Good evening. It's good to be together tonight. I am from Denver, Colorado.

Okay, good. That's good. And Denver, it feels very similar to this place to me.

You know, when I'm here, I get to come in and out of here. I feel like we're

like sister cities somehow, which isn't always a good thing, but it feels

familiar in an interesting way to me. I'm not really sure why. And I just want

to take a second to say something to you at this church before we jump in all

the things we'll talk about tonight. You know, when you're in a church, you don't

really know what you're doing in that church other than like the things you're

doing. You know, I mean, like some of you are over there like porn coffee or

like stand at the door, you know, as people that run sound or do all these little

things you do and you're like, I don't know, this is just what I do in my church.

And I just wanted to give you a little perspective because you might not always

have that of how I have heard about and prayed for and been aware of this

church for a long time. You probably don't know this, but there are people that

look to the things that God is doing in this place across the country, around the

world. And so I guess it's important for you to hear that because you know, there's

people that plant churches and leachers and blah, blah, blah, and they write books

and they're the people that everybody likes sort of knows. But I guess I just want

to speak to you as a church and say thank you. There's people in this room that

have just given generously. You serve, you pray, you work with kids, you do all

these things, right? And I want to say thank you because that investment is

rippling across your city, across the country, and across the world. And you

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