Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Hello everybody. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. Come on, every campus. You can do better than that.

I do want to say hello to all of our campuses,

everyone joining us online. And of course, all of our prison campuses and our gateway gatherings.

If you're here for the very first time, we just want to say a special welcome to you. We're so glad you're here. Come on, Gateway family across all of our locations. Let's welcome those who are with us for the first time. We just want to say a special welcome to you. We're so glad you're here. Come on, Gateway family, across all of our locations. Let's welcome those who are with us for the first

time, or maybe the first time in a long time. Well, last weekend was a special weekend, everybody.

And we had the honor of taking up the Love My City offering, which 100% of that has gone out the doors to

bless organizations and partners in our community and have impact. And we told you that we were

going to support more than 40 organizations where you far exceeded our expectations. And so I want you to turn your attention to the screen

and see what happens when together we live on mission.

So check this out.

That Starts was actually founded by my dad in 2014.

It's really a path for veterans to find their purpose in civilian life.

You know, 22 to 23 veterans choose to opt out every day, and that's one every 65 minutes.

Our vision is to pierce the darkness of veterans' suicide by providing hope for today and a plan for tomorrow. We've been on this campus for like right at seven years. Through the years, we've made the decision. We could have done something with the carpet. We know we're at least the third body using that carpet. Lots of feet in and out, and it's seen lots of salvations, but we decided to fund children's ministry or student ministry.

If we ever get the choice, the money is spent outside, we value leaving a legacy of faith,

and that's who we pour most of our resources into.

I don't know if people realize just how much teachers pour into their students and our staff and give a lot of themselves to them.

Every morning at 7 o'clock, we have teachers who open those stores

and they offer free tutoring,

even decorating their classrooms to make it like a home for them.

We want to treat our teachers,

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