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I want to welcome especially the men at the men's retreat who are joining us.

I think Sunday morning with this video and all of you who are at the South Campus in Lakeville and all of you who are

downtown Sunday morning and Sunday evening. That's all across these hours and

across these miles pray together.

Lord of the Harvest, you have told us to pray to you that you would send laborers because the harvest is white and ready for harvest.

And so I ask now that in these eight services this weekend plus the men's retreat you would

send you would call out for yourself young and old and so give them a compelling sense of your

leading cross cultures and long term that they would know.

I am sent. I ask this in Jesus name, amen.

Well this is my 30th or 29th depending on how you count and last sermon on missions as your

pastor and on missions as your pastor.

And that's not exactly true if you have ears to hear

because every sermon is on missions in my way of thinking.

But you know what I mean.

November 13, 1983 was my first one and I have preached in this global focus every year since except I think

in 2010.

What a privilege to be a part of this Bethlehem legacy of world missions.

To lead Bethlehem, to lead Bethlehem,

which has been my job these 33 years is to lead a mission agency, not just a church,

but a church with an absolutely extraordinary sending calling on it.

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