Welcome to the Voo Church Podcast. One encounter with light can change everything.

In a moment we can go from sorrow to joy, weakness to strength, death to life.

As we continue our mature church collection, to strength, death to life.

As we continue our mature church collection,

Pastor Manuska Charles brings a powerful word

with her message, the evidence of an encounter. Wherever you are in the world, there's a spot for you in Miami at Vukan 2024.

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Now let's lean into the message together.

We're gonna open up God's word and

we're just gonna stand for the reading of His Word.

We've been in this collection of talks called mature church and we've been taking some time to look back at

the early church and the early church has so greatly affected us today as the modern day church.

And we have been studying the book of Acts and we've been reading the stories and today we find ourselves in acts nine.

And this is the conversion of Saul,

his encounter with God that changed everything, only just for him but for us.

So Acts 9 reads, meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats

against the Lord's disciples.

He went to the High Priest and asked them

for letters to the synagogue in Damascus so that if he found any

there who belonged to the way whether men or woman he might take them as

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