Well, welcome to Fresh Life. We're glad you're here. Thank you for coming, especially if it's your first time.

We greet you in the name of Jesus at every Fresh Life location.

Especially those this weekend for the first time in our brand new whitefish building come on somebody

It's open we did it. It's amazing and we're praising God for life and we're praising God for the chance to gather in his name right there on the highway 93

It's this beautiful new facility and and we're just so grateful. All right. Well as you turn in your Bible to First Kings Chapter 19, I'll tell

you that when I grew up, it was in the Rocky Mountain region, Colorado, New Mexico, about 20 years spent in the mountains of the southwest

and in southern Colorado and then we eventually relocated to Montana 17 years

ago to start this church. People always talk about why did you move here and we

came to start this work. I wanted to, we started a Bible study that turned into what we're experiencing

now and in between, my time in the Rockies and then being now back in the Rocky

Mountain region we lived for a few years in Southern California my wife Jenny

and I and at the time one daughter and then we were pregnant

though I didn't know it yet with another daughter on the way lived for a few years there and when we moved to Montana we found out

that Jenny was about to have another baby which we had just

given up all of our health insurance so that sucked but God worked it all out and I was

thinking this week about while we lived in California, specifically how we did our baptisms.

And we used to go to the ocean and have beach baptisms

there at the Pacific Ocean.

Our church was just a mile or less than a mile from the beach and so we would, hey everyone

come to this beach and we'll do a baptism service and you'd of course schedule it in advance,

right?

Here's when we're doing it. The problem with that is nobody

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