Amen and amen. Good morning and welcome. Glad you're here. You can be seated.

I want to welcome those of you that are joining us online as well. We're so glad that you are.

A couple things though before we get started. The first of which is that I want to thank all of you who served

so faithfully and so tirelessly at Teresa's

celebration of life yesterday. The love and hospitality that you showed to the

hundreds of people that attended honored her life more importantly, it glorified the Lord.

And I hope you all know that you played a big part in getting Jesus to these precious but hurting people,

not to mention the witness that this was to the community and really the islands.

The comments keep pouring in on social media to this end and the video of her service

just on our YouTube channel was already at 19,000 views early this morning.

I don't usually check, but I just wanted to see.

And that's the Lord, and praise the Lord, right?

Yeah.

So please continue to pray that out of this unthinkable tragedy, God, as only he can,

will bring the salvation of many in the days ahead, as it seems he is even now doing.

So please continue to pray. And speaking of prayer, we're going to have our

prayer meeting this Tuesday, 7 p.m. here in the sanctuary. You might want to mark your

calendars. That's February 6th coming up. I'm going to start with a brief message, brief

about how God not only answers short three-word prayers during

those trials in our life, but how God may also deem it necessary to allow those very trials to protect us from the much greater trial.

So that'll be Tuesday night.

And then after I'll share just a brief, again, brief, famous last words, just a brief prayer update concerning my wife. Many of you have been asking,

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