So if I haven't been able to meet you, my name is Tyler Miller. I'm our youth pastor here at

ACC. Some excitement from the youth crew. It's a lot of fun. So I get to lead our six through

12th graders, which is always an adventure in a variety of ways. I'm super thankful for the volunteers we

have and just all the students that we have and everything that we're getting to do. If you are a student or a parent, just a reminder, we've announced tides dates

May 30th to June 3rd. Registration will be opening soon. But I wanted to start today with just

honestly, so you all know, I'm thankful to get to be up here but what we believe is

no matter who's up here that this time is a time for all of us collectively to experience God it's

not about me sounding good or saying the right things it's about the Holy Spirit moving through my

voice to you to my heart even I come fully expectant to encounter God this morning. So just

know that's the expectancy that we have in this moment. But we're actually going to kick it off

with our bringing time. We believe that anything we have, everything we have is laid down

at God's feet. We actually believe this is part of worship. I actually read a quote the other day

about worship that if all we do for worship is sing songs on Sunday, then those songs are just about performance. They're not actually worship. For it to be worship, we lay down our lives. So that includes giving of our money, what God has entrusted to us. So the ways to give are going to be behind us, but just to give some vision of what we're doing and what that goes to, there's been multiple things this week that I'm like, oh my gosh, it is so cool that we're getting to see some of those tangible things. One of those things is ties. We're preparing for students to go to the beach and hear about Jesus. And the existence of that camp only happened by the hand of God. We're going to go to another camp, and then it got canceled eight days before we were going to go. So myself and some other leaders had to make up a camp. And then the spirit breathed on that, and we've seen students encounter Jesus through that. Another thing is, and you saw the post this week, our staff got to walk around, like, walk around the structure of Hamilton Road, which made it really real for me.

I get excited.

I'm like, this is awesome, the ideas, the pictures and stuff.

But as we were getting to walk around, we got to stand on the stage, we got to walk through

where the kid's space is, where the lobby is going to be.

It made it really tangible that what we're doing, yes, church is not a building.

It's a gathered people.

But that picture of that building going up on Hamilton Road is a picture of God's faithfulness

for what he's been doing in this church and what he's going to continue to do.

We don't gather here of this is our only expression.

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