Good morning, church. If you've got your Bible, and I hope you do, grab it and go to Acts chapter 13.

Acts chapter 13. As you're turning there, I just want to point one thing out. If you're on the front row, this is sitting in your seat.

If you're sitting in not the front row in the seat back in front of you, there's this piece of collateral looks like this if you flip it over it's just an update on

where we are in our ministry operating budget one of the things that we want to do here at the church

of 1122 is just be be authentic and open and transparent and particularly in our finances if you're a

visitor with us then you will recognize that we did not pass the plate during the service, and you're beginning to think,

I really like this church a lot. And we don't do that here. We don't pass the plate. And in fact,

if you're visiting with us, we don't want anything from you. We just want something for you.

The way we do ties and offerings here, it's just for our regulars, the people that would call this year church home. And all throughout the Bible, it says that people would bring their offering to the Lord.

So you have to bring your offering to one of the boxes around the side, or you can give electronically,

or you can give it online. But that's really just for, you know, people that consider this their church home.

And we also want you to see that we don't hand this out because we are in dire need

and things are tight. We're trying to shake it up a little bit. In fact, we're doing exceedingly well.

We have received, because of your generosity, and mine too, I give, so because of our generosity,

we have given well beyond what we had budgeted and we have spent less than we have budgeted.

And so you know if that ever happens in your house, that's always a positive, right? Amen?

And so we just want you to see this. And for some of you, you don't really care, but for some of you, this is very, very important.

You know, you want to look, especially if you are investing in the kingdom of God through the Church of 1122.

So every quarter, some kind of report like this will be in the seatbacks for a few weeks.

So feel free just to take that.

And also at the bottom with this little graph, it just lets you see how we divide up the giving here and what the dollars go to.

And all of the dollars are tied to ministry,

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