Action | Tim Bollinger

Compassion was never just a feeling for Jesus—it always led to action. This week we’re challenged to move beyond intention and begin serving others in practical ways.

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Well, good morning. It's good to see all of you on this beautiful Michigan morning. My name's Tim, and if I haven't had the chance to meet you yet, I'll be out in the middle of the West lobby after the service. And if you wouldn't mind just coming up and introducing yourself, it just gives me a chance to connect with you and thank you for being with us today. I want to say hi to all of those that are joining online and our friends that are streaming in from First Lutheran and Alginac. As we are continuing our series, we took a break last week for Mother's Day weekend, but we're continuing our series on the serving challenge. And so maybe you're joining us because you were here last week for Mother's Day or tuning in online. It's a 40-day challenge that we gave everyone in the congregation a few weeks ago these books. And did you know that we gave over a uh 1,100 books away, which is pretty incredible, guys. And so I'm just assuming that everyone's reading the all 1,100 people are reading the booklet every single day, right? Like sometimes, let's be honest, when you do a 40-day challenge, it's like working out or being on a diet. Sometimes you cheat, forget, sin, whatever you want to do. But if you didn't get one of these books, we're actually completely out of them. I would just encourage you to go on Amazon. It's the quickest way to get one. You can still be involved. Those of you that have been tracking with us the last several weeks, uh, does anybody know what day we're on today? What day are we on today? 27. Whoever said it loud and proud. We are on day 27. Uh today the sermon's gonna be on action. Next week we'll we'll come back and talk about ability. And then the last one there, you see ambition. Uh the guy that wrote the book, Zach Zender, he was here week one. He's coming back to close out the series. Uh, those of you that were here, you might remember that he told us that he is a Cleveland Cavaliers fan. Do you remember that? And uh he asked uh how many of us think LeBron James is the GOAT versus Michael Jordan. Uh, you might not know this. At nine o'clock, nobody raised their hand for LeBron James. It was beautiful. I mean, it was just awesome. Well, 11, a couple of you knuckleheads raised your hand for LeBron James. I don't know who you know you we love you. Whoever did whoever did that, but it was awesome to see that not many people thought uh LeBron James, because we know our Detroit Pristons are actually gonna crush the key of the Cleveland Clavaliers. Cleveland Cavaliers later tonight, right? So here's what we thought we would do as a surprise uh for Zach since he's flying in from Omaha. If we could all just wear our Michigan gear on the 31st, so whether you have Michigan, Michigan State, Maiden Michigan, Detroit Red Wings, Pistons, Lions, Tigers, I don't care. Let's just really send him a message when he's back. How does that sound? Does that sound good? All right, good. That's why I love this church because we love to have fun here at Shepherd's Gate. Now, the focus verse in this whole sermon series has been out of Philippians chapter two. Uh, it's been what's guided the words that we've looked at. And so uh JJ kicked us off by looking at the attitude. And in order to really embrace being a servant of God and serving, you gotta have the right attitude. And then two weeks ago, right before Mother's Day, we looked at this whole idea of how do we make ourselves available? How do we figure out time within our daily schedule so that we can be instruments and be used by God? And so today, again, we're gonna be looking at this whole idea of action. And all of this is based on the model that Jesus has sent for us. I mean, here he is. He's he's in heaven with God the Father, and he is sent down to this earth. He lives a sinless life, he stretches out his arms on a cross, that he's nailed to it, he takes the sins of the world upon himself, he does for us what we can't do for ourselves. He takes action and he breathes his last breath, and he says it is finished, and when he said that, that was it for you and for me. That three days later he would rise from the dead and he would declare victory over all the things that could possibly oppress us in this life. And because of that, he has given us faith and hope and purpose and the ability now to go and to serve others. Amen. So here's what I want you to know. When we talk about serving at Shepherd's Gate, we never want anybody to do it out of obligation or guilt. We want you to do it as a response of what it is that Jesus Christ has done in and through you. Amen? And so that's why we're gonna be looking at this whole idea of action today, which I really like the icon for this. Just look at this cool little figure. I mean, he's got a backpack on, and you wouldn't have a backpack unless you needed to prepare yourself for an adventure. Or isn't it cool he has a helmet on? Which means he might be going into a dangerous place, or he might be facing obstacles, and he's got a stick in his hand, and the stick in his hand is not to beat other people up or the people that annoy us, it's to go and to take new territory and new ground and to go on the best adventure we can ever go on as followers of Jesus, which is walking and talking and being obedient to God's will for our lives. Amen. So the question I want to ask you this morning is after we have the right attitude and we've actually figured out how to make ourselves available to be used by God, how do we then move to action? Because I think this is one of the hardest hurdles to get over. God can do that work in our hearts and our lives to help us uh align our attitudes with His will and seeing people the way that He sees people. I do believe that God can help us figure out times to make ourselves available, but really what it takes is just trusting God and stepping out in faith. And part of it is just walking across a room. Maybe it's walking across the room at your office or your school because you know there's a coworker or a boss or an employee that's going through a difficult time, and you may just walk across the room and say something as simple as, I'm so sorry to hear what you're going through. I just want you to know I'm thinking about you and praying for you. Or how about when it comes to just walking across the street and engaging with our neighbors? Most of us live in subdivisions, those of us that don't live out in the country because you don't want to live next to people. And so you're glad that you don't interact with your neighbors. But those of us that live in subdivisions, which is the majority of us, something special and magical always happens this time of the year. And you know what it is? It's that we come out of hibernation. After that five to six month grueling winter, Michigan winter, that we all just experienced, all of a sudden we look across the street and we realize there's human beings that live in the houses in the neighborhood that God has strategically placed us in. And I don't know how many of you have this in my neighborhood. We share the same poll for mailboxes, and so there's there's two mailboxes on the pole with my neighbor and I. Does anybody else have this beautiful gift that God has given us? And here's what you gotta learn, folks, whether it's the mailbox or the trash bins, is that you gotta start being comfortable with being uncomfortable. Don't go and get your mail, don't retrieve your trash bins until your neighbor is getting their mail and retrieving their trash bins. You and I can become stalkers for Jesus. Okay? And you would be surprised because they never assume that you're doing this, is that you go and you get that mail and you say, Hey, how's it going? And how's your winter been? And man, aren't you so glad the trees are budding, and you know, we're able to mow the grass now, and blah, blah, blah, and what are your summer plans? And just begin to cultivate those relationships with the people God has placed right there in your midst. Or how about even here at church? How hard is it sometimes to just even engage with the people that call Shepherd's Gate their home? Or this is the church that you're praying about and seeing if this is a place that you would call your home. And I'm always mesmerized because there are people that will come to church and they'll leave out these doors and then they'll immediately take a left and they'll just leave. And I'm over there in the West lobby, and tears are coming down my cheeks. Because I'm always like, is it me? Do I smell bad? Did I preach for too long? Are they just in a hurry or they just don't want to talk to people? And then we have people now that somehow have figured out we have these two exit doors over here. And for some reason, they don't think that we can see them, but we can see them because when they open the door, this big, huge, bright light comes in here, and then the door slams behind, and I'm always like, man, where are they going and why are they trying to escape? And how do we help people? How do we help people embrace being part of a community and going through life together and having the time after the service to talk and say, hey, how's life? How are you? Is there something that I can be praying with you about? Because this is what Zach wrote in his book. He said this. Tell me if you think this is true, that the opposite of action is inaction. Do you believe that's true? And then he also said this inaction is still a choice, and choices have consequences. It's a lot easier just to stay at home, isn't it? To sit on the couch, to just take care of our own lawn, to kind of just have the groceries delivered so we don't have to run into anybody in the grocery store. I mean, we could really insulate ourselves as a people. And yet Jesus gently guides us out into the community that we're already in to interact with the people that we're already crossing paths with. In fact, sometimes folks, it can actually just turn all right into sin. James warns us of this. He said, if anyone then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, you're actually sinning. We call this the sin of omission. The opposite of this is the sin of commission. Like you know your thoughts, words, and deeds are a sin, and you're just gonna go ahead and commit them anyways. The sin of omission is when you know that you're supposed to do something the Holy Spirit is leading you to do, and you reject the promptings of what it is that God is laying on your heart or helping somebody that's in need. And sadly, we live in a society, and I'm sure you've seen the videos that have been on social media as well, where people are getting beat up on the sidewalk, or people are being abused in certain circumstances, and people just say, not my problem, and I don't want to get involved because we're so Sue happy now, and so many people just don't want to engage, even helping somebody that's right in front of them. And yet Jesus calls us to live counterculture, he calls us to live differently. And so the point of all of this is that action actually requires a level of compassion. It goes back to attitude. If you don't have the compassion of Jesus in your heart, you're not gonna want to go out and help anybody. Why would you? And again, we don't want people to go and serve because they're doing it begrudgingly or because they're forced to do it, or because, you know, if they don't do it, Tim's gonna write their name down and he's gonna know everybody that doesn't serve. No, we want you to do it out of the joy of your heart because you see what it is that God unleashes in you and the blessing that you can bring to another human being on this planet. In fact, the root definition of compassion means to suffer together. That you literally enter into that pain and suffering of another person. Our care department here at Shepherd's Gate does this magnificently. The way they they care for people going through divorce and grief at the loss of a loved one, and all of the other classes that we have that minister to people right where they are at, using people that have already been in those circumstances that can walk alongside and bring healing and hope to some of the darkest situations. Jesus modeled that. In fact, Jesus was the master of not just seeing people and having compassion, he was always moved to compassion. When he saw the multitude, he didn't just look and see them in their sorry state. He was willing to spend time healing those who were sick. When he saw the crowds, he wasn't afraid to go and to do something on a tangible level and to give them food because he knew that if he fed them, if he met their physical need first, it would open the door then for him to minister to them on a spiritual level. Touching people's eyes, healing people that had diseases, even teaching people the truth of who he is and unpacking and showing them the scriptures and showing how much they are loved by Almighty God. Let's be honest this morning. Sometimes when we talk about serving, and we specifically talk about serving in our community or sending people on mission trips, sometimes it gets frustrating. Some of you, you've done this in the past and you got burned. You may have pulled up to a site and you made yourself available and you had the right attitude, and here you're giving up your most precious resource, your time, and as you pulled up, you saw the situation and you kind of assessed in a very short period of time that the people that you were about to minister to, at least in your mind, didn't deserve the care that you were about to provide for them. See, sometimes this is where it gets difficult. People feel that their actions won't actually make a difference. Am I just doing this to do it? Or what I'm doing, is there really purpose? Am I really going to see God at work through what I am doing at this site? Or again, I don't really know if people need my help. When I was a student director here, I got the opportunity to take students on mission trips to Racine, Wisconsin. Anybody been to Racing, Wisconsin? Beautiful town. And you're like, well, why do you take them to Racing Wisconsin? Because you always take teenagers out of state to give them that mission trip experience. It's why other states send their youth groups to Detroit, same reason. And so several years in a row, we would go to uh Racing, Wisconsin, and uh one of my good friends, Craig uh Heath, was actually a leader, a youth leader on the trip as well. And the way they do it is they split your youth group up, and so you're in charge of a group of students that aren't necessarily the kids from your youth group, and they have you fill out this assessment before you go. And Craig, because he's so gifted, he checked the box that said expert painter. And I checked the box that said crappy painter. So when we got there and we got our assignments, I was on a small site with a small crew, and we were gonna go and paint a house. It was gonna take us Monday through Friday to paint one house because he was an expert painter, he got this massive house, he got three times the crew size. I mean, he had to have so much paint and ladders and responsibility, which he could totally take on. Like he's he's really good at what he does. And the crazy part was that at my site, we were ministering uh to a Mexican family who barely spoke any English, and they were doing everything they could to make ends meet. And the husband was always gone, he was always working to provide for the family, and the wife was so appreciative of the fact that we were there. Do you know that every single day that we were there, she made us a home cooked Mexican, authentic Mexican lunch? Has anyone actually had real authentic Mexican food from a Mexican? It is not Taco Bell, let me tell you that. And it is not any of these other Mexican restaurants that act like I mean, it's a whole nother level. The flavors, the smells, the tastes, I mean, it's just unprecedented. And here I am at this little tiny house with this little tiny crew, and Craig's over here eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day for lunch. But the difficulty is that the house that he was at in a short period of time, he assessed that there were able-bodied-bodied people living in that house that could have painted that house themselves. And so he and I would talk about this at night, and nice part about teenagers is they don't always pick up on these things. You want the teenagers to have a good mission trip experience. And so when you finally got to Friday, Friday's the day of celebration, uh, where you finish the project and you invite your residents back to the school where we were eating and sleeping at, and we were having a service, and the kids were all jumping up and down and having a great time. And Craig and I just happened to be in the hallway, and we're just so glad the week's over. We're glad our students all, you know, for the most part had a great experience. When all of a sudden the people that were in the house that he was working at came out early into the lobby. And the lobby had these long tables and they had all of these snacks and cans of pops on them. So he, of course, recognized them. They looked at him, they took their shirts, cupped them up, and started pouring the snacks and cans of pop into their shirts, and then ran out of the school. And he and I just looked at each other, and you know what we did? We laughed. Because we didn't know what else to do. And in that moment, it's so easy to want to have a bad attitude. Like, how ungrateful can you be? We just paint, he just painted your whole house. He just gave up a week of work, and we just sat there and said, you know, God's the one that's at, God's the one that's in charge of this. God knows their heart. Our job is to come and to plant the seeds, and our job is to make sure that our students have a good experience. And we were grateful that the teenagers actually didn't see this happen. Like, we don't know what circumstance they're in, we don't know what kind of childhood they had. We don't really truly know at the end of the day all of the circumstances or challenges that they faced in life. And so I'm just challenging you this morning if you've tried a site, to try a different site, to see if God won't open a different door of opportunity for you to serve. And I know some people will say, well, I just don't know if I'm really equipped to help. And we're gonna get into more of that next week. Here's the reality, and you know that I like to be completely open and honest with you as a congregation. There is definitely compassion action, and I love the way that our church so willingly rolls up its sleeves and is willing to go out and just serve those in the community that may never become part of our church. But do you know there's also something called compassion fatigue? Those that do ministry week in and week out, especially in some of the most impoverished areas, uh, those that faithfully go down to some of our mission partners, especially in Detroit, uh some of them in Flint, some of them in Mount Clemens, where you're just constantly being around uh some of the most difficult circumstances, it can begin to wear on you. Also, people that just feel like, man, I've done enough. Like I feel like every single week I'm doing another ministry and another ministry and another ministry in another ministry. I want to give you some advice today. In fact, this is one of the expressions that we use here at Shepherd's Gate. And whenever I call someone and ask them to serve in a high-level leadership position here at the church, I always end with this expression, and this is the expression I want you to hear today. Is that your no is as holy as your yes. Did you know that? Except for step out and serve weekend, because I asked you to do it, okay? No just case. Because we want you to have the right attitude. Your no is as holy as your yes. And so if you don't have the right attitude or God is not speaking to your heart, you again don't need to be guilted into doing something just to do it. You do it because the Holy Spirit is prompting and leading you to do it. And so now I want to show you something, and I love doing this. I want you to have a peek behind the curtain. Some of you know this, many of you probably don't, about how we even pace ourselves as a church. So as a congregation, we are strategic in making sure that every single Sunday or every single month, we're not always asking you for another donation or go and do some other ministry work. And so this is how we plan things out over 12 months of a year. We call it the Shepherd's Gate Churchwide Compassion Schedule. In January, you know this, we collect groceries for our local food bank, Samaritan House, up in Washington. And we give you grocery bags if you want to take a grocery bag to go to the grocery store, fill up the bag, bring it back, and then collectively we're able to give thousands of dollars of groceries to fill their shelves that just got depleted over Thanksgiving and Christmas. Guess what we do in February? We take a break. We don't ask you to donate anything, we don't ask you to do anything. In March, we try to come up with a local missions project, and for the last couple of years, you guys know what we've been doing? Going down to the warming shelter for a week. Just one week. There's other churches that fill in the other weeks, and over 400 of you responded this last March and said, I'll give up one night, or I'll come here to the church and do some prep work, or I'll make a donation. And it wouldn't be possible if everyone just didn't do something. In April, April is usually Holy Week and Easter. Guess what we do? We take a break because we got services going on, and we want to pour into you and we want you to be connected to Jesus. Here we are in the month of May, where a lot of what we're doing now. Is just the prep work for our big immersion weekend coming up the first weekend of June. And after that, we go right into a celebration service, right into the Stars and Stripes Outdoor Father's Day service that you just heard about in the video. And then really, our whole congregation, if you didn't know this, goes on sabbatical for the entire month of July. And all of you said, we don't allow any local missions to take place. Do you know that? If people call us and they want a ramp built or they want something painted, or we're gonna do something here at the church, we tell them no, that as a congregation, we take one month off. I think it's the greatest month of the year, especially for us Michiganders, and we don't even have meetings. The council doesn't meet, the mission team doesn't meet. For us, this is an important part of pacing ourselves as a church in what we believe God has called us to do. If God can rest on the seventh day, certainly Shepherd's Gate can rest in the month of July. Amen. Then it goes into August, where it's the step in and serve ministry fair, and step in is where we highlight ministries here that you can get plugged in. I call this the JJ service because JJ, if you haven't noticed, is always the one that preaches the step in and serve because he's responsible for all of the ministries here. And so he talks about all the opportunities that you have. There's usually testimonies from people that are serving inside the church, and then we get to go outside and have a cool ministry fair afterwards. We have another break in September because we know it's crazy for young families as they transition their kids back to school. And then in October, we just try to find another week of like, hey, is there something that we can do with one of our local ministry partners where we send volunteers out, and that's just something we do together as a church. And then you'll notice a break in November, and then of course, some type of thing that you can be involved in at Christmas. Does this help? Does this help you kind of understand? The nine o'clock said it did. I'm hoping all of you can say that you that this helps you really uh understand and see how we're strategic and making sure that nobody burns out and has the right rhythm of what we believe God has called us to do. Now I know what some of you are thinking. What about this whole thing called step out and serve 365? Was anybody wondering that when I was doing that? You're like, isn't there some other things going on around here? And isn't there different opportunities for people to serve? Yes, because people spoke up and said, I don't want to just serve on the one weekend a year. I want to know if there's things that pop up if we can go and we can serve throughout the year. And so just recently, this good-looking, really good-looking group of guys went to the sister congregation that's streaming in this service, First Lutheran and Alginac, they went and they repaired their entire ramp, which turned out beautifully. And you might be wondering, how in the world do these good-looking dudes have the time to do this? How do you think they have the time to do this? Because they're retired. You notice I'm never in any of the pictures. I always sometimes I stand, uh, I stand when they're when they're getting ready to leave because they hook up the mission mobile and trailer over here, and I just cry because I'm just like, I would love nothing more than to jump into that suburban and go with them. But I know that's not my highest and best use, at least not in this season of my life. Some of you are retiring, or you just recently retired, or you're on the verge of retiring. I would encourage you to give up some of that time to join this crew and see what it is that God might do in and through you. But again, it's all about pacing ourselves and making sure that we don't burn anybody out. Because this is what it says. Ready? Let us not become weary in doing good. Amen? Put this on a t-shirt. We don't want to be weary in doing the good that we're doing. For at the proper time we'll reap a harvest if we do not give up. That's why we do step out and serve every year. We're not gonna give up doing what we believe God has called us to do as his church. Paul knew this. Paul knew that the one writing this that it wasn't necessarily about him. It was about planting seeds and letting God do what God does. In fact, in 1 Corinthians, he said, I planted, Apollos watered, but who's ultimately responsible for putting faith in people's hearts? God. We just have the right attitude, make ourselves available, and be moved to action to go and to make those connections so that God can do his greatest work, which is bringing people to faith. He goes on to say this, therefore, as we have opportunities, so as the opportunities become available, let us do good to all people. Does anyone disagree with that? I mean, Jesus is the one that told us to love our enemies. I mean, we're trying to find the people that we really want to serve and go out and to help. That's why the first part of our vision statement here at Shepherd's Gate is to value everyone we meet, to share the love of Christ with everyone we come in contact with. And then he ends by saying this, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Why would he say that? Why would he say that? Because you and I are his children, and we're a family here at Shepherd's Gate, and we have to take care of each other. And this is why I love our leadership team because they have a list of all of our widows, and they have a list of our widowers, and they have a list of single moms, and they reach out and they and they find out those that are elderly are not able to maybe keep up with the things that they usually used to be able to keep up with. And so several of our sites for Step Out and Serve are actually members' homes that we go and we serve them because that's what Jesus has told us to do. Amen. So here's the challenge for the week. And you tell me if I'm crazy, and it's fine if you do, okay? I just believe that everyone can do something. I got one person that said yes. I just believe everyone can do something. And what we would love for you to do is to sign up, not to wait till the last minute, not to give the planning team a heart attack to find out if all the sites are gonna get filled up. To find that place and to sign up and to go and to serve that first weekend of June. Now, maybe you're not gonna be here. So maybe you could move into the second category of donating items. And if you don't have the financial resources to donate, you can go and be part of collecting items that'll be used for step out and serve weekend. And then finally, there's a category here that says prep work. And so, if for some reason you're not gonna be around the first weekend in June, where's all my wedding people at? I can see you right there. See all these people? We're all going to a wedding in Saga Tuck together, aren't we? Me and the Smith family. It's gonna be amazing. And I'm so glad that Haley is getting married on Friday night. Because we are gonna party down. We are gonna, we are, all of heaven is gonna go crazy for your wedding, you in bed. And then Saturday, I'm gonna wake up, drive back, and do a site on Sunday. Whatever it is, if you can't be there that weekend, we totally understand there's opportunities for you to go and serve, even leading up over the next several weeks. So again, I just believe and we just encourage you that everyone can do something. But we want to end this message by allowing our mission team to give you a quick update on what it is that God has done in and through you as a church. So I want to go ahead and grab that card that the ushers gave you on the way in. And will you please welcome Greg Boehm, our mission chair, and the mission team as they come at this time.

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All right, good morning. So my name is Greg Bohm, and I have the honor of being the chairperson for the Mission 15 team. And just a real quick definition 15% of everything that goes into the baskets and gets automatically pulled out of people's checking accounts comes to our team to then discern God's will of where to invest that money. It's not giveaways, it's not writing checks, it's all about serving opportunities, boots on the ground. You'll hear that term, and that's the key thing before if the people are serving and we give money with those people. That's kind of the key how we uh that we really when we're looking at an opportunity, that's our first filter, boots on the ground. So now that we're all up here, we can kind of go through. So here's our current team, we're a three to three-year commitment. And so our current team here, we got Steve, we got Allison, Rochelle, Amy, and Ray. If you see these people in the hallway and you've got a great idea, and me, I'm sorry, it's not just them, but me too. If you got a great idea of a ministry we need to talk about or be indoor investigate, because we're charged with keeping to revisit and look at two new ministries a year. Let us know. And and our first thing will be, well, you know, how can you help us? What can we do? Who do we contact? So definitely keep them in your prayers. And then on this side, in March, we actually is when we transition our terms. And so I just do want to recognize Scott, Leanne, and Aubrey. They just completed their three-year term. And I just want to say thank you for your servants and for helping out. Okay, real quick, just a couple highlights. Pull out your card that everybody got uh earlier when you walked in. Just a couple to call out. Pastor Tim called, you know, mentioned about the the harsh winter we had. Uh, family of God, we are very heavily invested in that ministry in Southwest Detroit. Their boiler went out in the coldest part of the winter. Again, your generosity allowed us to have the money available to provide a substantial amount of funds to help get their boiler replaced. So, you know, again, I was down there on a mission uh ministry tour. We're sitting in their sanctuary, and it's like 45, 50 degrees in there. And they're working in these conditions. So again, part of your commitment, your generosity, your generous giving, we were able to turn around and help keep a vital ministry functioning for the people in southwest Detroit. Again, not a garden spot in the city in the city. Uh winter shelter, another one we talked about, you know, 400 people. But it also takes a lot of money to feed 120 people for seven days. I'm sure none of your grocery bills went down. This was a big grocery bill, let me tell you, because I handled all the food. So again, your generosity allowed us to step out and serve a very unloved part of our community. So flip it over, we'll come back and we'll talk about mission building and mission mobile. But global missions, uh, to Tim's uh comment about if anybody can serve, if there's something for somebody to do, I want to call out Mission of Hope. That is two members of our congregation, Bill and Ellen Gas. They go down and spend several weeks in Honduras. Ellen's 80. Bill's eighty-three. So if you want an example of if anybody can do something, this is a couple that really needs to be recognized for for just doing something I would probably even struggle with. Um so again, we you know, I see these folks in our hallway, make sure to give them a hug and just say thank you for for your service. They are just truly an example we should all aspire to. Okay, come back to uh mission mobile. Next slide here. So so a few years ago we made this wonderful investment. Uh the current mission team invested some money from other sources to really get to purchase this beautiful vehicle, matching trailer. Now we've added more trailers out there, if you see by the garage in the back. And now we've got the ramp team that we saw earlier, they're accumulating tools for doing their ministry. But we uh you always see stuff parked outside the garage. We don't have a place to properly care for uh these expensive investments. So that's where we've come back, and you'll see where again your generosity has allowed us to commit fifty thousand dollars so that as the mission building moves forward, we're gonna be part of that ability to not only store what we got, but to grow. What else can we do? Can we do car maintenance for people? There's lots of possibilities, and we want to make sure that it happens. So that's again a key thing that we've looked at and are doing to support all of our local missions here. So I that's pretty much it. Um, I will be out in the West lobby after the service and the rest of the team. I mean, if there's any questions, again, if you see us, stop us and let's talk about what our opportunities are. Thank you very much.

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