1 00:00:00,266 --> 00:00:00,633 Well again. 2 00:00:00,633 --> 00:00:03,166 Good morning, church. We're happy that you're here. 3 00:00:03,166 --> 00:00:04,800 We like to. 4 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,900 Here, here at Woodside doing a thing we call five good minutes if you're new. 5 00:00:09,633 --> 00:00:12,866 This is definitely something that is unlike what 6 00:00:12,866 --> 00:00:14,533 we usually do on a Sunday morning. 7 00:00:14,533 --> 00:00:16,800 Or if you've only been come in for a short amount of time. 8 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,533 This is different today. 9 00:00:18,533 --> 00:00:19,866 It's an opportunity. 10 00:00:19,866 --> 00:00:22,766 Where, Where am I at? Here? You guys, down at the end? 11 00:00:22,766 --> 00:00:24,900 I'm going to be down at the end 12 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:26,533 where they tell me to go. 13 00:00:26,533 --> 00:00:26,800 Yeah. 14 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,166 We just take an opportunity and give, the staff here 15 00:00:31,166 --> 00:00:35,166 an opportunity to kind of share with you what God's been doing in their lives. 16 00:00:35,766 --> 00:00:37,866 A lot of times we're moving so quick around here. 17 00:00:37,866 --> 00:00:41,966 You may hear a name or a see a face as it races by you. 18 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,966 On the way, maybe with the screaming child. 19 00:00:44,966 --> 00:00:48,133 Or, maybe you see an email coming from somebody and you're like, 20 00:00:48,133 --> 00:00:49,100 I wonder who that is. 21 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:52,900 Well, this is an opportunity for you to get to meet us and for us 22 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:56,333 to get to kind of share with you, what God's doing in our lives. 23 00:00:56,333 --> 00:00:58,533 So five good minutes. I've got the timer. You guys. 24 00:00:58,533 --> 00:00:59,866 I almost forgot my timer. 25 00:00:59,866 --> 00:01:01,366 We're going to set a timer for five minutes. 26 00:01:01,366 --> 00:01:03,166 So we're going to suck the gong. 27 00:01:03,166 --> 00:01:06,000 So we're going to go five minutes. 28 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,033 There's two members of the staff who aren't here today. 29 00:01:09,033 --> 00:01:10,366 The first is Miranda Roth. 30 00:01:10,366 --> 00:01:14,833 She is our, remote, first in the age of post Covid. 31 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,133 She is our remote, staff member in Idaho. 32 00:01:18,333 --> 00:01:21,900 Anything you've ever seen with, media up here? 33 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:25,500 Things for the children's program. Program? 34 00:01:25,533 --> 00:01:28,433 Any type of. She is VB and Avi audio visual. 35 00:01:28,433 --> 00:01:31,133 She is the visual of it. And she does a fantastic job. 36 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:33,200 She's got a great eye for design. 37 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,833 And so all the stuff that you see on a Sunday morning is done by Miranda. 38 00:01:36,866 --> 00:01:40,200 So, if you've got an opportunity to send her an email thanking her 39 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,200 for everything she does, that information's on the website. 40 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,700 And, so Pastor Carl, our senior pastor, is not here today. 41 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:49,633 They're actually with family down 42 00:01:49,633 --> 00:01:53,233 in Southern California enjoying some much needed R&R down there. 43 00:01:53,233 --> 00:01:56,400 So should you send him a text, an email, whatever 44 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,800 saying you've been praying for him. 45 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,266 So thankful for the fact that he decided to plant a church in the Ranchos 46 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,466 back in 2004, 2005. 47 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,000 Obedient to God's call 48 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 on his life, the fact that he's been through, 49 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,166 some pretty interesting seasons of ministry here in the ranchos 50 00:02:13,366 --> 00:02:17,400 and doing ministry in Guatemala and Cuba and Mexico 51 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,000 and most recently, the Ukraine with the Excel Leadership Network. 52 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Just so thankful for Pastor Carlos leadership, for, 53 00:02:24,933 --> 00:02:27,333 for organizations that that are involved in it. 54 00:02:27,333 --> 00:02:31,700 So one of the things about five good minutes is if you connect with 55 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:35,133 one of the stories or many of the stories on a personal level, fantastic. 56 00:02:35,533 --> 00:02:39,766 But ideally, we want you to connect on, or we hope what you take away 57 00:02:40,033 --> 00:02:43,033 is this idea of a connection on a transcendent level. 58 00:02:43,433 --> 00:02:46,600 Maybe not one year old single female like Ali 59 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,600 down there in her last year or frozen state. 60 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:51,633 So, you know, it's like, I don't know how to relate to that, 61 00:02:51,633 --> 00:02:53,366 but a lot of times somebody can say something, 62 00:02:53,366 --> 00:02:54,800 you're like, man, that makes total sense. 63 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,333 God, that is how God works. 64 00:02:57,333 --> 00:02:58,500 It's very difficult. 65 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:03,333 You know, God rarely does two things the same way, but there are patterns 66 00:03:03,333 --> 00:03:08,333 to look so in, hearing from somebody other than pastor Carl, 67 00:03:09,633 --> 00:03:10,733 hopefully that's kind 68 00:03:10,733 --> 00:03:13,966 of what you take away is this idea of, of a transcendent, 69 00:03:14,500 --> 00:03:17,900 good God that works, together 70 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:21,066 for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. 71 00:03:21,066 --> 00:03:22,366 Amen. 72 00:03:22,366 --> 00:03:22,866 All right. 73 00:03:22,866 --> 00:03:27,500 First up, we have a perfect example of how things come full circle. 74 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,033 You were involved in Liberty High School graduate? 75 00:03:30,033 --> 00:03:35,466 I am, yes, and involved in flip side youth stuff that graduated. 76 00:03:35,466 --> 00:03:35,800 Yeah. 77 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,333 Single female. 78 00:03:37,333 --> 00:03:38,833 Back then you are very much not. 79 00:03:38,833 --> 00:03:41,733 No, no, I was not a single female back then. 80 00:03:41,733 --> 00:03:42,966 I was still with that guy. 81 00:03:42,966 --> 00:03:45,033 That's true. There. 82 00:03:45,033 --> 00:03:47,033 Married to Sean, her husband. 83 00:03:47,033 --> 00:03:49,633 You have two wonderful boys, Grayson and William. Yes. 84 00:03:49,633 --> 00:03:52,433 And you guys were with us out of Stone Creek when we were doing that. 85 00:03:52,433 --> 00:03:54,433 So definitely time in the trenches. 86 00:03:54,433 --> 00:03:57,433 You're a you're a good example of what we talk about around here a lot, 87 00:03:57,433 --> 00:04:00,266 where you say yes to God on the front end and then figure out what you said yes to. 88 00:04:00,266 --> 00:04:01,066 Yes. Absolutely. 89 00:04:01,066 --> 00:04:03,700 So all right, you got five minutes away. 90 00:04:04,766 --> 00:04:05,066 Get up. 91 00:04:05,066 --> 00:04:08,066 Because I have a feeling I'm going to cry. 92 00:04:08,333 --> 00:04:09,600 You forgot the tissues. 93 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,366 I'm not. 94 00:04:11,366 --> 00:04:14,200 Because, well, I might pass them down 95 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,200 because you said your sympathetic crier. 96 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 So last year, 97 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I had talked about how, 98 00:04:24,733 --> 00:04:27,666 In joy, in peace. 99 00:04:27,666 --> 00:04:30,666 And this year was actually really hard. 100 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:34,800 But there was so much joy 101 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 and peace within it. 102 00:04:39,733 --> 00:04:40,900 There were so many times 103 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:43,900 that I could have been super upset or super sad 104 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,800 knowing that God was so good. 105 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:50,733 Really helped out with that, because there was 106 00:04:50,733 --> 00:04:53,733 a relationship that I just had to say, I'm done. 107 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:55,600 I can't do this anymore. 108 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,733 It's damaging me. 109 00:04:56,733 --> 00:04:59,033 It's damaging my family. 110 00:04:59,033 --> 00:05:02,000 And there was a point where I was like, I can't do it anymore. 111 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,633 And it's hard when it's a parent. 112 00:05:04,866 --> 00:05:08,500 And so there was a time where I was battling 113 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:11,500 it, like, how much longer do I deal with this? 114 00:05:12,533 --> 00:05:16,600 And this year it came to a point where I was like, I'm done. 115 00:05:17,066 --> 00:05:19,500 Like, I can't do this for my family. 116 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:22,500 I can't do this for me. 117 00:05:22,966 --> 00:05:24,800 And it was so good 118 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,433 then that knowing that God was like, it's okay. 119 00:05:28,433 --> 00:05:31,433 Like, you can let this relationship go. 120 00:05:32,833 --> 00:05:34,300 And so there was that one. 121 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,400 And then my grandpa died and my grandma had a stroke. 122 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:42,066 My other grandma is really struggling with her health, 123 00:05:42,066 --> 00:05:45,066 which is hard because she's been my best friend for, 124 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 but knowing that, like, God is so good 125 00:05:50,233 --> 00:05:53,233 and his timing is just, 126 00:05:53,766 --> 00:05:55,533 something that I held on to, like, 127 00:05:55,533 --> 00:05:57,900 when my grandpa passed, I was like, you know what? 128 00:05:59,166 --> 00:06:01,000 It's God's timing for him. 129 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,466 He needs him back in heaven. 130 00:06:02,466 --> 00:06:05,366 Like, there we could have been. 131 00:06:05,366 --> 00:06:06,766 It's so sad about it. 132 00:06:06,766 --> 00:06:10,100 But knowing that he was now at rest 133 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:13,100 and he wasn't hurting anymore, like 134 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,600 there was like I said, there was just so much peace 135 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,166 in all of my year that I had that I could have just been a hot mess. 136 00:06:21,066 --> 00:06:22,933 And so 137 00:06:22,933 --> 00:06:27,000 but there were always good, like, I was able to do stuff that I hadn't done. 138 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,100 And so, 139 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:30,666 like, Sean and I used to love going to Disneyland, 140 00:06:30,666 --> 00:06:33,566 and we got to take our kids for the first time in like six years. 141 00:06:33,566 --> 00:06:34,966 And so we were like, yes, like, 142 00:06:34,966 --> 00:06:38,900 let's go find some magic in the world with the kids. 143 00:06:38,900 --> 00:06:39,600 And so, 144 00:06:41,666 --> 00:06:42,600 it was just so good. 145 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,766 And my dad is my. 146 00:06:44,766 --> 00:06:46,600 You're good. Oh, good. Okay. 147 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,300 And I was like, oh, no. Okay. 148 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:51,733 I'll be quick, so you're fine. You go. 149 00:06:51,733 --> 00:06:53,333 I'm like, I'm crying this whole time. 150 00:06:53,333 --> 00:06:55,500 It's fine. 151 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:59,566 But I'll end on a good note because I am a very busy person. 152 00:06:59,566 --> 00:07:02,566 There's been a lot of changes that have happened. 153 00:07:02,933 --> 00:07:06,533 I'm no longer the life like I'm now the, like, secretary. 154 00:07:06,533 --> 00:07:09,533 So I'm there helping run still create. 155 00:07:10,466 --> 00:07:13,433 I've been helping out here, which has been an incredible blessing 156 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:17,233 to do the large events and see the kids and be able to share God's Word with them 157 00:07:17,233 --> 00:07:20,233 is just an incredible blessing. 158 00:07:21,533 --> 00:07:24,533 And then there's just so many other huge blessing. 159 00:07:24,766 --> 00:07:27,100 You're like, we got to celebrate birthdays. 160 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,400 Sean and I celebrated our ten year anniversary. 161 00:07:30,633 --> 00:07:32,000 We got to do 162 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,666 just the little miracles in everyday life that God blesses us. 163 00:07:35,766 --> 00:07:38,766 It was an opportunity to see how good he is. 164 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,900 So now moving into 2025, I pray. 165 00:07:44,966 --> 00:07:49,566 I pray over which word has just like stuck out to him, to me, 166 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:52,700 as I'm trying to kind of lay out this next year. 167 00:07:53,566 --> 00:07:57,533 And the word was, oh gosh, I wrote it down. 168 00:07:57,566 --> 00:07:58,033 Hold on. 169 00:07:58,033 --> 00:08:01,200 Because I knew I was going to freeze on this stage because I'm so used 170 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,200 to talking in front of children. 171 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:05,633 Intentional. 172 00:08:05,633 --> 00:08:07,233 That's it. 173 00:08:07,233 --> 00:08:08,900 Don't do anything for the purpose. 174 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:11,466 So here I am. 175 00:08:11,466 --> 00:08:13,600 And so, 176 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,000 just being so intentional on what I do, what I commit myself 177 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,500 to, and just being intentional with my time, with my relationships. 178 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:23,533 So. Yes. 179 00:08:23,533 --> 00:08:27,866 And very next year after I've had so much peace 180 00:08:27,866 --> 00:08:32,400 over so many transitions to now refocus my time and energy, 181 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,366 and do things with a purpose and a part of God's plan 182 00:08:36,366 --> 00:08:38,700 to see what every day looks like. 183 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:40,766 So I'm done now. 184 00:08:40,766 --> 00:08:41,166 Thank you. 185 00:08:41,166 --> 00:08:44,166 Kaylee. 186 00:08:45,233 --> 00:08:48,166 Kaylee, I so appreciate your willingness to follow God. 187 00:08:48,166 --> 00:08:49,733 You're obedient sometimes. 188 00:08:49,733 --> 00:08:52,733 You know, like walking into a dark room and just trying to leave with your face. 189 00:08:52,866 --> 00:08:56,833 It can be difficult sometimes, and I think we're all really thankful for 190 00:08:56,833 --> 00:09:01,033 your obedience to God's call on your life with the children and otherwise. 191 00:09:01,533 --> 00:09:03,633 Thank you for that. 192 00:09:03,633 --> 00:09:05,900 Next we have near and dear to my heart. 193 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:09,266 Allie is I have three daughters and Allie is my middle daughter. 194 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,933 Allie and Iva are probably the single most important reason 195 00:09:12,933 --> 00:09:16,133 the simple family ended up at flip side years ago. 196 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:17,800 Allie was in kindergarten. 197 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,866 Iva was, I think in second grade, and they came home and they said, dad, 198 00:09:21,266 --> 00:09:24,266 there's a good news club that means to serve you. 199 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:26,100 And I said, well, what is that? 200 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:27,033 They said, it's a church. 201 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:27,600 I said, hold on. 202 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,366 Is that it is the school in the church. 203 00:09:30,366 --> 00:09:31,800 It's a church that meets at the school. 204 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,700 I said, okay, well, yeah, you can go. Sure. 205 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:37,533 It's God's stuff. So we were still making the drive into town. 206 00:09:37,533 --> 00:09:38,800 We had just moved out to the ranches. 207 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,666 We were still making the drive into town, and these two little girls 208 00:09:41,666 --> 00:09:44,666 decided to start going to the Good News Club this year. 209 00:09:44,666 --> 00:09:46,300 And so we started asking about it. 210 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:49,233 So what's up with this church? Well, they meet at the high school. 211 00:09:49,233 --> 00:09:52,233 I said again, is it a school or is it a church? 212 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:54,633 So they're a church that meets at the high school. 213 00:09:54,633 --> 00:09:56,600 I said, all right, we got to go check this out. 214 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,066 So some time in 2008, 2009, 215 00:10:00,300 --> 00:10:03,700 we went to this church called flipside that met at Liberty High School. 216 00:10:04,866 --> 00:10:05,366 Every week. 217 00:10:05,366 --> 00:10:06,900 They set it up. They tore it down. 218 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:07,866 It was nuts. 219 00:10:07,866 --> 00:10:11,166 If you are part of those, if you were part of that back in the day, you know what? 220 00:10:11,166 --> 00:10:13,400 How chaotic that was. 221 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,400 It was like what we did, at Christmas Eve, only on steroids and every week. 222 00:10:17,833 --> 00:10:20,400 And so Allie and Eve are the reason we started coming. 223 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,666 And Allie got plugged in as she moved up the, into 224 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:26,233 her grades. 225 00:10:26,233 --> 00:10:29,233 Got involved in the area 56, one of the first iterations 226 00:10:29,233 --> 00:10:32,933 of area 56 and then into the junior high program high school. 227 00:10:32,933 --> 00:10:36,200 And now things have come full circle, and she's helping with our youth. 228 00:10:36,666 --> 00:10:39,666 I don't she she likes the junior high students. 229 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:43,266 I used to like junior high because we lit stuff on fire and stuff up. 230 00:10:43,866 --> 00:10:45,400 Now we like for reasons. 231 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,233 It's like these chatty little girls. 232 00:10:47,233 --> 00:10:48,600 How do you. 233 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,100 So anyway, Allie Stemple, she is a part of our worship and our youth leader. 234 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:54,100 Yes. Okay. 235 00:10:54,100 --> 00:10:54,366 Yeah. 236 00:10:54,366 --> 00:10:57,533 I feel like I know a lot of you and a lot of you know me, 237 00:10:57,533 --> 00:10:58,933 but we've never really talked. 238 00:10:58,933 --> 00:11:02,700 We just look at each other's faces every Sunday when I'm up here. 239 00:11:04,533 --> 00:11:06,900 Do super excited to be part of five good minutes. 240 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:10,533 I've come through watching it every year and now like, to speak 241 00:11:10,733 --> 00:11:13,133 other is kind of cool. 242 00:11:13,133 --> 00:11:15,800 So yeah, I grew up in the youth program. 243 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,833 My me and my friends, we were here in junior high every Monday 244 00:11:18,833 --> 00:11:21,833 night, high school every Wednesday night. 245 00:11:22,733 --> 00:11:25,100 And yeah, I'm just super 246 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:27,033 one. The parents that I have and two, 247 00:11:27,033 --> 00:11:31,133 just the relationship and the church family that I have. 248 00:11:31,933 --> 00:11:35,600 And so when I was thinking about let's talk about in like what 249 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,700 I learned this year and how this year, what effect it had on me, 250 00:11:39,433 --> 00:11:42,533 I was praying about it and two words 251 00:11:42,533 --> 00:11:46,500 just kept coming to my mind their growth and opportunity. 252 00:11:47,266 --> 00:11:49,900 And so I think that 253 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:53,600 and I was trying to phrase it in my head before I got up here, the chance 254 00:11:53,833 --> 00:11:57,933 to grow through the opportunities that God has given me this year. 255 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,000 2024 was just a really good year. 256 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,166 Honestly. 257 00:12:04,166 --> 00:12:07,166 Like, obviously there's some ups and downs, which I'll talk about, but 258 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,066 beginning of the year I turned 21. 259 00:12:10,066 --> 00:12:12,600 Middle of the year, my older sister got married. 260 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:13,933 I got to be her maid of honor. 261 00:12:13,933 --> 00:12:14,600 That's just 262 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,966 every time I look back on that day, I'm so super thankful for the both of them. 263 00:12:18,966 --> 00:12:21,966 And just that whole experience, 264 00:12:22,866 --> 00:12:26,466 started in my last year and there's just a lot. 265 00:12:26,466 --> 00:12:29,500 Every time I found myself praying this year, 266 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:35,133 I found myself just like thanking God for all of the opportunities 267 00:12:35,133 --> 00:12:37,700 and all the blessings that he's blessed me with. 268 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:40,666 It was my second year living not in my parent's 269 00:12:40,666 --> 00:12:43,666 house, in an apartment, by myself. 270 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:45,233 Yeah. 271 00:12:45,233 --> 00:12:48,433 Every prayer I would just start out thanking God. 272 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,400 And a lot of the times it was like 273 00:12:51,566 --> 00:12:53,166 in disbelief of 274 00:12:53,166 --> 00:12:56,166 how good he is and how, like, 275 00:12:56,233 --> 00:12:59,233 faithful and how much he's blessed me with, 276 00:13:00,033 --> 00:13:01,900 and so 277 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:04,700 a big thing that I was thinking about 278 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:07,133 today was this past summer, 279 00:13:07,133 --> 00:13:10,833 I had the privilege of leading the youth program, the junior high and high school, 280 00:13:11,133 --> 00:13:14,666 which my dad and Pastor Carl came to me in 281 00:13:14,666 --> 00:13:17,666 like March or April this year, and they were like, 282 00:13:17,733 --> 00:13:21,266 hey, what do you think about leading the summer youth program? 283 00:13:21,733 --> 00:13:24,266 I was like, why not? Let's do it. 284 00:13:24,266 --> 00:13:27,366 I love going through that youth program, and I love summer. 285 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:29,833 So that was a lot of fun. 286 00:13:29,833 --> 00:13:33,366 It was a lot of work, and it was a lot of unexpected, 287 00:13:34,933 --> 00:13:37,500 things just the whole summer. 288 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:38,400 But it was really good. 289 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,133 And I feel really lucky to 290 00:13:41,233 --> 00:13:44,233 be able to have done that because, like you said, 291 00:13:44,766 --> 00:13:47,766 kids was the main thing that, 292 00:13:47,933 --> 00:13:51,633 it was just so good to pour into that and then to see the fruit of that 293 00:13:51,633 --> 00:13:55,366 where I would, like, see them out somewhere else, and they say hi to me 294 00:13:55,366 --> 00:13:56,800 and then 295 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,900 I also want to be a teacher, for that age. 296 00:14:00,166 --> 00:14:03,533 And so I feel like I say a lot of the times that when 297 00:14:04,733 --> 00:14:07,733 these junior high, they look at me crazy and are like, 298 00:14:07,833 --> 00:14:10,633 why would you ever want to do that? 299 00:14:10,633 --> 00:14:10,966 I don't know. 300 00:14:10,966 --> 00:14:15,233 I feel like it's a very misunderstood age and they just need some guidance. And. 301 00:14:15,266 --> 00:14:20,233 Oh, and so, just in leadership through that portion of their lives. 302 00:14:20,466 --> 00:14:21,900 And so thinking about that, 303 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,900 like aspect, one verse came to my mind 304 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,800 and it was, it was actually a verse we talked about in our flip journals. 305 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,933 If you are in the youth or you've heard of that, 306 00:14:33,933 --> 00:14:37,766 we did our flip journals this past year, and it's Matthew 2028, 307 00:14:37,766 --> 00:14:40,766 and it says, for even the Son of Man came not to be served, 308 00:14:40,933 --> 00:14:43,933 but to serve others and give his life as a ransom for many, 309 00:14:44,766 --> 00:14:49,600 like growing up in the church, like serving on a Sunday or on a Wednesday 310 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,133 or on a Monday became something that was just like, oh, I'll just do it. 311 00:14:53,133 --> 00:14:54,866 Like that's part of my routine. 312 00:14:54,866 --> 00:14:59,433 But we're called to serve and we're called to like, get something out of that. 313 00:14:59,433 --> 00:15:03,466 Like it's good for us to pour into God and his people. 314 00:15:04,833 --> 00:15:06,900 So I think this year it was really good. 315 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,033 It turned back into not because for a while there, 316 00:15:10,566 --> 00:15:14,166 which sounds bad, but it kind of felt like a chore for a little bit. 317 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,033 But I think this year I was able to renew, like my energy 318 00:15:19,033 --> 00:15:22,033 and my motivation in the spirit to serve. 319 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,433 And then there was a answered prayer. 320 00:15:25,433 --> 00:15:30,000 This year, I feel like when I started my, time at Fresno State, 321 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,766 there was a lot of like uncertainty and loneliness, almost because, 322 00:15:35,866 --> 00:15:37,766 I don't know, I'm a very social person, 323 00:15:37,766 --> 00:15:41,733 but high school and college are very different. 324 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:46,000 High school, I had a huge group of friends that same since kindergarten 325 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,400 get to college and it's not like that at all. 326 00:15:50,033 --> 00:15:51,900 But this year I was really blessed 327 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:55,466 to meet two girls that are they're going through the same program as me. 328 00:15:55,466 --> 00:15:58,800 Were all three English majors wanting to teach? 329 00:15:59,366 --> 00:16:02,400 And so I was able to get really close to them, and that was really 330 00:16:02,833 --> 00:16:03,866 good because they were. 331 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:07,666 I'll finish up, I promise. 332 00:16:07,666 --> 00:16:09,266 They were just really good to have in my life. 333 00:16:09,266 --> 00:16:11,466 And so, 334 00:16:11,466 --> 00:16:13,766 same thing when I was thinking, God, for all the opportunities 335 00:16:13,766 --> 00:16:17,133 and all the blessings, I found myself thanking him for all the people 336 00:16:17,133 --> 00:16:20,133 that I've been surrounded with. 337 00:16:20,666 --> 00:16:22,266 That just had a really good effect on me. 338 00:16:22,266 --> 00:16:25,266 And so going into, 339 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:28,100 2025, 340 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:31,500 which is the year I'm going to graduate college, hopefully, 341 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,800 and start my job, 342 00:16:35,066 --> 00:16:38,166 I'm really just ending this year, super thankful. 343 00:16:39,133 --> 00:16:43,200 And I feel like this year was a year of building good habits. 344 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,133 Like I was able 345 00:16:45,133 --> 00:16:49,300 more in the word and have that desire to, like, know the Lord more and know 346 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,733 like want to be just walking with him 347 00:16:52,733 --> 00:16:56,466 and like lining up my life to where it's supposed to be. 348 00:16:56,466 --> 00:17:00,400 And so I feel like going into 2025, I have a lot of I'm equipped 349 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:05,433 with a lot of good habits, and my community is just really good. 350 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,200 So yeah, I feel like that was really like scattered, but just good. 351 00:17:10,266 --> 00:17:12,433 That's what I learned this year. Thanks Ali. 352 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:15,900 Never met a 353 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:19,200 microphone she didn't like Ali I'm really thankful. 354 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,700 You you you are a good example of how you parents of young kids 355 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:26,933 whose of the littleness it can seem like. 356 00:17:26,933 --> 00:17:29,200 Oh dear Lord, 357 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,166 I spent Ali and Eve are 16 months apart 358 00:17:31,166 --> 00:17:34,600 and so, I mean diapers at the same time, bottles at the same time. 359 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,533 And I thought, we are never going to be out of this. 360 00:17:36,533 --> 00:17:41,100 And then to see your kids not just grow up to grow up serving and loving God 361 00:17:41,166 --> 00:17:44,166 and the imperfections of what it. 362 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:47,933 Ali, I'm really thankful for you and your sisters. 363 00:17:48,333 --> 00:17:50,300 I'm going to ask a favor of you too, because I always do. 364 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:52,233 I remember that at youth group job opportunity. 365 00:17:52,233 --> 00:17:53,200 Can you get my Bible? 366 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,833 If I walk in front of this speaker, it's going to feed back. 367 00:17:55,833 --> 00:17:56,700 Thank you. 368 00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:58,633 While she does that, Tricia Cheshire, 369 00:17:58,633 --> 00:18:03,366 you are part of the, transplants that happened during Covid. 370 00:18:03,366 --> 00:18:06,800 You and her family showed up one Sunday. 371 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,966 I'm assuming during we were we I don't know that we ever completely 372 00:18:11,133 --> 00:18:11,766 thank you. 373 00:18:11,766 --> 00:18:15,000 And Heather, I don't know that we ever completely closed down for Covid. 374 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,566 Don't tell anybody. 375 00:18:16,566 --> 00:18:20,066 But, one Sunday, her six foot four, 376 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,166 six foot three husband came in and blocked the camera. 377 00:18:23,166 --> 00:18:23,766 Well, he was a 378 00:18:24,766 --> 00:18:26,433 lens, guys blocking the camera. 379 00:18:26,433 --> 00:18:29,666 And then, the Cheshire's were part of flip side, and you guys never left. So. 380 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:32,333 Tricia, huddle coordinator, take it away. 381 00:18:32,333 --> 00:18:33,500 Yeah. 382 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:37,100 This is my third year being a part of. 383 00:18:37,133 --> 00:18:40,500 Well, going into this is my third good minute, right? 384 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:43,500 Yeah. Five minutes. 385 00:18:44,133 --> 00:18:47,133 And this year, reflecting, 386 00:18:47,866 --> 00:18:51,533 I felt like for me, there was a lot of change and growth. 387 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,900 When I was thinking back over the last year, 388 00:18:56,866 --> 00:19:00,233 we were driving last weekend to a wedding and asking my family 389 00:19:00,233 --> 00:19:01,666 what is something that stuck out? 390 00:19:01,666 --> 00:19:04,666 And the kids said, home like. 391 00:19:05,866 --> 00:19:10,100 That was my, like, highlight of 2024. 392 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:12,900 Two is going to come like with our youth group last year. 393 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:17,366 And so I pulled out my notes of what we talked about last year, 394 00:19:17,366 --> 00:19:20,633 and it was three ways to walk in obedience with Christ. 395 00:19:21,633 --> 00:19:22,166 And I started 396 00:19:22,166 --> 00:19:25,166 reflecting on that the last week. 397 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:28,733 I followed through with that, and there was a lot of change 398 00:19:28,733 --> 00:19:34,266 where I had to literally tell God, I need a change. 399 00:19:34,633 --> 00:19:37,633 Open a door, close the door. I'm listening. 400 00:19:37,733 --> 00:19:39,766 And I'm stubborn. 401 00:19:39,766 --> 00:19:43,566 So choosing to just fully 100% 402 00:19:45,066 --> 00:19:48,066 give my life decisions to God 403 00:19:48,066 --> 00:19:52,000 where I knew I was not in control was liberating. 404 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,166 And dang, 405 00:19:55,166 --> 00:19:57,566 I think it brought out a new side of me 406 00:19:57,566 --> 00:20:00,566 that I didn't know. 407 00:20:00,966 --> 00:20:03,966 The pastor at Hume, the Bible verse was 408 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:06,600 the number of days 409 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,400 that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 410 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,900 Psalm 9012 411 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:14,000 and in the notes that they talked about was spent time 412 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,100 in God's Word, being with God's people and God's mission. 413 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:21,466 And I thought that this is all from January of last year. 414 00:20:22,133 --> 00:20:23,833 And I reflected on those three 415 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,400 did it 416 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,833 the notes I took from him, I reflected on just this last week 417 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:31,233 spend time in God's Word. 418 00:20:31,233 --> 00:20:36,266 I've definitely this year I grew in that, just really focusing. 419 00:20:36,266 --> 00:20:40,233 I think the, flip journal that we do in youth group has really helped with that. 420 00:20:41,366 --> 00:20:44,266 So spending time in God's Word, God's people, 421 00:20:44,266 --> 00:20:47,433 I started to become our flip side 422 00:20:47,433 --> 00:20:50,866 huddle coordinator because I really wanted a women's ministry. 423 00:20:50,866 --> 00:20:53,466 I really wanted small groups at this church. 424 00:20:53,466 --> 00:20:56,533 I had tons of friends, always ask me, we need small groups. 425 00:20:56,533 --> 00:20:58,100 And that was on my heart. 426 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:02,266 I really wanted to build community, I wanted friendships, and I did it. 427 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:07,033 We now have a women of a couple different family huddles. 428 00:21:07,033 --> 00:21:09,333 We have a men's ministry. 429 00:21:09,333 --> 00:21:13,166 Carl's doing his and it's been so great to be intentional with these huddles 430 00:21:13,533 --> 00:21:17,333 and being building relationships with you guys here at 431 00:21:17,333 --> 00:21:21,366 church has meant a lot to me, where I'm not just here working and leaving. 432 00:21:21,633 --> 00:21:24,666 I'm actually learning names and getting to know you. 433 00:21:27,033 --> 00:21:28,333 Brings me joy 434 00:21:28,333 --> 00:21:31,333 and fulfills me that I didn't know I needed. 435 00:21:32,366 --> 00:21:35,366 And then the third one is God's mission. 436 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,566 And the last couple years I've stepped out of my comfort zone, 437 00:21:38,566 --> 00:21:41,566 and I'm a youth leader and help out with our youth group. 438 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:45,300 And that by far 439 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:48,700 is the best joy. 440 00:21:49,033 --> 00:21:51,200 We have amazing students here, 441 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,100 and I couldn't do without Michael and Jeff and Carl and Heather and 442 00:21:57,033 --> 00:22:00,433 watching our youth go through today's world. 443 00:22:00,433 --> 00:22:02,500 As a mom, 444 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,733 we need more 445 00:22:04,733 --> 00:22:08,100 people praying and being alive 446 00:22:08,333 --> 00:22:11,333 and being intentional with the youth. 447 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,400 That's where I feel like God's 448 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,766 calling me for like the good 2025. What? 449 00:22:16,766 --> 00:22:18,433 I need something more for that. 450 00:22:18,433 --> 00:22:19,966 And I don't know what the word is for me yet. 451 00:22:19,966 --> 00:22:21,366 I don't know what it's going to do. 452 00:22:22,533 --> 00:22:25,533 I'm listening to God. I, 453 00:22:26,333 --> 00:22:29,333 I'm not gonna take a job. 454 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,500 But I 455 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:33,233 but I want to learn more of 456 00:22:33,233 --> 00:22:36,866 how to be a better leader for the youth 457 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,633 and being more intentional with my Bible time. And, 458 00:22:43,166 --> 00:22:44,633 I have my own 459 00:22:44,633 --> 00:22:48,800 still being, like, a lot of the youth here, their second mom 460 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:53,366 sometimes that has filled my heart so much. 461 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:55,766 I would say this last year. 462 00:22:55,766 --> 00:22:58,100 And that leads me to being just grateful. 463 00:22:58,100 --> 00:23:01,433 Gratitude, I think, was my word of how 464 00:23:01,433 --> 00:23:04,433 thankful I am 465 00:23:04,666 --> 00:23:06,866 here, like our huddles and our youth group 466 00:23:06,866 --> 00:23:09,866 and then my church family. 467 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,566 It's made me who I am, the new me, I would say. 468 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,100 Yeah, yeah, I think that's it. 469 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:20,100 Thanks, Tricia. 470 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:24,300 Tricia, I'm so thankful for you having. 471 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:28,266 And I started to see it when you started serving in youth and the kids, 472 00:23:28,266 --> 00:23:30,500 how you relate to the kids. It's a special gift. 473 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:32,466 And I don't want to, like, put labels up, 474 00:23:32,466 --> 00:23:34,800 but it's almost something that can't be taught. 475 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,000 You just develop it and you're doing a great job developing it. 476 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:41,000 Your ability to connect, especially with kids who 477 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000 a lot of times are going through things that not even they understand, 478 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:49,500 not try to fix them, but to just walk with them through it has been fantastic. 479 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:52,500 I'm so thankful for you and your involvement in that program. 480 00:23:52,633 --> 00:23:53,233 It's been great. 481 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:55,600 Michael Rondon speaking of 482 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,300 which, you are a literal and figurative answer to prayer. 483 00:23:59,366 --> 00:24:01,500 Me and Carl, man, we were. 484 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:03,333 You want to talk about running on fumes? 485 00:24:03,333 --> 00:24:06,166 I think I walked into the office 486 00:24:06,166 --> 00:24:09,133 and I had, hamburger grease all over me. 487 00:24:09,133 --> 00:24:10,866 We had just done a youth group, and I'm like, 488 00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:13,766 if this guy doesn't work out, I'm out of here. I'm. 489 00:24:13,766 --> 00:24:14,833 This is crazy. 490 00:24:14,833 --> 00:24:17,766 Me and Carl tag team in the youth in the summer. 491 00:24:17,766 --> 00:24:21,333 Help and Ali and man, we were so thankful for you. 492 00:24:21,333 --> 00:24:24,333 We went and had lunch and you get plugged in. 493 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:29,733 Emily is involved and I'm just really thankful for you doing a fantastic job. 494 00:24:29,933 --> 00:24:32,933 If your kid is in the youth program and you have not met Michael, 495 00:24:33,366 --> 00:24:36,066 definitely reach out to Michael and get to know him. 496 00:24:36,066 --> 00:24:38,600 He's a great guy. So all right, five minutes. 497 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:41,300 All right. 498 00:24:41,300 --> 00:24:43,633 I'm I'm in trouble here because I told myself this morning 499 00:24:43,633 --> 00:24:47,000 that I that's, so I'm going to very much 500 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,000 cut out some things, but, 501 00:24:50,066 --> 00:24:51,600 2024 was a good year. 502 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,600 It was a really good year for highs and lows and ups and downs, but, 503 00:24:55,266 --> 00:24:57,366 my wife and I celebrated ten years together. 504 00:24:57,366 --> 00:24:59,166 Married? 505 00:24:59,166 --> 00:25:01,000 We found a new church community 506 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 and opportunity to serve and walk alongside, you know, junior high and high. 507 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,233 And then we found out having another boy. 508 00:25:06,233 --> 00:25:09,333 And so it's been a pretty sweet year. 509 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,666 Lots of fun, lots of joy. 510 00:25:11,666 --> 00:25:14,633 And as I was reflecting and I was processing and thinking, 511 00:25:14,633 --> 00:25:17,133 about 20, 24, three words came to mind. 512 00:25:17,133 --> 00:25:21,100 The first one was pace that I like to run at a really fast pace. 513 00:25:22,733 --> 00:25:24,600 I like 514 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,166 on the ladder, and I like to click and scratch and scratch like, 515 00:25:28,166 --> 00:25:31,233 I want to go and go and go and prove my worth and and just, like, 516 00:25:31,466 --> 00:25:33,066 do everything that I possibly can. 517 00:25:33,066 --> 00:25:35,433 And I just found myself running at an unsustainable pace. 518 00:25:35,433 --> 00:25:38,433 And I can't do that as I'm getting older. 519 00:25:39,266 --> 00:25:41,533 And so pace has been something where I want to slow 520 00:25:41,533 --> 00:25:44,533 down, not be ahead of God. 521 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:45,966 He it helps. 522 00:25:45,966 --> 00:25:51,466 It help me to not be as impulsive, be a little more mature in my decisions. 523 00:25:51,833 --> 00:25:53,200 And so pace came to mind. 524 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,700 The second was Thanksgiving or thankfulness that, 525 00:25:57,766 --> 00:26:00,100 of course, it's easy to thank God for the big things, 526 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:02,533 but I'm trying to thank God just for the everyday little things. 527 00:26:02,533 --> 00:26:04,700 You know that my boys will. 528 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:08,300 That I got to work out today or play soccer or just the silliest of things. 529 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:09,166 But but 530 00:26:10,333 --> 00:26:11,366 the things that we just take 531 00:26:11,366 --> 00:26:15,066 for granted and we really do care about, but sometimes we forget about. 532 00:26:15,433 --> 00:26:18,766 And so I think, pace, I've tried to slow down. 533 00:26:19,066 --> 00:26:21,900 I've tried to be as thankful as possible 534 00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:25,466 in the, in the word that has defined 535 00:26:25,466 --> 00:26:28,466 2024 is availability. 536 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,033 This summer 537 00:26:31,033 --> 00:26:33,600 I finished up teaching my teaching year, 538 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,500 and I was praying one night and I said, God, like, I want to serve youth again. 539 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:38,700 How does that look like? How can I do this on my campus? 540 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:40,800 Or is it a is it a local youth group? 541 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,800 And 12 hours later, I got an email from Pastor Carl saying, hey, 542 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:45,666 we have a youth opening. 543 00:26:45,666 --> 00:26:50,000 And so it was a really random whirlwind of a experience 544 00:26:50,033 --> 00:26:53,233 opportunity, and it was exciting and a little bit scary. 545 00:26:54,733 --> 00:26:56,333 But being available is kind of 546 00:26:56,333 --> 00:27:00,166 where my heart has been and where I want my heart to be in 2025. 547 00:27:00,566 --> 00:27:01,933 And so I want to just read over 548 00:27:01,933 --> 00:27:04,933 the scripture that it's been I've been coming back to life, 549 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,233 and it's actually what I shared. 550 00:27:07,233 --> 00:27:10,200 I met our youth, Heather, in church, actually, the maybe late 551 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,566 July at a at a food bank, like a service day for junior high. 552 00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:15,600 And then I came back a couple weeks later. 553 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,533 We were at the temples and we had a pool party in of the year. 554 00:27:18,533 --> 00:27:20,400 And I was able to lead and I spoke this. 555 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,900 It was Matt, it's Mark's, chapter four verses you want. 556 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:28,200 I just want to read it, and just process it for a minute with you. 557 00:27:28,533 --> 00:27:31,200 And it says that day when evening came, Jesus said 558 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,200 to his disciples, let's go over to the other side. 559 00:27:34,366 --> 00:27:35,500 Leaving the crowd behind. 560 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:38,500 They took him along just as he was in a boat. 561 00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:41,633 So Jesus is on a boat looking at the shore, teaching, right? 562 00:27:41,633 --> 00:27:42,666 And he said, let's go to the other side. 563 00:27:44,666 --> 00:27:46,566 The furious squall came up 564 00:27:46,566 --> 00:27:49,566 and the waves broke over the boat so that it was nearly swamped. 565 00:27:50,033 --> 00:27:52,533 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. 566 00:27:52,533 --> 00:27:55,566 The disciples woke him and said to him, teacher, don't you care if we drown? 567 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:56,866 And he got up. 568 00:27:56,866 --> 00:27:59,866 He rebuked the wind and said of the waves, quiet, be still. 569 00:28:00,266 --> 00:28:03,266 And then the wind died down, and it was completely calm. 570 00:28:03,866 --> 00:28:06,866 He said, why are you so afraid? 571 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,600 Do you still have no faith? 572 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,800 Verse 41 says, they were terrified and they asked each other, who is this? 573 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 That even the winds and the waves obey him? 574 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:18,400 I think there's a lot we can pull from this little text, 575 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,400 but the first thing is, obviously we see Jesus's 576 00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:24,533 authority, the wind and the waves. 577 00:28:24,633 --> 00:28:26,200 We can't see in the waves that always crash. 578 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,200 They remember their creator's voice. 579 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,400 They had responded to him. 580 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,533 I think that that Jesus wanted to show his disciples who he was. 581 00:28:33,533 --> 00:28:36,033 He's not just a teacher as they referenced him. 582 00:28:36,033 --> 00:28:38,600 He's the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings, and he's the Messiah. 583 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:38,933 He's that. 584 00:28:38,933 --> 00:28:40,233 He's the God of the universe. 585 00:28:40,233 --> 00:28:42,900 And so it was really cool to process that. 586 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:46,533 But for me, sitting in and what I've been trying to wrap 587 00:28:46,533 --> 00:28:49,666 my head around and process is actually, I think, lost in the story. 588 00:28:49,666 --> 00:28:51,900 If you just read it quickly and kind of breeze through, 589 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:56,666 Jesus was the one who invited his disciples across to the other side 590 00:28:56,666 --> 00:28:59,666 of the lake to find rest and retreat and to kind of recharge. 591 00:28:59,866 --> 00:29:02,433 And then they found themselves in a storm. 592 00:29:02,433 --> 00:29:05,500 And I think sometimes we find ourselves for many seasons 593 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:07,000 where, like, God, where are you? 594 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:07,700 I don't see you. 595 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:09,700 I can't fill you. I don't understand what's going on. 596 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:12,800 And in this text, we see that Jesus invited them into the storm. 597 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:15,100 I mean, for a number of reasons. 598 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:17,600 One, he revealed his his glory to them. 599 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,366 And I sometimes I think when I find myself in a, in a weird space or a scary space, 600 00:29:22,133 --> 00:29:26,400 I don't need to respond to where or on what do you have for me? 601 00:29:27,233 --> 00:29:29,100 Like, what am I supposed to be learning here? 602 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:30,833 Or what am I supposed to be taking away? 603 00:29:30,833 --> 00:29:33,766 What what is going on right now? 604 00:29:33,766 --> 00:29:36,266 And how can I glorify you through it? 605 00:29:36,266 --> 00:29:37,533 And so that's kind of been 606 00:29:38,666 --> 00:29:39,633 been my prayer this year. 607 00:29:39,633 --> 00:29:42,133 I keep coming back to this story and processing 608 00:29:42,133 --> 00:29:45,533 what it means to be available, what it means to God, what it means 609 00:29:45,533 --> 00:29:49,133 to respond to God, His Word, and the situations that he's put me in. 610 00:29:49,133 --> 00:29:52,133 And I think being available was what happened last summer. 611 00:29:52,366 --> 00:29:55,533 It was got an email from Pastor Carl, and it's like, okay, God, 612 00:29:55,533 --> 00:29:57,633 if this is what it means to be available, sure. 613 00:29:57,633 --> 00:30:00,600 Let's let's go to flipside and let's serve students 614 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,866 there and walk alongside staff and in the congregation. 615 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,666 All this I am super grateful. 616 00:30:06,666 --> 00:30:07,900 And I hope in 2025 617 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:11,133 you can have that same prayer of being available and being genuinely, 618 00:30:11,133 --> 00:30:15,333 genuinely available so that when God calls you ready to go, thanks. 619 00:30:15,366 --> 00:30:17,066 Thank you Michael. 620 00:30:17,066 --> 00:30:18,700 Very thankful for your obedience, 621 00:30:19,766 --> 00:30:22,100 your availability, and your obedience to God's call. 622 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,500 It's been a real blessing to see how it continues 623 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:28,566 to be fleshed out as you finish up your your first year. 624 00:30:28,566 --> 00:30:29,100 Yeah. 625 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:32,100 So Heather bot right man 626 00:30:32,966 --> 00:30:33,933 in the trenches. 627 00:30:33,933 --> 00:30:34,400 Yeah. 628 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:35,333 For a long time. 629 00:30:35,333 --> 00:30:37,666 What you're celebrating how many years? 630 00:30:37,666 --> 00:30:40,900 Year 12 in this next year will be 13. Wow. 631 00:30:42,933 --> 00:30:45,100 A season that, 632 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:47,600 thank you for not saying old 633 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,100 executive administrator, so. 634 00:30:49,100 --> 00:30:51,000 Oh, that's such a fancy title. 635 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,200 I'm like, wow. 636 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,500 All right, you got five minutes. 637 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:56,500 They said I can pick whatever I wanted. 638 00:30:58,766 --> 00:30:59,866 So my name is Heather. 639 00:30:59,866 --> 00:31:01,966 Yes, I've been at flip side. 640 00:31:01,966 --> 00:31:03,433 Well, we started attending flip side. 641 00:31:03,433 --> 00:31:04,866 I brought my friend. 642 00:31:04,866 --> 00:31:08,166 She is 19 years old, so we've been around here for a while. 643 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,666 But, yeah, I'm on my 12th year here at flip side, 644 00:31:12,933 --> 00:31:17,533 and this last year I celebrated my 25th wedding anniversary with my husband, John. 645 00:31:18,766 --> 00:31:20,133 He is 646 00:31:20,133 --> 00:31:23,266 so patient to everyone, so such a good guy. 647 00:31:23,266 --> 00:31:24,766 I am. 648 00:31:24,766 --> 00:31:26,666 And no, I'm not married Pastor Carl or Jeff 649 00:31:26,666 --> 00:31:29,666 or Michael because everybody seems to get that confused as well. 650 00:31:30,733 --> 00:31:33,400 I'm just that very patient man. 651 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,800 But we also celebrated five years in our new home. 652 00:31:37,166 --> 00:31:40,000 If you have come to other, five good minutes, 653 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000 I struggle with fear and, 654 00:31:43,333 --> 00:31:46,700 being changed completely, like, to the point where 655 00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:48,600 I'll just stay in something bad. 656 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,200 But we made the big jump to move out here to the ranchos 657 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,466 because we were driving from Madeira. 658 00:31:52,466 --> 00:31:55,466 Madeira and Madeira. 659 00:31:56,333 --> 00:31:57,933 But we made that jump 660 00:31:57,933 --> 00:32:01,400 and just celebrate five years, and it's been such a huge blessing. 661 00:32:01,533 --> 00:32:04,533 But as I prepared for today and looked back, 662 00:32:04,666 --> 00:32:08,066 I recommend that for everybody as you go at the end of this year, 663 00:32:08,333 --> 00:32:12,166 look back and just look at where God's hand has been throughout your life. 664 00:32:12,166 --> 00:32:13,766 It's really, really neat to look back 665 00:32:13,766 --> 00:32:17,833 because I think we're so focused on looking forward and what's coming next. 666 00:32:17,833 --> 00:32:20,833 Retirement. That sounds great. 667 00:32:20,966 --> 00:32:25,300 Or, you know, like all the things that we have coming in, you're looking at, 668 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:28,300 but sometimes just it's good to look back and to get to see, 669 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,600 where God has shown up throughout your life. 670 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,900 So, as I was doing that, my theme that I came up with was thankfulness. 671 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:38,166 So I'm just super, super thankful this year, 672 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,733 for my family, my husband, my daughter Matthew, specifically, my home 673 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:48,500 is, I'm in a season of change. 674 00:32:48,933 --> 00:32:51,933 Big change that I have no control over. 675 00:32:52,233 --> 00:32:54,700 But it's good stuff because my daughter should grow up. 676 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:56,966 I would love for her to have stayed about nine years old. 677 00:32:56,966 --> 00:32:58,533 That would have been great. 678 00:32:58,533 --> 00:32:59,166 Teenage years. 679 00:32:59,166 --> 00:33:01,766 I could have done without junior high. 680 00:33:01,766 --> 00:33:04,766 I think we both made it out. But, 681 00:33:04,833 --> 00:33:05,666 you know, I. 682 00:33:05,666 --> 00:33:07,533 I wish that, 683 00:33:07,533 --> 00:33:11,133 sometimes things wouldn't have to change, but these are these are good changes. 684 00:33:11,466 --> 00:33:13,166 But in the midst of that change, I don't. 685 00:33:13,166 --> 00:33:16,166 I'm struggling with who I am in that change 686 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:19,066 because my one of my love languages is acts of service, 687 00:33:19,066 --> 00:33:21,000 which is why I love to run around and put on all my sins 688 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,500 for you guys and do all that stuff. 689 00:33:23,466 --> 00:33:25,266 But I don't get to 690 00:33:25,266 --> 00:33:28,333 I don't get to serve in the same way I don't I don't have to run around 691 00:33:28,333 --> 00:33:33,100 to softball games or pick kids up anymore or be less doing things, 692 00:33:33,633 --> 00:33:38,400 which I'm thankful for, but also I, I don't what do I do now? 693 00:33:39,233 --> 00:33:40,666 So I'm finding new and different ways. 694 00:33:40,666 --> 00:33:42,366 And I stepped down from serving in youth. 695 00:33:42,366 --> 00:33:45,300 Not because my goal is not great. My. 696 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:48,600 But I felt like that season had ended for me as well. 697 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,600 So I I'm not I'm not doing that anymore. 698 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,366 So just trying to find, 699 00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:56,066 who I am in the midst of that. 700 00:33:56,066 --> 00:34:00,033 And God has been revealing to me through some really, really good friends, 701 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,266 that I'm still have a works as a mom. 702 00:34:03,266 --> 00:34:03,766 It's just my, 703 00:34:05,266 --> 00:34:06,700 I still have a role here at flipside. 704 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,166 It's just a little different. And that's all good and. 705 00:34:09,166 --> 00:34:11,866 Okay. And I'm not going to cry. I this year is a year of no crying. 706 00:34:11,866 --> 00:34:13,400 Even if I see it in my eyes. 707 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,400 My throat is tickling. So, 708 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:20,100 but I find it. 709 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:23,766 I found it very important this year with who I was surrounded with, 710 00:34:25,066 --> 00:34:27,666 people who have been through experiences. 711 00:34:27,666 --> 00:34:29,033 I'm looking at one up front right now. 712 00:34:29,033 --> 00:34:31,433 This Joanne Darcy is so great to me. 713 00:34:31,433 --> 00:34:32,933 Every Sunday checks in on me, 714 00:34:32,933 --> 00:34:35,666 wants to know how I'm doing, tells me I'm doing a good job, 715 00:34:35,666 --> 00:34:37,533 tells me I'm a good mom. 716 00:34:37,533 --> 00:34:39,100 And that it's all going to be okay. 717 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:41,100 And she is like, yeah, that is hard. 718 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:45,366 I know, I mean, there's no resolution, just, you know, camaraderie 719 00:34:45,366 --> 00:34:47,000 and being in it. 720 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,766 But God has placed those people in my life, 721 00:34:49,766 --> 00:34:51,566 but I can get so busy in my life. 722 00:34:51,566 --> 00:34:54,933 And like he said, we're typically running around a more flash that goes by. 723 00:34:55,833 --> 00:34:57,433 And yes, my hair is usually curly. 724 00:34:57,433 --> 00:34:59,900 That was in the beginning, apparently today that threw everybody off that. 725 00:35:01,966 --> 00:35:04,066 But it's it's good to slow 726 00:35:04,066 --> 00:35:07,900 down and, to be thankful in the midst of that, I'm 727 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:10,900 so thankful for my friends and, 728 00:35:11,033 --> 00:35:14,033 who got has surrounded me with, 729 00:35:14,066 --> 00:35:18,600 but by the way, half of my know got deleted when I was sitting up here. 730 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,600 I don't know what I did, 731 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:23,333 so our life is different from, like, 732 00:35:23,333 --> 00:35:27,300 how much I'm, like, even trying to plan Christmas this year was different. 733 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:32,633 Kids are grown and they have other people and they have jobs and all of that. 734 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:38,533 It a couple of years ago, if I hadn't been preparing myself to be thankful, 735 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,300 would have destroyed me. 736 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:44,300 But now I'm just I'm so thankful that 737 00:35:44,666 --> 00:35:47,100 I have jobs and this is what we're supposed to do. 738 00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:48,833 This is how it's supposed to go. 739 00:35:48,833 --> 00:35:52,200 And so the Bible verse that I've been focusing on this year was, 740 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:55,700 first Thessalonians 516, 741 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,133 oh, no, sorry, 16 through 18. 742 00:35:59,766 --> 00:36:02,366 It's rejoice always, pray continually, give 743 00:36:02,366 --> 00:36:06,000 thanks in all circumstances will for you in Christ. 744 00:36:06,566 --> 00:36:09,733 So, it just my encouragement 745 00:36:09,733 --> 00:36:12,900 to everybody as we head into 2025 is to stay in prayer. 746 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:14,600 Stay thankful. 747 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,500 There is so much for us to be thankful for. 748 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:19,600 And I think, unfortunately, the world tries to make us believe 749 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,766 the opposite, that there's so much division 750 00:36:21,766 --> 00:36:23,400 and there's so much going on in the world that there's 751 00:36:24,666 --> 00:36:26,700 or we have so much to be thankful for. 752 00:36:26,700 --> 00:36:28,066 And so I'm thankful for this place. 753 00:36:28,066 --> 00:36:29,833 I'm thankful for this staff. 754 00:36:29,833 --> 00:36:32,600 It's an amazing staff and I think we'll be part of it. 755 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:33,933 Thanks, Heather. 756 00:36:33,933 --> 00:36:36,933 Thankful for your obedience for you and John. 757 00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:40,000 You guys are a true definition of a power couple. 758 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,066 Thankful for you guys and your service for over a long period of time. 759 00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:48,000 Through, change of 760 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:48,933 high school to here. 761 00:36:48,933 --> 00:36:51,933 Just all the all the things you and you and John have. 762 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:56,466 With all the questions, you and John have stayed and been faithful. 763 00:36:56,466 --> 00:36:58,933 So I'm thankful. 764 00:36:58,933 --> 00:37:02,133 One of the things I was thinking about, I'm going to practice 765 00:37:02,133 --> 00:37:05,933 what I preach here for five minutes on, I was looking in, 766 00:37:06,266 --> 00:37:10,433 one of the things that stuck with me this year is Psalm 32. 767 00:37:11,466 --> 00:37:11,933 Verse eight 768 00:37:11,933 --> 00:37:15,000 says, I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. 769 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,966 I will counsel you and watch over you. 770 00:37:17,966 --> 00:37:21,200 It also says, don't be like a mule or a horse which have no understanding. 771 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,200 That must be controlled by bit and bridle, or they will not, 772 00:37:25,766 --> 00:37:27,700 that verse about 773 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:30,400 God saying, I'll instruct you, I'll counsel you. 774 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,300 How many of you have ever sat in a class, whether it's been in, elementary school 775 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:37,966 definitely happened in, junior high or high school or even in college. 776 00:37:37,966 --> 00:37:41,700 And the teacher says something or some materials presented and 777 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,700 and you're you don't you don't get it. 778 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,500 You raise your you raise your hand, you raise your hand. 779 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:49,833 How many of you ever had done that? 780 00:37:49,833 --> 00:37:52,666 And the teacher goes, put your hand down, have it. 781 00:37:52,666 --> 00:37:55,733 Or worse yet, we're not taking any questions right now. 782 00:37:56,366 --> 00:37:58,300 Doesn't it seem like life is like that sometimes? 783 00:37:58,300 --> 00:38:00,133 We do have a question now we're moving on. 784 00:38:01,266 --> 00:38:04,266 And I kept coming back to this this year, 785 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:06,700 where God says, 786 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,700 I'll teach you all, counsel you. 787 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,000 There's another verse in the book of Joshua. 788 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:14,766 It says, 789 00:38:14,766 --> 00:38:16,866 after three days, the officers went throughout 790 00:38:16,866 --> 00:38:19,300 the entire camp giving orders to the people. 791 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:21,600 This is when when you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord 792 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,166 your God, and the priests who are Levites 793 00:38:23,166 --> 00:38:27,000 carrying you, move from your positions and follow it. 794 00:38:27,133 --> 00:38:30,133 Then you will know which way to go. 795 00:38:30,833 --> 00:38:33,833 Since you have never been this way before. 796 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,766 God says there are places you're going to go in 2024 and 2025. 797 00:38:38,933 --> 00:38:41,233 You've never been there. 798 00:38:41,233 --> 00:38:43,633 Please don't do that alone. 799 00:38:43,633 --> 00:38:46,633 Please don't think that you can do that by yourself. 800 00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:50,366 God says, I'll give you the instruction. 801 00:38:50,366 --> 00:38:52,266 I'll give you the counsel. 802 00:38:52,266 --> 00:38:56,666 I think so many times we think, oh, if somebody would just teach me this or, 803 00:38:56,833 --> 00:38:58,500 you know, I need to go to counseling or 804 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:01,500 I need to go to therapy or whatever, all those things are good. 805 00:39:01,533 --> 00:39:02,500 But God says 806 00:39:03,666 --> 00:39:06,833 I am a source of all those things. 807 00:39:06,833 --> 00:39:07,633 Come to me. 808 00:39:07,633 --> 00:39:09,266 I will give you that wisdom. 809 00:39:09,266 --> 00:39:10,500 I will give you that teaching. 810 00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:13,500 I will. I will counsel you. 811 00:39:13,666 --> 00:39:17,933 This time last year, my my father in law was in the hospital up at Stanford. 812 00:39:18,533 --> 00:39:19,333 He was supposed to go in 813 00:39:19,333 --> 00:39:23,100 for open heart surgery and supposed to be out fairly quickly. 814 00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:24,800 And it wasn't. 815 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,800 He was in for a while. 816 00:39:28,133 --> 00:39:29,566 And I remember thinking, 817 00:39:29,566 --> 00:39:32,366 wow, we are going to be in the throes of this. 818 00:39:32,366 --> 00:39:34,233 This is not looking like a short stint. 819 00:39:34,233 --> 00:39:37,233 This is looking like a long haul. 820 00:39:37,266 --> 00:39:39,000 And I remember thinking, what are we going to do? 821 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,833 How do you do this? 822 00:39:39,833 --> 00:39:42,833 How what what's what's the game plan with step? 823 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:43,800 You know, one step. 824 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:46,933 And as we walked through 825 00:39:46,933 --> 00:39:50,866 those months, I found myself pressing more and more into God. 826 00:39:51,066 --> 00:39:53,266 I've never been this way before. 827 00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:54,133 What are we? 828 00:39:54,133 --> 00:39:56,966 What are we supposed to do here? 829 00:39:56,966 --> 00:39:59,066 I got a call from my daughter in April 830 00:39:59,066 --> 00:40:02,066 saying, dad, we're engaged, 831 00:40:02,466 --> 00:40:05,700 and, we're going to get married in July. 832 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:07,400 What do you think? 833 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,433 Well, the stem goes when we do stuff. 834 00:40:09,433 --> 00:40:11,133 It's like, you know what? 835 00:40:11,133 --> 00:40:12,100 We live by the motto. 836 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:15,100 If you waited for a perfect time to do anything, you'd never get anything done. 837 00:40:15,833 --> 00:40:18,866 And so we're like, sure, July 5th wedding, let's do it. 838 00:40:19,233 --> 00:40:22,100 And then I thought, wow, I forgot what the San Joaquin Valley 839 00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:25,100 is like in the beginning. 840 00:40:25,933 --> 00:40:27,300 So we're like, yeah, let's do it. 841 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:29,666 And I found myself pressing and oh, and then they said, 842 00:40:29,666 --> 00:40:31,933 and we want you to be the officiant of the wedding. 843 00:40:31,933 --> 00:40:34,700 And I thought, all right, what did I get myself into? 844 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:38,033 And I found myself going back to God with the good, the bad, 845 00:40:38,033 --> 00:40:42,366 and the kind of ugly or weird going, God, I've never been this way before. 846 00:40:42,366 --> 00:40:45,366 All this is new to this. 847 00:40:45,433 --> 00:40:48,300 I am when it comes to music. 848 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:49,900 I've talked to Caleb about this before. 849 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:52,766 I don't mind repetition. 850 00:40:52,766 --> 00:40:54,000 The girls always make fun of me. 851 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,266 Dad, are we going to play the whole song? 852 00:40:55,266 --> 00:40:57,000 You said you just wanted to play the bridge. 853 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,733 No, I like let's Do it again for the 50th time. 854 00:40:59,733 --> 00:41:02,800 I like things that are. I'm unassailable. 855 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,600 That if I do it and do it and know that that I'm going 856 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,300 to, that I'm never going to fail at it, 857 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:11,400 I'll sign up for that every day of the week. 858 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,666 Some people hate repetition, I love it, I love it 859 00:41:14,866 --> 00:41:17,766 when I was skateboarding, I love trying that trick 75 times. 860 00:41:18,766 --> 00:41:19,200 Life. 861 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,066 A lot of times it's not like that. It comes at you fast and furious. 862 00:41:22,066 --> 00:41:25,066 You've never done it before and 863 00:41:25,333 --> 00:41:26,933 I know the end from the beginning. 864 00:41:26,933 --> 00:41:28,533 Come to me, ask me. 865 00:41:28,533 --> 00:41:30,066 I will counsel you. 866 00:41:30,066 --> 00:41:31,700 I will guide you through this. 867 00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:34,566 I will be your teacher. I'll be your coach. 868 00:41:34,566 --> 00:41:36,266 I'll be your guide. 869 00:41:36,266 --> 00:41:39,766 And so that's what 2024 was all about. 870 00:41:39,933 --> 00:41:43,800 And I'd like to say I'm going to try to keep that idea going into 2020. 871 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:45,966 I'm freaking out. 872 00:41:45,966 --> 00:41:47,333 You guys can 873 00:41:47,333 --> 00:41:50,333 remind me it's always great when somebody preaches a message back to you. 874 00:41:51,366 --> 00:41:54,100 So thank you, staff, for sharing. 875 00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:55,366 Hopefully you guys have got a glimpse, 876 00:41:55,366 --> 00:42:00,100 hopefully something, that was set up here today has connected, maybe 877 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:03,733 at a personal level or, like we said up front, maybe at a transcendent level. 878 00:42:04,966 --> 00:42:06,500 So thankful for flipside. 879 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:07,833 I'm so thankful for all of you. 880 00:42:07,833 --> 00:42:09,866 We are all thing for for all of you. 881 00:42:09,866 --> 00:42:13,200 If you only knew how much we talk about you guys behind your back. 882 00:42:13,933 --> 00:42:15,633 All good stuff. 883 00:42:15,633 --> 00:42:16,133 Did you see 884 00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:20,033 who's the guy with the the 40 niners and football hat or the baseball hat? 885 00:42:20,033 --> 00:42:22,366 And. Oh, that's so he was fantastic. 886 00:42:22,366 --> 00:42:23,433 Thank God for him. 887 00:42:23,433 --> 00:42:27,300 You got the congregation and we so appreciate you. 888 00:42:27,866 --> 00:42:29,300 I'm going to pray for us as I do. 889 00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:31,466 I'm going to call the worship team back up. 890 00:42:31,466 --> 00:42:33,166 Do I need to worry about my chair or are you guys good? 891 00:42:33,166 --> 00:42:37,466 All right, put aside let's wrap up 2024 in prayer the way it should be. 892 00:42:38,766 --> 00:42:41,466 God, thank you so much. 893 00:42:41,466 --> 00:42:44,466 God. Thank you so much for, 20. 894 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:49,266 For the good, for the bad, for the, ugly or weird things that maybe 895 00:42:49,266 --> 00:42:54,633 we are still dragging into 2025, that we just want to have it figured out. 896 00:42:54,633 --> 00:42:55,566 We want it to be done. 897 00:42:55,566 --> 00:42:59,866 We want to close the chapter at least, if not the entire book on that. 898 00:43:00,633 --> 00:43:03,533 Help us to remember that you call us to be faithful, 899 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:06,533 trust you. 900 00:43:06,533 --> 00:43:09,900 As we go back out into the places you've called us to be. 901 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,866 The office, 902 00:43:12,866 --> 00:43:16,133 the the ball field, the classroom, wherever it is we land. 903 00:43:16,133 --> 00:43:20,366 God, we pray that we will take, what was spoken up here today and your word. 904 00:43:20,366 --> 00:43:23,366 And suck it deep into our hearts. 905 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:25,300 Where it's very, 906 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:28,600 very difficult to do what we talked about here today. 907 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,600 Help us to just call our minds back to this place 908 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,800 right now and and remember that you are good. 909 00:43:35,033 --> 00:43:36,366 You can be trusted. 910 00:43:36,366 --> 00:43:39,166 You are our counselor. You are our teacher. 911 00:43:39,166 --> 00:43:42,166 And in all of that Jesus, we thank you. 912 00:43:42,166 --> 00:43:43,366 And we ask these things in your name.