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Thank you so much, you may be seated.

This is such a special day for me because it's the first, not the first time I'm here.

I've been here so many times, but it's the first time I'm not here as a guest speaker, but as part of this family for this season.

Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for all the love that you poured into me and Maria and we just feel so welcome.

Thank you to all in this room, thank you to everyone in the campuses.

I've started to start to visit the campuses and get to know you all and I can't wait for to just spend time together and to walk with you in and through this special season.

Praise God.

Praise God, oh man, I'm excited.

I can't wait to meet you, to greet you

and to get to know as many of you as I possibly can.

And also I would like for you to get to know me a bit as well because if I'm only

coming in and out then you can know me as that Swedish pastor with a funny

accent and a weird name that nobody can pronounce over here.

That's okay, but if I'm going to be your pastor for this season I want to get I want you to get to know me a little better so I hope it's okay but I want to do something different today

I'm not primarily gonna preach a message or lead you in a Bible study I'll get

back to that next weekend okay okay? But for today, I just want to share my story, my testimony

with you if that's okay. I want to tell you the story about how Jesus invaded my life. And I also want to tell you the story

about what happened in our church,

World of Life, 10 years ago,

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