Well, like Julie, man, Refuge Clinic has a place near and dear to my heart for two reasons.

Number one, it was actually my training ground professionally as a young clinician.

And they gave me opportunities to just serve alongside of them with their patients.

But then number two, and some of you all may or may not be aware of this, it was also instrumental for me as a young leader because they gave me

opportunities to also open God's word and lead their staff through devotionals from time to time.

And so I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge just what Refuge Clinic means to me as a person,

as a husband, as a dad, as a leader, and as a follower of Jesus. And I'm just so grateful

for what they do over there. Now, with all that being said, some of you are familiar with the distractions announcement that we do from time to time. Well, I've received permission from our communications team to go a little bit rogue with that. So here's what I want you to do. Go ahead and grab your phones. And I sincerely mean that. This is not a trick. It's not a gimmick. It's not a game. Go ahead and grab your phones at this time. I'll give you a second to do that. All right. Then once you get your phone in your hand, I want you to open your messages app, not your social media apps, not ESPN. Not anything else is going to distract you, but open your

messages app. And I want you to text the word refuge to 40411. Here's what that's going to do.

That's going to keep refuge clinic on your radar for one of three things, to pray, to give,

or to serve. And no matter who we are, we can all play our part or our role in acknowledging and leaning

into one of those three things, myself included.

Now, once you have sent that text to that number, you can go ahead and put your phones away.

I'm going to pray for us, and then we'll get ready to jump into God's word.

Father, we thank you.

Just for the partnership we have with Refuge Clinic, and God, there are so many stories

like Julie's of people just being met where they're at and just having their dignity and

their value and their worth and their hope and ultimately their faith and trust in you

restored. So God, I'm grateful for

the men and women and students who serve faithfully weak in and week out over there. Would you just

help them to not grow weary in doing good? And Father, would you give us wisdom, discernment,

clarity on how you're inviting us to partner alongside of them in this season, whether it's

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