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Happy New Year, everybody.

Happy New Year.

I am so excited about 2025, just blown away, looking back on what God did in 2024 and

have so much anticipation for this year.

You know, as you watch that video, I hope your heart is encouraged. As you can see, there's so many lives that God changed over the last 12 months.

Some of you, that was your story.

You took steps last year to get baptized.

You took steps to follow Jesus, to get connected, to start serving.

And for those of you that served last year or gave, God used you in a very powerful way.

And from the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you to you, and I want to celebrate the

faithfulness of God.

It was an amazing year.

We had a great finish to the year that didn't get to get included in that video.

At Christmas, we had 49,700

people joined for our Christmas services, which is incredible. And at Christmas alone, over 400

people made first-time decisions to follow Jesus. And so we're celebrating God's faithfulness.

Now, as we took a little bit of a break, I loved having some time

with my family hanging out with the kids, and hopefully you enjoyed your holiday break as well.

Hopefully you got the very present that you were looking forward to over Christmas, and I got

the present I was looking forward to. And I want to share that with you. It has nothing to do

with my message, but I just want you to know. This year, I want to share that with you. It has nothing to do with my message,

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