Sermon
You Are Called
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Transcript
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All right, we got everything on high speed this morning. Come on,
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somebody, you're doing good. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to turn you
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loose. We've got one of the most important things that we do here to
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build community, to build family. How many of you know we're made up
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of every tribe, kindred tongue and people. Did I remember nation? Amen?
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And we are. We're called to be one. We're called to love
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as one, work as one, strengthen one another as one. And one
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of the ways we do all of that is through our small group ministry.
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So if you're new today as well, you're welcome to dive in because this
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is also one of the ways that we grow in the Lord is in small
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groups. Because in these small groups, you're going to find out how to
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walk with the Lord. You're going to study the Word of God, You're
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going to find out how to pray, You're going to find out about deliverance
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and freedom, You're going to learn how to worship. You are going to
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grow and it's a fun filled, loving atmosphere you can't lose. And it's
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part of the way that we really pastor the church. One of the first
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questions I'm going to ask you and the office is going to ask you when
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you have a need in our body, is which connect group are you in?
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Who's your connect group pastor right, who's your lay pastor. That's what
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we're asking. We're asking, are you connected to somebody in leadership who is
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caring for you? You're submitted to your allowing ministry to come through them to
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you. Because this is one of the ways that we pastor the body,
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that we care for, the flock, that we build one another up.
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So that's why we don't want you hanging back. We don't want you saying,
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well, I'm not sure if I'm interested. There's definitely something here for
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you. The table is a worship gathering group. You're going to find discipleship
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there. You're going to find growth. Over here, we've got Hispanic groups.
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So Jesus is leading two groups. These are virtual groups. You can
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hop online, hop on zoom. There's prayer, there's Bible study. Jackie
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is over here. Jackie wave at us. She's got about twenty one Hispanic
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ladies gathering at her house. It's a crazy Bible study group. Sydney's group
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is called Women of the Bible. But men, you are welcomed. I
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know it's a little deceiving, but it's their studying is some of the women
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of the Bible, but men are welcome to the study. So that's on
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South Hill. We've got the Judah's Group over here that meets in the building.
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This is a women's group over here. We've got a whole bunch of
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other groups. Bilingual fellowship. You're gonna be learning both English and Spanish.
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You've got Joanne's group, Party, Praise and Prayer. It's a group of
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women at gathering there and I should go through all the groups. But Miriam's
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got an amazing group on Tuesday nights. Men and women welcome over here.
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Aga has shifted to once a month, and so Frank and Angela if you
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want to be a part of their group. We've got the Communion Group,
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the Virtual Community group up here. Sarah is starting a group of women in
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business. Sarah Sanders, attorney at Law, starting women in business. You
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gotta get to that. Anthony and Greg are starting a men's Bible study.
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There's couples groups, singles groups, men's groups, every kind of group.
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You got five minutes to get up and run and linger and check out a
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group. We want you to connect we want you to meet a leader.
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We want you to sign up that you're interested and let them know and then
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they'll follow up. You'll get more information on the mark on your set.
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Go five minutes. Who did I remember? This? Group? Up here?
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The gathering Prophetic ministry Gathering group up here with Dina and Paul. Walk
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in renewal with Jared and Lisa at their house in pallap It's for couples walking
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in renewal, learning how to walk in renewal. Come up and check out
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Jared and Lisa and connect with them. There's a group for every single one
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of us here and it's gonna be so much fun this season. If you
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don't have a name tag, go back and get a name tag on.
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This his name tag a day because we're connecting and building relationships and some Mehi
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should have a name tag on. Everybody should have a name tag on.
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If you don't have one, go back and get a name tag. Get
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that filled out. Larry should have a name tag on. Everybody should have
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a name tag on. Today. This is name tag Sunday. Michael should
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have a name tag on. Not that Michael together, Michael. Good to
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have Michael with this though, in the building. Romans should have a name
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tag on. Roman's name tag is missing, but Romans should have one on.
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We need to have name tags on because this is name tags Sunday.
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Somebody needs to bring one to me. Hi. He needs to get his
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name tag on. Lavon's got one on, but he's hiding it underneath his
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coat. Lavon's got his name tag on. Ena needs her name tag.
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Sarah needs her name tag. This is name tag Sunday, because we're building
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relationships and connecting. There's cookies up here at the Prophetic Gathering. You gotta
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get a cookie. Come up and get a cookie. Do not sit in
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your chair when there's so many exciting cookies in the building. These cookies need
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to go home in your tummy. Hallellujah. We've never had so much fun.
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Roger needs his name tag. He's sitting here with no name tag on.
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What in the world? Come on, Shirts of the Living God,
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Rise up and get a cookie, Rise up and get coffee. And we've
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got coffee in the back. And we've got tea for the anti coffee people.
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We've got tea in the back. Scott Broughton needs his name tag.
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No name tag on, Scott Broughton. Don't even know who he is there
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it is Thank the Lord. He's got a name tag. Oh Glory to
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God. Oh yeah, you still got time. You still got time to
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come over and meet Jared and Lisa at the renewal group. You've still got
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time. You've still got time. Couples group, it's gonna be couples and
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singles. Come and get renewed, Come and get renewed. It's gonna be
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so much fun. Andrew doesn't have his name tag on. I'm looking,
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I'm looking right now. Where's Andrew's name tag? What in the world,
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Andrew, get a name tag? Quick, get some coffee in a name
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tag? Wake up, smell the roses. Rodgers got his name tag on.
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Thank the Lord. Rogers got his name tag on. Hallelujah? What
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would you do with that? May I also get one of these? This
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is the overview This is the giant overview menu that says every group listed on
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it. You don't want ever get the overgive view menu, so these are
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available also at the tables. Over View menu available at the tables. Hallelujah.
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All right, I am so proud of how y'all are connecting and getting
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your name down. Let's start finding your way back to your seats, if
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you would. We've got some great things in store for you for the last
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part of this service, So come on back to your seats. We got
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good stuff coming. We're gonna tell you some stories about our mission trip.
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Good job. I love it how this church loves to mix and mingle.
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Connect groups are the best. Amen, awesome. I would like four hour
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Uganda team members that are still here today that ended up coming today to come
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on up and grab a seat on the stools. I promised you last week
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that you would hear some stories this week about about Uganda. We had gotten
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in a little late Saturday, got home about eight o'clock at night, so
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none of us were really prepared to be able to share last week, and
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so we've had a lot of week this week to sleep. I am finally
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back in this time zone, and I think most of my brain cells have
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joined me back in the time zone the Pacific. Is it Pacific Standard time
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that we're in? I think it is. It's great. How many of
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you got your name down on a couple of small group lists. Raise your
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hand high if you've signed up for some good job, Good job, We're
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so grateful for that. We love our small groups around here. We love
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connecting, we love being able to minister to you on a little bit more
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one on one basis. It's fabulous. You get to know people, you
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become friends and lifetime friends actually through small groups and care groups, and that's
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awesome. Well, I wanted to read to you the scripture that we kind
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of used to kick off our missions series, if you remember, back in
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March, I read to you the greatest commandment of all. There was some
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pharisees and sadducees that were wanting to trip Jesus up, and so they came
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to Jesus and said, Jesus, what is the most important commandment? And
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he thought that they would say, you know, Jesus would say, well,
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you're better, You're better not sin, or you're better do things right,
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or you better not touch anything unclean, or you're better not lots the
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lot of the better nuts. But they found that Jesus did not give them
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any dues and dots. Instead, he gave them a standard for relationships,
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a standard for how we are to handle one another and him. And so
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let me read this to you, Jesus answered him, this is the greatest
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commandment of all, Love the Lord your God, with every passion of your
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heart, with all the energy of your being, and with every thought that
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is within you. This is the greatest and supreme commandment. And the second
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is like it in importance. You must love your friend or neighbor. Love
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your friend or your neighbor in the same way that you love yourself. So
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when he just describe how we are supposed to love God, he's also describing
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how we are supposed to love our neighbor, love those around us, love
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those who are in need, Love every other person, not just the ones
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that look like you, live in the same nation and talk just like you.
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We're supposed to love everybody. And when you look around this room,
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you're gonna find that God loves variety. He doesn't like same same. But
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yet we have a tendency sometimes to gravitate towards same same, Like if you
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don't speak my language, or if you don't look like me, or you
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don't do things like I do we kind of, or maybe you're not the
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same generation as me, or maybe you're not in the same socioeconomic class as
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me. We tend to gravitate towards same same and God is saying to us,
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hey, listen, I didn't make same sing I have made a lot
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of variety. And it is your job to love me with all of your
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mind, all of your energy, and all of your strength, and then
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to turn around and love everyone around you. I don't care what color their
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skin is, what language they speak, what their background is. I don't
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care. Love Amen. And so that's what we do around here at New
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Horizon. We have a very strong outreach towards missions. And that's kind of
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the drumbeat that I'm always pounding, just to keep us looking outside of ourselves.
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Did you know did you know that? Yeah, you got up this
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morning and you drove to church and we just had church together. But this
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is not the sum total of the whole world's church. Sometimes we think that
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the one little thing that we do, the place we go and the chair
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that we sit in, and the people that kind of we bump up against
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at church, that's the sum total of all God's church right here. But
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that's not the case. Did you know that? Probably well, Uganda is
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ten hours ahead of us. So if you look around all the way around
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the world, ten twelve, fifteen hours ago, other people around the world
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woke up and ate maybe a different breakfast than you did, and they got
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to church, and maybe in a different way than you did. Maybe not
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in their own little car. Maybe they had to ride a boat a boat,
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and maybe they had to ride a horse, maybe they had to walk.
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But they went to a church. Maybe it didn't look like this,
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maybe it was a grass hut. But they all came together and they worshiped
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the same God, with the same heart and with the same spirit, all
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the way around the world. And it's pretty cool how God has it,
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Because have you ever been to like the Seahawks game or somewhere in the Call
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to seum where one part starts to shout and then the next and it's kind
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of that what do they call that, the wave that goes all the way,
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Well, that's what happens every seven days on this planet. Wherever the
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first time zone is, I don't know where it is. But they got
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up and they worshiped the Lord. They stood up and they learned truth,
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and they loved God, and they learned they heard the same message of forgiveness
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and of repentance and living for Him. And then the next time zone and
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the next time zone and the next time zone. We're kind of the last
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ones to the party. Did you know that we kind of finish shut up
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right here in the Pacific. I think Hawaii is the next one, and
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then I think it starts all over again somewhere in there. But the reason
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why I'm sharing this with you is I want us always to realize that our
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little world, our little slice of the Kingdom, is not all that there
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is, and that there is a whole world out there, a whole world
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out there that loves God. But there's also a whole world out there that
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doesn't know about him. There's a whole world out there that God has put
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together and loves just as much as He loves you, and He's called you
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to love them. Amen. So we spend time and money and resources here
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at New Horizon because I love to keep in front of your hearts and in
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front of your eyes and in front of your mind all of our neighbors,
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all of humanity, so that we can become generous people. You know,
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when there's a need around the world for a well in a community, they
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have a need. But did you know that I don't have a need for
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a well. I have a need to become generous. They might need water,
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but my soul needs the exercise of generosity, and so in the midst
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of all of it, it's a beautiful thing. Amen. So last week
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on Saturday, we returned from our trip to Uganda, and you all helped
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send us there, and you all did a bunch of work and you didn't
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even know it. So we are here to share with you some of the
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things that you did without even knowing it, because you supported us financially and
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we were able to care for people, change people's lives and do a using
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things. So I have a group of people behind here. Each of one
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is going to tell a different story. And I'm going to start with mister
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Wolfe, if you would come up part of our team. Mister wolf don't
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you love mister wolf I love him? So him and mister Sims over here.
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UH preached at a pastor's conference and there were about three hundred pastors there,
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and I want you to share some pictures and some stories about your time.
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There's pictures all ready together. There's the picture that's actually a boozy.
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We did a marriage conference there and so that was something that was the first
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three days we were there. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Figure out,
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Uh, this is the apostle seed of my own jo So he flew in.
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This is at the pastor's conference, so Avoniar and heavy, which was
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near Lake Victoria if you look it up on the map. But he flew
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in yesterday before. So he's here on a on a trip. So we
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had an amazing time that the Pastor's conference, who were there five days before
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we left. I didn't know exactly what the Lord was going to have me
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share on, but the Lord gave me a word, and the Lord showed
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me like revelation one unto Him who loved us and washed us from our sins
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in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and
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his Father. So the Lord, the Lord gave me a word to deliver
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over there about bringing the communities of these pastors, bringing those communities into heaven
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on earth, and that God was actually appointing them as royalty. They weren't
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just the priests of their community or their village, but they were the kings
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of their village, and that they were to raise up kings as kings,
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they were to raise up kings in their community. And so it was so
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amazing. It was anointed. God was all over it. It was wonderful.
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And then we got to anoint all of these pastors as kings over their
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community and it was I think it literally with earth shaking, it was so
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rich. And then you all helped us distribute books. So we took four
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hundred and fifty books over there and distributed Move your Mountain books, the Self
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Deliverance book, the Restored Life Book, to Communion book. So we just
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overwhelmed them with a book distribution at the end of the week and just had
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an amazing time with us. So thank you for being a part of that.
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And just remember this over you as well, that you were not paupers
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in God, that God calls you kings and priests, and that you are
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the ones who reign with Him. We brought the word of Ecclesia to them,
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we brought the word of Apostle to them, and it's just you know,
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some of what we've gotten to partake of God was shifting in their hearts
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as well, and it was amazing. So thank you so much. Amen.
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From what I hear, they blew it up over there, and Pastor
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Joe come on up here and you share what you did. Well, we
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I was. It was my first trip and in the past i've I've been
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one to send but never to go. And this time I went. And
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I won't ever be the same. And I will tell you, I want
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you to just focus on this for just a second. This picture here,
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this little guy is God free and Godfrey is a pastor. And on Thursday,
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after I shared on armor bearing and raising up an armor bearer, he
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ran to me after service or after after the message and handed me six thousand
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shillings And that's about a dollar sixty in your money, but that's over half
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a day's wages for the average Ugandan. So he grabbed me and gave that
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to me and and said, I'm sewing this for my ministry and you know,
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believing for God to raise up an armor bearer for him. And see,
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you know, we're bringing stuff to these guys that they need. But
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I want you to understand, somebody, because what grabbed my heart was that.
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But what really grabbed my heart was the fact that these people walk in
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a humility that is so amazing and so precious. And you know, in
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America, what we see and I don't want to be critical but the reality
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is we like our comforts and and I don't know many of us here who
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would sit in a cinder blocked building with a non vented metal roof in ninety
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degree heat for hours and hours, five days in a row to hear the
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word we'd want our comfortable chair. These are wooden chairs. These aren't comfortable,
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and we'd want we'd want you know, where's the coffee bar? Where?
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And you know, but they're humble, not in the sense of of
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a pity humble, but they're humbled because they only want God. They only
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want what He has for them. They only want what Jesus brings. And
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that's the humility that Jesus was talking about in the Beatitudes when he said blessed
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are the meek, he meant that to be that blessed are the ones who
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only seek God, who run after Him with everything that they have. That's
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who I want to be. And so as important as it was for us
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to bring something to them, I think it's equally as important for us to
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take something from them. And so today my encouragement to you is that you
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know, don't don't sit here thinking this is you know, we've arrived at
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something we haven't arrived at anything until we've arrived at the power and the foot
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of the Cross, and said, God, all I want is you.
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So my encouragement to you today is to you know, go and be and
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do and be a part of this thing, and you'll never be the same
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again, I promise you. Amen, God bless you. Amen. So
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Pastor Dwayne and Joe stayed all week, pretty much the whole time teaching in
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the Pastor's conference and that kind of thing, and the rest of us climbed
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in a coaster. A coaster is of a bus of sorts, and we
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rattled down the road for about seven hours potholes and speed bumps on the main
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highway down to Metucula. And so let's have Debbie come on up. And
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so what we did was when we were in Metucula we did a medical clinic
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and then we also, because it was the rain we bought, we brought
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the rain, which they were all happy that we had brought the rain.
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But that minute was the beginning of planting season, and so a lot of
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the women were out in the fields planting on the two days that we had
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planned the medical clinic. So even though we had planned for about a thousand
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people eight hundred two thousand to come to through the medical clinic. We didn't
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have that many numbers, and so we served who was there, and then
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we took advantage of it and we went on a little hike. We went
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on a sojourn. Because Justice and Rose are the doctor and his wife there.
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They do outreach to all of the teen mothers who they he's delivered their
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babies who have absolutely nothing. They don't have, they haven't graduated from school,
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and they have multiple children, and they are the poorest of the poor.
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So Debbie, would you kind of take us on a little tour of
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that little walk that we took. Okay, like Pastor said, we all
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kind of gathered up and the social worker that was at the clinic, he
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was our interpreter, and go ahead and just keep rolling through Johnny. And
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so the places we visited, this hut here a girl named Elvis, I
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think she do in September. She wasn't very old. Her mom and two
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sisters lived in the little village keep rolling Johnny, and so she didn't have
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any place to go. And women have a different position. We in America
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don't even understand how the women are yeah, it's just different. And the
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babies, they're just This woman was so blessed because we gave her stuff and
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she had this little baby named Daphne, and I said, oh, I
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have a granddaughter named Daphne, so I mean we kind of related. And
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then we went to this first place and it was like a cinder block room.
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I knelt to pray for this lady and this is Diana. She and
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her husband she was married, are building a house. She had half of
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the roof done and it was a rainy season, so I don't know how
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they were going to survive on that, but they lived just so meagerly.
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It's just really they do wonders with what little they have. This is another
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group that had babies, and I'm like Pastor said, these are teenage mothers
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and from my understanding during COVID, a lot of these girls i'm got pregnant
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without the fathers sticking around, and so they're, you know, relying on
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their own. And then that's one of the babies. You guys, babies,
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Oh they're my heart. And there was a lot of them. We
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just loved them to death. And then an older lady named Eva. She
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was the mother of the three Elvis was one of her children, and then
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the two older ones, and they had a baby, and they lived in
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a little tiny, square cinder block place. I prayed for her, but
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I had to kneel because I couldn't stand up, and I'm not a tall
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person. That's Eva right there. She speaks six languages, however, not
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English, so we had a translator. But the women and the children there
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that they just if you have a servant's heart, you have to go,
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because you will just it's life changing, it really is. We are all
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so blessed, you don't even know how much. So that last lady there,
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she lives in a little squares probably ten by ten that you can see
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the doorway there. It's filled. She lives there with her her two teenage
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daughters who also have children. And so there was one mattress in the corner,
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and that mattress was about a four inch foam that is typically covered in
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fabric. All the fabric had been ripped off, the foam was falling apart.
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They sleep like cordwood, you know, all the way across. They
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put their heads on the mattress and their bodies on the cement floor. So
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you know what you did. Do you know what you did? Well?
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You bought new mattresses for all of the single mama's over there. We bought
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about forty, Yes you did, Oh yes, shoe did you have no
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idea how busy you were when you were over there. But your giving into
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missions gave me the power to take extra cash over so that when I found
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needs like this, I was just like, no, we can't do this
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anymore. So we bought forty mattresses for forty of the single moms. You
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did, right, Okay, So Connie did not stay for second service,
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So let's go to Connie's pictures very quickly. Connie spent her week working for
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my three sixty shoe project. That's a little little child that runs around the
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compound there. But what she did was she worked with that team right there
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and worked for five day, four days, four days, sewing and putting
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together shoes. And that is her right there working. And these are those
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really cool shoes that expand two sizes, so when you give the child a
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shoe, it actually grows with them. It's just the nifty thing. So
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it starts off like what you just saw. And then she was sewing and
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she was cutting and she was nipping. She was working really hard, all
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by herself from our team with all those other people. She had the time
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of her life. We then went on Friday to this church here that has
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a school and an orphanage attached to it. Those are all children sitting there.
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There's hundreds of them. And we went in and we had a little
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children's ministry time and pray taught them the word, and then we all lined
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up. Go to the next picture. Those are the shoes that we brought.
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We brought three hundred fifty. Now stay right there. That is a
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foot that was presented to me. What happens is is the children would come
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sit down in the chair in front of us. They'd put one foot up
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on your lap, and you had some baby wipes and you'd wash their feet
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and there you go. And then you'd put a fresh pair of socks,
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brand new socks on them, and a pair of shoes. So go back
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to that foot, that foot. Okay, that foot came to me with
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no shoes on it, but about I don't know how many inches of dirt.
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So what you see there you can kind of see the light skin that's
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I had soaked it with about fifteen baby wipes and scrub till I could finally
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find skin. So this little guy cute us little guy in the world,
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and he had clean feet by the time I was done, and I was
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out of baby wipes, So go ahead and go forward. These are Unfortunately
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we cropped that picture. That little boy has shoes on his feet, and
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there's some more shoes, and the next one, this is Connie. This
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is us lined up. We had probably fifteen or twenty of us doing this.
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It was very sad when the last shoe was given away because we had
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not run out of children. So you are the ones that paid for those
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shoes. You were busy that week. Thank you, Thank you so much
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for that. Let's see how about Pastor Dennis. Okay, So we got
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the opportunity to see an extension of what the Lord is doing here locally through
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the Food Bank Ministry and the Hispanic community Gloria Rios por laid Hispana Amen.
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And so not only is the Lord building this house Amen and building the nations
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through the Hispanic community the Food Bank ministry, but now as a community we
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come together and we break the spirit of poverty in Lucaya, Uganda by raising
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this farm, chicken farm, poultry farm. We call it jokingly, we
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call it the chicken coop because that's what we thought we were gonna build.
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But this turned out to be a huge in men's project and the whole process
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of self sustainability, the business model, the education that goes into the school.
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It's like a whole beautiful ecosystem that the Lord is doing through your generosity.
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Amen. So I got to be a part of that along with every
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one of you. So thank you for buying tamales, Thank you for buying
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tacos. Yeah, it's an honor and a great privilege to be a part
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of a church that it's so giving. Amen. So that's it. Amen.
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So yep, there's the kids. Oh I forgot all about this.
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So everything over there is done with so much joy and dance and beautiful smiles.
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Look at that, I mean, come on. And so basically the
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kids did a presentation for us, and through dance and music and wonderful drum
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playing, they presented a story of a child that was sick and they prayed
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to the Lord the child. That little kid right there, he's got the
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moves, man, he makes me look bad. So he rose up from
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the sickness, he was healed and everybody's dancing and expressing thanksgiving on to the
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Lord. So it was amazing. We love our people and men. Amen.
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Amen, Miss Sandy, help us understand what you did out in Matukulis.
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So when we were at the out doing the medical clinic, the doctors
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and nurses were busy dispensing medications and taking care of it. And then this
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lady was doing her thing, So help you help them understand what they did
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while you were doing your thing. Oh, y'all, help me do something
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I love. And it's not the first time I've been able to do it,
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but it's the first time I've been able to tell you about it.
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So one of the issues, the farther out to go, the less money
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there is, it feels like, and some of the young ladies, if
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they don't have enough, why hand it out Feminine hygiene kits. So if
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they don't have everything they need to be able to go to school, then
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they miss a week of school a month. So what we did is we
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brought kits that I was trained by an international organization to present them, but
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our Boosey Women's Empowerment Center was trained by the same organization to make them.
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So everything was bought local, everything was made local, the money stayed local.
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It helped support the ladies in Boosey. And then we get the gift
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of taking these to these young ladies out there and do classes, small groups
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of classes and get to just have fun with them. Explain it that little
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lady is just saying thank you for her kid. We had a blast with
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Maureen. You see in the corner. They're one of the nurses in Matukola.
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So thank you all for paying for those kids and help, you know,
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help and make that happen. But one of the other things that I
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wanted to share with you, and that I really really noticed was super highlighted
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to me on this trip was that regardless of what each person thought they were
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going with or not going with as far as what they were contributing, God
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took that yes for them and just turned it. He multiplied it, and
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he turned it into something else. I watched my husband, who planned to
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go and teach bring healing in a relational situation that had been ongoing for a
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while. I watched Pastor Joel, who had a list of, you know,
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important things to do, sit for an hour in a plastic chair and
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lock eyes with a local pastor's wife and encourage her because she was all alone
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out where she was at. You know, I watched a dentist who thought
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he was going for chickens raise up some young men and sit them down and
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teach them about leadership and then go play soccer with them and let him get
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all the energy out. Debbie, who was going for you know, loving
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on babies and ladies, sharing her testimony in such a vulnerable way, and
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the response that those ladies had to her, and what a gift to that
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was to them, and for Connie. I got a note this morning from
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the leader of my three sixty saying what an encouragement she was to the team.
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And I don't know if she even relies to that, But each one
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of us brought things to the table that we might not have even noticed ourselves
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unless Holy Spirit highlighted them. And I want to say it's the same for
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y'all. And I know some of you sitting out here have been there before
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and you know what I'm talking about, and some of you might want to
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go, And even if you don't go, and if you stay here and
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you serve, it's the same thing God take sure yes, and he multiplies
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it, and he affects people in ways that you don't even realize are in
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you. He'd brings out those gifts in you and gives them to those people
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around you. So don't quit. Don't quit. Say yes any chance you
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get and watch and see what happens. Amen, How many of you remember
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in the month of March, this last month, at last March, we
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did missions a month and we raised finance to put a well in. Do
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you remember that? Who was there? Raise your hand? Were yep?
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Most of you. So go to the Comango pictures. That is the well
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that you put in. They had just completed it when we got there.
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So we pumped water out of that well with all the kids. Keep going.
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The kids drank water out of cupt straight from the water well instead of
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having to go to the swamp that had just opened. We had just opened
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this water well. That was part of the community that came for the dedication
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for that water well. Look at what you did, Remember I told you
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you were busy. We bought jerry cans and gave jerry cans out to the
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community so that they would be able to have something for carrying water. Back
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and forth from that water. Well, look at what you did. You
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bought that. We loved on those kids. We put balloons in every one
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of their hands, and we prayed over them, and we had a wonderful,
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wonderful service we played with them. It was fabulous. Go to the
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Metuculis slides if you would. This is some of this. Go ahead,
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just keep going, just go through them pretty quickly. That was one of
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the groups that we were dealing. You're not dealing, but working with.
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Dennis is one of these children. Remember Spencer, Look at Dennis. Keep
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going because there's more of him in there. There's Spencer. Keep going.
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Yeah, we had a hoot working together, sharing testimonies. He is in
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He's in the bottom of that pile, Dennis is. Yeah, he's in
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the bottom of that pile. You can't see you can which head is his?
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Can you see which head is his? It's the bald one right there.
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Okay, keep going, keep going? Is that it for down there?
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Okay? Well that is it? Okay. I want to welcome Yeah,
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we'll leave that one up. How's that? Oh boy? I want
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to welcome Pastor Stephen Mayanga up here and he's gonna close us out We're gonna
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hear from him. Hallelujah. On behalf of Yougana Christian Outreach Ministers and on
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behalf of the World Outreach Minister Foundation. I just want to say thank you
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very much for teaming up with Jesus, for teaming ups with us to change
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Africa for Jesus. And I would like to share a scripture with you and
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a few remarks. Isaiah chapter six, verse eight. The Bible says,
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then I had the voice of the Lord saying home, Shaha, send and
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who will go for us? And I said, here, I am send
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me. It's unbelievable that God, the creator of the whole world, God
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who is able to do things, who created heaven and earth, sit there
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and say who will go for us? I just want you to know God
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cannot change people without people. God's changing people through people. God loves people
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through God, bless people through you. Can do better than that. God
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bless people through God, change people through God, transform villages and the community
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through and the people. As is the Church, God, the Father,
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God, the Son, God, the Holy Spirit. Prist you makes a
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very dangerous team. Now let's sit down. Let's see this is the Church,
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this is you, when you accept Jesus to come to become your Lord
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and savior. You wait Jesus come into your life. So pastor and prist
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Jesus. Those are two day and when you received the holiday, the holiday,
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he comes into your life. For many. How many are in this
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and then we get him on their father and he looks like your father.
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How many now are in this box? Oh, so like they say me,
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come aloud at me, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, all the spirits
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Father, rast go the Father. We are up there your last him.
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So whenever you go, Gods, his kingdom is in you. The good
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and the God has heart to beat his missions missionless love, missionless missions love.
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So when God wanted to bring people to deliver people from Egypt out of
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bondage, he said, in his word, I have a heart the Christ
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of my people. I have seen their suffering, I have filled their pain.
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I have come to deliver them. Then God go, Did God go?
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He said, Moses come to deliver, to take a nation out of
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a nation without a gun, but with the presence of God, the Trinity
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teaming up with Moses. Hallelujah. In the Second King chapter five, Now
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I many made a mistake of taking a girl. We don't know her name.
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But that kingdom of God was in that younger girl. She was employed
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in the yaman's home. If you are working somewhere, you are an ambassador.
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Say amen, the kingdom of God has gone into that place. When
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that that is missions by the way. So when that the girl was in
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the Armand's home, the kingdom of God, the Father, the Son,
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and the Holiday was lulling and raining and taking dominion in Armand's house. She
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did not feel sorry for herself. Many of us have missed to be used
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of God because we think about ourselves. We feel sorry for ourselves. But
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when you have God, the Father, the Son, and the Holiday,
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you have the eyes of God. You have the ears of God. You
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have the sound mind of God. You see what God sees. You hear
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with God hears. You have the sound mind of God. You have the
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heart bit of God. So was that younger girl when she was in Ammani's
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house. She did not think about herself like most of us today. She
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would have said, God, why don't you deliver me, Why don't you
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restun me? Why do you allow me? God's ways are not our ways?
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He sent we talk about giving, we talk about going, and we
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talk about doing. God can't send you any way. He sent her in
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a way no mane can understand. And when she was there, she had
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the eyes of God. She's saw death in her Armani's home. She saw
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tears in missus Namani's eyes. She's saw children who are hurting because Dad was
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full of repressed. She was representing God. She spoke on behalf of God,
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the Father, God, the Son, and God the Holyday and amand
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went and she said, if my master, can God see my pastor,
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he will be healed of his deprosed. The Kingdom of God changed now Armand's
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house. The Kingdom of God changed that whole kingdom through a simple girl.
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You are annointed to say I am annointed. Say I am anointed to change
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the world. Wherever you go. I am ambassador. I represent to God.
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The last example is God the Sun. She first a challenge God,
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say holda God for us, who patterner with me to bless people. She
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had a challenge of five thousand men did not come to women. If it
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was African children, African family, they would be the five thousand men,
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ten thousand women and maybe fifteen thousand children, but they only accounted men.
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And Jesus wanted to heal those who were hungry. She was looking for those
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who are willing to give, to partner with him, to give, to
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do the giving, to be part of what He's doing. The disciples went
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around asking anybody willing to sacrifice your lunch to invest into Jesus's ministry so he
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can feed the hungry. And all the men hid their lunch boxes, and
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all the women hide their chocolates, and all they used, hid all their
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cookies. And the only one, younger boy whose eyes could see what God
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was seeing, whose ears could hear the hurting and the cries of the hungry,
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who understood with the sound mind what God was doing. And he said,
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Andrew, I invest my lunch into Jesus's ministry. We talk about a
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giving, we talk about going, we talk about doing that boy partner with
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Jesus. And he fed five thousand men, ten thousand women, fifteen thousand
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children, and the words balance, thank you for partnering with World Outreach,
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Minister Foundation, when you had the cries of comment or community drinking water from
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the swamp, you invested like the boy invested his lunch. You invested your
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money and today you saw the children drinking itself and the clean water. Thanks
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she for investing. When you saw the mothers, you saw the mothers in
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Africa, Uganda and Africa. Every day mothers die when they're giving birth.
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Many of her children don't celebrate five years, but the celebration they die.
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But thank you for teaming up with Jesus to build a medical center in Motocola
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to save those mothers, to save the children in Africa. We call her
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Mama Joe. When she was daily dedicating that way. You saw the pictures.
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The political leader stood on the behalf of the community to thank her,
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to thank you. But these were her words. His words, including a
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Muslim representative, who are the associate of the political leader? They say it,
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Mamajo has told us about Jesus and we're welcome Jesus into our lives.
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But we ask you. Our children don't have school. Can you build at
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a school? They were asking Mamajo. And when they're asking Mamajo, who
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do they ask? They are asking the church. They are asking us to
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partner with Jesus to beil dam a school. I want to say thank you
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for teaming up with Mamajo and with warmth and with Jesus to build a Bucomola
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school that is the most beautiful school in that whole region with running water.
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So on, behalf of warmth On, behalf of the our families in Uganda.
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I'm here to say, May God, Richard, I bless you,
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thank you for teaming up with Jesus, Thank you for giving, thank you
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for going, Thank you for going. Jesus changing people through you can do
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better than that. Jesus changing people through Jesus, Love people through Jesus,
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changing community through Jesus. Want to change this generation through you. I love
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you, I appreciate you. May God bless God. God bless you so
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much. Don't settle down. Jesus is coming soon. You must be part
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of what he's doing. God bless you so far. For Si was saying
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speech. So Zara was for yours. The way was snow. She was
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your fos see you friend. More sharing makes such a sea, makes makes
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massing your amuse less. Such unless side baseless said to stay out each fish
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the warder. When the word more, I name your wish, I say
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see everybody said go ahead, s alright, alright, st