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this message by Havila Cunnington. For more resources, visit bethel.on online or shop.bethel.com. No. I have I have more kids than he does.

So thank you. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. This is great. Good morning. Happy Easter. It is an honor to be with you. I'm so glad that you made it.

And this is our third service, so I finally got the message right. I'm feeling much better.

I want to say if you are planning on coming tonight, you need to know a few things. It's a perfect Sunday to come to church tonight.

Because tonight, our pastor bill will be speaking a message, which is awesome.

And there's going to be baptism, which I think it's kind of cool to get baptized on

on Resurrection Sunday.

I think that could be like a really historic moment.

So if you're going to come get baptized, we only ask for a few things.

One is we ask that you bring your own towel, right? Towel, we'd love it if you did that and you don't use the paper towels in the bathroom. And then we ask that you wear dark clothes because people want to see, be able to look at you in the face when you come back next Sunday. And so please wear dark clothes. And come, just come. That's all we really need from you is to come come and a change of clothes. Thank you. Yes, we don't want you sitting on furniture wet, right? All moms? Amen. Okay. Open up your Bibles to Romans 828. If you did not bring your Bible, do not worry. God will judge you for that. No, I'm kidding. Don't worry. I will, I promise I'm going to stay in a very

quick passage. So if you didn't bring it, no worries. I'm going to, I'll read it slowly and keep us

all together. I'm thrilled that I get to actually speak today because several years ago,

I almost lost an ability to speak at this service. And I'm teasing, but we had a service called Good Friday.

And how many of you went to the Civic for Good Friday?

Yeah, it was amazing.

Three services, 40 to 80 churches represented, thousands of people from around the city gathered on our Good Friday service, and it was phenomenal.

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