Amen and amen and good morning and welcome.

You can be seated.

Hope your Christmas was blessed.

And if we're still here, I hope your new year is the best.

That's the best I got, so hope it worked.

Hey, before we get started, I want to say thank you for a couple of things.

First, you guys spoil me.

I'm not complaining.

Thank you so much for the generosity, especially this time of year. It's just

overwhelming. And so I just wanted to, it's actually impossible to thank each and every person.

What we could try. Let's start over here and then not no but so I just want to say thank you

from the bottom of my heart the Lord knows my heart this is a very generous in

giving and thoughtful and loving church that I would go to if I were not the

pastor of it the second thing and this kind of hit me,

I was talking to my wife about it,

but as many of you know, she's back in church now.

And this is, yes.

For those of you who don't know,

she is still battling an aggressive form of breast cancer.

But we were talking about this the other day and those online don't know because they're

not here so they don't see her here.

So I wanted to thank those of you online and you here as well for your continued prayers for my wife.

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