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All right Mary Christmas love you excited to be with you great day to be with

you best day of the week we are in the book of Philippians looking at the

theme of joy if you've got a Bible turn to Philippians chapter three and

today I'm gonna tell you how you can find joy even when you've messed up

and let's just be honest we're all in church we've all messed up and God has

joy for all of us let me start with the story from this past week so last

weekend small team of us went down to Mexico we brought the presence that you

gave and you gave a lot of great presence thank you for that we brought those

over the border we hosted a Christmas dinner for Mexican pastors and their

spouses and kids most of them are in poor communities mom and dad are both

working a full-time job they volunteer at the church and a huge percentage of

what the family makes goes just to support the local ministry so we wanted to

honor them and thank them and love them and strengthen the Mexican church and so

we threw a Christmas party that was a smashing success we'll do it again next

year we gave away all the presence that you gave to us and some of the pastors

took them back to give to children and need in their community and the trip was

overall great except there was one thing that was a little more complicated that

was the sleeping arrangements we we showed up and they said okay you're sleeping

here one big huge room tile floors for around 20 people on air mattresses men

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