Immanuel Sermon Audio
Kenya Report 2015
And so, for those of you that do not know, Landen is out of the country. He's an Argentina this week teaching in a seminary. And so, today, whether you knew it or not, you get to hear about our latest adventures to Kenya. And so, we had a great trip to Kenya. We had a really good time. A lot of ministry was done. And as I'm in Kenya more and more, I continue to ask myself the same question when we're there because there's a difference between our culture and the Kenyan culture. Just, there's just a big difference. And one of the things that you see immediately when you interact with the people in Kenya, especially in the church, is they know who Jesus is. And they love Jesus. And they have a passion and a desire to worship Jesus like you don't see here in the United States. And that's something that jumps out to me all the time, every time we go and encounter our Kenyan brothers and sisters. As you travel the world, you see many different types of religions. There are lots of different religions here in the States, but you don't really see them as much, especially around here in our little corner, we call West Texas. You don't see them as much as you do when you travel the world. When you drive down the street in Kenya, you see the Muslim mosques, you see tribal religions, cults, different things. And so when you travel the world, especially in a developing country, a third world, you see, or more in tune, I guess, to the different types of religions and the different types of people that are out there. And so one of the things that I find interesting is a lot of these religions will identify who Jesus is. They acknowledge that he was a man that was on this earth, but they don't recognize him as the Messiah. They don't recognize him as the one that God had promised the people of the Old Testament that he would eventually send someone. And so they don't recognize Jesus as that man. Some see him as a prophet, some saw him as just a guy who did good things for different people. And others believe that it was just a fairytale, that there was stories and fables that were wrote about him, but he really maybe didn't even exist. And so my question today, as we start to share about Kenya and what we do in Kenya and the ministry that we have in Kenya, my question for you today, the church, is who is Jesus? As we see in Mark and some of the other gospels, Jesus was performing miracles. And he had just fed the 5,000. He had just held a man of blindness. And as Jesus and the disciples were walking, Jesus says, you know, who do people say that I am? And so what I wanna do is I wanna read some scripture to you real quick. It's in Mark 27 and you're getting tagged team today. You got me up here and you got my son in the booth. So if it screws up, we can't blame nobody else. So I just wanna, before we really get into what we do in Kenya, I just wanna share this with you. And again, Jesus had been performing some miracles and as he's walking with his disciples, he asked him the question, who do people say that I am? And it's right here, it's Mark 827. And it says, "And Jesus went on with his disciples "to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, "and on the way he asked his disciples, "who do people say that I am?" And they told him, John the Baptist and others say Elijah and others, just one of the prophets. And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered him, he says, "You are the Christ." And he strictly charged them not to tell anyone about them. A couple of years ago, I can't remember, I lose track. That was like our theme verse at Student Life Camp. And so as we talked about who is Jesus, who do you say Jesus is? It becomes very apparent that we need to answer that question. As you see interact daily with other people and you interact with Jesus, we have to answer that question, who is Jesus? Who do you say that I am? And when we answer that question, it's either one way or the other, it's Jesus is the Messiah, Jesus is the Son of God, Jesus is the man that God prophesied about, that God uses prophets to talk about, that one day Jesus would walk on this earth and that he would be crucified, he would be killed and buried in three days rose again. And so my question and my prayer for you is that when that question is asked of you, when somebody says, "Who is Jesus? Who do you say that Jesus is?" I hope you can say he is the Christ. He is the one that we place our hope in. He is the one who has made us right with God again. And so the Kenyan people really bring that out and I know in me and others because they are so passionate about Jesus. You see, when you live in a culture where so much of what you do depends on faith, faith that your garden will grow so you can eat, faith that your cows will produce milk so that you can have things to nourish, come your children and your family. Your faith in Jesus becomes more and more and you become less and less. And that's my prayer for us as a church. As we dive into third world missions and we dive into other things in the world, I pray that Jesus becomes more and more and we become less and less. And so me as your missions pastor, my prayer for our missions program is that as we go and encounter this world, that Jesus has commanded us to go into, I pray that we become less and less and Jesus becomes more and more. And I want to promise you that the number one goal of our missions ministry and in missions in Kenya is that the gospel would be preached. Never more than this year have we preached the gospel more while we were in Kenya. Every opportunity we were put in front of somebody we shared the gospel. And so that's just, that's the key, that's the center of what we do. And so when you answer that question, and I hope and pray that everyone has answered that question that yes, Jesus, you are the Messiah, you are the Son of God. When you answer that question, it demands action, okay? You cannot answer that question like that and then sit back and do nothing. Because as James tells us in the book of James is that your faith, your faith in Jesus will produce good works, okay? And one of the ways that our church is producing good works and our missions team is producing good works is partnering with houses with hope in Kenya. And so as we transition, you get to hear me talk more than I need to talk. And so I'm really, really, really excited that we've got three people that are gonna share with you today about their personal experiences in Kenya. And kind of what they encountered and what it has impacted their families themselves as well. But I do wanna do one thing before we move on. I just want our Kenya team, it doesn't matter which year if you went in the first time or the last time. I want you to stand up so people can see who in the church has gone to Kenya and I know a lot are out of town, but there's quite a few here that have traveled to Kenya. And so thank you. And so traveling to a third world country can be a scary thing for somebody who does not like to do that. But I promise you, it's like we talked about in science school this morning. When God puts a mission in your heart, you need to fulfill that mission. We talked about Jonah a little bit this morning in our science school class. And so, you know, I just got through reading a book by Steve Pifertz called "The Dreams So Big", it's about a family who drags up and moves to Kenya. And one of the things that he talks about is purpose. You know, you have to have a purpose. And what is our purpose? What is your purpose as an individual? Good news, take the gospel to the nations. That means here, there, everywhere. And one of the things that people get discouraged about is, well, I'm not equipped, I don't, what do I do? How do I do that? Well, as people can attest to have been, it doesn't really matter because God can use anybody. He loves using any bodies, no bodies. That is what he is good at, and that's what he loves doing. And so, as we move forward, Sarah Ray is gonna speak, Francis is gonna speak, and then Jason Westfall is gonna speak, and so I'm extremely excited about listening to them and what their stories are and how they impacted us through the trip and what it looks like on the return trip home. Now, as they're speaking, there's gonna be some pictures rolling behind them, and so look at the pictures, but also kinda concentrate on what they're saying. So you're gonna have to kinda double, double task here, multitask. And so I'm gonna ask Sarah to go ahead and make her way up here. And we're gonna do our best to get you out of here at a normal time, but I'm not promising you anything. Because when we start talking about Kenya, we can, you know, Kenya, it's bad, you can use this mic here. What's bad is we're talking about church in Kenya, and I wish we could have a Kenya church service, 'cause they just start going about three hours into it, you know, they're already, okay, now let's just keep going, you know, and they recognize that when we're there, they're like, well, our American friends are probably ready to go, and so they kinda, it's only three hours long instead of all day, so. This is Sarah Ray, she's married to Chris Ray, sorry Sarah, but I'm just kidding. She's got Josiah and Caleb Jordan, so here you go, Sarah. Visit on, it's on, okay. Last year's trip, so 2014, as we were preparing for that trip, my oldest son Josiah bugged us all year long. He really wanted to go with us, and I kept saying, let me go with your dad, let me see what it's like before I say yes, you can go with me. So when we got home last summer, I walked into the house, Josiah ran up to me, he gave me a big hug, and he looked up at me, and he said, okay, can I go next year? And so, we weren't sure exactly when we got home, but Chris and I prayed about it, we talked with Chris and Lisa, and we decided that we would let Josiah go with us. He's nine, he's sitting over there. So, I wasn't too worried about how he would do in country. I really thought he would do well there. I was more worried about the travel getting there, and of course, it was the worst travel trip that we've ever, ever had, but he did really well. And so, I'm not gonna, okay, I'm mostly gonna talk about what Josiah's experience was while we were there. He just, it was so neat to see him just come into this new culture almost seamlessly. He made friends everywhere that we went. The pastors loved him. It was really neat to see, but there was one day, okay, this is Joseph, this is Josiah and Joseph. This was the Monday that we were in the village, and these two guys just hit it off. Every time I would look up to see where Josiah was, he was with Joseph, played all day long. They had a rugby ball that they were throwing back and forth to each other, and this was right before we were gonna do the house dedication. So it's pretty close to when we were gonna leave, and I had 'em get together, and I said, let me take you guys picture. What I didn't know that happened was, Josiah told me later that night. He said, when we left that day, Joseph just started crying. He didn't wanna say goodbye to Josiah. And Josiah told me, he said, "Mom, when you took "that picture, Joseph asked me if you were my mom." And then he asked me if my dad was here too, and he said, "I don't have a mother or a father." I didn't know, you never know if that's true or not. And you never know, they may have lost one parent, but they haven't lost both parents. You don't really ever know what the situation is. Well, the way that our trip works out, we never go back to the same village while we're there, so he never got a chance to see Joseph again. We returned home, and every day, my son would be in tears, talking about him. We would pray for him at night. He was wondering if he's being taken care of. We didn't know where he lived, we didn't know anything about him. So after about a week and a half, I said, "Okay, bud, "I'm gonna message JB." And JB is one of the pastors that we work with in Kenya. I sent JB a message, and I said, "I sent him this picture." I said, "All I know is his name is Joseph." I didn't even know the name of the village. I said it was the one that we were in on that Monday. It was close to Lake Victoria, and you and Chris prayed for a guy that had his leg bit off by a hippo. Like, that's how I could explain the village that we were in. So I said, "I wanna know who this boy is. "I want to know if he really is an orphan. "I want to know if somebody's taking care of him. "We wanna know if he remembers Josiah. "And we really wanna know if he is a believer or not." This was on a Tuesday when I sent JB that message, and he said, "Okay, I'll go on Thursday, "and I will let you know what I find." So JB set out Thursday morning to go to this village. He has a motorcycle that he rides. He got three flat tires trying to get to this village. After the third one, he just decided he was gonna walk. He walked for two hours to get to this village. And he started asking around, and he found Joseph for us. He said that he showed him this picture. He had printed it off so that he would have it to know what he looked like. And he showed it to Joseph, and he said that he just immediately started crying. And he said, "He remembered me." And JB said, "This boy is the reason I'm here today." You made such an impact on him, and he loves you. He wanted to make sure that you were okay. So we found out that Joseph is an orphan, and he has been for nine years. He lives with his aunt. I don't know if it's really his aunt, or they call her Mama Benter. And from what I understand, she has several kids, several children that she's raising. I don't know how many yet. We knew that Joseph had not been in school that day because he didn't have his uniform on. So JB had him get, his school stuff gathered up, had to put his uniform on, and took him to school. The cool thing is, the school that, there he is, in school, we had gone to that school that Monday, and JB was with us that day. So when he took Joseph, the principal knew who JB was. And Mama Benter was not able to pay his school fees, and so he hadn't been in school for several weeks. And so JB said he pleaded with the principal to let him come back to school, and he would figure out a way to settle the school fees. So the principal agreed, and he let him come back. And the principal also let him share the gospel of Jesus with several of the students. And he said that when he shared, Joseph was the first one to accept Christ that day. There he is back in school. Josiah, with his own money, we sent the money over there so that Joseph could be in school. Rana is working with the principal of the school to make sure that all his school fees are paid. We get asked the question a lot. I know Rana gets it all the time. Chris Harrington, I know you get it all the time. Why, why do you go? Why do you spend all this money to fly over there? It's not cheap. Why don't you just send the money? Wouldn't it be better spent that way? And that is a valid question. But we missed something very important if we're just sending money. The God that created the whole universe could have done anything he wanted to save us from our sin. But he chose to send Jesus to us so that we could have a relationship with him because there's something very valuable in relationships and very meaningful in relationships. And when we go and we see things like this happen, the gospel becomes very real to people. Jesus uses it in a way that just sending money probably could never do. I pray that when Joseph sees the scripture that says, "I will not leave you as orphans. "I will come to you." He will understand that yes, God did come to me. He sent a nine-year-old boy from Odessa, Texas to come and meet me so that I would know who this mighty God is. So I told Chris Harrington that next year we don't have a choice. We have to go back to this village because we have to see how Joseph is doing and we're gonna keep that relationship going. So I'm ready to be back. (audience applauding) All right, thank you, Mama Sarah. That's what people call Mama Sarah. So all right, and now it's time for Jojo Francis, which where's Francis? There she is. And in Lou Gondin, grandma is Jojo. And so we kind of adopted Jojo Francis over here. She took care of everybody while we were gone, especially my dad. If you wanna know your dad, travel around the world with him. (audience laughing) (speaking in foreign language) Okay, why I went to Kenya. Struggled four years with this decision. Okay, I went to Kenya because it was a mission field that one of my boys wanted to be at. There was some time in his life. But God had different plans. He had the manual baptist go on that to that country. And it was Kenya, he studied Kenya in the first grade. Mission was in mission grants during that time. So he loved the mission field. And he practiced it here at home. Many people came to know the Lord because of Zach. And many strangers came up to me after Zach went home. That I didn't even know Zach had shared the word with him when they were much older than him. That's why I went to Kenya. And as I was there in Kenya, as I played with the children, prayed with the children, prayed over them. 'Cause I mean, some of them did understand the language. Some of them didn't. And the ones that did, they did ask a few questions, not very many. We were at the school, they asked more questions about how God has worked in my life. I had a little, I guess he was probably 11. And he did ask, how has God worked in my life? And how is it serving God in the United States? I shared a little bit about that to him and how we weren't as bold as we should be here in the United States in spreading God's word. As we are there for some reason, we just don't feel as comfortable bringing that subject up to non-believers as we really should bring that up. More with the non-believers than anybody we come in contact with. We should talk a little bit about that. And then those that didn't understand that, those that didn't understand the language, I just enjoyed how the Lord just let me to pray over them. And that one day that in their language, they come to hear God's word. And then I would look around and I would see our team. And in every corner and every area, you would see one of the team members sharing, loving, just loving, building relationship, like Sarah said, that's the most important thing. That's why we go. They can hear God's word through materials we send over there, blessing them with money. But then those pastors that do take the initiative of taking leadership in their villages and spreading God's word and with no pay. I mean, they do it because of the love that they've come to know with God. They do it because they love the Lord and I'm sorry, I'm just lost track. It's the relationship as going back over there and them knowing that we do care enough, we don't just send the money, we just don't send the money. We don't just send the money, we just don't send the money. We don't just send the money, we just don't send pamplers, we just don't have people go and build their homes or get a little group of Canadian people to come to their village and build their home. We're actually there in action with them. And once a year, I don't feel like it's enough, but the time that the team's been going and what I experienced, it's good enough for them seeing this at once a year. And the blessing that I got from it too is that because of that relationship, that our team keeps going back and back, they are doing what God needs them to do. We step into a village, they're very familiar with the passion that was with us and the passion, either business. And like, let's go back to the children as I played with them and loved on them and their mothers would come up and we would, like I said, talk as much as we could, but they knew who I loved and who I served and they felt that I feel like. And the ones that are believers, the joy that they have, no matter what they have, what they don't have, what we think is necessary here and they don't have, I mean, they're joyful and that's what we need to get to a point is just being joyful and content with what we have because we have God, we have everything we need to serve and love the Lord and we have the freedom and we have family members that love on us, people that are there to care for us, young kids, they're cared for by their parents when we have kids in Africa that don't have any parents to care for them, but then they still have that joy and it's because they've heard of the Lord and it happens in the schools. When they get to go to school, they get to hear God's word and that's something we need to get back to hear in the United States. Well, Massey 28, 19, it talks about going out there, therefore go and make disciples of our nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commended you, I surely, and surely I am with you always to the very end of the age and that's what we leave there is that they know that God is with them. When we go and touch base with them, rebuild a relationship with them and the relationship that Chris has with JB is priceless. Seeing those two say goodbye to each other until another year was priceless. They, in that one thing that they have in common is the Lord Jesus Christ and the love. And then another thing in John 15, 15, I shared this one of the nights that it was my turn to share is I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know, because a servant does not know his master's business instead I have called you friends for everything that I learned from my father I have made known to you. We're friends with the Canadian people and those people in the villages because we are no longer servants. Once we accept the Lord Jesus Christ, he is our friend and we need to share that friend by sharing the gospel. (audience applauds) - Thank you, Francis, Jason, if you wanna come on up. One of the cool parts about ministry and getting to lead a team and put a team together is just the individual people on their stories and Francis is my love, Francis is story. Oh, I guess you need that, huh? All right, this is Jason, Westfall. - I've only been a member at a manual for about a year, almost to the day. And this church has amazed me at how they're loving and accepting. So, one of the first people that asked me to go to Kenya was Tyler Mintz because we worked together. And I thought, well, that's something cool, but that's something other people do. I'm an ordinary guy, I don't do things like that. So I just let it go, and then about a couple months later, we had dinner with the raze, and they asked again and I thought, you know what, I'll go. I have no idea what I'm gonna do, but I'll go. The strange thing was, is within a week of me deciding to go, I was fully funded, and I thought, wow, God, God must really want me to go. (audience laughs) But I still struggled with, I don't know how God will use me, I don't know what my purpose will be there, and I struggled with that up until the day we left. And then the trip came, and as you know, our travel plans didn't go as planned. I'd actually wrote in my journal when we got to their Saturday night, that the plans didn't go like we thought. We had to go to Amsterdam and then take a different flight to Nairobi, and got to Nairobi and we didn't have a flight to Kasumu, and for the first time I thought, I'm trapped in a third world country. (audience laughs) But it was the first time I got to experience God being in control and not me. And I actually wrote in my journal that night that I slept on the floor of the Nairobi airport today, and that was not in the itinerary Kriscus. (audience laughs) So the next two days we had a Sunday where we went to a church service, which was amazing, and then we did two days in ministry, and I still had this nagging feeling like, I don't know why I'm here. I don't feel like God's used me. And then that night we had a devotional, and after the devotional, Christian spoke, and he spoke, he used the first half of Psalm 46, 10, be still and know that I'm God, and it hit me at that moment. I just need to be here, just experience it. So the next day I had a different attitude, and the next day we went to a hospital, and then we went to Jolly Kids. And Jolly Kids was my favorite thing we did in the entire trip. God spoke to me when I saw those kids. All he wanted me to do was love on 'em. I'm there to love on 'em and to speak the gospel. So I thought, "Well, anybody can do this." And then I felt God, I wanted to speak that day. If we got to go to a village, I wanted to share the gospel, and we didn't get to do it. So I feel like I have unfinished business in Kenya. So I plan on God willing, going back, and hopefully taking my wife, and possibly one of my children. But it was amazing to me seeing how God used people in this church, what they did while they were there, and how God changed me, changed my family forever. When I read Psalm 46, 10 now, it means something different to me. Psalm 46, 10 says, "Be still, and know that I am God. "I will be exalted among the nations, "and I will be exalted in the earth." So like I said, God willing, I'll be back next year to do my part. Thank you. (audience applauds) - Thanks. Jason, Sarah, and Frances, that's why I like for our team members to speak, is because you see how it impacts the individual, and then it can impact the family. And so I may have to trotter a plane next year, I don't know. But that's okay. And so we're just gonna scroll through some pictures here as I just kind of closed down. I know you heard a couple of them talk about travel woes. Unfortunately, the team had to pay for my lesson in the whole trip. I am the guy that likes to be in control and have the itinerary and mark stuff off the list. God had other plans, we missed a flight, and then when that happens, it just kind of dominoes. And so we basically lost a day of ministry. We saw it as losing a day of ministry, but I think through that day, everybody was ministered to in some way, and so that was kind of one of the things. This picture here, we were playing soccer against some of the kids, and it was America's zero in Kenya, like five or six. I just want to give a shout out to our team. I know this trip, we faced a lot of different things that we haven't faced in the past, and I want you to know church, the team handled it and strived. Not one time did anybody complain. We went for a long time without sleep, and it was good. It was really good. You can see here Bailey's painting fingernails, and so as they were doing that, several of us would go out to the village doing door-to-door ministry, and you could always tell who had been over at the main area because they had painted fingernails, so they really loved that, that was cool. There's Macy doing that as well. I do want to, again, thank you ladies, the ladies' ministry. I don't know if you know it or not, but the ladies' ministry baked cookies, and we took a whole case of cookies. It was 70 pounds or 65 pounds of cookies. You can see it here. We packed them in Rice Krispies. We took them over there. It was a huge hit. They were a little sweet for some, but I was sitting with the Kenyan pastors, and they were actually taking those cookies, break them in half, and dunking them in their chicken soup juice, and so, you know, it was good. And so, this is a cool picture, a cool story here. You can hear about it one of these days, I hope, but these men are elders in a village that Chris Ray had the opportunity to share the gospel with, and these men ended up pledging their village for the Lord, which is huge there. And so, Anoshim, which is Jared O'Kello's brother, has already followed up with them. They've actually agreed for us, for Ron as ministry, to build a church in that village. And so, just continue to pray for that village as they proceed forward with that. One of the things that was really cool this year is we had Josiah and Lexi, you know, Lexi Kondri, which we called it Sister Lexi and Josiah's Choir. They actually led all of our music in the villages and everywhere. They did an amazing job at that. You know, we had the little Bluetooth speakers, and so, when we would play the music, and the music would come out of the air, everybody was like, "Whoa, what is going on?" But it was really neat. And so, Josiah and Lexi did an amazing job of ministering to the kids. And this is Lexi and Josiah actually leading music in a high school, what they call secondary. And so, they were leading music there. I don't know how, this is Jessica Parris. She's actually presenting the gospel to a group of high school students as well. Christian and a chubby baby. The guy in the background to the left, his name is Peter. That's first Peter, there's a bunch of Peters over there. And so, that's first Peter. He's one of the pastors that we work with. And that's, I think that second Peter's son, you're holding, is that right? Yeah, that's second Peter's son. First Peter in the background, second Peter's kid. This picture is a picture inside of the Jolly School. This is just a place where these kids can come and feed and get fed during the week. And a special kind of treat that we do for them when we go. Normally, they get beans and rice. We've made peanut butter sandwiches and went and bought a bunch of little bottles of juice. And so, it's a really good treat for them. You can see that picture. You saw the picture earlier of Francis sitting on the floor with a little kid. There's little kids sitting there eating. And he was having a hard time eating with utensils. And so, Francis just plopped down on the floor in the dirt and fed him. It was an amazing thing. That's one of my favorite pictures from the trip. And so, these are cars at the Jolly Nursery. Mr. Darby made cars that he whittles out of wood and he made about 40 cars. And these kids just have a blast with them. So, it's really cool. Flip flops, you know, y'all are a huge part of our flip flop ministry while we're there just donating flip flops. This is Tony and that's second Peter in the blue shirt. But that's Tony getting to share the gospel in one of the homes that we built. And then, this is Pastor J.B. on the left. Second Peter in the middle, first Peter on the right. And then, Christian's half of his face on the other side. And then, this is at the Nairobi Airport during our travel delay. Just hanging out at the Java house, just waiting for our flight. We ended up having to sit there for like eight hours, waiting for our flight into our little country. And there's Josiah and Lexi leading music with the school. That was our first school we went to. This is actually the school that Joseph was in that Sarah was talking about. You've never experienced anything like that. And so, I mean, pictures don't do it justice to be amongst the people there. And so, that's kind of, I know guys, we can go on forever and ever and ever. These are tentative dates for next year. I have not firm those up with Rana and the people in Kenya, but these are tentative dates for next year. Now, it depends on how much interest we have in the trip. Really, a team of 25 is really max when you start going over there and trying to do work. And so, if we have to, we can look about doing what we did a couple of years ago, we took two teams. And so, it just all depends on interest from you. If you, how much time we spend and what we do over there. And so, let me make sure I'm not missing anything. Just a little bit about the ministry. Rana Jordan is here today. She has the ministry up from Farmington. She's sitting down here on the front. One of the cool things about this ministry is that Gerald O'Kello and Madhu, which we have been working with them now for almost four years, three or four years. They're actually gonna be here in the church on September 13th. They're flying over from Kenya. This is Madhu's first time to come to the United States. And so, they're gonna be here September 13th. And so, just kind of save the date. Not exactly sure what the dates are gonna look like yet, but they will be here. So, I'm really excited about having them in the church. So, man, out of time. I wish we could just keep going and going, but we can't. And so, guys, from what you heard today, this is why we go. It's like Sarah said, we could send money. We could do all these things. But relationships is why we go. Building relationships with our brothers and sisters there is just key to what we do in Kenya. This church has a rich history of missions. I see Brother Bill and Dorothy back on the back row, back there. Brother Bill sent missionaries around the world. He went around the world several times. And so, that's something that we as a church have always done, and we're gonna continue to do. And so, it doesn't matter if you can never go, but you can always do something you can give to support our teams, to support our friends in Kenya. You can go, you can pray. You always have a part in the ministry. And so, that's not something that I ask you to do. That's something that Jesus commands us to do. And so, as we close the service today, if something that was said, it has spoke to you. If you need prayer, it has nothing to do with Kenya. If you just need some prayer, if you wanna think about joining the church, if you, anything at all, me and Corey will be down here at the front. And so, as Tyler in the band is coming up and getting ready, I know this is a little different today, and I hope you enjoyed hearing just a little glimpse of what goes on in Kenya. Because, I promise you, this is just the surface. This is just the surface. And on the 13th, hopefully we'll get to go more in depth about what we do and what goes on in Kenya. And so, as Tyler leads us, if you need to make a decision or you need to talk to me or Corey, just come on down and we will visit with you.