Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy this message by Pastor Eric Johnson.

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Today's a very special day. The last time we said goodbye to Eric and Candice, sending them out, there was hardly anybody

here because of the thing.

And now we have humans in the room, and we have a zillion people online that are a part of our online family

and today we get to hear what the next phase is what the next step is and these two wonderful

people's lives and how God is going to use them in this next season so I want you to express your

absolute love and affection for Eric and

Candace as they come.

Hey hey so good to see you all.

Come on.

We miss you.

I know, going to make me cry. Oh, so good to see you.

This is what three months of doing nothing looks like.

Oh, it's wonderful to be back here.

It's been three and a half months since we've been with you.

And we miss you deeply and dearly and just, gosh, feel thankful that we can have time this morning. Wow. You guys doing well?

We're going to have some fun. We have some big news, big announcement this morning. We've been waiting

for this and the future is good, you guys. The future is good. God is with us. You know, when I was sitting in

first service and just thinking as we're getting able to worship, being able to worship here in this

house, just overwhelmed by how much love I have for everybody here. It reminded me when Eric and I

were dating, we were in college, and I had signed up to do an internship in El Salvador,

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