Well, as you can see from behind me, we have something very, very special.

Just to let you know, this is not the Lord's Supper.

But I thought for Mother's Day, we'd do something that we do and just invite you to join us and that is every Mother's Day.

We gather as a family and we talk about mom. We talk about Debbie and we bless her and we encourage her.

And so if you would, would you please welcome to the platform, my family.

You guys come on up. I will introduce each of them to

I will introduce each of them to you. We also have three grandchildren

Grady who's four, Willow who is two and they're in the children's ministry and then Parker who's three weeks and

Bridget's mother is taking care of him.

But to let you know who these folks are, this is my son James and his wife Bridget. This is my son

Josh and his wife Hannah. Obviously this is the mother of the year in our family and this is my daughter Elaine and her

husband Ethan so this is my family immediate family and and I thought

thought that I would kind of take you back 32 years ago.

Debbie and I got, I don't know what you're laughing about,

this is not a funny picture this is when

Debbie and I got married 32 years ago as you can see we look exactly the same. So other than 40 pounds for me but

other than that okay and then Josh came along.

Josh is our oldest son, and so you can see that the hairstyles have changed just a little

bit.

And then James came along, so here's a picture of Josh with his preacher suit

on and and James there and then this is Josh and James getting ready for church one day.

I think it was an Easter service.

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