460
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,800
I can't point at them because I 
don't want to call them out. 

461
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,480
That we have come to love, come 
to call as part of our family 

462
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,040
because you were willing to go 
out into the parks, into the 

463
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,280
fields, into the people and 
actually say, hey, the gospel of

464
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,600
Jesus Christ is there. 
Come, come. 

465
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,400
Let us show you what's happening
at Resurrection. 

466
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,000
Church in January, we're going 
to do something called scent, 

467
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,400
and we're going to blow these 
numbers away in January. 

468
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,320
Let's go. 
Yeah, we are. 

469
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:18,400
We are. 
Excited about that? 

470
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:19,800
Yeah. 
OK. 

471
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,560
Hey, this is Celebration 
service. 

472
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,360
Let's celebrate. 
Come on, this is our second year

473
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,440
of doing a camp that we called 
Res Mania. 

474
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,400
Anyone remember that one? 
Res Mania. 

475
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,720
There we go. 
Come on. 

476
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,200
So 308 attenders, 158 
volunteers. 

477
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,640
That was 466 people that 
participated in a kids camp 4. 

478
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,120
166, yeah. 
You guys showed up. 

479
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,960
When we say this is a all hands 
on deck, you guys don't mess 

480
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,760
around. 
You've brought the gospel. 

481
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,480
So many kids. 
How many kids made decisions? 

482
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,400
So 26 kids put their faith in 
Christ and gave us their name to

483
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,960
follow up with because of a kids
camp. 

484
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:56,960
Wow. 
Yeah. 

485
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,160
We also did a youth camp here on
campus. 

486
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,720
We had 151 youth show up to our 
our youth camp. 

487
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,680
We had 101 volunteers. 
God bless your soul for a youth 

488
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,040
camp. 
So, so, so 252 people 

489
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,480
participating in a youth camp 
here, 17 decisions for Christ, 

490
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,400
22 people baptized. 
Yeah. 

491
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:23,520
Serious. 
That means. 

492
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,560
That means. 
Five people, 70 people made 

493
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,440
decisions, 5 people who did not 
make decision also decided when 

494
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,680
I need to take that next step 
into getting baptized and that 

495
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,760
that water was something else. 
Yeah. 

496
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,840
So by the end of 22 baptisms, 
that water might have been holy,

497
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,080
but it was not clean. 
It was. 

498
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,960
It was pretty rough. 
It washed away all their sins. 

499
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,640
But yeah, it was. 
It looked like it too. 

500
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,360
So one of the, one of the events
that we did trying to reach the,

501
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,760
the neighborhood was something 
called Winter Wonderland. 

502
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,080
That was a year before, but 
Winter Wonderland, we put up 

503
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,840
little signs and balloons and 
banners. 

504
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,080
And there was a guy named Trent 
who's driving by, sees the 

505
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,440
signs, goes, you know, man, I, I
need to go that I just feel like

506
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,480
I should go. 
Shows up, ends up over at the 

507
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:16,200
prayer tent and realizes, man, 
God is calling me here and, and 

508
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,480
to salvation. 
So from, from no, not having a 

509
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,800
faith in Christ, not pursuing 
Christ, not in church, not doing

510
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,880
anything faith wise. 
Winter Wonderland. 

511
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,040
I think we gave away like 2000 
hot dogs or something. 

512
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,600
So some, some cheesy hot dogs 
end up reaching this man for 

513
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,680
Christ. 
And, and since then he's joined 

514
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,480
into he's become a member, he's 
joined the church, he's joined a

515
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,640
small group. 
He's begin to serve all over the

516
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,440
place, serve on one of these 
outreach teams. 

517
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,840
Absolutely crazy because of some
hot dogs. 

518
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,000
Another way, and this goes 
further than just two years, 

519
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,280
another way that we have been 
making a consistent impact on 

520
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,680
our community is that the church
operates a thrift store in which

521
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,840
all the proceeds go to missions.
That thrift store is called the 

522
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,320
Junkateek Outlet. 
In fact, they're about to open a

523
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,640
second location and there's so 
many celebrations from that. 

524
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,600
We tried to pick one, and we 
asked Elder Don to share just 

525
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,520
just one celebration from that 
thrift store. 

526
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,240
So I'm going to go out script. 
I'm shocked. 

527
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,360
OK, so one of the one of the 
things I love to do is ride 

528
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,880
motorcycles. 
And the reason you ride 

529
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,160
motorcycles in the mountains is 
because you sit around a 

530
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,960
campfire and lie to each other 
about what you did that day, 

531
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:27,240
right? 
Yeah. 

532
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,440
You celebrate. 
Remember, I almost died. 

533
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,920
But I think this is what 
heaven's going to be like. 

534
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,080
We're sitting around, we're 
talking Nathan Haverfeld. 

535
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,080
I remember when you got 
baptized, baptized you, right? 

536
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,880
And Bryce, Bryce Ivy, I remember
when you got baptized and then 

537
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:47,080
two days later you swap lanes on
the 99 going north and wrecked 

538
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,320
your car, totaled your car two 
days after getting baptized, 

539
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,720
right? 
And then Michael Lee and 

540
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,640
Tiffany, we have all these 
stories, but we have stories 

541
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,680
that we celebrate. 
I think that's what heaven's 

542
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,360
going to be like. 
I remember when I was lost, but 

543
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,720
I was found. 
I just these crazy, I love 

544
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,320
stories. 
I'd love to to hear stories to 

545
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,280
celebrate. 
And I just love the idea that 

546
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,560
we're coming together on a 
Sunday and celebrating what 

547
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,840
God's doing in the lives of us. 
And I'm going to read this story

548
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,840
because I'll totally screw it up
if I if I don't, OK, Because I 

549
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,000
know this lady and she's an 
amazing lady. 

550
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,200
Keely at Jado, we are 
celebrating God's faithfulness 

551
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,280
through our partnerships with 
Keepers of the Cross. 

552
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:30,080
In 2025, we were blessed to hire
our second graduate from their 

553
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,160
program, Keely Stokes. 
And on her story is a beautiful 

554
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,680
testimony of redemption, 
courage, and forward momentum. 

555
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,760
So I heard her testimony at a 
Jado lunch on Monday. 

556
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,920
They have volunteers and and 
employees have a lunch and they 

557
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,880
celebrate down there on Mondays.
I heard Keely's story and it's 

558
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,000
just amazing. 
She talked about being on the 

559
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,320
streets for six years. 
Wow, six years. 

560
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,200
So Keely shows up every day with
a sense of responsibility, 

561
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,760
diligence, and a heart anchored 
in prayer. 

562
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,400
She leads with humility, works 
hard, and doesn't miss an 

563
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,280
opportunity to glorify God and 
all that she does through faith 

564
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,159
and perseverance. 
Keely purchased her own vehicle,

565
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,560
opening doors to greater 
independence and service not 

566
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,080
only for herself, but for others
as she faithfully gives 

567
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,000
coworkers, rides and helps 
wherever she is needed. 

568
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:24,280
In a bold step of faith, Keely 
asked her parents who care for 

569
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,280
her daughter if she could return
home after her graduation. 

570
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,639
They welcomed her back with open
arms. 

571
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,320
Today, she is rebuilding a 
strong and loving relationships 

572
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,040
with her daughter and helping 
ease her parents financial load 

573
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,000
by contributing to rent. 
What God has restored in her 

574
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,360
life keenly pays forward with 
generosity, patience and 

575
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,920
kindness to volunteers and Co 
workers alike. 

576
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,239
Keely's life reflects the gospel
and action, restoration, 

577
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,159
responsibility and a willingness
to serve. 

578
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,000
We are deeply grateful for Keely
and for the privilege of 

579
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,280
witnessing God's transforming 
work in her life. 

580
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:02,600
Amen. 
Amen. 

581
00:35:08,370 --> 00:35:11,370
It's one thing to say that the 
the the Gospel transforms lives.

582
00:35:11,370 --> 00:35:13,610
It's another thing to literally 
walk through someone's life as 

583
00:35:13,610 --> 00:35:17,760
it's being transformed and and 
watch as Christ changes them. 

584
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,160
Two years ago, because of this 
initiative, we decided we wanted

585
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,960
to do something around Christmas
time. 

586
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,280
And So what we did is we 
collected the names of families 

587
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,440
that needed a scholarship to one
of the camps or they were part 

588
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,160
of our Children Hunger Fund. 
We have a couple different food 

589
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,480
programs. 
And so all those names, we 

590
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,920
contacted those families and we 
just asked the parents, hey, do 

591
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,160
you need help for Christmas for 
your kids? 

592
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,160
Then everyone that said yes, we 
got lists of what their kids 

593
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,400
were into. 
We bought them, you bought them 

594
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,120
gifts. 
We then called the parents, had 

595
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,320
them come and wrap the gifts so 
that the parent could give the 

596
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,480
child the gift from them and not
from someone else. 

597
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,920
And so I want you to see a 
couple of the celebrations 

598
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,840
around a program we call Give 
Joy. 

599
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:08,600
It's beginning to look a lot 
like this everywhere. 

600
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:14,440
You take a look at the 5:00 and 
10:00. 

601
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:20,560
It's listening once again with 
candy canes and silver lands 

602
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,600
that glow. 
Hi Rez Church, my name is 

603
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,880
Matisse Camelli and I have the 
opportunity. 

604
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,120
No, I have the privilege of 
helping with Give Joy this year.

605
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,400
What a blessing you have been 
and you have really turned out 

606
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,320
again. 
This is our second year that we 

607
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,720
have the opportunity to provide 
gifts for families and it is 

608
00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:43,960
such an amazing experience that 
I get to share a letter from a 

609
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,760
family that received gifts last 
year. 

610
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,960
I just wanted to say thank you 
for getting Christmas gifts for 

611
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,200
my kids. 
I really appreciate getting 

612
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,360
gifts for my youngest daughter 
who wasn't able to attend your 

613
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,640
VBS. 
My husband said when that he 

614
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,360
came to pick up the gifts, 
everyone was so sweet and kind 

615
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,240
to them. 
They were also really a surprise

616
00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:06,360
that everybody knew all of their
children's names. 

617
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,720
They enjoyed the opportunity to 
be able to wrap up their own 

618
00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:11,760
gifts. 
They had a lot of fun 

619
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,560
experiences while they were 
here. 

620
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,120
They had two birthday parties in
the coming months and they also 

621
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,760
had a daughter a couple months 
later. 

622
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,440
So being able to be provided 
with Christmas gifts was a huge 

623
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,160
blessing and a joy to their 
lives. 

624
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,080
Thank you again for sharing your
love and encouragement to all of

625
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:34,040
our families. 
All right, let's stand up and 

626
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:45,440
worship some more. 
I searched the world, but he 

627
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:54,520
couldn't feel me messing to 
Prince treasures the pain and 

628
00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:01,600
never real. 
And then you came along. 

629
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:16,840
We'll be back together every 
time is now satisfied hearing 

630
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:27,200
alone. 
Oh, there's nothing better than 

631
00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:35,440
there's nothing better than 
Lord, there's nothing. 

632
00:38:46,770 --> 00:39:00,170
Now I'm not afraid showing my 
weakness, my fair is and floors,

633
00:39:00,650 --> 00:39:07,090
but you see them all and you 
still call me pray because the 

634
00:39:07,130 --> 00:39:18,080
God of the the mountain is the 
God of the valley and there's 

635
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:23,920
out of place your mercy, grace 
won't fly me again. 

636
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,520
Better deed, Lord, is there 
deed? 

637
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:49,880
Nothing is better than you. 
Lord, is there deed? 

638
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:59,920
Better deed There's gotta be. 
Better deed, Lord, is there 

639
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,800
deed? 
Nothing is better. 

640
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:23,640
You turn lordy to tense in, you 
give beauty for answers. 

641
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:33,440
You turn shame into glory, and 
you're the only one you can. 

642
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:44,200
You turn lordy to tense in. 
You give beauty for answers. 

643
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:54,000
You turn shame into glory and 
you're the only one you can. 

644
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:04,880
You turn crazy into college. 
You turn falls into armies. 

645
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:14,520
You turn season 2 highways. 
You're the only one you. 

646
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:26,640
You're the only one you have. 
Lord is nothing singing out. 

647
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:39,600
Lord is nothing. 
Nothing is baby. 

648
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:56,240
Oh it's nothing that is nothing 
that in the Lord is nothing. 

649
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:14,360
You turn crazy into goddess. 
You turn falls into armies. 

650
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:27,400
You turn season into you're the 
only one you can. 

651
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:39,640
You turn graves into garden, and
you turn seas into Holland. 

652
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:57,890
You're the only one you can. 
Come on, give God some praise. 

653
00:42:57,890 --> 00:43:22,440
He's turning graves into garden.
The way to explore all, the 

654
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:30,080
wonder of His grace, the power 
of salvation, all that pulled me

655
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:34,200
from the brain. 
This hope is not empty. 

656
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:43,920
And forever He will reign. 
He won't be put to shame. 

657
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:52,280
Oh my soul. 
Sing to the God of the ages. 

658
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:58,200
Sing to the Lord of creation. 
Sing his praise again. 

659
00:44:03,850 --> 00:44:10,450
Sing like the heavens away. 
Roar like an army of ages. 

660
00:44:11,330 --> 00:44:16,930
Sing his praise again. 
The moment of rest. 

661
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,080
I have never been the same. 
His love took me calm. 

662
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:34,840
My sin was washed away. 
Now I stand here, forgiven and I

663
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:42,360
know that I am safe. 
I won't be good to shave. 

664
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:52,760
Oh my soul, sing to the God of 
the ages, sing to the Lord of 

665
00:44:52,840 --> 00:45:02,920
creation, sing his praise again.
Oh my soul, sing like the 

666
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:08,320
heavens awake. 
Roar like an army of angels. 

667
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:17,880
Sing His praise again. 
Remember how our God has never 

668
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:25,600
failed, never failed us. 
Remember that His name will make

669
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:31,840
away, He'll make away from the 
cross to the grave. 

670
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:37,040
He is risen and he reigns. 
Praise the Lord. 

671
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:47,480
Sing His praise again and 
remember how our God has never 

672
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:54,480
failed, never failed us. 
Remember that His name will make

673
00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:57,000
a way. 
He'll make a way. 

674
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:07,260
He is risen and here. 
And praise the Lord in his grace

675
00:46:07,260 --> 00:46:20,260
Sings to the God of the ages, 
sings to the Lord of the 

676
00:46:20,460 --> 00:46:30,240
creation His praise again. 
Roar my soul, sing like the 

677
00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:38,120
heavens away, roar like an army 
of angels, Sing His praise 

678
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:45,320
again. 
Call my soul, Sing to the God of

679
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:53,160
the ages, sing to the Lord of 
creation, Sing his praise again.

680
00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:03,640
Oh my soul, sing like the 
heavens away, roar like an army 

681
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,440
of angels, Sing His praise 
again. 

682
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:20,360
Sing His praise again. 
Oh sing his praise again, Oh, 

683
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:32,840
sing us praise again, Oh sing us
praise again. 

684
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:44,160
Oh, how our God has never 
failed, never failed. 

685
00:47:54,880 --> 00:48:03,200
From the frost the great he's 
rising, and he brings praise. 1 

686
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:15,600
Seeing his career, life has 
never failed, never failed us. 

687
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:27,440
Remember that his name will make
a way else to the great he is 

688
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:42,870
rising, and the praise to the 
God of the ages. 

689
00:48:44,710 --> 00:48:57,330
Sing his praise again. 
Sing like the heavens are away, 

690
00:48:58,730 --> 00:49:03,890
More like an army of angels. 
Sing his praise again. 

691
00:49:05,890 --> 00:49:21,640
Sing his praise again. 
All right, have a seat. 

692
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,760
The third of our vision items 
that we're celebrating and 

693
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:30,080
looking back on and remembering 
is this idea of reaching our 

694
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:31,880
circles. 
And here's what that means. 

695
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,720
We believe that one of the most 
powerful signs that our church 

696
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:41,280
body, that's you all say me, is 
living out gospel culture, is 

697
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:46,680
that you would begin to display 
a willingness to engage those 

698
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:50,440
people that are in your sphere 
of influence with the gospel. 

699
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:55,600
And so our job is to boldly 
speak the gospel, but also to 

700
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,600
humbly earn the right to be 
heard by serving them and loving

701
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,360
them. 
And so I think one of the, one 

702
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:07,120
of the travesties of, of Western
culture is this myth that we 

703
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,720
separate our lives and that 
there's a sacred part of our 

704
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:11,720
life and that there's a secular 
part of our life. 

705
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,640
And if you read the Bible, 
that's not in there. 

706
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,320
Every part of our life should be
lived on mission for Christ. 

707
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,880
Everything that we do should be 
for the glory of God. 

708
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,840
And this means that every aspect
of the common life is a 

709
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:32,680
testimony to the lost world. 
We're called to live our entire 

710
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,960
lives as ambassadors of the 
gospel. 

711
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:40,680
And so in a world now that is 
where people live these 

712
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:45,320
artificial lives on social 
media, if you will simply invite

713
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,400
people into the messiness of 
your real life, it will have 

714
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,720
massive gospel implications. 
And our conviction as a church 

715
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,120
is that we should be following 
the Bible's consistent command 

716
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:01,880
for hospitality by opening up 
our homes and doing missional 

717
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:07,200
work at our kitchen table in the
company lunchroom and the ride 

718
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,960
to work with a Co worker. 
And so we set some goals around 

719
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,480
this concept two years ago that 
in the next three to five years 

720
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:19,880
we would have 300 or more gospel
stories where you have invested 

721
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,200
in someone for the sake of the 
gospel. 

722
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,720
That we would see 400 or more 
new guests in the first three 

723
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:30,680
years and that in our annual 
survey we would see a 90 plus 

724
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,880
percent response that you 
invited someone to church. 

725
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:41,080
Vance, will you pray over this? 
Sorry, like Heavenly Father, we 

726
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:45,640
just thank you Lord so much for 
the opportunity we have to be 

727
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,560
salt and light to those around 
us. 

728
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,680
Help us Lord to be good 
witnesses. 

729
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:57,080
Help us Lord be authentic to be 
real in those areas where we 

730
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,920
struggle to not try to put on a 
face trying to be something 

731
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:05,880
other than we are. 
The Lord, help us simply to love

732
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,400
others with your kind of love. 
Give us hearts. 

733
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:13,800
Lord, we thank you for how 
you're working in our lives. 

734
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,240
We thank you, Lord, for how 
you're working in our community.

735
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,600
And we lift this next year up to
you. 

736
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,560
Help us Lord, to love those 
around us in Christ name. 

737
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,320
Amen, Amen, Amen. 
So I I know that this is working

738
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,080
and here's why. 
We said two years ago we set a 

739
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:33,520
goal, 400 or more guests would 
come and and that would largely 

740
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,680
come because you are inviting 
them. 

741
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,960
Last year alone. 
How many first time guests do we

742
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:44,240
have, Vance? 
276 it's happening folks. 

743
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:45,400
It's happening. 
We're. 

744
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,560
Going to have to set a new goal.
We're going to set a new goal 

745
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:49,720
before we leave today. 
Those are rookie numbers. 

746
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:53,720
We got to pump those numbers up,
all right, Decisions for Christ.

747
00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:58,800
This past year we had 43 people 
give their life to Christ. 

748
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:05,880
That is awesome. 
That means they made a decision 

749
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:07,280
to surrender their life to 
Christ. 

750
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,280
They went to the back, they, 
they gave their name to someone.

751
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,160
They, they, they asked us to 
pray with them, to celebrate 

752
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,560
with them, to follow up with 
them because they wanted to 

753
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,120
pursue a relationship with 
Jesus. 

754
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,400
Now, let me tell you why it's 
such a big deal in America right

755
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,720
now. 
Only 20% of churches are 

756
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:25,040
growing. 80% of churches are in 
decline. 

757
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:30,120
Of the 20% of churches that are 
growing, only 2% of churches are

758
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:31,800
growing because people are 
coming to Christ. 

759
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,120
The other. 
The other 18% is people just 

760
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:37,880
transferring from the 80% 
they're dying 2%. 

761
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,040
That's. 
Sad. 

762
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,480
First of all, that's sad. 
Second of all, that means we're 

763
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:50,520
the 2% because people are 
hearing the gospel of Christ and

764
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,480
in transformative things are 
happening in their life. 

765
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:53,480
Yeah. 
Most definitely, Most 

766
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:56,520
definitely. 
As a result of the last two 

767
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,960
years of people meeting Jesus, 
that means we have a bunch of 

768
00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:01,160
baptisms this year. 
How many? 

769
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:07,640
83. 8083. 
Baptisms now how? 

770
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,000
How? 
How many did we have baptisms 

771
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,280
just a few weeks ago? 
How many total? 

772
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,640
18 baptisms a couple weeks ago. 
Thanks God. 

773
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,640
So let me give you some context 
for that. 

774
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:20,960
In America, we're a Southern 
Baptist church. 

775
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,320
The average Southern Baptist 
church in America right now in 

776
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:28,200
2025 had 2.5 baptisms this year.
Wait, wait, wait a minute 2 

777
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:30,960
Where did they get the? 
Hat they just put their legs in.

778
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:40,840
I want you to understand that to
have 43 people come to Christ, 

779
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,880
to have 83 people be baptized, 
means that God is doing 

780
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,840
something transformative and 
miraculous in our midst. 

781
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:49,280
And I don't want you to miss it 
or think it is commonplace, 

782
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:50,400
because it's not. 
No, no. 

783
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,200
It is God's working. 
God is working. 

784
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,000
It's not us, folks, it's the 
Lord. 

785
00:54:55,400 --> 00:55:00,680
IA couple years ago, Sean, who's
going to join me up here in a 

786
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,000
minute was, was far from the 
Lord. 

787
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,080
Life was a mess, all sorts of 
craziness. 

788
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:11,760
And as he begins to pursue the 
Lord, people in his life in his 

789
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,960
circle noticed. 
And as God began to transform 

790
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:20,120
him and do something miraculous 
in his life, people saw it. 

791
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,280
And and I want to tell you it is
one of the most compelling, 

792
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,880
contagious things that will ever
happen as you begin to see God 

793
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,640
miraculously transform someone 
who you thought could never 

794
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,120
change. 
And so as a result of what was 

795
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:36,400
happening in Sean's walk, his 
family started showing up to 

796
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,840
church and then he got to 
baptize his sister. 

797
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,920
And it's got to begin to change 
her life at work. 

798
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,480
She begin to just live 
differently. 

799
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,440
And as a result of that, the 
people at her work begin to 

800
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,280
notice and she begin to talk to 
people who are hurting and 

801
00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,360
suffering. 
And I got a phone call out of 

802
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,760
the blue at church the other day
and I pick it up and there's a 

803
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,920
lady that I've never met asking 
how, how do I buy my husband the

804
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,480
Bible? 
Like what does that look like? 

805
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,320
How do I tell the what? 
And I'm like, what a what an odd

806
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:13,760
random call in the middle of a 
day. 

807
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,280
You know, I'm just talking 
about, OK, here's how you find 

808
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:16,880
the ball. 
You know, and I and we, we end 

809
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,640
up, we have our staff is really 
good investigators. 

810
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:21,240
And so they space book stocks 
and people. 

811
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:26,880
And I didn't say that out loud. 
And they found out was a Co 

812
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:31,400
worker of Shawn's sister. 
I don't want you to miss what's 

813
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,800
happening. 
It's not people that went to 

814
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,200
seminary, that's some people 
that got ordained right. 

815
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,320
It's it's people that love 
Jesus. 

816
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,960
Jesus begin to do transformative
work inside their life. 

817
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,560
They begin to actually pursue 
Christ wholeheartedly. 

818
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,760
And then everything changed. 
And when everything changed, 

819
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:50,360
everyone noticed. 
When everyone noticed, more 

820
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,280
people changed. 
That's actually the gospel. 

821
00:56:54,840 --> 00:57:00,040
That's being solved in. 
Life Vance, you and I do 

822
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,520
something with some elders and 
deacons and prayer warriors 

823
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,160
every single Sunday morning. 
We have for almost 2 years now. 

824
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:07,400
Well, we get up early, we get 
here at 6:30. 

825
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:08,960
What? 
What do we spend our time doing?

826
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:14,120
This is great. 6:30 at the 
building, at the very back of a 

827
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,080
property behind the gym. 
That's our office building. 

828
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,160
A group of us. 
Some are elders, some are 

829
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:23,400
deacons, some are just folks 
that have a big interest in 

830
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,680
prayer. 
We gather at 6:30 and we pray. 

831
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:31,200
We pray to not just for our 
church, we pray also for 

832
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,160
churches in the communities. 
We pray for lots of other things

833
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,160
as well. 
And in that time, we've got to 

834
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,560
know another pastor who also has
a heart for prayer. 

835
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:44,920
And this is Pastor Johnny from 
Columbus Street Baptist Church. 

836
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,720
It's a little church just a 
little ways up on the Bluffs 

837
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,720
above us. 
And he has become a regular at 

838
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,120
our 630 prayer meeting. 
So by the way, this is a bit of 

839
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,280
an ad, OK. 
If you're interested in prayer, 

840
00:57:57,520 --> 00:57:59,200
we would love to have you join 
us. 

841
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:03,680
We we pray, we pray for about 40
churches by name, their pastors,

842
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:05,600
their family members, their 
kids, their wives, their 

843
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,680
congregations, the life of the 
church, most of them here in 

844
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,480
Kern County, some of them all 
around the world. 

845
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:11,720
We pray for them every Sunday 
morning. 

846
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,000
Then we send them text messages 
during the week to let them 

847
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,120
know. 
We got a lot of people praying 

848
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:19,000
for you and Pastor Johnny 
started joining us and praying 

849
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,000
for those churches as well. 
We've been praying for his 

850
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,760
church for a while and we want 
you to hear from him. 

851
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,720
Good morning, Rez. 
This is John Lucero, my pastor 

852
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,960
down the street at Columbus 
Street Baptist Church. 

853
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,520
I just want to give a word of 
encouragement that the body has 

854
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:36,960
done to allow your elders, allow
your pastors of this church to 

855
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,440
join together in prayer. 
For other churches. 

856
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:43,080
I have witnessed it first hand, 
week after week after week. 

857
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,520
I've been given the privilege 
and opportunity to join in with 

858
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,200
that. 
And it's, it's a very powerful 

859
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:53,080
source of encouragement, knowing
that the local church is doing 

860
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,440
its job and praying for the rest
of the body of, of Christ. 

861
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,880
I witnessed it first hand. 
Thank you all the Saints at Rez 

862
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:03,680
for allowing your staff and your
pastors to to do this. 

863
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,600
And just want to thank you for 
the investments you've made in 

864
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,200
our church and the other 
churches here in Kern County. 

865
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:10,200
God bless. 
Amen. 

866
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:18,560
Amen. 
The fourth thing that is on our 

867
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,760
vision roll out that we rolled 
out two years ago that we've 

868
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,360
been working on is preparing 
people to lead. 

869
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:25,600
And, and here's what I mean by 
that. 

870
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,040
I'm going to read this to you, 
but I also want to explain 

871
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:29,920
something. 
This is the second largest 

872
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:31,960
Southern Baptist church in the 
county of Kern. 

873
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:37,360
And I, we, we begin to realize 
that if we aren't producing 

874
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,560
pastors, ministers, directors 
for ministry to plant churches 

875
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,320
and revitalize churches, who is 
it that we expect to do it? 

876
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:49,120
We're the second largest church 
in our denomination in this 

877
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:50,520
county. 
And we're not doing it, are we? 

878
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,480
I mean, there's one left. 
I mean, I don't know that we 

879
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:55,400
have any excuses. 
And so the, the Bible is 

880
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,880
extremely consistent on 2 values
that we often set apart. 

881
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,320
We, we, we set them almost at 
odds at one another because on 

882
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:05,080
one side, the Bible would say 
there's this clear call for, for

883
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:09,920
older, more mature Saints to 
lead and to guide the church. 

884
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,280
And on the other side, there's a
clear call for the church to 

885
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,840
invest in and raise up young 
leaders. 

886
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:18,200
And in the past 20 years, the 
American church has shown a 

887
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:22,000
really troublesome trend. 
Church congregations are getting

888
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,720
older twice as fast as the 
national population. 

889
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,000
Churches are dying because 
they're getting old fast. 

890
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:35,160
The average clergy person is 
getting substantially older. 

891
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,560
And so we believe that it is our
job to raise up and train the 

892
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:41,120
next generation of church 
leaders. 

893
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,120
And if we want to empower them, 
we're going to have to make 

894
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:47,280
space for them in positions of 
authority in our church. 

895
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,760
We're going to have to be open 
to God calling them to do this 

896
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:52,760
in other places, to send them 
out. 

897
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:57,480
And so we want to intentionally 
investigate more ways to do 

898
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,320
this, from internships to 
co-ops, to takeovers to church 

899
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,560
plants. 
We've been working on this for 

900
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:03,920
about two years. 
We're going to announce some 

901
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,680
stuff today to reach other 
neighborhoods and other 

902
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,320
communities in Bakersfield to 
plant more churches, to 

903
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,480
revitalize more churches. 
And so two years ago, we set 

904
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:16,760
some goals for the next 5 years.
Number one, we want to formalize

905
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,840
our ordination process to ordain
and send ministers. 

906
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,240
Secondly, we want to build a 
pipeline of pastoral training 

907
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:26,400
and opportunity to produce 
ministry leaders to send out, 

908
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,040
not just to keep. 
And 3rd, we want to proactively 

909
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:33,000
seek partnerships for planting, 
replanting, revitalizing 

910
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,760
opportunities. 
We pray over that, Sean. 

911
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:41,040
Yes. 
Lord, we are humbled at the move

912
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:45,160
of your spirit in this church, 
that on this Sunday we get to 

913
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:50,600
sit and experience the fruit of 
our labor in Your spirit. 

914
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:55,200
That we get to rejoice that 
people are coming into this 

915
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,080
church building and hearing the 
gospel for the first time. 

916
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,640
We rejoice on salvations. 
We rejoice for baptisms. 

917
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,720
And God, we rejoice that you are
equipping the Saints for the 

918
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:10,760
work of ministry is that you 
simply do not call us into 

919
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:14,800
salvation, but you call us to 
equip us for the work of 

920
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,240
ministry. 
So God, that is our prayer as 

921
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:22,240
that we become a light, a beacon
on the hill for this community 

922
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,680
that is lost, that you would 
continue to equip and raise up 

923
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:29,720
ministers to proclaim the good 
news of the hope of Jesus Christ

924
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:32,920
to those who are lost. 
And it's in Jesus name we pray. 

925
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:33,480
Amen. 
Amen. 

926
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:38,200
One of the churches that we got 
to support of the last two 

927
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,520
years, we got to support a 
church planter. 

928
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,400
Send Network has is part of the 
SBC. 

929
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,480
We partner with them to plant 
churches. 

930
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,480
And so someone that's near and 
dear to our heart is planting a 

931
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,120
church in Pasadena. 
In fact, you know him because he

932
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:53,920
was your first small group 
leader, right? 

933
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,080
Yes, so. 
My wife and IJC, we've been 

934
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:57,680
coming to rest for about 5 
years. 

935
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:01,760
When we moved to Bakersfield 
from Orange County, our first 

936
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,800
group leader was Derek Berry. 
A lot of you probably know 

937
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,680
Derek, and I don't know about 
you guys, but have you ever 

938
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,000
looked at a pastor and he just 
had head pastor vibes? 

939
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,080
Yeah, Yeah. 
That was that's Derek Berry, 

940
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:13,600
man. 
His, his theology is so 

941
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:15,880
encouraging. 
He puts Jesus so high. 

942
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,760
And, and it's an honor to say 
that we've been able to partner 

943
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,560
with Derek Berry and his church 
plant in Pasadena. 

944
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:25,960
Because of the the giving here 
at Rez and the way we we 

945
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,040
formalize missions, our missions
department sent their church 

946
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,520
plant $20,000 to get started. 
Praise God. 

947
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,680
And since they planted, we got 
to go down to their inaugural 

948
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,640
service when they commissioned 
and had their their first 

949
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,200
members. 
They have since merged with a 

950
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:46,440
church in Pasadena and have a 
permanent church building now. 

951
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:48,360
And so we're very excited for 
them. 

952
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:53,600
Yeah, We've also, we've also 
gotten to partner with a church.

953
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,840
There's a little church in Wasco
called Griffith Ave. 

954
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:57,640
Baptist. 
And we got to go out there. 

955
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,080
We've we've sent teams out 
there, we've helped them with 

956
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,160
their harvest festival, with 
outreach events. 

957
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:04,840
We've gotten to send some of our
preaching team out there at 

958
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,280
various times in order to give 
their pastor a break because he 

959
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,480
doesn't get a lot of breaks. 
And since then, Pastor Kevin has

960
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:12,440
actually come. 
He joins us now weekly on 

961
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,400
Wednesdays at our preaching team
meeting when we're working 

962
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,520
through preaching and sermons. 
And he drives in from Wasco and 

963
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:22,760
sits with us, gives us ideas and
a lot of rez series that we 

964
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:24,920
preach here. 
He'll take some of that creative

965
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,800
stuff and he'll go back and 
preach those same series at his 

966
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,040
church in Wasco. 
And so we're really excited at 

967
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:33,040
what God is doing out in Wasco. 
We've, we continue to try to 

968
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:36,160
find new ways to partner. 
If you hear a call for Griffith 

969
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:37,760
Ave. 
Baptist around here, that's 

970
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:40,000
probably us trying to find more 
ways to partner with them. 

971
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,280
And so make sure you jump in. 
There's another church plant 

972
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,360
that's not our church plant, but
we've been partnering with as 

973
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,280
well, and that's Northside. 
Yeah. 

974
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:49,640
You want to talk about them? 
Yeah, I think it's super cool 

975
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,200
here at RES it's, I mean you can
see that we're equipping leaders

976
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:55,880
to go into the mission field. 
We want teachers, preachers, 

977
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,840
administrative workers. 
So we're planting, but not only 

978
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,760
that, we're also revitalizing. 
So I think it's super cool. 

979
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:03,880
I look at Wrest Mania and I'm 
looking at all these amazing 

980
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:06,800
bounce houses we have and the go
Kart track. 

981
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,960
And it's amazing that we've been
able to sew into North Side to 

982
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,840
revitalize the church and also 
with all of our cool toys. 

983
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:18,360
Yeah, so Valley Baptist has sent
two families in the last year. 

984
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:20,360
I'm sorry, 2 pastors and then a 
bunch of families from their 

985
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,480
church and financial support to 
revitalize 2 local churches. 

986
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:26,240
One of those was Northside and 
so we got to partner with them 

987
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,320
by sending all of our bounce 
houses over for, for some of 

988
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:31,240
their events and sending teams 
over to help them. 

989
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,920
And our, we have a little pine 
Derby track we got to send over 

990
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:35,200
and all sorts of fun stuff like 
that. 

991
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,760
And so very excited. 
They have grown substantially 

992
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:39,880
since they have started here 
this year. 

993
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:43,600
They're not even 12 months in 
and God is already saving people

994
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,160
at that church. 
It's, it's pretty amazing. 

995
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:49,280
And then also had an opportunity
this past year to go and partner

996
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:52,160
with Grace Baptist Church and go
to their men's retreat and 

997
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:54,640
preach at those men's retreat. 
And I'll be honest, whenever I 

998
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:59,000
go preach at something with 
guns, I'm always worried that no

999
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,560
one's listening because they're 
just ready to get to the 

1000
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:04,760
frisbees and the firearms and 
the food, right. 

1001
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,240
And so, but I will tell you that
as a result of getting some of 

1002
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:11,680
these men's events that I get 
invited to speak at, we've 

1003
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:15,000
gotten to see people sometimes 
years later show up and go, Hey,

1004
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:19,080
I, I heard the, the gospel, I 
heard you preach this scripture 

1005
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:21,520
two years ago, three years ago, 
four years ago. 

1006
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:23,440
And, and I just wanted you to 
know. 

1007
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,800
And so like we continue to find 
ways to sew into other churches 

1008
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,400
and other organizations. 
I do want to celebrate a couple 

1009
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:30,880
things. 
One of the first things I want 

1010
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:32,400
to celebrate is you've heard 
this before. 

1011
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:33,360
We're going to keep talking 
about it. 

1012
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:37,400
Mentorship, which is a 2 year 
commitment, usually very early 

1013
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:38,920
in the morning. 
It's a lot of reading, it's a 

1014
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:42,160
lot of work, it's a lot of 
discipline has borne just 

1015
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:44,560
amazing fruit in the lives of 
people in our church. 

1016
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:47,080
We currently have 50, four 
people going through a 

1017
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:48,360
mentorship right now. 
Amen. 

1018
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,360
Yeah, Praise God. 
Sean, you went through a 

1019
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:53,480
mentorship and now you're 
leading a mentorship group. 

1020
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:56,120
You want to talk about that? 
I also tell myself when I get on

1021
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:57,760
stage, I'm not going to cry. 
I might cry. 

1022
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,040
I think all of you have seen me 
cry at this point. 

1023
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:01,440
Yes, we have. 
Yes. 

1024
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:05,040
So yeah, 2 1/2 years ago, my my 
life was at a rock bottom. 

1025
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:09,520
Alcoholism, drug addiction. 
I had quit a career job, was 

1026
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:10,720
getting kicked out of my 
apartment. 

1027
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,840
My wife was moving to South 
Carolina and I met with the 

1028
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:17,840
elders and they said, hey, we 
want to be your accountability. 

1029
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:20,080
We want to love on you to get 
you through this time. 

1030
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:24,920
So I started mentorship and I 
was half brain dead at the time.

1031
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:27,080
I mean, I could barely think, 
but I praised God that there 

1032
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,880
were men in my life who rallied 
around me, who encouraged me, 

1033
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,960
who held me to account. 
And I can say today that not 

1034
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:38,440
only have I graduated 
mentorship, my relationship with

1035
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:40,600
my wife is being restored as we 
speak. 

1036
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:45,600
But now I am a mentor, helping 
men walking the same path that I

1037
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:46,600
once walked. 
So Amen. 

1038
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:47,960
It's amazing. 
Amen. 

1039
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:56,960
Very cool. 
One of the so many stories you 

1040
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:59,640
guys just don't get to see one 
of the dreams that we've had for

1041
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,040
a couple years again for raising
that next generation. 

1042
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:05,320
We we've poured a lot of 
resources and time into hiring a

1043
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:09,720
full time high school pastor and
a full time middle school pastor

1044
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:12,920
because we really think the next
generation gets ignored 

1045
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:14,240
unfortunately at too many 
churches. 

1046
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:16,720
It's why America is in the 
position that it's in today 

1047
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:18,920
where churches are getting 
really old, pastors are getting 

1048
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:20,439
really old. 
There's no one to raise that 

1049
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:21,760
banner up. 
And so we've poured a lot of 

1050
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,760
energy and resource into those. 
One of the things that's come of

1051
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:27,960
that, it's not just the the 
growth and the pursuit of Christ

1052
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,560
in the middle school and, and 
the, the high school rooms, if 

1053
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:33,160
you've been in there, but they 
have actually begun to develop 

1054
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:36,080
their own worship team. 
And so they're now youth that 

1055
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:39,080
lead youth in worship on 
Wednesday nights. 

1056
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:46,840
We're going to talk about some 
stuff in just a minute that's 

1057
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:51,520
coming because of how hungry our
young adults are right now for 

1058
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:52,840
Jesus. 
There's some there's some great 

1059
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,600
stuff coming. 
Before we do that, I want you to

1060
01:08:56,600 --> 01:09:01,120
see two more stories of God 
raising people into leadership 

1061
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:03,600
that had no idea they were ever 
going to be in leadership. 

1062
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:08,760
But as God begin to work in 
them, what you saw developed in 

1063
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:12,240
them through a sanctification 
process LED them to leading 

1064
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:14,560
ministries in this church. 
So take a listen to this. 

1065
01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:18,479
Hi, I'm Chris Heinberger and 
this is Brenda Mayer. 

1066
01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:22,680
We are here to celebrate 
Brenda's journey through 

1067
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:27,000
leadership and guest experience.
So you don't know it, but Brenda

1068
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:30,479
started in the coffee shop. 
And once Brenda raised up 

1069
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:34,479
leaders that she was able to 
hand it off to, she became a 

1070
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:37,399
door holder, a grader and a 
bulletin passer router. 

1071
01:09:37,399 --> 01:09:38,840
I know it's not proper English. 
It's OK. 

1072
01:09:39,160 --> 01:09:44,920
And then she moved into service 
lead on a Sunday morning, and 

1073
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:47,720
then we moved her into guest 
experience director. 

1074
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:52,240
And that conversation began at a
Starbucks where I said, hey, 

1075
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:55,280
you're already doing this. 
What do you think about taking 

1076
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,840
it on officially? 
What was your reaction to that? 

1077
01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:05,640
Holy cow, what am I doing? 
And you're doing a great job. 

1078
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,560
So what have you been your wins 
in guest experience this year? 

1079
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:17,240
I have really gotten to enjoy 
meeting new people, helping 

1080
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:23,200
hopefully my team gain new 
skills, stretch them a little 

1081
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,200
bit. 
I've been asking people to do 

1082
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:27,120
jobs that they don't normally 
do. 

1083
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:32,440
So that because that's kind of 
the way I came up is Chris would

1084
01:10:32,440 --> 01:10:34,280
say, hey, can you drive the car 
today? 

1085
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:39,240
Hey, can you do this today? 
And when you have all of those 

1086
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:42,880
pieces, then it's easier to jump
into something like this. 

1087
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:46,640
Absolutely. 
So what are your goals for 2026?

1088
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:53,600
I think my goals for 2026 are to
get more people good plug, good 

1089
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:59,440
job, get more people into guest 
experience and and just do the 

1090
01:10:59,440 --> 01:11:03,320
best we can to serve our church.
All right, fist bump girl. 

1091
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:07,920
Thanks. 
Hi, I'm Jessica and I'm so 

1092
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,800
excited to be here with Brandy. 
This is Brandy lease and I've 

1093
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:14,680
got to know her very well. 
And one of the things that I've 

1094
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:16,600
really enjoyed is just seeing 
her grow. 

1095
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:20,400
She came to church, she started 
serving and then I could see 

1096
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:22,400
this natural leader come out in 
her. 

1097
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,640
So I made a big act. 
And what did I ask? 

1098
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:29,480
I asked her if she would like to
be our RES Kids Sunday director.

1099
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:32,680
What did you feel when I asked 
you that question? 

1100
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:37,800
Honored but overwhelmed. 
Honored Roblox and scared that I

1101
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:42,320
could not fill the shoes of the 
previous Sunday Director. 

1102
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:44,320
You're doing you're doing 
wonderfully. 

1103
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:47,240
All right. 
So can you share with us some 

1104
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,200
really like big wins that you've
had in kids recently? 

1105
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,920
Volunteers? 
I've been able to shoulder tap 

1106
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:56,200
and get more volunteers that I 
have to choose from. 

1107
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,560
Our numbers have been 
consistently up. 

1108
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:01,360
So kids are coming, parents are 
coming. 

1109
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:05,120
So growth, too many kids is an 
amazing problem to have. 

1110
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:09,840
And just the Sundays are running
very smoothly now. 

1111
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:11,400
They've just become like second 
nature. 

1112
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:14,000
Awesome. 
All right, So what are you 

1113
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,360
looking forward to in 2026? 
More. 

1114
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:23,360
Kids, more volunteers, more fun 
days, and just sharing the love 

1115
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:25,120
of Jesus with these young 
hearts. 

1116
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:26,800
But come on campus. 
Awesome. 

1117
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,640
We're so glad that we can 
celebrate Brandy's leadership. 

1118
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:41,400
All right, I'm going to holler 
at you for just a minute because

1119
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:44,280
I don't believe in having a 
Sunday where the Bible is not 

1120
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:45,640
open. 
And we're not, we're not talking

1121
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:47,480
about just at least a little 
bit. 

1122
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:51,600
So if you have your Bibles, turn
with me to Matthew 28. 

1123
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:53,800
We're just going to read a 
couple verses today, and then 

1124
01:12:53,800 --> 01:13:00,720
we'll end our service. 
This is Jesus. 

1125
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:04,760
Now the 11 disciples went to 
Galilee, to the mountain to 

1126
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,240
which Jesus had directed them, 
and when they saw him, they 

1127
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:09,560
worshipped him. 
But some doubted. 

1128
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:14,640
And Jesus came and said to them,
All authority in heaven and on 

1129
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:21,240
earth has been given to me. 
Go therefore, and make disciples

1130
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:25,640
of all nations, baptizing them 
in the name of the Father and of

1131
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:30,080
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 
teaching them to observe all 

1132
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:33,680
that I have commanded you, and 
behold, I am with you always to 

1133
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:37,080
the end of the age. 
We call this the Great 

1134
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:41,320
Commission. 
It is the same gospel message 

1135
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:46,200
throughout history, for the last
2000 years, across different 

1136
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:50,880
cultures, across different 
regions, ultimately to multiple 

1137
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,080
generations. 
We have been commissioned, if 

1138
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:57,560
you call Christ King, to go and 
make disciples. 

1139
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:04,640
He gave us Scripture, He gave us
prayer, taught us how to do it, 

1140
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:06,480
and he gave us the Helper, the 
Holy Spirit. 

1141
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:11,680
And it is our job, we believe, 
to diligently seek God and to 

1142
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,960
pay attention to where He is at 
work. 

1143
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:20,680
We get ourselves into a lot of 
trouble when we try to dictate 

1144
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:24,320
where God should move. 
You ever done that? 

1145
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,240
You decided you had some dreams 
and God just needed to come 

1146
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:33,200
fulfill them for you. 
Bill Clem tells a story in his 

1147
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:36,320
book Disciple about moving his 
family to the Midwest. 

1148
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:39,600
And on the first of those dark 
and starry nights out in the 

1149
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,120
Midwest, his kids encountered 
fireflies. 

1150
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:43,840
I don't know if you've ever seen
fireflies. 

1151
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:46,600
It's quite the phenomenon. 
And so they captured a bunch of 

1152
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:49,600
the fireflies and they put them 
in a glass jar, only to wake up 

1153
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,760
the next morning and they were 
all dead. 

1154
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:57,040
Just dead bugs you see free and 
flying around. 

1155
01:14:57,040 --> 01:14:59,320
They were vibrant and amazing, 
but stuck in a jar. 

1156
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,440
You don't get light and life, 
you get death. 

1157
01:15:02,680 --> 01:15:05,880
And we do that often when we 
lean on religion instead of 

1158
01:15:05,880 --> 01:15:07,760
seeking God. 
When we think that God will 

1159
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:11,080
respond in a certain way to our 
emotions, our incantations, our 

1160
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:14,120
Pretty Little traditions, and 
that God will just do whatever 

1161
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,040
the formulaic thing is that God 
does. 

1162
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:19,000
Here's the thing. 
You cannot put God in a box. 

1163
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:23,760
The whole point of the second 
commandment isn't simply about 

1164
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:26,240
idolatry. 
It's the idea, the hubris, the 

1165
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:31,200
arrogance of mankind to think 
that they could ever represent 

1166
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:34,600
God with a statue or a picture. 
He's God. 

1167
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:40,600
That's why when they asked his 
name, he said, I am, I am. 

1168
01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:43,720
We cannot contain or control 
God. 

1169
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,320
Instead, our job is to follow 
him. 

1170
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:49,000
We worship him, and we go where 
he leads. 

1171
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:53,760
I didn't come to this church as 
a pastor with a plan, a little 

1172
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:55,800
plan of, oh, here's exactly how 
God's going to work. 

1173
01:15:55,960 --> 01:16:00,920
I had no idea. 
Instead, the elders and I humbly

1174
01:16:00,920 --> 01:16:04,720
sought God and we observed where
we saw him at work and we built 

1175
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:06,920
the plan. 
And we will change the plan when

1176
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:10,800
we see where God is leading, 
what he's doing, because we're 

1177
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,800
two years in to following God, 
because we see him at work. 

1178
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:18,120
And as we followed God the past 
few years, we have celebrated 

1179
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:21,720
tremendous things that we have 
never celebrated before. 

1180
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:26,880
Not because we came up with the 
ideas, but because we got on our

1181
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:30,040
knees, We poured our hearts out 
to God, and then we paid 

1182
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:34,680
attention where he was moving. 
And so now two years of just 

1183
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:41,160
following where God's leading to
be known, to love the 10, to 

1184
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:49,280
reach our circles and to prepare
people to lead, we are making 

1185
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:51,200
significant progress in those 
areas. 

1186
01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:53,200
So we have not hit sixty groups 
yet. 

1187
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,680
We haven't hit 300 people every 
single week showing up to a 

1188
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:57,280
group. 
But man, we're making progress. 

1189
01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:01,120
And if you aren't, if you're not
in a small group, I'm telling 

1190
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:04,560
you, it will change your life. 
It will change your life. 

1191
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:09,000
If you're in a small group and 
you have heard our call for 

1192
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:12,200
needing more leaders, more small
group leaders, the first step to

1193
01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:15,280
that is you need to be a member.
So if you're not a member, but 

1194
01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:17,160
you feel called to be a member 
of this church, I want you to 

1195
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:19,440
ask your small group leader, 
hey, how do I do that? 

1196
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,640
And we will get you started 
becoming a member of this 

1197
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,000
church. 
We have five year goals to 

1198
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:28,320
launch a daycare to put a 
ministry on campus at 

1199
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,320
Bakersfield College in Cal 
State. 

1200
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:34,760
And this year we plan to put a 
full time missionary on campus 

1201
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:36,280
at the college campuses in 
Bakersfield. 

1202
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:45,280
Do I know how exactly yet? 
I do not. 

1203
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:50,360
But I see God at work. 
I see Him at work in the young 

1204
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:53,160
adults in this church. 
I see him growing a hunger for 

1205
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:55,840
the Lord and people from 16 to 
26. 

1206
01:17:56,280 --> 01:18:01,120
And I'm not going to ignore it. 
We set a goal for 150 new people

1207
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:05,920
from this neighborhood attending
res and we're well well on our 

1208
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,040
way to finishing that well 
before the five years. 

1209
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:13,080
We set a goal of 400 plus new 
guests and we hit 280 this past 

1210
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:22,800
year alone. 
We're well past that number, and

1211
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:25,320
we are on our way to preparing 
leaders. 

1212
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:29,920
We will finalize this year an 
ordination process, and we will 

1213
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,880
launch in the spring a test 
version of our pastoral 

1214
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:36,680
residency program here at RES to
start ordaining and sending 

1215
01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:45,360
pastors from this church to 
plant churches, which means 

1216
01:18:45,360 --> 01:18:47,040
there's going to be some gospel 
goodbyes. 

1217
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:50,520
They're going to be people that 
you absolutely love that are 

1218
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:52,320
going to leave here, not because
they're mad, but because God has

1219
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:54,240
a call on their life that they 
cannot ignore. 

1220
01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:57,320
We're not going to get mad at 
that. 

1221
01:18:57,320 --> 01:18:58,920
We're going to give God glory 
for that. 

1222
01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:03,840
And every single one of you can 
be a part of what's going on 

1223
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:07,160
here. 
Say me listen every there are so

1224
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:10,480
many ways to take a next step 
and step into what we see God 

1225
01:19:10,480 --> 01:19:14,240
doing as you begin to notice 
what's God is doing in your life

1226
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,840
and in the context of this 
church family to step into that 

1227
01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:19,760
1st is this. 
If you don't know Jesus in a 

1228
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,160
personal way, I in just a 
minute, I'm going to explain 

1229
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:24,800
what it looks like to meet him 
and to understand that he is 

1230
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:27,160
king and and this is the most 
important decision you're ever 

1231
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:32,720
going to make. 
Secondly, throughout this year, 

1232
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:34,920
you're going to hear us talk 
about it over and over again to 

1233
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:37,560
get into community group, to 
serve and to give. 

1234
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:40,560
We, we think that there are 4 
signs of engagement to show up 

1235
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:43,200
on Sunday, to show up to a 
community group to serve and to 

1236
01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:44,560
give. 
They're just the four consistent

1237
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:47,360
things you see in Acts. 
We're going to talk about them 

1238
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:50,520
all the time. 
They are healthy, they're 

1239
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:52,440
biblical, and God will use them 
to transform you. 

1240
01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,760
We talk about them every single 
month at a lunch for people that

1241
01:19:57,760 --> 01:19:59,080
are disengaged. 
We're going to we're going to, 

1242
01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:03,200
we're going to have a lunch 
every single month in 2026 just 

1243
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:05,400
for people that have not been 
able to find a way to get 

1244
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,960
engaged yet, for you to come to 
that lunch and hear more about 

1245
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:09,360
how to get engaged and take a 
next step. 

1246
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:14,000
And we're going to continue to 
offer you opportunities. 

1247
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:18,400
And, and some of these sound 
maybe like very basic goals. 

1248
01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:21,360
And for some of you, that's all 
you really need right now is a 

1249
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:23,400
basic goal. 
You just need to take a next 

1250
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:25,920
step. 
Here's what I believe. 

1251
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:30,440
I believe that a church 
maintains and builds momentum 

1252
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:34,320
not when a small group of people
go and do supernatural crazy 

1253
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:38,280
things, but actually when when a
majority of the church begins to

1254
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:42,760
be captivated by who Jesus is 
and what he's doing here on 

1255
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:47,080
earth. 
And when we begin to see that as

1256
01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:51,520
a majority of a church, as we, 
as this happens and spreads in 

1257
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:56,080
the in the pews and around our 
church, it has an exponential 

1258
01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:59,600
effect. 
And what it leads to is revival.

1259
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:02,480
It leads to a city turned upside
down in the most beautiful 

1260
01:21:02,480 --> 01:21:04,120
possible way for the glory of 
God. 

1261
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:09,760
You see, every single one of us 
has been commissioned by Christ 

1262
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:13,040
to go and make disciples. 
The Great Commission was not for

1263
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:17,160
pastors and preachers. 
The Great Commission was for 

1264
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:21,040
auto mechanics and school 
teachers, Stay at home moms and 

1265
01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:25,400
baristas. 
Pastors are called to equip the 

1266
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:32,040
Saints for works of service. 
You are enlisted in his army if 

1267
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:35,720
you call him king. 
You were called to live like it.

1268
01:21:36,440 --> 01:21:39,480
And here's the thing, Kings 
don't make suggestions. 

1269
01:21:42,480 --> 01:21:47,480
Someday I will stand before 
Christ, and I will answer for 

1270
01:21:47,480 --> 01:21:50,320
every moment of my life, and I 
will answer for everyone of you 

1271
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:55,520
too. 
And I want to answer well. 

1272
01:22:03,630 --> 01:22:08,710
I want to hear well done, my 
good and faithful servant, and I

1273
01:22:08,710 --> 01:22:14,470
want you to hear it too. 
So maybe you know, Christ is 

1274
01:22:14,470 --> 01:22:17,640
King and you want to know what's
next for you. 

1275
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:21,280
Well, I've got a few things and 
we handed them out on a little 

1276
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:25,520
paper today. 
There are a bunch of things 

1277
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,880
coming this year. 
There's so many that if I just 

1278
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:30,600
tell them to you verbally, 
you'll forget about them. 

1279
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:33,520
So I want to give you a, a take 
home to look at them. 

1280
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:37,880
Here's something I want you to 
think about because you might 

1281
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:42,120
need to start planning now. 
There's a conference April 30th,

1282
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:44,280
May 1st, 2nd, right in that time
frame, very beginning of May 

1283
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:52,120
called Thrive. 
I want every single one of you 

1284
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:55,440
to go, man. 
I would like the hotels that 

1285
01:22:55,440 --> 01:22:57,720
have space problems because 
there's too many people from 

1286
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:00,280
Bakersfield up there. 
It's in Sacramento. 

1287
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,160
We will carpool up there. 
We'll be in vans and minivans 

1288
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:05,720
and cars and do Rd. trips and 
all sorts of fun stuff. 

1289
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:08,880
But it's our opportunity as a 
church family to go up 

1290
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:12,840
somewhere, to be encouraged, to 
be inspired, to spend time 

1291
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,600
talking about what God is doing,
to begin to dream about what God

1292
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:20,760
can do. 
So I want you to go and, and 

1293
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:22,680
you're absolutely right, you're 
going to have to take time off 

1294
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:25,160
work and you're going to have 
to, oh, there's complexities to 

1295
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:26,520
it. 
It is difficult and it might 

1296
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:28,160
cost some money and you might 
have to get a hotel room. 

1297
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:33,400
But listen, once you all do that
for Disney anyways, right? 

1298
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:37,280
Because here's the thing, we 
don't have any problem spending 

1299
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:38,760
and investing money in the 
things that we love. 

1300
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:46,440
So take the risk. 
Worst case scenario, it was a 

1301
01:23:46,440 --> 01:23:55,440
trip to lovely Sacramento. 
Most churches have about 2 to 3%

1302
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:58,600
of the members of their church 
doing all of the inviting in the

1303
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:00,960
church. 
That is the statistic. 2 to 3% 

1304
01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:03,440
of the people in the church do 
all of the inviting, all of the 

1305
01:24:03,440 --> 01:24:08,600
evangelism. 
Say me, I want you to commit to 

1306
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:11,920
reaching the lost in 2026. 
Not 2%. 

1307
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:15,400
Not 3%. 
If you call Rez your home, I 

1308
01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:17,840
want you to commit to reaching 
people who are far from God. 

1309
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:20,720
Every single one of you. 
We're going to spend the next 

1310
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:24,080
month, all of January, on a 
series called Sent. 

1311
01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:28,360
Because you have been sent, you 
have been commissioned. 

1312
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,440
And we're going to talk through 
ways that you can begin to learn

1313
01:24:33,440 --> 01:24:36,200
what evangelism looks like, the 
ways you can begin to explain 

1314
01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:39,480
your faith, ways you can partner
with organizations all around 

1315
01:24:39,480 --> 01:24:41,880
Bakersfield to make an impact in
people's lives. 

1316
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:47,000
We're going to offer you ways to
join in local partnerships. 

1317
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:49,200
We're going to invite you to an 
evangelism conference here in 

1318
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,680
town at Valley Baptist in 
February that you can sign up 

1319
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:52,400
for. 
That's free. 

1320
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:53,880
All you have to do is show up on
a Saturday. 

1321
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:58,480
We're going to have two guest 
speakers in January specifically

1322
01:24:58,480 --> 01:25:01,720
invited to come and share with 
you about missions and reaching 

1323
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:05,960
the lost. 
This year it is our goal to put 

1324
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:09,720
a full time missionary on our 
college campuses here in 

1325
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:16,680
Bakersfield for them to raise up
teams from this church to go do 

1326
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:19,400
events at Bakersfield College 
and Cal State Bakersfield. 

1327
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:25,880
I believe that right now Cal 
State Bakersfield is the black 

1328
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:27,760
hole of the gospel in 
Bakersfield. 

1329
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:34,040
There are no churches within 3 
miles of that campus that 

1330
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:37,040
actually match anywhere close 
the demographic of the campus. 

1331
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:43,360
I think if you wanted to find 
the place most devoid of the 

1332
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:46,000
gospel in all of town, all you 
have to do is walk to Cal State 

1333
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:49,400
Bakersfield. 
So we're going to go get it 

1334
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:54,040
because they need to hear about 
Jesus. 

1335
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:58,080
This year. 
We're going to start a residency

1336
01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:01,000
program to begin to prepare 
pastors to send away. 

1337
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:03,440
That is the scariest thing I've 
said all day. 

1338
01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:06,680
As much as you go, man, we need 
a lot more help. 

1339
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:07,840
We sure do. 
And we're going to send people 

1340
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:13,840
away anyways because that's the 
gospel before you leave today. 

1341
01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:16,520
They're going to be QR codes and
there's a link on our website 

1342
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:19,160
just in case you miss it. 
You just go to resurrect dot 

1343
01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:21,760
church slash Bible. 
We're going to start a new Bible

1344
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:23,800
reading year reading plan 
January 1st. 

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I want you to join with us. 
This be our third year doing it.

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We're going to do it via the EU 
version app this year so you can

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all friend one another and we 
can see who's not not reading, 

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That's all. 
You can't see that it's a joke. 

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I want listen, you want to grow 
in Christ, open your Bible. 

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You want to hear from God, read 
your Bible. 

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You want to hear from God out 
loud, read your Bible out loud. 

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This year we're going to invite 
1000 people to church and we're 

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going to see at least 250 of 
those actually say yes to that 

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invite and come and hear the 
gospel preached. 

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And many of those people are 
only going to come if you invite

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them. 
So what we decide is we're going

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to have a fun time measuring 
this. 

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Here's what we're going to do. 
We have someone building this 

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big wall of plexiglass that you 
can see through. 

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And we're going to take ping 
pong balls. 

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And every time you invite 
someone, when you come in on a 

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Sunday, I want you to take one. 
I want you to write the name of 

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the person you invited. 
I want you to put it in. 

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And they're going to start 
stacking up. 

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And every time one of those 
invites comes, there's a 

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different color ball. 
And I want you to celebrate the 

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fact that that person said yes. 
And I want you to put your name 

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on that. 
And I want you to put it in. 

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And every time someone gives 
their life to Christ in 2026, 

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we're going to write that down. 
We're going to put it in the 

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wall. 
And every time someone follows 

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salvation with believers baptism
in 2026, you have whatever color

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you're going to put their name 
on it. 

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You can put it in that wall. 
And by the end of the year, 

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we're going to have a whole lot 
of ping pong balls. 

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We celebrated 54 people are in 
mentorship right now, but the 

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next round of people who's going
to go through mentorship, you're

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sitting in the pews right now 
and God's been at work in your 

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life and you've been hearing 
about this and you're like, man,

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I wish I was in that. 
Well, guess what? 

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You can be in that. 
You talk to your small group 

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leader, they'll get in touch 
with us and we'll do another 

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round of people that are really 
going hard after Jesus. 

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Baptisms are coming up. 
Again, if you have not stepped 

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forward in obedience and never 
been baptized believers baptism,

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we're doing that in February. 
You can sign up for it right 

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now. 
I mentioned a moment ago that 

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the most important decision 
you'll ever make is to know 

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Christ personally as king of 
your life. 

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So if you're here today or 
you're watching online and 

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you've never done that, I want 
to give you an opportunity to do

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that. 
You see, for so many of us, this

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is how it works. 
God has been wooing us and 

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working on us, sometimes for 
years, and we wonder what it is.

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See, we think we're the one that
has actually been seeking Jesus,

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But the fact of the matter is, 
most of us have been rebellion 

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against God, and He's in the 
loving, gracious way, pulling us

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to Him. 
And so maybe that's you today, 

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maybe you showed up or you're 
watching online and God has been

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after you for some time and you 
weren't sure what that really 

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was. 
And you're realizing in this 

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01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:28,720
moment that is actually Jesus 
trying to save you. 

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The message of the Bible is that
every single one of us was born 

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dead in sin, under the curse of 
sin. 

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And it is only Jesus redemptive 
sacrifice on the cross that 

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enables us to have any sort of 
relationship with God at all. 

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And so if you desire that, I 
want to give you an opportunity 

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to surrender to your life to 
Jesus today. 

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Will you bow with me for just a 
moment as we close our service? 

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If that's you. 
Someone that's never put their 

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faith in Christ, but is is 
realizing that God is calling 

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them to salvation. 
The Bible says in Romans 10 that

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if we would declare with our 
mouth that Jesus is Lord and 

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believe in our hearts that God 
raised him from the dead, that 

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we can be saved because with the
heart 1 believes, with the mouth

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1 declares and is justified. 
So if you want to give your life

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to Christ today, I just want you
to with everyone, heads bowed 

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and eyes closed, say this prayer
quietly or silently after me. 

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Jesus, I know I am lost and I 
need to be saved and I want to 

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put my faith in you, surrender 
my life to you and be adopted 

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into your family so I give 
everything to you, Be my Lord. 

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Please Jesus, if you said that 
prayer for the very first time, 

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will you be brave and raise your
hand for me to see? 

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Thank you, thank you. 
Put your hands down in Jesus 

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name, Amen. 
You said that prayer for the 

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very first time. 
Welcome to the family. 

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We're going to close and I'm 
going to get you out of here, 

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but I want to leave you with a 
story. 

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I believe that we are, we sit at
a tipping point right now in our

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church. 
God has not given us a small 

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blessing, Amen. 
These past two years have been 

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tremendous. 
He has been so gracious to us, 

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but my question for each of you 
is what what will we do with 

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what God has done for us? 
God has provided for us. 

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He has moved tremendously in our
midst of the we could be 

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encouraged and see it. 
What's next? 

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When I was thinking about this 
over the holidays as at home and

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all the family at home, you 
know, as a kid, I grew up really

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poor and so soda was a luxury. 
We bought 12 litre and you 

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weren't allowed to drink it 
during the week. 

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You had to stare at it. 
And then on Sundays after 

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church, everybody could get a 
cup of soda. 

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And so as a dad, it bothers me 
like to no end to walk around my

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house and there be these soda 
cans have been left out and 

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they're like 3/4 full all the 
time, right? 

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Like, are you wasting all this 
soda? 

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My daughter was home for the 
holidays from out of town, and 

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she took our car to the store on
Christmas Eve. 

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And as she's leaving an 
intersection, right as the light

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turns green, she she pulls 
forward in the car and it 

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shudders and stops. 
And she's like, yeah, Daddy just

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shut off on me. 
And then right after it did, a 

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car blew the red light at 50 
miles an hour, missed her by a 

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foot. 
You see, the car has a safety 

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feature and it saw that the car 
wasn't going to stop in the 

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intersection and it shut the car
down and lock the ABS up. 

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That was Christmas Eve, and I 
was thinking over the holidays. 

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Oh how different my Christmas 
Day could have been in the ER or

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at the morgue instead of sitting
at home with my family around 

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the fire And it made me think. 
I wonder how many times God has 

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saved me and I didn't even 
realize it. 

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Friday I I was walking through 
the house and only to find 

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another can of lukewarm Dr. 
Xevia. 

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You know what's funny is it 
didn't bother me at all. 

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She's just happy to have my 
daughter alive and healthy. 

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There are countless number of 
things at this church for you to

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complain about, to be annoyed 
by, to wish were different. 

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It's totally true. 
In fact, if you're to look for 

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them, it won't be hard to find 
them at all. 

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We tend to find what we're 
looking for. 

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But what if you and I overlook? 
I I think we get in a habit of 

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overlooking all the time what a 
treasure it is for God to be 

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01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:49,560
moving in our midst in such a 
way that he is, God is at work 

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01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:55,120
in our midst. 
We see it, we see miracles 

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happening. 
I get the benefit of sitting 

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with pastors in this town and, 
and they ask, hey, what's going 

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on? 
And I get to share just little 

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01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:06,080
bits of what I shared today. 
And they cannot believe what is 

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happening here. 
It is such a tremendous thing. 

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And I don't want you to miss 
this. 

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I don't want you to miss what 
God is doing in this moment just

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because there are things that 
are uncomfortable here or I 

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can't imagine missing a move of 
God. 

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And so I don't want you to 
simply see that it's happening 

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and not be part of it. 
I, I, I don't, I don't want you 

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to hear about these stories and 
wish you were part of it, but 

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never, never be part of it. 
I don't want you to get to the 

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end of your life and look back 
and go, man, all those things 

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were happening and I never 
stepped into it. 

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So I just want to encourage you 
to step into what God is doing 

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01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:54,680
to this church right now. 
Don't be passive. 

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Don't spend your energy and time
looking for the things that are 

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01:35:58,280 --> 01:36:00,000
wrong because I guarantee you 
will find them. 

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Rather, notice what God is doing
and step into what He's doing 

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01:36:05,960 --> 01:36:08,360
and it will never be the same 
for you. 

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Our prayer team is going to come
up right now to pray with you. 

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01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:21,280
No matter what's going on in 
your life, we want to pray for 

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01:36:21,280 --> 01:36:25,440
you and with you. 
If moments ago you made a 

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01:36:25,440 --> 01:36:27,840
decision, a declaration to 
follow Christ with your life. 

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There are tables in the back. 
They say I raised my hand. 

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We want to celebrate with you. 
We have a gift for you. 

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So will you stand? 
We're going to sing a song and 

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01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:38,440
we're going to respond as the 
Lord leads. 

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01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:42,040
As you leave today, let me pray 
over you for 2026. 

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01:36:42,040 --> 01:36:44,760
Father, we thank you for this 
people and this time and this 

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01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:46,400
place that you have called and 
commissioned. 

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01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:49,880
You call them your own. 
You call them your sons and your

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01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:52,000
daughters. 
You've put Your spirit in them, 

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01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:55,720
that you've called them on 
mission to live out the 

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01:36:55,720 --> 01:36:58,600
remaining days of their life, 
however many, however few, they 

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01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:01,000
may be on mission to know you 
because there's a day you're 

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going to call them home and 
there will be no more tears and 

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01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:08,560
be no more pain. 
So God help us to step into that

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01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:13,320
in 2026. 
Father, shine your face upon 

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01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:15,360
them. 
Be gracious to them. 

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01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:18,920
Pour out Your blessing upon 
them. 

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01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:23,320
God, help us to turn to this 
Dark World and let them know the

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01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:25,600
only thing that really matters, 
God, that you are real and you 

1519
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:27,760
are true and that you love them 
and you're calling them home. 

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01:37:28,960 --> 01:37:30,240
Protect this people as they go 
out. 

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01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:34,880
God in Jesus name, Amen. 
Be well Church, see you next 

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01:37:34,880 --> 01:37:35,080
week.