All of Jesus Tim Westergren

An image is worth a lot of words. So you saw a lot of images and you got to know our family a little bit and what we're up to. Two updates and those are points as you get to know us. One, is that our daughter? Hannah is now in Madrid Spain. She's come to join our project at life school. After teaching High School, history, and social studies Managua Christian school. She's not come to Spain. She's living in our apartment right now and teaching 7th grade at life. International School in Tres cantos in Spain. So excited she's there and we're not there yet. I go back on December 1st. Maryland doesn't go back until the end of the year because our oldest daughter that you saw is going to have her first child. In the end of the end of December, so she'll be staying through December, and then we'll join me back in Spain. Sometime in the new year. So that's the plan. But my perfect this morning is to preach the word of God. And so I if you could get out your Bibles or your tablets or your phone's going to be looking at the text very well-known, text Matthew 28, verses 16 through 20.

That's bright. Heavenly Father. You've given us a good deposit of face. In the scriptures. And as your disciples, we come to find out what's your son? The Lord Jesus has taught us. Are the highest priorities as children of God is to know how you want us to live. The power you give us to live that way. So come we set aside this time. We've come to learn, we've come to be continual Learners in this school of a Christian education and we pray that you would give us today the words we need. Do we need to hear from you today for our lives? All of us. Each of us where we are. And may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable. In your sight. Oh my God, my rock and my redeemer. Amen. All right, let's begin.

The word all is small, but powerful weather in English or Spanish or in the languages of my sons-in-law. When is Korean war in Dutch, Alex? They're all short words. The word all is small, but it packs, a lot of meaning in the word by itself or compound. With other words, like always all together Almighty, all out, all in it is expensive and inclusive, the word all so much, so that someone thought it would be a great name for a laundry detergent. So go ahead and put it on. Yes. Call. Here we go. Listen to the words from the brand website. When you choose all you believe in letting kids be kids and not just in the playroom or in the basement outside out where they can jump in mud puddles, take down to China with their bare hands and slide into second base or on the football field Friday night. There was a lot of mud going on there. Lots of all needed for that game. You are the all capable, all confident, all family and we are your detergent. Now it's a little over the top, of course, but I think you get the point All, or Nothing always, or never. They're pretty categorical terms when I was nine-years-old. I'll never forget the summer in the missionary furlough home is Wheaton. I'm a missionary kid from Hong Kong myself. I'll never forget the standoff between my parents and my younger sister, Sarah, and my mother under these words. You've all heard them. And you've all said them. Those are your parents sarabeth. Your vegetables. And that ensued a tussle that lasted well into the night. My mom wanted to stick to her guns and she meant all. So it's a categorical turn. My sister sat at the table for a few hours at night and are the following morning as well with the same food that human beings. We need to be careful when we use the word all because We have habits. But we're not perfect weather intention or follow through. We are not perfect and all, and never. Isn't usually other words we should used in fact, in the text or go. Look at today. We see that not all the disciples worship. Jesus is some wavered. One of the first things that Marilyn I do when we teach couples how to fight fairly in couples counseling. Maryland is a, is a counselor and we do marriage counseling together. One of the first things we have to do to help couples work on conflict, is to get rid of the all and never statements. You always, you never lets not a good way to start any conflict because it doesn't leave much room for the other side of tube to budge and usually starts another conflict, usually over the meaning of those words and how expensive they are. The two absolute for accusations and only deepen the problems that we have. In regards to human beings, we need to be careful with the word. All in regards to Jesus Christ is no exaggeration. Sin had left a Crimson Stain. Us know. I'm sure you've seen that.

Scripture say in Colossians. 1:19 for God was pleased to have all his fullness. Dwell in him. In Christ, in regards to Jesus is no exaggeration and the word all in the mouth of Jesus is no exaggeration either. Jesus uses the four times in the past is that we're going to look at right now and you can put the text up on the screen, please I'm working on. Yeah, that's right. You may not be able to read it.

All in the mouth of Jesus is never an exaggeration four times. He uses in this famous passage in the gospel of Matthew. So let's stand and listen to this read. Please read Matthew 28, 18, through 20.

Then the 11th disciples went to go to the mountain, where Jesus told them to go, when they saw him, they worshipped him. But some doubted some translations, say some wavered. And Jesus came to them, instead in heaven and on Earth has been given to me. As you go, therefore, Make Disciples of All Peoples, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey. Behold, I am with you to the end of the age. Please be seated.

So, you heard the officer did you not? Now, of course in this passage is as an any passage, the verbs are the most important words in the key, meaning to the text Go Make Disciples baptizing teaching. But today I want to focus not on the what and how more or less I want to talk about the purpose. What is the character? The nature of what we're to do? And I want to highlight these four uses of the small powerful word by Jesus to instruct his disciples after the Resurrection, the contacts were in and what does he say? And I believe, I see sister days that he's saying to them the every disciple of Jesus at the Lighthouse should purpose to make disciples across the street and across cultures because of these for compelling, all in Matthew 28, by like to take you through this for all, for you, to consider what Jesus is trying to say to us as Disciples of Christ, where learn where his disciples were his children. Let's learn from him. So, let's take a look at the first one. We seem daunting, but Jesus says all authority. Nothing God's mission to the world. In the name of Jesus, Nick's light. All Peoples, no one is to be denied the opportunity to enter the kingdom of God, and all that. I've commanded you everything. We need to remain rooted in his great, love guided in his secret. Mission is there for us in the scriptures. And finally, always with you his spirits are biting, 24/7, power and presence is available to us. So let's take a look at these one by one all authority next time. Yeah, okay. If we take Jesus at his word. This is a categorical statement of God. Sovereign. Designation of history in the Incarnate, son of Christ, son of God. If we believe anything about Jesus Christ, we must believe the, his resurrection is the sign of authority in heaven and earth. Next line. So he says to aspis resurrected Lord appears. And says, now, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on Earth.

So, As You Go Make Disciples. The resurrected Lord has a job for you. Basically, he's telling his disciples. I have a job for you. Thought it was over. Now that I'm resurrected know, you still have a part in this, I made your part and I believe God loves to people around to accomplish his purpose and God prefers to use flawed people to accomplish his purposes. I don't quite understand it. But this is what the scriptures declare to us. Why didn't someone like Peter at this point, you know, Peter, he often counteracts what Jesus says and why didn't Peter stand up here and say to him, you know, Lord now that you have all of Thor t go do it will follow you. Why you need us. If you want something done, I don't you do it yourself. Is that what we say in this case? Jesus at all authority declared it will the answer of course, brothers and sisters is that God doesn't need us but he Wants to use us. We have a desperate need of him and he wants to use us in his plan. In the missions of world knows that you can do the dishes or mow the yard faster than your son or daughter. But the issue isn't doing the dishes or mowing the yard. It's training children. It's raising children to live life and to know what it means to be responsible. A good parent does what the child cannot do for itself teaches the child to do what he can and she can for herself a foolish parent Pampers, a child who can and should take responsibility for his or her own choices. The heavenly father is a wise and good parent. He knows our true potential. He prefers to use us and involve us to accomplish his purposes. Although he has power to act on his own. He has commissioned us. To call others to follow him. To be Fishers of men and women, as he said to his disciples when you call them. What invitation is more glorious for us to work with him side by side or just to watch? I'm sure the guys who played football on Friday night would much rather play it. Then watch it. It's the glory of the game, you get in it. You're part of it. Even if you lose or win, you're a part of it, which invitation requires more of us carries the potential to transform us and shows us the greater respect.

I think this way inviting flawed people. Participate. God's revelation in the Bible is a long line of how God invites Adam and Eve to take care of the creation. Even though there's a mess it up and where the result of that, Abraham, and Sarah were invited invited to initiate. God's plan of reconciliation. Moses was invited to spearhead God's Deliverance for the nation of Israel. These stories Grand and true, and many others reveal how God works. Every story should lead us to ask. What is his invitation to me to participate in? This should be our daily question. What is your participation? What is your invitation to me to participate in this going and making disciples? I think it's important for us to realize I had to deal with this. When God called me to be a missionary. I wanted to be a marine biologist and I had to wrestle with this decision of whether I wanted to be part of saving the world or saving the planet and my brother helped me. See that God was calling me to be a part of saving the world. There were plenty of others yet cousteau's that wanted to say the planet. That was great. But there weren't as many people willing to be a part of this, invitation to the admission, to the world. And one of the hard things for me, when I was in college and went through a depression, was a god allowed me to enter into depression in a time of my life, where I wrestled, with my identity who I was got stripped me of my emotional crutches. I brought me to a point where he told me among other things that Tim if you were going to be a missionary, I need you to know that I don't need you. I want you and I called you, but I don't need you. If you think that because you're a missionary kid, you were raised in Hong Kong and Thailand, speak another language. You have this long pedigree in the Christian, Missionary Alliance of missionaries. If you think I need all that within your mistake, and if you're going with this full of this idea that you offer so much to me. You're going to hit the wall. No. I don't need you. But I want you, I've called you. He called all of us. We're flawed. We can all say that. Who am I? What am I to offer? Some of us may not have that pedigree, but God asked all of us to participate in this mission to the world.

God bless the use flat people. And God loves to move people around to accomplish his purposes. This is another one, what God puts us in, where the removes us away, from where we're from or moves us into situations that were uncomfortable. With God, love to move us around to accomplish his purposes church that we see next to God. Broke up his own party. God allowed the church to go through persecution. The Church of the original Apostles, the church where the Spirit came at Pentecost, the church that ministers in tremendous ways and saw a tremendous growth 3,000 people that I'm being baptized in the church. And they were scattered in Judea and Samaria and they spoke about Jesus everywhere. They went, God's purpose is to move us out to get us out of our comfort zone. In miles, in my own family. I have a very clear recollection of this because of my own father. My father Cliff ended up being in his sorry. He lost his mother when he was 7 years old in 1940, his mother and my grandmother Helen died of cancer. So my grandfather is ended up as a widower with two boys. Twin boys, 7 years old. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances through the war. My grandfather ended up losing his house. His business and had to move into Chicago, back into the old neighborhood on the Southside.

A 1945 year to 12 year old son's. We're going to this Swedish speaking Salvation, Army Corps and realize this was going to cut it. Move back into the old neighborhood inside and look for church and they moved near 70th 1st and Union 71st and Halsted on the South Side Chicago. There was a church on 70th and Union Hills Gold Southside Alliance Church whose Pastor was aw Tozer. A well-known Christian writer and author a Godly Man. My father came into that church at 12 years old, was called to missions and went to Cambodia by the time he was 21. Another thing happened to my father was unjust, was that he was put into print shop instead of carpentry class in his Vo-Tech, high school because his name ended with w and alphabet discrimination. All the tea is Susie's got thrown out of carpentry class and put into print shop. He wasn't happy about that. He went to his father. My grandfather told him, son. I want you to stick with it because I've learned that the way out is not the way around to the way over, but the way, I want you to stick with it per semester, if you don't like it, maybe I'll do something after that. So then he got a job cleaning in a print shop after after school. So, we stuck with it. For years, I print shop in high school. And when my father went to college a missionary came to the Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, a missionary from Cambodia who translated the Bible into Khmer, which is the language of the Cambodian people. He was the escape from the Japanese during the second world war and he showed up in the fifties early fifties at this school and said, is there anyone here that knows how to set time? Guess who raised their hand? My father? For the next Summer's. For Somers. My father learned how to re Cambodian the alphabet. Read it backwards. Sit tight and be a part of printing. The first Cambodian Bible in the history of the All because of alphabet discrimination. Sometimes God allows things in our lives, that don't make sense to put us, right? Where he wants us to be. He uses flood people. He uses People Like Us who hurt, who, face frustrations and disappointments. And yet, if we remain soft, and tender to his purposes in the world. If we see ourselves as disciples, are children of God first is gone. He said today, then we are attentive attentive to what God may be joining us.

I'm so glad God didn't allow my wife to go to Switzerland, to find a rich man when she wanted to be an exchange student which ended up on duress. I learned that she was Rachel Ray. Prepare to meet this guy in college and I'm glad that God allowed somebody to pay for my trip to go to Europe. Even though I was supposed to work that summer, make money, somebody paid for a trip to bring me to go to Europe with him sing from Wheaton College and although I didn't make any money that summer in that hurt me as far as schooling and my future. I got an experience where I was exposed to the incredible spiritual need in Europe in that transformed and set me on the path. I'm on today.

God allows things to happen to us and put us in place to sometimes. Moving is out of places are comfortable in order for us to be available to him to make disciples of all peoples. For we are God's workmanship created in Christ. Jesus. What to do, good works, which God himself has prepared beforehand. That we might walk in them if he needs to 10.

All Peoples.

All authority. Therefore, go to All Peoples is, I have all the authority and I want you to go to all the peoples. Now this is a clear post-resurrection reversal of Jesus is Express limitation to his disciples in their first Ministry. Remember in Matthew 10. Jesus sent out his disciples and said the way of the Gentiles do not enter into any city of the Samaritans. So this is a reversal Jesus is reversing that order. He said it first my ministry right now is among the people of Israel and yours is too but now post-resurrection. He changes that and says clearly I want you to go among all peoples. How many people and non-company people, Jews and Gentiles? We have the privilege of living in this inaugurated, kingdom of God, that Jesus ushered in, we have received the Priceless gospel from the mouths of the original sent ones. To the ears of those who hurt and repeated over the centuries and wrote it down. We have become recipients of his treasured, invitation to reconcile with the father, to the sacrifice of the Sun, and we should be ready to offer that to anyone at any time. And we have that, a more of a privilege of carrying this invitation to the remaining half of our world that has yet to receive it. Commission of Jesus Is Ours to as you go there for Make Disciples among all people stack next slide. Thank you. So, our world in need.

The movement of with your part, in which you are now a part of the Christian Missionary Alliance was founded in 1884 among Christians, in New York City. They took up this commission across Church lines and put their wealth behind this purpose. What became the Christian and Missionary Alliance first, the Christian lies in the missionary lights and then they join has been crowdfunding for Missions since 1887, and has sustained this purpose for a hundred and thirty-five years, without interruption in more than 85 countries. And then these last days now we purpose to reach those 3.4 billion. That you're not yet. No. Next slide Zach. In these last days, we purpose to reach among the no access people have little or no access to the gospel. Jesus. You see in the red there, next slide Zach. In these last days, we purpose to send 80% of our workers to the places with no access or low access that are inside this window. Petra was inside the window and so are we?

The alliance entered Spain in 1978 to raise up. A christ-centered Acts 1:8 moving the church's after 43 years. We have a self-governing self-sustaining self-propagating family of 35 church and 7 Mission stations are pushing into the places in Spain. Have no gospel worship gospel presents yet. Here. We see the outline of the Iberian Peninsula, all the dots and red or places towns of five thousand or more than have. No Evangelical Church, is still work to be done. And now it's being done by the National Church. Now, we're turning our purpose in sending to Spain, among the million Muslims that we have Nick's lights app. Most of them are North Africans. Moroccans Tunisian algerians. A million of them living in Spain, to me, the opportunity living in a democracy, Western democracy to evangelizing to share with them. The good news of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is 2011, the bulk of the workers, being sent to Spain are focused on this people group? And now the alliance and one of the one of those wonderful things is that on May 15th by God's grace next slide and for his glory are a group of churches sent out their first missionary to Oaxaca, Mexico? To be a Bible translator among a people group there. We are now a missionary sending Church in Spain as well. Excited about being a part of that as well. As you people go to all. That's that's the logic that uses command. That Jesus gave us the next one. All that. I commanded you. Now, this is the part where your pastors and Elders have the major part of reminding, you of all the things, Jesus commanded us. That is their purpose in their primary reason. I hear in this local church. I would encourage you if you want to know what Roman says, come to Sunday school next, Sunday morning. I think it's a 9. How is leading a series on? Romans? If you want to know what God has commanded us and we got it is his plan for the Nations of Sodom purpose of God, in the world through US, Romans is an awesome book. Romans 8, Romans 5, Romans 8, on the best chapters in the whole Bible. If you don't know them be great. There's a pitch for you. Whoever is teaching that class that alright. I didn't recommend that I highly recommend if you want to be a part of learning. All the cheeses is commanded. As Paul is a great contextualization of Jesus's purposes for us in that book. Everything we need to remain rooted in his great love and guiding his sacred mission is in that. And I'm not going to spend too much time. There's more pictures of this than anyting John 15. Love is above all things, the most important man in all the things that Jesus commands fall under that.

Answer to level up in this congregation so far since I've been here and I pray that that you even grow and prosper in these difficult times in these times where many are turning your back on God, that this church would be redoubled in its effort to love one another and all that love to show that love to others here in Monroe and Decatur and around.

What is teaching, others all that, I've commanded next line. I get to do it for miletos formal and informal. Formal is what your pastors do formerly is the Sunday school class for Millie's. When I get to do as a missionary and teaching, theological education, hear some slides of me teaching and classes online last year, of course because of covid-19 slide. So few more. So I teach three courses at the alliance Bible Institute and a class hermeneutics in the Baptist Seminary. So they have some ideas and then there's informal life on life where we help someone grow up into Christ as long as as far as we've come. All of us can help someone else was younger in Christ, grow up at least to the point where we come to learn the lessons. We learned to understand what we've experienced and so here's how I met our pastor on the left. I am Maryland itutor to mention he and his wife and their children as they grew up through Seminary. Now. He's become the pastor of our local church. And now he out of this reception has had this natural desire to invest in others. And so he invested in another Seminary Student. Jesus that you see there with the glasses and now his Susan's married. And now he's in the local church and he's been discipling. This couple called me. Specially Miriam and disciple. Baptized them just recently of Life on life of informal discipleship, as well. Next line. Life school. As those of you that were some recent school this morning. I've heard Life School was he has a discipleship project of our field. We are on the verge of beginning to multiply this one Christian School in 220. We hope for the next 20 years is one of those places that week draw families that are not Christians into a Christian school education, English immersion, Christian education in order for them to consider the claims of Christ. One of the most exciting things that we've happens. We're already seeing families coming to face. Pablo is a young boy who was kicked out of two preschools and when he was called into the principal's office at Life School, the third strike, his parents were called in to, they thought their strike or else. They're going to kick Pablo out of our schools, with other schools with the school as well. Pablo was incorrigible. He was dominant. He had meltdowns. He wanted to control the classroom. And so The principal director in my wife school counselor met with the family and they said, we're not going to keep people out, but we have to do something major to change. Things is not working. Start working his behavior is is disruptive. And so they tried to do the Supernanny thing. You've ever seen Supernanny Supernanny as we're so professional goes into the home of a family and kind of observe them over several nights. And so, my wife went into their home, several nights in a row, and then on the weekend to see their family Dynamic and their, their, their habits and she made recommendations to them of things to change and improve. Now, that's pretty invasive. Free desperate, a family that does not Christians. They are sending their boy to the school, as a last-ditch effort, to find a place for their son Pablo. And what you haven't, they began to put some of those things in practice and Marilyn. Worked with him over the following months. It's been a long road, but praise the Lord Pablo's continues at my school and he was instrumental in helping his parents, begin their journey in Christ because he asked his parents can. Can you pray with me at night before we go to bed and read a story to me from the Bible, like other kids do at the school or they didn't know what that meant. He didn't have any idea. She grew up in a Catholic home and eat nothing. So they just did the best they could for a while and then got a Bible. Begin reading Bible stories 1 tonight to their son and by God's grace and for his glory, this couple is coming to a local church now and beginning to grow in their understanding of who the Lord Jesus Christ. Just last week or two weeks ago, a young girl. Also in school gave her life to Christ Life School As A discipleship place, a place where kids and families, who don't know anything about the gospel can hear about Christ. And this is our hope in our desire. We ask you to pray for us. There's a couple slideshow. Another vote is there? There's a boy, that's not a problem. But some of the school pictures of Life. Next One thank-yous, a comb or slide past one. Always with you.

Backslide. In the death. In Resurrection of his only begotten son. The father has done for us, but we could not do for ourselves where I said a parent, does, what a child. Can I do for a living? Well, in this case the father did what we could not do for ourselves. We could not save ourselves by his grace and for his glory, he saved us and buy is empowering presence of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is certainly at our side as the Living, Lord to guide to teach encourage people to make disciples. We are never alone, but we are never coddled. As I said, the Lord Jesus lives. In his final promised me catch like the touch of his hand. Hear the sound of his voice, see for themselves and become acquainted with him to whom to know is life. Eternal Jesus for us is not just a record of the past. I am with you all the days to the end of the age, is not just a promise of being promise of some historical presence with us. It's a revelation of a present, Living Lord, real To Us by his holy spirit. If we teach anything within the Methodist movement and within the alliance movement, is that the holy spirit is power for living today. The living light of the holy spirit is in US motivating. Ask empowering us to live a Godly life.

This is the one whose voice sounds deep and clear across all the storms of life fear. Not. I am the first and the last I am that. He that lives in was dead. I Am Alive forevermore before Abraham. Was he said, I am. Jesus is real to us and present to us in our days that we need to Foster. That's what we need to spend time alone in the scriptures. In the mornings or evenings or some time of the day to practice the presence of Christ in real time. Today. That is our privilege and are right? And our Glory. Without it without it. It's impossible.

The man you see in the stripes there had a powerful experience of the presence of Christ in his life. He had a disordered life. He's a great beautiful man who loves to talk and can get himself in and out of trouble with his tongue. Got him out of three, marriages and several businesses. He left Venezuelan came to Spain, where his roots are. He got covid in the first wave there in Spanish, you know, staying went through covid. Very strongly in the very first three months of 2020 was Italy and Spain. We had thousands of of elderly people died in the first months, but he got covid and was intubated for 43 days in ICU for 72. I'll never forget the night of April 8th 2020 because we going to call from Nivea, his wife saying they called me from the hospital stay for the second time. He's going to die tonight. In fact, one of the doctors came from the hospital Cuban woman just like her maybe is Cuban came to the hospital came from the hospital to say to her or all the accounts in your name. You have everything in order because your husband's going to die tonight. So she called the 24/7 prayer room at we called the upper resume during during covid-19 upper resume to pray all night long for his life to believe. During that night. Give you a vision that classic vision of walking towards the light at the end of the tunnel. And then Jesus was turning him around. It wasn't. His time. I was really nervous to say it out loud. I had a strong sense that this was really what was going to happen and I spoke it out loud. I don't want to get stoned if I'm in the car, but I spoke it out because I very rarely had visions and dreams that. We was a powerful Vision, really present of the Holy Spirit. Sing to me. He's I'm turning around. Praise the Lord. He did not die. He's living today and he's a disciple of Christ and growing in his face and his family, and that he's making things right in his life as a disciple. Jose Manuel tells the story different way. He said, why was in a coma sometime in my coma of many days. Jesus appeared to me. It's at the end of my bed.

Jose Manuel said, I complained to him because I said to him, why am I going to die?

I tried to follow you. I tried to make all the wrong things in my life. Right? I be repented. I've dealt with this church, discipline, with all kinds of things that I've tried to make my life. Right? And I have a 4 year old daughter.

And Jesus didn't say anything. He said, Jesus just looked at me. I reeled and complaints, and you just sat there and looked at me with a smile. They said was very telling for me that Jesus was present to me, and I did not die. Jesus was present to me in the moment, My Darkest Day and I will forever praise him because he was real and present in my life. I can never deny his presence in my life.

We need to hold on to the real presence of Christ. Even when it is not manifest to us is real brothers and sisters. It's real to us through the Holy Spirit. We need to Foster that it's our promise is a promise of Jesus.

Okay, let's bring this to a close.

So, Disciples of Jesus at the Lighthouse. Are you all in? Having understood what Jesus says with these all authority, all my presents. To go to All Peoples had to do all my commands. What is Jesus, personal invitation to you, for your part? In this commission? What is it, your neighbors or friends? Who knows maybe this church, because of the love and the stability could. Could I just thought of this morning, Foster? Or a sponsor. An Afghani Refugee family to come and learn about Jesus Christ. You at the Lighthouse to be as a group and individually in your community, and your neighbors, with your neighbors, with friends, with people that you work with and study with play with What is Jesus's first competition? That's not for me to tell you really, it's for you to sit and say Jesus. What is your invitation to meet with all these? All these categorical calls to us to make disciples? Among all peoples, who are the all peoples for me right now. Both here and far.

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It said you are the all capable, all confident, all family and we are your detergent. Well, that's obviously not what I'm saying. Today. I'm saying Jesus says, I am the all-powerful. We all true the always present one and you are my disciples as you go. Testify about me among all the peoples of the earth across the street and across the world, all of me, for all the world. Amen.

But what I would like to do for our closing prayer is invite, Maryland to come up here. And pray for him and Marilyn, and normally we would do it gathering around. But if you're comfortable with that, you're welcome to come up here and lay hands on Tim and Marilyn as we pray for them. If you're not, that's okay. You can. Stay in your seats and pray for them too. But I just want to wrap up this time of them sharing with us of praying for them and what they're do. So. Please join with me.

Heavenly father as we come to you today, Lord. We want to lift him and Marilyn up to you. Or we want to thank you for. The call that you placed on their lives. Or we want to thank you for giving them the ability to Faithfully walk out that calling and Lord. We pray that you will continue to strengthen them every day of their life to continue to be faithful to that calling to be faithful to all that you've done for them as their Savior and Lord. You will use them and weigh. Beyond anything, they can think of an imagine. Lord, I pray that you will help their words to be a challenge to us or Dove Hollow. If you called us to be a part of this thing called the Great commit Marcus Thing that you have not asked us to do on her own, but you have asked us to work with you. Lord help us all to know how we are called to accomplish that. Lord, we pray that you'll just continue to be with Tim and Marilyn. Lord, strengthen the team that they're on, strengthen their bond to you their bond, to each other, in their marriage, and Lord continue to help them to push the mission forward in Spain. And Lord, may you use them and all of their team in the mighty way?

I was going to have you kids sing again, but there's