Amen and amen. Good morning and welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here.

Those of you online, we're so glad that you're joining with us. Before we get started, though,

I have a few things, starting with our Tuesday prayer meeting, this Tuesday, 7 p.m. here in the sanctuary.

We're actually going to have a special prayer meeting.

I'm hoping to Lord willing share candidly what the Lord has ministered to me over the years

concerning some of the reasons that our prayers seemingly and inexplicably go or remain unanswered.

And so Capona is going to start about 655.

We're going to go live.

This will be live streamed and it'll be on our social media platforms in its entirety

as well as our website.

So I'm going to share briefly because I can, you know, by faith, just at the beginning.

And then after we are going to enter into a time of prayer for specific request, chiefly for Nepal,

because as many of you know, our medical missions team are currently in Nepal and will be for

another couple plus weeks. They return on Saturday, December 16thth so we're going to pray for our

missions team in Nepal there are also prayer calendars out front if you're

interested we're also going to take time to pray for Israel specifically the

Jews and Arabs that are in Israel and Gaza as well as the West Bank.

And then we're also going to pray for our Philippines missions.

They just had an earthquake, by the way.

I sent Steve an email.

He said that they were unaffected because of where they're located.

But we're going to pray for Steve,

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