All right, so good to see.

Hey, everybody.

Surprise, yeah. Good to see. Hey, everybody.

Surprise, yeah.

Good to see you today.

Welcome to week number one of a brand new message series that we're starting called Choose Joy.

Sounds like somebody have already chosen joy, all right?

We're so glad you're along for the ride.

I always like to start by looking into the camera and saying hello to all of our locations.

We are one church that meets all across the great state of Sweet Home Alabama.

And we're also bringing this message into a bunch of Alabama's Department of Corrections facilities.

One of the honors, when you say so, church, one of the honors of our life to be able to be with you guys.

And we mean that. About 19 of those facilities have not only this Sunday service, but small groups,

Grot Track, Dream Team, all that we are as a church. And of course, there's always people watching online for some reason around the world. We're so glad you're along for the ride today.

But I want us to reserve our greatest applause today for our newest location that's starting

next Sunday.

But the launch team is having a practice service.

There's hundreds and hundreds of people kind of getting ready for next Sunday's launch

for our Columbus campus.

Come on, put your hands together.

Come on, you can do a little bit better than that.

God bless you guys.

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