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Hi Church.

That was so cute. Okay. Hi Church.

That was so cute. My name is Riley Schaefer and I serve on the worship team,

so these are my people over here.

And I also serve with a really funny cute group of

ninth grade girls and if you want to laugh a lot you should join student

ministry because they're hilarious.

And so today we're gonna be reading out of Jonah 1 through 3.

It says, now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of a Midi saying arise go to Nineveh that great city and call out against it for their evil has come up before me

but Jonah rose to flee to Tarsish from the presence of the Lord. He went

down to Japa and found a ship going to Tarsish. So he paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarsh

away from the presence of the Lord. This is the Lord of the Lord.

Let's be the God. She was a little nervous last night of having to say Tarsish that many times and so here we are.

Well done, Riley.

If you have your Bibles, please grab them. We're just going to walk line by line through that.

But let me start this way.

Everything I love about my life right now, I can tie back to a wrestle with God when I was 20 that went deep

into the early hours of the morning. I had a wonderful plan for my life.

I had worked at a church.

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