Amen. You can all be seated.

I wanted to let you know that we've another milestone we've reached.

So first of all, Kathy and I are celebrating 50 years of marriage as well.

So.

And that story I told earlier where the wife said,

I'm tired of you too, that was Kathy,

so kind of an awkward moment not really but

huge milestone milestone milestone you know we've been preaching the gospel obviously here in the church from the day we began and then we started doing outreach events and then in the early 90s

Pastor Chuck came to me with this vision of doing these large-scale

evangelistic crusades and we just celebrated over 30 years of doing those and so

we've been sort of looking at it, and adding up the numbers, like how many people

have made a profession of faith?

Well we know from the Crusades alone, over 600,000 people have, have okay so we know that. But then we

started thinking about all the numbers that people that have come to faith in

our church over the years over these many

years and then outreach events that we've done apart from the crusades and we can

say and this is a conservative statement through our outreach efforts in the last 50 years we have seen

one million professions of faith in Jesus Christ. So, wow, you wonder what does one million people look like? Well look at this

photograph here and you'll see that's a million people.

So that photograph was taken in South Korea at a Billy Graham crusade.

I think that may have been the largest gathering of people for any evangelistic event in history.

And there it was.

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