Run our plays | Pastor Brandon Beals | Venture Church

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We are in the middle of a series called all

In pop Up are All in Graphic. This is our

discipleship process at Venture. We want to challenge you to

be all in and today I get to continue that series.

I'm going to read John fifteen, verses one through four,

and then we're going to pray together. These are the

words of Jesus. He said, I am the true vine,

and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every

branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch

that does bear fruit he prunes so that it.

Will be even more fruitful.

You are already clean because of the word I have

spoken to you. Remain in me as I also remain

in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself. It

must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit

unless you remain in me. I want to ask everyone

to buy your heads, close your eyes. I want to

ask everyone to repeat this prayer. After me, everyone say,

Dear Jesus, speak to my heart, change my life in

Jesus' name. Amen, I am going to very humbly ask

that all of the non sports fans, non football fans,

indulge me this morning. If I've never met you before,

I'm Brandon, I am the pastor of the church. I'm

now warning you that I don't have any other illustrations

other than sports illustrations. So but I do want to

ask you to indulge me this morning. College football is

deep in the midst of training camp. The NFL is

deep in the midst of preseason football. The reason that

they do this is they want to determine who their

starters are. They want to see you who rises to

the top. That's maybe a surprise player. But most of all,

they want to implement their plays. They want the offense

and the defense to understand how their plays are run

and be given the chance to perfect their plays. You

might not know this, but the NFL season starts.

In two weeks.

College football, Go Huskies starts in two weeks. I was

told that the college football season starts next week. But

I don't care about those games. I care about the

ones that matter. As a Raider fan, I also like

the Seahawks.

I do.

It's fifty one forty nine Raider Seahawks. Seahawks fans always

think they're being silly, think they're like poking fun at

me when they come up to me. And this is

the question you're gonna ask me in the lobby afterwards. So,

PB how the Raider's gonna do this year? And you

always ask me that with a smirk on your face.

And so I'm just gonna answer right now and tell

you what it's gonna be. This is our rebuilding year.

This is our retooling year. Our team has had transition

with coaches and players.

But next year is our year.

Next year begins our championship window. Be honest, the Seahawks

retooled and rebuilt a couple of years ago, and it

opened up their championship window last year. This is the

natural ebb and flow of any high functioning team. They

have seasons of retooling and rebuilding, and they have seasons

where they make a championship run. When I think of

Venture Church, I feel like we just completed our season

of rebuilding and retooling. As we headed into last school

year in August of every year, I get away on

a prayer retreat and I go through the sermon schedule

for the next twelve month, and I also asked the

Lord to give me one word to describe the year.

And last year, the word the Lord gave me was transition.

And I didn't want to hear that word. I want

to hear championship destroy. I didn't want to hear transition.

But that really is what happened. Last year. We were

in the middle of a huge fundraising campaign, raising money

to expand this facility. You know, you came here week

after week and inhaled dust on Sunday mornings.

How do I know?

Because you complained to me about it every week. There

was construction going on. We had sound issues as we

equed the new auditorium. In addition to that, we were

raising money all year long, and it was one of

those seasons where we had staff transitions. So it was

over the last eighteen months at Venture, our rebuilding and

retooling season. Oftentimes pastors will come and meet with me

and they will they're about ready to start a building

program at their church, or maybe an expansion program. And

because I've been through five of them, leading Venture. I

am a perceived expert at this, so they meet with

me wanting to know what to expect. And the number

one thing I always tell pastors is when you expand

your facility, you go into a building campaign, no matter

how much momentum your church has, it slows down the

missional momentum.

Of the church.

And every pastor always thinks it won't be them. They

think I can move the mission of the church forward,

raise several million dollars, have our building be under construction,

and I can do all those things taneously. How do

I know every pastor thinks that because I always think that.

But the reality is these are seasons when you slow

things down, you rebuild, and you retool. Why are you

doing that because you're hoping it's going to open up

a new championship window. You want to set yourself up

for another Super Bowl run. Healthy retooling and rebuilding opens

up a championship window for your team. Venture had to retool,

we had to rebuild so we could make another Super

Bowl run. Well, our time of retooling, rebuilding, over building done.

Almost the kids thing will be done in two weeks.

Almost done.

You got have done an amazing jaw in giving over

and above your tithe. We raise money to do the expansion,

then we raise money again to do the kids area,

and I want to pop.

Up Alan, look out close. We are look out generous.

You've been. But Alan doesn't have a hat yet. Allen

needs a hat. So we're almost there.

We got to finish this so Alan can get a hat.

But in two weeks you get to see the debut

of our new kids ministry.

We're pumped about it.

In addition, we have rebuilt our staff and we're ready

to make a Super Bowl run.

In August.

Every year, in addition to my pra retreat, we have

a staff retreat. This year we actually have a board

retreat too. At our staff retreat, we bring in guests

to minister and invest in our team. And our guest

this year came in and she is one of the

leaders at one of the larger churches in our area,

and she was sharing their new vision for their church.

Ten ten, ten thousand. I mean it was compelling.

Ten years ten campuses ten thousand people. Now, the ironic

thing is this church is arguably the same size as ours,

probably a little bit smaller. If they really grow to

ten thousand in the next ten years. They are the

largest church in the state of Washington. Totally compelling vision

that sounds awesome on T shirts.

It looks awesome on banners.

If you are out of pastors gathering and people are saying,

what are you looking forward to this fall? Ten ten

ten thousand sounds amazing.

Our team. Afterwards, it was my turn.

I was to stand up and share what is our

vision in our season where we want to make a

Super Bowl run? And here's how I started it off.

I said, I've been leading this church for twenty two years.

We've made several super Bowl championships. As we're going gearing

up for another championship. I looked at our team. Remember

this is on the heels of ten ten, ten thousand.

I looked at them and said, I got no new plays.

I got nothing. I do have three plays that have

always worked that I believe that if we perfect and

run these three plays well, that if we do these

three plays well, we'll open up another Super Bowl window

for our church. I know you can throw in a

trick play every once in a while, but a trick

play might work once, but it'll never work twice. You

can have a gimmicky offense for a season or two,

but eventually defenses get adjusted and gimmicky.

Offenses don't work.

But in our history, we have three plays that if you.

And I run well, they always work.

So this morning, I want to share with you what

are the three plays I want us to perfect, and

I want us to run over and over and over

it again until the enemy stops them. I believe that we

will run and win with these three plays until I'm

proven wrong.

I've been doing this for twenty two years.

This has worked until these three plays cease working.

These are the.

Plays we are going to run at venture now. In

John fifteen, Jesus uses.

A different metaphor than a football metaphor.

I'm pretty positive that if the NFL would have been

around at Jesus' time, he'd have only used NFL metaphors.

But because that wasn't an option, he uses an agriculture metaphor.

Talks about a vine a branch, talks about branches that

grow fruit, don't go fruit, talks about God being the gardener.

This is the metaphor that Jesus uses. But within his

metaphor you see the three plays that I believe you

and I need to run to perfection. And you're gonna

notice that every one of these plays begins with the

phrase everyone.

Everyone.

Last week I shared with you what our core values

were mission, community, generosity. What you might not know is

several years ago we evaluated adding a fourth word to

our core values. We thought about adding the word together,

because we really believe that we accomplish more together. But

instead of adding it as a fourth value, we added

it as a word that leads into our other values.

That you and I live on mission together, You and

I are generous together, you and I are in community together.

So all of these plays begin with an assumption that

these are for all of us, that if only a

handful of us run these plays, we are not an

effective team. But we all need to run all of

these plays. And the first play that I am convinced

if we run it to perfection will work is Everyone

Invites John fifteen, Verse two. Jesus said he's talking about that.

Jesus is the vine. You and I are the branches

off of that vine, and God is the gardener that

prunes all of those branches. You get the metaphor that

Jesus is using. You're a branch on the vine, and

Jesus says this. He says, the gardener cuts off every

branch in me the vine that bears no fruit.

So you get this picture that on this.

Vine and these branches, there are branches that don't bear fruit.

And Jesus goes on and he says, while every branch

that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it will

be even more fruitful. Here is the implication from this verse.

It's amazing. Jesus is assuming that there are branches that

are growing off of the vine that for all intents

and purposes, look healthy. They're growing. But Jesus is saying

that if they do not bear fruit, they are not

fulfilling their purpose. So he is saying, there will be

branches that look healthy, they have the appearance of growing,

they have leaves, they're green, they look like their.

Throat, but there's no fruit on the branch.

That if the branch is not producing fruit, it is

as if the branch is dead and it needs to

be cut off.

Now we know what to do with dead branches.

I have a huge apple tree in my backyard, and

if branches die, I cut them off and I throw

them into my fire pit and I use them as firewood,

and Jesus goes on verse six. He says, if you

do not remain in me, you are like a branch

that is thrown away withers. Such branches are picked up,

thrown into the fire, and burned. So Jesus is talking

about these branches that appear to be healthy and growing,

but they're not bearing fruit. If it doesn't bear fruit,

the branch is not filling its purpose. My daughter and

son in law have a fig tree in their yard,

and this fig tree like produces figs on steroids.

They have so many figs.

If you need a fig, talk to my daughter after

the service, she would gladly give you.

Bags of figs.

And they were at our house talking about they have

so many figs they don't know what to do with.

Like these trees are producing figs at an astronomical rate.

And while we were there, there was another family in

our church. They said, we planted fig trees several years ago.

The fig trees are growing. They seem to be the

leaves are bright and green, but they aren't producing one fig.

A fig tree can be as pretty as you want

it to be, but if it doesn't produce a fig,

it has no use, it's not fulfilling its purpose. When

Jesus talks about you and I, he said, you can

be somebody who goes to church.

You can be someone who is a follower of Jesus.

You can be reading your Bible, praying, worshiping, and you

can still bear no fruit. And he said, if you

don't bear any fruit, you are not fulfilling your purpose.

I would argue that what is the fruit of us

as followers of Jesus, That you and I are to

leverage our relationships for the cause of Christ, That every

single one of us is to live missionally, and that

means there comes a point where we need to be

people that invite other people to church.

There is a.

Statistic and look it up because I wanted the current stats,

and it says, this is church Big Sea in America

that eighty percent of people that come to a church

come because someone invited them.

What does that mean?

It means that if you look around this church, eighty

percent of the people are here are here because someone

invited them. If you are a branch that is thriving, growing,

producing fruit, that means you should be able to look

around and remember, I remember when I invited that person

to church. Oh man, that person over there, I remember

when I saw them and told them to come to.

An Easter service adventure.

Now, I remember when I invited that person to a

growth group. That's what a healthy branch, thriving, fruitful branch

looks like.

Let's break this statistic.

That means next week, when we do baptisms, eighty percent

of the people that get baptized got baptized because someone

invited them to church. Every time I give an opportunity

for people to begin following Jesus and hands get raised,

eighty percent of those hands that get raised happened because

you invited someone to church. This building was built through

the contributions of people who came because eighty percent of

them came because someone invited them. Whenever you see anyone

holding a baby in the nursery, or greeting or working

the parking lot, eighty percent of those that are serving

serve because someone invited them to church.

Well, pbe, I invite people all the time, but they

don't come.

So are you saying that I am a brandranch that

doesn't bear fruit. Every person here is a branch on

the vine of this church. Every person here should be

inviting people to church. And in fact, when you leave today,

we are gonna hand you a touch card so that

you can take these and invite people to church.

That is a play that we.

Are gonna run over and over and over again. You

invite people, You ask people, invite your neighbors, invite your coworkers,

invite your family. You and I invite people. You're gonna

get this card. In fact, it was sitting on your

chair when you came in. It is the top five card.

We want you to be praying who are the five

people that I'm gonna invite to church this year? This

is part of you being a healthy, fruitful branch. You

invite people to church. Jesus implies that there are branches

that appear to be healthy but aren't producing fruit. And

he said, if those branches aren't producing fruit, the gardener

chops off the branch.

So you should be thinking, who are my top five?

Tonight, we're going to share with you a list of

what we call easy invite Sundays. Not a lot different,

but they're slightly special. They just give you that extra

excuse reason to invite someone to church. We are going

to give you a list of those, So you see

them ahead of time for the fall. The first one

is September thirteenth. September thirteenth is back to Church Sunday.

This is a Nashalull initiative. Back to Church Sunday, September thirteenth.

It's gotten everybody focused come back to church. It's an

easy service for you to invite people too. Hey, everybody's

gonna be there. We have some special things going on.

First off, we have our grand opening of our new

Kids facility on September thirteenth. Did you know that September

thirteenth is also Grandparents' Day, So we're gonna highlight grandparents

and we'll do some other stuff. We'll give free donuts,

I don't know whatever else. But it's just that extra

push to get people to come. So some of you

are gonna say, well, I invite people, they don't come.

Am I a debt branch? Now mine?

And your responsibility is to invite people. Paul said this

in One Corinthians three, and Paul is arguably the greatest

evangelist that has lived. And Paul said these words. He said,

my job is to plant. He said Apollos would water,

but ultimately God gives the increase. Your job is to

invite people. God's job is to soften their heart, have

his spirit move upon them, get them to the point

where they say yes and show up. You and I, though,

are invited to participate in this process. Whether or not

people come, You and I invite, we welcome others, We

show hospitality, We include people along with this stat that

eighty percent of people come because someone invited them. Of

those that end up coming, seventy nine percent come back.

Because of you.

So you might have invited somebody and they didn't come,

and you're thinking, how how do I keep participating in

the mission? You look around for people that you do

not know, and you welcome them, and you show them hospitality.

You be friendly to them, You smile.

You say hi, you say can I show you around?

Can I help you get your kids checked into the

kids ministry? Seventy nine percent of people come back because

of that. In the first service, new family, young family,

forget their names, but they come up to me after

the service, and immediately I knew our church had done

a great job with this. They were holding a coffee cup,

they were holding our guest packet. They introduced themselves to

me and then They immediately said, we're coming tonight. Are

we allowed to come tonight to the vision meeting? And

I'm like, of course, why did that happen? Someone invited them?

And then when they came back, people were friendly, showed hospitality,

and were welcoming. They felt like they were apart, and

now they're coming tonight. This year, we're going to run

this play. Well, I think we run this play over

and over and over again until the play doesn't work.

That is play number one. Everyone invites Play number two adventure.

We want to invite everyone to serve. If this is

your church, if this is your team, if you wear

the venture jersey, you gotta find your position, you gotta play.

You got to be a part of this mission of

this church. Literally, Jesus said, the gardener will cut off

every branch that doesn't bear fruit. There can be growing

branches that don't bear fruit because it doesn't fulfill the purpose.

Then he goes on and he says, while every.

Branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it'll

be even more fruitful.

I apply this to my yard right now.

When we bought our house and Muckle t O, we

had a huge apple tree in the backyard, and this

thing is massive.

It took over the whole yard.

I wanted the backyard back, so I started pruning the tree.

Did you know the more I prune the tree, the

more apples it produces. I have chopped this tree in half,

and I am not exaggerating, and it produces twice as

many apples as it did the year we moved here.

If you need apples, I have apples for you. But

that's what happens when you prune. When if you were

a person who invites, if you were a person who serves,

God is going to prune you, and he's not pruning

you so that you don't serve and you don't invite.

He's expecting it to multiply. Let me sum it up

this way again.

The harsht thing for me is that Jesus implies there

are branches that look like they're growing. They look great

on the outside, they appear.

To have all of.

The view of what a branch should be, but in

the end it's not fulfilling its purpose by bearing fruit.

Look at it this way. You either come to church

to you serve or to be served. It's one or

the other. I'm not gonna do this because none of

you would admit this.

Is my battery dead. No, it's back on. So good,

You're so better.

Here Now I gotta share spit with somebody. All right,

back to this thing. You either come to church to

serve or to be served. You better turn the mic

down because I do you know, Oh, I'm getting me

a third mic. All right, does it sound better? David says,

it sounds better. Welcome to ten am. If I ask this,

how many of you come to church so that you

get to be served? You would raise your hand like

how none of us think we come to church with

the expectation the kids ministry full of volunteers, they are

gonna serve me. We don't think the ushers they're here

to serve me, the worship team here to serve me.

Everything that goes on here to serve me. Why wouldn't

we admit.

That, because that is the epitome of selfishness.

We would never admit that.

But ultimately, you're either at church serving or you are

at church being served. Serving is contributing, serving is loving,

Serving is humbling yourself. Paul said at this way in Galatians,

he said, you and I serve one another.

Humbly in love.

In fact, Paul says, the entire law is fulfilled in

loving your neighbor as yourself. Did you know that when

you serve at this church, you are loving someone, You

are showing humility, You are loving your neighbor as yourself.

Everyone should find an area to serve. I was thinking

about it this way. Here are key areas where people

serve primarily in secret, and you never even think about it.

This just happens and you don't realize how it happens.

So one of my goals is to always be the

first person in the office on the days that I work.

For the last two weeks, I have.

Been beat into the office by a volunteer. Here every

time I get here. Sheila McGregor is in our parking

lot working on all of the landscaping. She is pruning shrubs,

pruning trees, pulling weeds as an act of service, loving

her neighbor as herself. You just expect that you're gonna

go to church on Sunday and the parking lot is

not gonna be atrocious.

But you never probably thought how does that happen?

It happens because someone thinks, you know, how I can

serve and contribute.

I can show up early and pull weeds. Why does

she do that? She's showing love to you.

Did you know the flowers in the pots that are

out in front of the building that people always say,

these plants are beautiful.

You know how that happens.

Donna comes every single week and takes care of those plants,

waters those plants. She does it as an active service

and an act of love to you. That is an

active way for her to love her neighbor as herself.

You know what happens every Thursday afternoon. None of you

know this happens. Debbie comes in every Thursday and she

handwrites welcome cards to every guest that comes to this church.

We've asked her.

Many times, do you want to graduate to another area

of service? And she says, no, I just love writing

these cards. Now no longer anonymously. But why does Debbie

do that. She's loving her neighbor as herself. She's serving.

Did you know that when you drive around this area

and you see all these A frame signs, someone has

to put the up. That's Bill and Chris.

Did you know that the city of Mill Creek does

not let us put up a frame signs, so that

means we have to put them up early Sunday morning

and take them down Sunday afternoon or the city will

grab them and throw them in.

A trash bin.

So these guys come early every single Sunday set up

those signs, then after church they picked them up every

single week. Why do they do that? Because they asked

where can I help? Where can I serve? And we

said if you did this, it would lighten the load

of the staff.

And they said, we got it. PB.

Some of you might wonder where do all these pictures

come from that we post on social media that we

use to advertise things.

You know, where these come from?

Mika and Michelle, these are professional photographers gifted.

By Jesus to do this that volunteer with.

They're gifting to take pictures at every function, at every service,

so that we have pictures to post. I proudly posted

a picture that one of them took after the first service.

Why do they do this to love their neighbor as themselves.

One of the things that you don't realize happens every

week is that Clement Werner and Chris run our cameras.

People tell us our live stream is better than churches

ten times our size. Why does that happen? Volunteers people

that serve every single Sunday selflessly, usually without hearing appreciation

or thanks. And to be honest, have you ever watched

me preach? There's one thing I will promise you. I

walk around.

Did you know after three services? I check my ur.

Ring twenty thousand steps after three services, there's someone in

the back who has to follow me around with a camera.

Why do they do that? To love you?

So they're loving their neighbor as themselves. Venture wins when

everyone invites. Venture wins when everyone serves. Last week, I

told you to pull out your cell phone.

Do it again. Now I want you to tap the tap.

Thing in front of you in the chair in front

of you, and that right there is going to give

you a link to where we see that.

We need people to serve.

But it's also saying you might have a gifting or

a passion that we.

Don't know about. Let us know what it is.

And then we are also saying, if you don't know

what your gifting is, where you fit, how you can help.

Someone from our team would love to meet with you

and help you through this process. Now that you have

the link, put your phone down, fill it out after

the service. All right, final play, and I'm done.

Number three.

Everyone invites, everyone serves in the most important play that

we are gonna run week after week, year after year,

and we are gonna run this to the absolute best

of our ability. Is that everyone abides. Some of you

are like, what in the world.

Does that mean. Let's go to verse four.

Jesus said, remain in me as I also remain in you.

Now.

This is the NIV in the words of Joshua Talent

in our church.

The NIV is the not inspired version.

I use it because it's easy to understand. But other

translations don't use the word remain. They use the word abide.

And Jesus is saying you need to abide in Me

as I abide in you.

What does it mean to abide?

I like the word abide better than remain because it

remain is too generic. But abiding in Jesus means you

live in continual fellowship and dependence on him. It means

that you live and you remain in a close relationship

with Jesus.

It means that you and I understand that as a.

Branch we draw strength from the vine that we need

to be connected to Jesus, connected to that vine, that

we need to daily rely on him. That abiding is

this thought of We need to be an active engagement

in our faith practices. We need to read the Bible,

we need to pray, we need to worship, we need

to serve, We need to gather together. We need to

invite that we need to abide in him. So Jesus says,

remain or abide in me, also as I remain or

abide in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself.

You need Jesus, you need each other. It must remain

in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you

remain or abide in me. And then Jesus tells us.

He says, I'm the vine. You are the branches. If

you remain or abide in Me and I in you,

you will bear much fruit. But apart from me you

can do nothing. Jesus is divine. You and I are

the branches. Our purpose is to bear fruit. How do

we do that? Everyone invites, everyone serves, everyone abides. Abiding

in Jesus is the key to bearing fruit. When I

think of venture church and I describe it, I say

we are a spirit filled passionate for Jesus Church that

we are unapologetically passionate. We are a church that loves

to study God's word. We're a church that loves to worship.

We are a church that wants to make Jesus famous. Now,

I wish I had something more exciting and compelling to

share with you on Vision Sunday. I wish it was

something like ten ten, ten thousand. By the way, I'm

not throwing shade on that church again, it's amazing.

I hope they pull it off.

But for us, I think God is saying, run your place.

Run your plays that work. Run your plays that.

Has got this church to the point it's a over

its twenty two years. You've won multiple championships. Before your

championship window is open again.

Run your plays that have won you the Super Bowl before.

Run them to the best of your ability. So what

do we do.

We take cards like this and we run the play.

We invite people to church. We run it over and

over and over again until the gates of Hell stop it.

Then everyone serves. We serve out of humility. We serve

as an act of worship. We serve to show everyone

else we love them and it's actively us loving.

Our neighbors as ourselves.

We run that play over and over and over again

until the enemy figures out a way to stop it.

And then, finally, what do we do.

Everyone chases after Jesus, Everyone passionately pursues Jesus. Everyone falls

in love with Jesus, everyone abides in Jesus, everyone remains

in Jesus, and we run that play over and over

and over again. I'm convinced that if we run these

three plays well, we win. But it takes every one

of us not sitting on the bench but wanting to

jump into the game. I want to ask everyone to

buy your heads, close your eyes, don't forget. Come tonight,

we're gonna receive communion tonight. We're gonna talk about great

things for the fall. We're gonna have a lot of

fun tonight. Don't forget. But my prayer for you this

week is that you would be reminded over and over again.

Let's run our place.

What is my part? What is the play that I'm

supposed to run?

Dear Jesus, speak to every person here right now, Lord,

wherever they're at, lay five people on their heart, five

people that they are to invite. Over the next twelve months, God,

I pray they would be hounded by these people. I

pray that you would burn images of these people in their.

Mind that they cannot let go of.

And Lord, that you would get them to the point

they'd have the courage to invite. And at that moment,

I pray that those hearts are softened and are open

to respond. And God, I pray that years from now,

we all get to look around and we get to say,

I remember when I invited that person. I remember that

person's first Sunday because we ran that play. And then Lord,

I also pray that every person here would feel a

responsibility to be all in and serve, that they would

find their area to serve in Jesus's name.

Pray Amen, Amen, I love that encouragement.

Man, invite, serve, and abide. If we do that over

and over again, we win. I love that. Hey, I

want to transition us this morning to receive this morning's

tithes and offering. Yeah, come on, we celebrate the opportunity

to give an opportunity, to give us an opportunity to

continue our active worship to Jesus this morning. There's a

couple of ways that we give here at Venture Church.

We give them our regular tithes and offerings, but we

also give to Kingdom Builders, which goes above and beyond

our regular gifts, to continue to impact our local area here,

to reach around the world, and to also raise up

leaders here through Venture Church. I want to give you

a little just celebration update. We were giving towards a

project many of you know, the Table Church down in

Federal Way. They've been a partner of ours for many

years now. They just had their back to school outreach

and we gave some to help them make this event possible.

And I just want to celebrate because they served over

a thousand people in Federal Way. They provided over nine

hundred backpacks. They give away nine hundred backpacks to kids

and families in need, haircuts, clothing, gift cards connected with families.

Our very own Debica Howard was down there preaching. We

had people serving down there. Man, it was just an

incredible event. They just wanted to say from them to

us here at Aventure Church, thank you so much for

seeding into that project down in Federal Way. So give

yourselves a round of applause there. That's an incredible thing.

We just helped with today. As we prepare to give,

you can scan the QR code on the screen. You

can scan the QR code in front of you. We

want to thank you for your continued generosity here Venture.

Let me pray. We'll go ahead and conclude our service.

Let's pray, Father God, thank you for who you are

in our life.

Got it.

It's our joy to give back to who you are. Lord.

It's an honor to be able to partner with you

in having your gospel reach around the world and right

here in our own community. And so got we pray

that you would use these gifts. You bless each and

every giver in Jesus mony name. And everyone said amen.

That's all right. We got a worship night coming up,

and not before we have Vision night tonight. People, I

want to invite you back to join us here at

six pm. We're gonna have dessert for you. You can

register for that on the app. But as you make

your way out this morning, I want to encourage you

to swing by. We've got a table set up with

all different opportunities to serve here Adventure. If you sign

up to serve Somewhere Adventure today, you're gonna get entered

into a raffle to win some of our new birch

tonight at the Vision Night. But with that once you

stand on your feet with me this morning. Hey, We're

so thankful for you guys choosing to be here with

us adventure.

We love you.

We will see you tonight for Vision Night. God bless