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Hey everybody how are you? It's great to see you.

At twin view I started speaking for quite a bit my mic wasn't working and I'm patiently

looking at my brothers in the sound booth like I'm sure you've got it handled to be just a moment. Testing, testing, testing. Are we, what's going on? Finally, Lance of the front row says, is your ear thing on? And I remember, oh no, it was dangling off the back of my shirt. So luckily I wasn't shooting any darts back at the sound guys. I think I was like, okay, good. So put it on, and I'm a professional speaker. All right. Thanks, good to be with you. Come on, there we go. I'm very tall. I'm usually tall. You should see me up close.

Hey, let's invite the Holy Spirit to just help us to grow, grow spiritually, intellectually,

emotionally from our time together, okay?

Lord, we present ourselves to you again.

In worship, we've been touched by you, in generosity, in the testimony of how you've

just been with our sister on the mission field and the great work.

We are already growing.

I pray that we might find ourselves even more equipped because of our time together this morning.

I ask for your anointing in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Well, good. We had a great testimony this morning. It was fun and it was weird and beautiful.

Shane Mandel, who's like our alumni pastor for BSSAM, one of our pastors. He gave the

testimony in first service,

but he's in Reno. He happens to be walking by and he hears that somebody still can't smell or

taste because of COVID. And instead of just ignoring that, he said that something kind of rose up in

him frustration for his brother that he wasn't able to like taste and enjoy food. And it'd been about

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