All right.

Are we ready?

All right.

Well, good morning.

It is a delight, a great joy as usual, as well as a quite sad occasion this morning.

As I sat back there, I thought about the fact that we've been here for almost a decade.

In fact, we've been here so long that many of you thought we would never leave.

And we've gotten that message from many people who said, why are you going?

If you'll recall, when we came, we said that we would be here for three to five years.

That was our plan. It has now been almost 10.

And so that that time has come. But as I sit here, there

are several memories that just flood my mind. And one of them, you know, we almost always sit

right over there.

Very few people know why we've always sat right over there.

Our children have even forgotten why we always sit right over there.

The reason we always sit right over there is because when we first came,

our children, the ones who came with us, were two, three, five, six, seven,

eight, and eleven.

And so we had some who were still being trained to sit in church.

And we needed a quick way to get out if they needed reminding.

Amen?

And so that's why we've always sat over there on that side,

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