Amen. Amen. It's good to see you, church. I'm Ryan Bred. I'm one of the pastors. I'm excited to open God's word for us today. We're going to be studying Psalm chapter 67. So if you want to go ahead and make your way there, that'd be great. We are kicking off the Advent series, as I'm sure you've heard multiple times, and we're

doing so by focusing on our longtime ministry partnership with an organization called Compassion

International. And as a church, over the last 10 years, our church has sponsored about 14,000

kids around the world through Compassion International. That's pretty incredible.

And so we're excited to continue that today.

And as always, we do this every year.

As always, our goal is to get as many kids sponsored as possible.

And so if you're attending one of our campuses, there are tables set up in all of our worship

centers that have packets, just like this one with a child's information and child's

name, where you can grab one at any time during the next 30 minutes. You can just get up and

grab a packet. You won't be distracting. And if you are, it doesn't matter because the child's

worth it. So go ahead and get the packet, and you can be praying over that and thinking about it.

If you're joining us online, you can do the same thing by texting 8333

uh texting the word sponsor to 83393 and hopefully in jesus name we will set a bunch of kids

free from poverty today amen amen amen it is advent time which is awesome i love christmas

i'm one of those people that make you feel weird. I'm so into Christmas.

You know what I mean? And it hasn't always been the case, but I love it. I start negotiating terms

with my children around Labor Day as to when we're going to put our Christmas tree up. That's true.

The first Christmas song was played in my house this year the day after Halloween.

You know, Bubla, I'm into some Bubla Christmas, you know?

Strangely enough, the most requested song in my home this year by my daughters

has been Dolly Parton's version of I Saw Mama Kiss and Santa Claus.

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