Church, how you doing? Merry Christmas.

Wow, all right. Maybe it wasn't that merry. We'll try to fix that today. Hey, I want to introduce you to some of my friends.

This is Pastor Warner and his wife Gabby, and this is their son, Santiago, Santi, and down here is Spencer Bolter.

Spencer is the founder of 6-8 ministries down in

Costa Rica, one of our partners, and then one of our elders, Barry Chandler. And one of the great joys

that we get as a congregation is we get to walk alongside of church planters as they step out and start

new churches all over the world.

Scripture says in Abak 214 that a knowledge of the glory of the Lord will fill the earth as the waters cover the seas.

And the way that God has chosen to do that is by planting churches in every corner of the earth

that Jesus would be named and known among every nation.

And so Warner and his family

spent some time here in the States with us, and then they have headed back to Costa Rica,

where they are from and in partnership with six, eight ministries. I said this before,

but I wish we had like half an hour to tell you this 15-year-old story that that you guys now are getting

to see a piece of. And it's just amazing to see God's grace and all of this and the way that

he's worked through you guys and through 6-8. And so it's such an honor to be with you. But I've got

two gifts for you, two little reminders. So this one is some door stops.

So my mom sewed this bag, my dad cut these beautiful door stops.

But my dad started doing that back when we planted a church and they just seemed to walk

off.

So practically, you'll have some door stops, but what we really want you to remember is keep the doors

open to people to come to know jesus there are people that are far from jesus have never

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