Well, good morning. As you've already heard, there is a lot going on in our church family that we can celebrate today. We've had a ton of people showing up to First Wednesday worship on Wednesday nights. That's just been incredible across our campuses. I'm just now getting my voice back from this past Wednesday's First Wednesday worship. Right now you may be looking around going, where are all the high school students that we've already kind of talked a little bit about today they are on a retreat right now

somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 high school students are on this retreat to bagdad

kentucky i got videos yesterday of paintball wars happening they're having a great time hopefully

they're becoming more like jesus also uh that's a that's a good thing we got this end of

your offering thing coming up there's some stuff coming up that we haven't told you about yet that

we're going to tell you about that I'm super excited about there's all kinds of fun stuff going on

in the life of our church and in the middle of all of this we decided to do something as a staff

that we had not done since before 2020 2019 was the last time that our staff had taken a retreat. And so we got away a couple weeks ago, and we went to scenic southern Indiana. It was epic. It was awesome. And we got together, and we just sang our faces off and rallied around our King Jesus. We rallied around the mission and vision of this place that we're so looking forward to in the years to come and we rallied around how we can become a stronger, more resilient staff so we can

continue to serve in this church. And just so you know, this is the most awesome church staff

in the history of church staffs. And you guys need to recognize them and just say thank you to

them because they are amazing. They have to not only do they serve you to them because they are they're amazing they have to

not only do they serve you all so well but they put up with me and they put up with john and

they're really really solid now also we took a little time and this is very important we we had a

pickleball tournament all right and so one of our staff people they set up a bracket and all of our staff picked up all these super fun team names.

And it was an epic tournament because it was a mixed doubles tournament.

That means there was men's teams, there was women's teams, and then there was mixed doubles teams.

And a bunch of our staff picked all these fun team names that were a bunch of inside jokes that y'all wouldn't understand except for this one my my favorite was queen londinka and dinky smalls that was my that was my

favorite one and we all got together and me and my partner Nate who I've told you about who's on

our staff I just need you to know we were a top seed we were kind of being looked at all right

as as being the favorite to win the tournament.

And we did really well. In the first two rounds, we did awesome. And then we came across this

team that did not have a creative team name. They were just called Reagan and Jessica.

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