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Yeah, put your hands together.

Such an honor to be with all of you here at Grant Smill and everybody who's joining us through whatever means that is, online or on demand at one of our locations.

Happy Labor Day weekend to everybody.

It is honored again, just to be in God's house with you.

I sense God's presence with us today. I'm excited that we have this opportunity here on Vision

Sunday to be together as a church family. And of course, I do want to say hello again to all those

online on demand, Labor Day weekend, probably a lot of people traveling. We say hello to you guys,

but also especially today, just even on Vision Sunday, so grateful for

the Highlands family, for our physical locations, both in cities and our correctional facilities.

So I say hello to all of you guys. Come on, let's put our hands together for the entire Highlands

Church family. Love you with all of my heart. And it is Vision Sunday, so I thought it'd be cool

to put a visual up, y'all. There's our church family right there. And it is Vision Sunday, so I thought it would be cool to put a visual up.

Y'all, there's our church family right there.

And so all those dots represent, again, the cities we're in, and the correctional facilities were in. And there's even a new dot up there that I'm going to get to in a moment. But you'll hear more about that in a second. So welcome again to Vision Sunday. this is something we do a couple times a year in February on our church

anniversary and then in August heading into the fall, which, by the way, can y'all believe it is fall? I know you can because you watch football all weekend long, all right? And I'm not going to comment on anything other than to say this. Go Blazers. We won on Thursday night. Come on we can all agree. So every chance I get, I'm going to say that.

So it is, we're heading into fall.

We do this strategically as we kind of head into fall.

So if you're going to say that. So it is, we're heading into fall. We do this strategically as we kind of head into fall. So if you're with us for the first time, you chose a great Sunday to be here, just to really see a little more of who Highlands is, kind of what we're all about. And that's my prayer today that we would. You know, the Bible says in Proverbs is that when we have vision, we prosper that with vision people can see, we can prosper. Without that, we don't have

that. So we cast off restraints, actually, what the Bible says. Without vision, it leads in a

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