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Well, to anybody watching online, all of our Atlanta area campuses or any of our partner

churches tuning in. Welcome. My name is Samar and I get to be the lead pastor

at Woodstock City Church and I'm really excited to be with you guys today closing out the series

that we've been in with Andy called The Day After Christmas. A little bit about me. I've

been married to my wife Julie for six years. I think and we have two kids, three-year-old,

a one and a half-year-old and yes, we're a little crazy. We're about to add a third. My wife is

pregnant with number three and it's going to be born right around Christmas. So the story of Christmas

is really real for us, like a child being born. Like it's just the craziness of that. It's real

in our house right now and you know I find it fascinating. There's a bunch of questions that people

ask whenever they find out that you're expecting a child. There's a lot of questions that we have

before and there's questions that we have after and the ones that you might ask before a child

is born make sense. A lot of the ones that we get asked, hey, when's the baby do and what do you

have in a boy or girl? Those questions make a lot of sense to me. To answer the question, we don't

know if we're having a boy or girl. We're choosing to be surprised with this one. We've never done

that before. I don't know if anyone's ever done the surprise thing before. I was kind of nervous

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