Embracing the Unseen: A Legacy of Faith and Service

It wasn't just what was happening up here. It was what's happening in the 99 % behind the scenes. That's what she was experiencing, seeing that's what we're all experiencing. You know what we're doing here today. This is great. I love this. It's like the face of the ministry. But this is the heart of the ministry. [00:41:11] (22 seconds)


It's we're throwing the baby out with the bath water and it is significant. If we understand the significance of it, we'll desire for it to be done in our lives. The shofar. Is an instrument that is very spiritual. It was used as talked about, and there's a reason why it was. And I believe it was, there was a reason why she brought up there and God had led us to some of the knowledge of that when we very first started the barn. [00:44:54] (29 seconds)


And the leadership team i mean like i'll just tell you and i'm not saying that we're better than anyone we're not better than anyone and i'm not saying that other ones don't do this but like i just know like just giving you another glimpse into the leadership team ministry never shuts off for us correct never it is integrated into our home life it's our hobby it's our life it's our life it's our life it's our life it's our it's everything there's no time for hunting it's what we do there's no other hardly any other extracurricular it's in every when we go on date nights it's ministry it's your hearts it's what god's it's ever like it never shuts off sometimes that can be very frustrating and i'm i'm telling you be confident the leadership of this ministry that is i'm telling you that's that's who we're not better in any way shape or form could not do it without all of us could not do it without each other but i'm telling you those who are here all the time they're serious about it this isn't just like they're coming in punching the clock they do their stuff they leave and you know their minds off of it [01:22:39] (79 seconds)


and i and andrew roscoe i'm going to tell you something about andrew roscoe andrew roscoe is absolutely apostolic he sees the big picture i'm telling you that dude sees things that nobody else sees karen i can relate to him um and we love him very much i just want to say if i don't think that we could look around this room and say i'm not going to i don't think you could look around this room and not i know all of you are serving there's a ton of people who are not here and they are all serving i'm telling you in some capacity some way shape or form i think 80 of the church here is actively involved in serving in the church in some form or capacity through all the different types of the parts and pieces of the ministry we've been a part of church that had a thousand members on the books would roll through like six to seven hundred people on a weekend and i'm telling you skeleton crew was doing all the behind the scenes this church i've never seen a church like this it you know people put family up as a marketing thing on a billboard it's not like what we have family here are we doing it perfect no are we perfect no we're not perfect we all are messed up in so many ways it's unbelievable we we said we at one point we're going to call this the church of the misfit toys and and it's very real and authentic and transparent and there is real love here and there's real forgiveness and it's not easy and trust me you know people people gotta love me i go home at like i don't know i don't they're doing it keeps me going i'm like because i know you there's genuine love towards me and [01:26:43] (124 seconds)


this is incredible the synopsis is god gave us a big dream and i mean it was like the first year and it was so big i can't and i've shared this before so i'm just going to share it again or but i'm going to share it again it was so big i can't tell you how many times i would look at where we were at and i was like and i would see this little bitty thing like a david in the field and i would say this is stupid this is ridiculous we're never going to be able to accomplish why are we even doing this? And it would be like the next year and then the next year. And it would be like, this vision that God gave us, [01:42:32] (45 seconds)


we're not going to be able to accomplish it with where we're at. We're like this big, and this thing is like this regional mandate. Okay, this was like first year. This is first year. Okay? Okay, you don't understand. This is from where we were at in a barn. It was like, how? [01:43:19] (27 seconds)


We needed to buy those tents. Those tents were not cheap. They were very expensive. We had to put a parking lot in in the church. It was expensive for the time where we were at. Okay? Compared to where we were at, what we had to spend was like nuts. And I'll be honest. It really stretched my faith. Like, we didn't have, I'm going to tell you, what we're spending here compared to what, it's a whole other level. It's happened. [01:44:35] (29 seconds)


The ministry endeavors are the core centric part of everything that we're doing here. All of the sanctuary at the barn, all of its possibilities, all of the opportunity, which are literally endless corporate resheets. All the things we could do are to fund the work of the ministry. Obviously us getting the [01:47:07] (21 seconds)


A Friday night, light ministries, Friday night, light ministries is the parent of everything. The heart that all the way original heart of what was there. Is to create a place to be able to help other churches come into unity together, to be able to advance the kingdom in the region. We're not going to do what they do. [01:47:48] (22 seconds)


What's happening here in this body is a transformational change that's not only going to be changing us. It's also going to be changing society. It's also going to be changing the way we live. It's also going to be changing society around us. I'm telling you what's happening here on this property, what's coming literally is a changing of the mindsets for governance. [01:57:05] (22 seconds)