You may take your seat.

My name is Lana Williams.

I'm the executive pastor here at 2819 church, and I am so grateful to be given this opportunity to preach the word on this morning.

I would be remiss in this moment if we did not take a second, more than a second.

We're going to pause with the cause.

And we're going to honor the lead pastor of this church, more than a second. We're going to pause with the cause. And we're going to honor

the lead pastor of this church, Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell. If you've been blessed by him,

just put your hands together. Amen. I'll tell you now, next week is his birthday. And so next

Sunday, we want to just honor him and just thank God for the life of the ministry of P.A.M.

And just grateful for him and his wife, Ms. Selena, and their family.

And just grateful that they would even give us the opportunity to be able to just minister to God's people.

I also just want to shout out my wife who's in the room.

My oldest daughter is back from college for a little while.

So grateful for that.

To the elders of this house, I thank God for you.

And I feel like one of them old Baptist churches, but you got to name off everybody.

The deacons on the roster.

Members and Christian friends, saints and saints.

Amen.

Listen, I'm just grateful for everyone here and the staff.

With this assignment, I've been given, you know, the first gathering was interesting because I don't

think I realized that I was preaching to myself yeah I was preaching to myself it didn't it didn't hit

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