So my name is David John Phillips, I have the joy and honor of getting to be the pastor here. There's no place I'd rather be. There's nothing I'd rather be doing. And, yes, I say it every Sunday. And I I hope I hope it gets to the point where you can even quote me saying that. Because you know it's my heart. That's why I repeat it. But also, hopefully, you take the same attitude and do your job and do your marriage into your family, and to everywhere you go. Thank you, Lord for what you've been entrusted to me. It's a joy that I get to do this. And I trust you with all that I have. Amen? Amen. Now, This something else that I'm gonna start doing every single Sunday. Our vision and our mission. Our vision as a church. It's the why. Our vision is whatever it takes. We will do whatever it takes. For you to know the love of Jesus and live out your god given purpose. Whatever it takes because Jesus did whatever it took. He laid his life down for us. For you, for anybody god puts in front of us. To know the love of Jesus? Because you have to know his love, surrender to it before you can really live out the purpose he created you for. Amen? And then how do we accomplish that? That's our mission statement. It's the how. We do it by engaging the culture with the love of Jesus. By establishing the believer in the local body of Christ. And once you get established, in the local body of Christ. You're giving us the license to disciple you. So that's equip the believer to engage the culture with the love of Jesus. It's let's watch us do it. Let's do it together. Now you go do it. Right? Yeah. Which is leadership. It's multiplication. My role is not to do ministry as a pastor or as a leader of this church. My role is a christian is to do ministry. My role is a leader of this church is to equip you to do ministry in your daily life. So that you go into your world, lay your life down and do whatever it takes for the you, The person god puts in front of you in your business and in your family everywhere that you go to know the love of Jesus and live there, god given purpose. Amen? So equip the believer to engage the culture with the love of Jesus, and then number four, which is my favorite is empower the ready to live their god given purpose. You mature as you do ministry as you give out what god gave you. And as you mature, God will press you forward more and more into the purpose as he created you for. And as a church, it's our responsibility to lay our lives down to help you to walk out every good purpose he has for you. And some of you, that will be in full time ministry one day as missionaries as pastors as leaders as, you know, leaving nonprofit. Some of you, that... That's the case. Others of you, That's your businessman. And you're supposed to start businesses are or work at businesses and other things. Others, maybe you're you're a stay at home mom. Maybe maybe you're you're a teacher. Well, whatever the world that God has called you into, our role is to lay our life lifetime to help you to be a world changer. And to impact that world for Jesus to do whatever it takes to to so that the people in your world know the love of Jesus and live your God given purpose. You are a missionary that God has raised up and sent to your world. Hi. I I a lot of times. I'm sharing the gospel with people. And there's often, I'll go to, like, a fast food restaurant, and, I'm get done paying, and there's nobody in line behind me, and I'll just say hey, man. I just really believe God loves you a lot. Do you know that? Yeah. Yeah. I do. Would you mind if I share the gospel? They'd say, sometimes they say Jesus is my lord, man and I'm I'm following them. I say, you are Let's see. Yes. Man, well, I got good news for you? And I'll say, what? And I'll say, do you realize that you're a missionary? God sent you into C as a missionary to reflect his goodness. Let's look around. Look at at your coworker? They don't know what we're talking about. But look at it. They need Jesus that's in you. Do you mind if I pray for you for a second. I do it all the time? Do you know you're a missionary? That God has raised up and sent into your world. Don't be silent anymore. How will they know unless you tell them. People like to use the excuse. Well, you know, I wanna preach the gospel with my my my life and if necessary use words. And it's an excuse because they're timid, and they don't wanna be bold and share share their faith. No. No. Live your life out so loudly. That it you can't come... It can't help but come out of your heart and out of your mouth and impact them too. Amen? It's both and. Praise the lord. So that being said, we have some business to take care of. Good business. Alright. Good business. I wanna call up to the stage, mister Bart Stamp and miss Dixie Stamp, and also mister and missus Jerry Hunter, miss jerry miss Heidi Hunter and Jerry Hunter. Y'all gonna have to come around, walk all way around. If y'all go stand in and clap, you're had to keep standing because they they're walking around. Come on. We've got something very important that we're gonna be doing. You guys can be seated. And thank you for honoring them will. Man, what you what you honor you're able to receive from, and I think the American culture needs to learn to honor well. Amen? It's a big deal. We we we worship God, and we honor what God has done in people so that we can receive from God through them. Amen? Okay. So first things first, we have a process for appointing leadership at our church. And part of that process is you have to have at least served at the church for a year because, you know, Jesus said the lead us to serve. And if you wanna lead at a church and you're not willing to serve, then you'll probably wanna lead for your own ego instead of for his kingdom. So Bart and Dixie came here. God sent them into my life, even before the church started. And then after the church started God sent them to real church. And they joined in and just started serving, which was awesome. God has done a miraculous amazing change in their life. And then they started disc cycling others. And what I'm about to appoint them to. Many of you will think, oh, man. I thought they already were that. But that's how it should work. Right? You you you should be living out the calling of God on your life. Normally in your daily life, such that when God promotes you everybody says, "duh". Right? So, the elders in our church are people that God has appointed to that role. They... We... Me and Courtney, we lead by vision, and the elders help to ensure that our church is running in the same direction of that vision, and they helped... Its internal accountability also for us. For my family. We make decisions together as a team unanimously, because we wanna walk in unity. Elders are also the financial board of the profit of real church. So they help make spiritual decisions and financial decisions. We don't split those apart. Lot of churches do. I'm like, if if a if an elder who's making spiritual decisions can't health run finances. They probably shouldn't be an elder. You know? I should have their whole house in order. And so so we put those together. And I knew in my heart a long time ago that Dixie and and Bart would be appointed to elders ship. But I was just waiting on God's. Yes. And today is God's. Yes. And amen? They're d cycling many people impacting many marriages because of what God's done in them. So man it's a joy and an honor to get to know you to be friends with you and thank you for how you pray for our church. Thank you for what you're doing. Would you guys step up here, step forward Jerry and Heidi are our first elders, ever. So I'm a ask Jerry and Heidi, if you guys would lay hands on these two. Thank you, sir. And if you'll pray for them, that would be great. Let's start with... Let's start with Heidi. Why don't you pray first and then Jerry. God, I love your ways. Would I love your timing, I love your thoughts. I love your creation. I love your structure. And god I thank you for what you've do done in in Barton Dixie life Lord. I thank you that you called them, and that they said "yes, Lord", and they went through the mud. They went through the mu And they laid down their life and they said, god, I don't want what you want, but I want what I want. God. I don't want. I don't want what I want I want what you want. Scratch that. God, you know what I mean, Praise the Lord. But I thank you for Barton Dixie god what you've called them to, and in this leadership position. God, we know that you know what's going on. And we know that you've called them. And Scott, it is a pleasure to just bless them in Jesus name. And appoint them as elders of this magnificent body of believers, Lord that you have created. Lord, I pray that you would protect them that you would guide them that their heart would match your heart lord. That they would have your heart in them that their decisions and their thoughts, lord would be your thoughts, God, that you would continue to work in their lives and that they would be amazing leaders is bless them in Jesus name. Lord God, I just thank you right now for this mighty couple. That you've called fourth before the foundation of the world, Lord. I just love your process over redemption Thank you, Lord, that we got to be a witness of your process. Of your mighty hand laying your hand on this couple. Never never letting them let go. But they continued to let go of what was yesterday and pressing forward to lay hold of what had laid hold of them. Lord, I just thank you for friends and family and brothers and sisters. That have spurred us own so mighty, and our brother and sister that would just be with you at any time with in war with you at any time. Such an honor to run with them and such an honor to watch them step in to what you've called them to do, Lord. And it's true about what your word says no weapon formed against them shall. Prosper says the Lord. But the verse before that says that there's a blacks myth. A destroyer, beating a weapon out pointed at them. But the whole goal in your process, Lord is you will. They will catch the father's love. They will catch the father's love and take that weapon straight out of the enemy's hand. And that's what we're seeing right here in this power couple. So father, we just thank you right now that they're gonna walk in and be all that you've called them to be. And, Lord, I just think thank you that you've appointed them to elders at real church. In Jesus name. Amen. And amen. Y'all just join me in prayer. Laura, we thank you and we commissioned you guys as elders in our body. What it's a it's a joy and honor and, I'm excited to see what you do. Amen. Here Hey amen. Alright. Praise Lawyer. So we have we have second order of business here. Jerry and Heidi were our first elders, The first elders we ever appointed at real church. And I wanna read something. Second Corinthians chapter nine says this. Verse six. The point is this, whoever sow sparingly will also reap sparingly. And whoever sow bo will also reap bo. Each one must give as he's decided in his heart, not reluctant or under comp, for God loves a cheerful give. And God is able to make grace abound to you so that having all efficiency and all things at all times you may abound in every good work. As it is written, he distributed freely, he has given gifts to the poor his right endure forever. He who supplies seed to the sowing and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. So as you sow seed, he multiplies your seed to be able to sow. You will be enriched in every way to be generous on in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. I've always read that. Most people preach that as finances, and it's true. Like, that that is a part of it part of what you sow in your seed is finances. But it's also talking about resources. Any resource, your time, your talent, your treasure. Guys before we even moved here, I saw leaders as a resource, and I saw... I I knew that our church would be a leadership development crucible a crucible of leadership development where God would send people raise them up and send them out. Either into their purpose locally or into their purpose around the world. And so I prayed that we would be a generous church. With the leaders that God sends us. That we wouldn't hold back our best, but we would send our best. And in sending our best, I knew that these principles are still the same. As we send our best, we sow that seed of leaders. God's gonna send us his best. And so we'll be able to be generous on every occasion. Now, Jerry and Heidi went, and did the Jesus year at thirty third company in Fort Worth. They split sit... Spent six months giving their lives to prayer evan and disciples ship, full time. They came back here, did it for another six months and led hundreds and hundreds to Jesus and made did many many disciples. God's moving in their lives. And God put on their heart to go to Fort worth full time, and and to dedicate their lives to prayer of Angelo disciples ship. To dedicate their lives to helping to to multiply our friends at 33rd Company, which is a big deal. But then god confirmed it to us as well. And and so this is a unified beautiful thing where we're getting to do what was on my heart to do before we even planted the church. To be a church that raises up leaders. And sends them. And I want you to know that this is not a cane offering. This is an abel offering. There our first elders, leaders and our best. And in and giving the first and the best. Doesn't it doesn't mean that everything that comes after will be less than. It actually means everything after will be greater than. Not that there any less but that the seeds that they've sown into you making disciples. And then to bart and Dixie, we were supposed to go in the kingdom from "glory to glory" to glory. And amen, You guys are a joy to get to know. Your family, you will always be family. To me, this is your home and you sow your lives here deeply. You rooted deeply as we said, you bore much fruit. A lot of this church is built because of your disciples ship. Both of you. Your prayers blood, sweat and tears with me in the trenches. Literally, the trenches of Pakistan, fat people. And so it's bitter sweet but it's a joy to get to send you guys. And we pray that the best is yet to come. Yeah. That although we are grateful for what God has done in you here. We pray it's even better there. We pray that bigger harvest greater annoying. We pray that you impact more people there than you ever dreamed possible, and that god sends you from there all around the world, and it's a joy. And those two are part of the disciples that they made. So they got to appoint them to leadership. How how cool is that? So all I have, those two pray for them. Oh, father, we thank you. We thank you for these two beautiful souls. God we thank you that we got. To experience and be a part of the leadership and the foundation that they have been a part of here at real church. We thank you for giving us the best. God, we thank you. That we get to celebrate sending them today, God. You, Matthew nine thirty seven says that the harvest is plentiful that the laborers are few and we thank you for these laborers. And as they go out in this journey. In this yes, Lord that they said to you, Yes, Lord that they are giving their lives laying it all down to serve you. We are humbled by their dedication. God and we thank you. As Pastor Courtney and the worship team, we're singing. Oh, I said just put your glory in me. I'll serve anywhere. Send me anywhere. These two right here. That's what they're doing, and we thank you God that you've given us them that they're a part of us. And we send them with love, and we're honored to be have them as a part of our life. We are honored for their disciples friendship, their relationship, their friendship, they are family, and we thank you for the impact that they've had on our lives and everyone else's lives here at Real church in Jesus name. God, we just thank you for who you are and what you've done. Thank you for who you made us. This couple has impacted almost everybody in this room in some way. Definitely impacted Dixie in my life greatly, and we thank you for them. They will be missed, but they're not definitely not forgotten. And definitely want to have their mark remembered on this church on my life. These are some of my best friends and we love them. We just thank you for what you're going to do through them and gotta ask you to let them find favor with everybody that they meet. I ask you to let their light shine into this dark world, and you lead and god and direct every single step that you have ordained for them, and we'll give you glory honor praise. We just thank you for them in Jesus name. Lord Jesus, we thank you for these two and what they've meant to my life and my family. My kids call them papa pie, nana. Like, more grandparents that the God gave us, look, thank you for what they are to this church, a mama and a daddy. Or bless them, and I pray for many more spiritual children where they go, than they could ever imagine. Lord, God the dreams that they don't... They didn't even know they were... They they could... Were possible for them to dream. That they would be what comes to pass in this next season. Or let them go, they go from glory to glory in you. Lord and I thank you. Once again. This is not a cane offering. This is abel offering. And we can joyful give them to you. It's a joy oh god. In Jesus name. Thank you that we're a ascending church. Amen. All become the great leadership. Praise. I'll probably get Jerry Heidi to come up at the end of the message and just pray over the church and pray over you guys. But I have a word that God has given me. It's important. I am going to Pakistan. On Tuesday with Est. Which just gonna be fun. You're gonna hear a bit about that today. It's gonna be a little bit more of a story message today. I got some stories I wanna tell you. There was one story I was gonna start with in the beginning. It's interesting and enough. I didn't think he was gonna... God was gonna have me cut that one for time, but that's the one he's having me cut. So, I I'll probably preach that one in another message maybe when I get back from Pakistan, Lord Willing, which will be fun. But I have I have some principles that I want to share with you today. I want you to walk away knowing these three principles and putting them into practice into your life because they will impact every aspect of your life. And the three principles are, as you go, So, Number two, so where you wanna go? And number three, where you so you will go? As you go, so, So where you wanna go? And number three, where you so? You will go. Let's talk about it. Let's show that these are biblical first and foremost, and then I wanna show you some principles are some testimonies of this happening and these are true stories. Okay? These testimonies that I'm gonna share, they're for you. They're grand oath. They're crazy. It's crazy miracles that you're gonna hear about. And yet, the bible says in psalms, your testimonies are my heritage. They are the joy of my heart. So when you hear a testimony of what Jesus has done in someone's life or through someone's life, you can take it as your heritage if you're a son of god. If Jesus is the lord of your life. Your heritage means that's what God has planned for you. He wants to do the same principle, the same type of thing in your life and in the world that God has called Youtube. So don't don't celebrate this and when you hear some of the stories and be like, oh, wow. That's really cool that that happened for you pastor David, or that happened for for them. That's awesome. Or don't dis in your heart. Like, well, that could never really happen. What you honor will multiply. Right? Your testimonies are my heritage. They are the joy of my heart. Celebrated as joy and watch as the same things. God begins to project you on the same same route in your life towards the purposes that he has for you in the world that he's called you to. Amen? Okay. So let's go through those principles. As you go so, well, that's easy to show in scripture. Matthew 28. It's the great commission. Jesus says, therefore go and make disciples of all nations, ba baptized them in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. That go is a president tense. It's like, as you go, it's the... As you go, make disciples. As you go, so your life into the people around you. So your time, your talent, your treasure, everything that you are into the world that God sent you to so that they can experience what God's done in you through you and begin to live out the same thing. That's the reason that you're sitting here is because the 12 disciples that Jesus commissioned, they started doing it, and then a 150 and then and then it's spread from Jerusalem to to Sam to the ends of the Earth and two thousand and something years later, here you are. And you have the same commission, and he says in low, I am with you always even to the ends of the earth. Go. And as you go, so your life. It's important. This is the whole purpose of the... Your Christian life is to reflect him. He said I'm the light of the world and the turn said you're the light of the world. A city on a hill. You don't put a a a lamp under shade and hide it. When Jesus sow things into your life, it's supposed to produce fruit, and then you're supposed to go and sow it into the lives of those around you. Your time, your talent, and your treasure, everything. As you go. So, now, that second principle. So where you want to go? Why Do I say that? Where does that come from? The bible says, in Genesis one that a seed produces after its own kind? God created the earth for a seed to reproduce after its own kind. If I sow an apple tree, it would be weird if an orange tree popped up. Why? Because it's against nature God made a system. He made principles in the earth and seed Genesis eight says seed time and harvest will never stop. Seeds reproduce after their own kind. He amen? Amen So yeah and then Genesis eight, that's after noah got off the flood, and he made that promise and heat and cold will never stop. Day and night will never stop. Seed, time and harvest. That means you sow a seed, and you wait some time. That's what people have problems with, waiting, being patient in the time. A lot of times they'll sow the seed, wait sometime time and say, well, it didn't happen in my time. So they go on and somebody else gets the harvest that they sow? Seed, time and then harvest. And what do you reap? You reap the fruit of the seed that you sow. Amen? And by sowing the seed in a certain type of field by honoring that field, you're able to reap what that field is producing. Amen? Let's look at it. Galatians chapter six. Starting in verse six, but the one who has taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever one sow that will he also reap. Not just to take a step back for anybody that's questioning. What I mean by sowing? I mean by, like, a sow is one that has seed in walks. And in the old days, they'd throw out seed into their field. And they were... It's called sowing seed. Some a metaphor for your life sowing what god's put in your life into the field around you that he's called diminish... You minister to or minister to you. K? Now, listen to this. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever one sow that will he also reap. There's a lot of people who have deceived themselves thinking and wishing and hoping and dreaming for dreams in their lives, but they'll... Those dreams will never happen because they haven't taken the time to sow what it takes to make those dreams happen. And so they're deceived and it's a way of mocking God because he said seed time and harvest, a seed will reproduce after its own kind. It is weird. It would be weird for you to sow your life and to becoming a mechanic. So everything that you are into becoming a mechanic and then say, man, I just can't wait till I become an astronaut. Where I can't wait till I become, you know, president of the United States, Probably not gonna happen. Why? Because you showed your life into becoming a mechanic. Your life is gonna produce the fruit of the seeds that you sow. Seed, time and harvest to think otherwise is to deceive yourself and to mock god and the principles that he put into creation. Your life is the fruit of the seeds that you've been sowing right now. Either your bearing results from seeds that you sow a decade ago, fifteen years of twenty years ago, Five years ago, or you're in process waiting for the crop to come. And galatians six actually says, for the one who sow to his own flesh verse eight will reap from the flesh corruption. But the one who sow to the spirit will reap from the spirit eternal life. So as you so following the lead of the holy spirit into the things that God calls you to sow into out of obedience. You sow your life into those things. You will reap eternal life, which means knowing God. You'll reap a closer relationship with your heavenly father, the fruit of righteousness. How does that work? And let us not grow weary in doing good for due season, we will reap. I say we will reap. Will if if we do not give up. Faith always finishes my friends. Yeah. If you quit, it wasn't faith. If you quit before either you die in process and your poster, spiritual children or physical children, get the fruit of what happened or or you make the goal. One or the other. Faith always finishes. You will. That's a promise. You will reap. The harvest of the seeds that you have sown. Now, can God restore everything and reconcile like and and cut off the past bad seeds that you sown? Yes. Absolutely. That's called redemption and reconciliation? God cuts off or pass in Christ and moves us forward so that we can experience a life in the spirit. But don't be to deceived if God is not mocked. Don't think that if you continue to sow to please the flesh, you won't reap. Stuff from that. You understand? It's important. God's a good father. Out of discipline, he'll let you reap some of the things that you saw. So that you learn to be obedient to so only into what he calls you to sow your life into. Yeah. And then when you learn the lesson, then he'll wipe away the junk so that you can continue moving forward into every purpose he has for you. God wants you to fulfill every purpose he has for you more than you want to. He wants you to experience every purpose he created you for. Every single one, and he wants it more than you want it. Trust him. Follow his process. One step at a time. Amen? Yeah So an example of that biblical of of so where you wanna go is Elijah and Elijah. Elijah came to Elijah. Elijah plowing in the field. He's got multiple pairs of auction. I think it was ten. And, so he's he's he's a wealthy man for the day. He's he's he's probably got a big farms. Got lots of harvest and lots of crops, and Elijah goes to Elijah and and invites him to follow him. And what is a life to do? He burns the plow. He sacrifices everything that he has. And the whole town enjoys what the the fruit of that sacrifice. But it it represented him giving financially, he... Him giving his life him giving his future, him giving everything. At his four zero one k, everything and into following the plan that God put before him. He burn it all. It's all for you. I'm sowing my life into what you've called me to be. I'm, I'm sure God had been burning that purpose in his heart. And this was just a confirmation. I'm sure of it. So when the opportunity came, he did it. He sold his life, and he found the man that was doing what he knew he was called to do. And he sow his life into that man. For six years, Elijah followed Elijah. Six years, gave his time. His talent, his treasure, his attention, everything and into sowing into elijah, following him as a servant, learning and growing. A lot of people would look at his life and say men would waste. You had 10 pairs of oxen bro. You had a field. You had a family. You were taking care of of the town. You were you were a leader. And you just burn it all up to follow this old prophet dude for six years. What a waste? Five and a half years in, like, what you got the profit for, You got fruit there? No. You should go back and buy your field back. If he would've have done that, he wouldn't got the reward. He wouldn't reap the harvest. He would've given up. Six years in. Elijah goes to be with the Lord taken off in a chariot of fire, and Elijah reap the harvest of sowing his life and into what... God called him to sow his life into. Amen and he became twice the prophet Elijah was. Elijah was great. Elijah performed twice as many miracles. Did amazing things. Does that mean that Elijah was any less than no, but we go from glory to glory. Amen. You my ceiling should be your floor. You should do the same things I do and even greater. That's the way Jesus led and that's the way we lead in the kingdom when we're making disciples. It ain't about keeping people down. It's about serving them and pushing them up. One step at a time. Amen? So where when you sow where you wanna go, what I mean is you're praying in comm. The Bible says, delight yourself and the Lord and he gives you the desires of your heart. So as I delight myself and the Lord and comm with him, he produces desires in me. And then I find someone that's living out those desires, living out that calling. Those things, an organization a church, a person, whatever it is, greater than I am. And then I sow my life into learning from them. I I asked the lord. I might so financially into them. I might so my time into them, and you'll see examples and testimonies from my life here coming up in a minute. And then when I do that, Like, if you so... What... If you sow into something, where your treasure is, there your heart is also. So your heart is entangled in that thing. If you're being obedient to so where God called you to sow, then your heart is entangled in that thing, and that's a good thing because God wants it there. When your heart's entangled in that thing, you begin to think about it more. You begin to desire to put more of your time into it. And you're honoring that thing so or that person or that organization, whatever it is. And so you are able to receive from their field more as well. And it impacts your life. Makes sense? So where you wanna go. So let me let me give you some some just real life, crazy testimony examples that hopefully will help you to to live this out. Number one. Some of you know about my dad's drug rehab. He's a pastor of a church in Wins, Louisiana. And it's been going for twenty five years, but he also started a drug rehab. 2001 was when it was incorporated. Where did that come out of? Well, my dad when he was a pastor, of the first church said he was a pastor of, there would be people coming, the the quote unquote, r raf of society would come to the church because dad is she's laying his life down to impact people with the gospel. Drug addicts started coming to to the church. And and dad started learning. God had called him. He had this desire to to help people to be free. And so he began sowing finances into these drug addicts that are coming and learning. He just taking advantage of multiple times. I'm sure. Right? Put him up in hotel rooms and they just took him for for the money that he gave him, but some were set free, and he's learning the process of sowing financially sewing counsel sowing time into these people. And learning what God wants to lead him into one step at a time. Next thing you know, and and learning how to discern when to say no and and how... Who to talk to and how to talk to them and what's the most effective way of d cycling drug addicts. Next thing you know? The church buys a house or two and puts some drug addicts up into the house. So the church is sowing into this ministry now. And why do they put them in the house? Why? Because they're they're being set They're given their life to Jesus. They're taking one step at a time. They're failing and learning as they go, but they keep sowing. And then God out of comm to delight yourself in the Lord, gives you the desires of your heart. Comm with the Lord. God put on my dad in the leadership team, hey, we would need to start a drug rehab. So you see this faithful with a little God gives you more faithful to sow a little. God gives you more harvest. The the next harvest gives more seed and it's a bigger challenge. A bigger test of faith to so. Right? But then you're faithful to sow a little, you get a bigger harvest, not just financially I'm talking about your life. Your sacrifices everything that God has called you to so into. So God puts on their heart. The delight the cells in the lord got puts on the heart of drug rehab. They pray about it. So then so where you wanna go? What do they do? They go find a drug we had four hours away, the closest one they could find, that was doing what they know they got it called them to do. And was doing it well. They got in a car. They drove down and made a meeting with the leader interviewed him. Asked him how he was doing it. Right? They're they're receiving from him. And what did they do? They sew to $2,500. I called Dad yesterday. Last night, $2,500 they sow into him, ended that rehab. Now this is crazy. One month later. One month, A doctor called my dad. Said, hey, could you use a nurse at home? And this nurse in home was fully furnished. Fully furnished, ready to go. The doctor gave it to my dad. To river of life church, and that became fresh start drug rehab. About a month or two later, there was 80 guys in there. It started that was in 2010, been going ever since. God has transformed many many lives because of it. If you see the principal? You get it? Alright. Let me give you another one. I have multiple, I'm not gonna be able to share all of them. K? So why don't you why don't you pull up the slide that says Pakistan disc cycling a nation. About ten years ago, I was in my room in Louisiana praying, and I saw a picture. Were you pull up the the picture of the of the girl that smiling and the close up on the on the girl that smiling? Much like this. And God gave me compassion for these people. And I began, I I I got his heart for this nation. And I begin to pray. And so in my my prayers into this nation, and I knew that God was going to take me there one day. I knew it. And the next thing you know, people started contacting me on Facebook from Pakistan. And I started developing relationships with some of them. Mixing, you know, I end up giving some money. I would encourage you not to do that. Remember, there's a process of learning and wisdom, failing. And and if you're friends with me on Facebook or Instagram, you'll probably gonna get contact by many people from around the world and they're going to beg you for money, better to go through us, so you don't have to learn go through the same process of learning that I did. K? Just definitely fyi. They'll promise you big things. Some people laugh because they've had it... They've experienced it. So I began to so, and it was a test for me. Was I willing to so where my prayers were were so. So it was good. It wasn't all bad. Wasn't saying. I'm just learning the process just like my dad did with the drug addicts. Okay? Learning the process, developing relationships. So we move here to plant the church. For the first two years, because my Dna is global missions. It's it's what I got. My my my doctorate is in global evan civilization. There's many more stories about other nations, they will come. We just don't have time today. We got has called us to reach the nations. But anyway, for the first two years of the church, after traveling the world with my dad, God would not let me go anywhere or do any kind of mission work with our church for the first couple years. Because we were starting the church. We were becoming a mature church. One step at a time. We're still in the process of maturing. But after two years, the Lord said, okay, it's time. I want you to start praying for your church for for missions. I wanna start doing admission stuff to your church. And so what did I do? I looked for an organization that was doing the same thing I knew our church would do one day. And I found surge. It's a it's a church planting organization out of Bethany, prayer center and Baton Rouge, surge has planted over 30,000 churches around the world. The leader Joel stock still, I contacted him. They were doing an internship for six months. So I sow my life into that and did that internship with them. Because I wanted to see if they had the same heart had the same vision. Because guys, we're gonna plant churches all around the world. We're gonna raise up leaders all around the world. We're gonna have many of those leaders will stay here and change this area, and many of them will be sent to nations all around the world. Just that that's it's just who we are. We're just getting started. So, I spent six months reading the books. I spent six months doing the mint... The internship traveled over there. They prayed for us everything, and our church sow $2,000 in the surge. Just a so in where you wanna go, honoring what god has done in them. Guess what happened. Two or three months after that, a man named Daniel. We pull up the picture that has Daniel in the in the bottom right there's a bunch of kids. He's holding a a book. Yeah. See the guy on the right? Man named Daniel contacted me. Just a couple months after so in that seat. And began to build a relationship with him, do some ministry with him, but still kinda holding that of arm length because I've been burned before. And then God sent some evangelist who had been to Pakistan before, who I trusted, they knew his family said I could trust them. Praise the Lord. Relationships of the "currency of the kingdom". God does stuff through trusted relationships. Just so you know, Not saying that you don't sow into some random person you don't know. Sometimes that does is the case, but most of the time, its relationships. They're the currency of the kingdom, walking together. So I began to sew more of my life and into Daniel. Daniel and his wife called me and they said, they said hey, I just want you to know it was prop over our life that we would be minister in this place in South Eastern Pakistan where there's a lot of Hindu people groups. Would you pray for us? I said, Tanya, Have you ever been there? He said, no. And but they were given names that would help and a minister there when they were kids, it was that that important Saga cigar and B. And so I said, well, let's pray. And we prayed. And I told them, and I... We we pray that God would invite them to come to that area. And I told him, hey, God's is gonna invite you guys. Two weeks later, a man from that area contacted Daniel and invited him to come share the gospel. With his family and with his friends. He... Daniel contacted me. Said, hey, we're invited. We don't have the money to go. I said, how much it gonna cost? He said $500. By a train ticket, they'd have to ride the train fourteen hours away. I went to our elders. The reason I went to the elders is because I wanted us to make decision as a church. I wanted the church to participate in what was happening. So our elders said, yes. That's so 500. So we sold 500 and a Daniel in Prem priscilla, Saga cigar and Imp. And they bought a train ticket, rode fourteen hours south on this train, got off, Met Dev, who was the man that invited them, Dev, had invited his friends and family from 15 villages. That was 400 people that showed up. Daniel and cigar Daniel and Prom priscilla preached the gospel, 300 give their life to Jesus and then three days. It's the beginning. This was about four and a half years ago. So didn't know how to disciple them. Ended up sending one of Daniel's spiritual sons to go and live there for six months and make disciples. And stuff, he spent three months with them and there was no new fruit. There was just 300 believers. And, like, you know, it's good that he's d disciple them, but there should be multiplication. What's happening. And Daniel and his dad look at me and say, would you teach us how to disciple these people? In that moment, like, God hits me in the chest. I knew that I was supposed to take a bigger role in what's happening. And so I said, well, pray for me, so they prayed for me. In that moment, I knew exactly who I need to call. What question I need to ask, so I called. I asked the question. Got a book. Read the book. God downloaded it into me. And I began teaching and training Daniel how to disciple these people. The next three months it multiplied from three three hundred to four fifty. Then we did a mini crusade of about 2,900 people gave their life of Jesus. Was awesome. And it began to multiply. Now we're in 27 villages. God begins to move. So we wanna do a bigger crusade. Right? Because we have not just crusade in new, but we got leaders who are being trained in leaders, training leaders, and it's awesome. We're, like, how we're gonna do this? God puts on our heart to do a crusade of, like, 10,000 people. Like, whoa. And so it was gonna cost about $60 to do everything. $65. And god connected thirty third companies some friends with Mine from Fort Worth. They were gonna come on the trip with us, and they sew a little bit, but there was about $440,000 left to so. I talked to our elders. Said, hey, guys. God's moving in really cool ways. I said, I believe we should pray about selling this. Elders are like, because at this at this point in our life as a church. We got $65,000 in the bank. $65,000 in the bank. $40,000 seed to sacrifice. You're risking and you don't know if you can continue as a church. Right? Because it it caused money to go. It cost money to do stuff. They said, man, this is God. We're so in a sac seed. We said $40,000. Between twenty one and twenty two thousand people came to that crusade. 9,000 were healed and delivered of demons. There were over ten ten thousand people that gave their life to Jesus. What return on the seed. 180 something villages. Now we're in begins to multiply. We're raise up leaders and send to the different places. God's doing crazy stuff, like crazy stuff. Would you go back to the first slide? Fast forward a year, leaders being made, disciples being made. We go back to another crusade. That's 47,000 people. Ask me preaching. It's just crazy. Forty eighteen thousand mass, healings and deliverance 18,000. About 20,000, surrendered to Jesus as their only lord. Which is crazy. A thousand different villages came to that crusade. We sent a bus to a thousand villages. We sent the leaders that we had to all thousand villages beforehand. They shared testimonies of how god had healed them, set them free of what God was doing. Jesus Christ was doing in the area. Said on this day, I want you to get on the bus when the bus comes. And 47,000 people got on the bus. Oh. From a thousand different villages. So that was March 2023. Go to the next. Those are when we went in March 2023, that was the leaders that we trained. Go the next. That's what a house looks like. Go to the next. When when when they become Christians, they get kicked out of their Hindu water supply. And so a lot of times, they have to walk one, two, three miles to go get water from a ditch. So we've put in a 120 wells in some of those villages. Yeah. And give them access to clean water, which is an area where they can then share the gospel. Go to next. I think Next. That's digging a well. Our teams. That's our our teams. New believers that got new job, digging wells. Go to the next. Say right here. So on that 47,000 person crusade. We didn't carry the bill that time. Thirty third company sold a $100,000 into that. God just expanding. It out grew our church and God sent another another Another profit and is continuing to expand. So they, after that first crusade hired 11, thirty third company hired 11 evangelist full time at $300 a piece. So a 150 pays for gas, for $100. I mean, the other 150, covers their family, responsibility so that they can full time, take their motorbike and go from village to village. So from March 2023 until December 2024, almost those whole, almost two years. Those 11 of evangelist with volunteers that went with them, and other volunteers that just gave their life without being paid. Went to all thousand villages that came to that crusade. All thousand, and they spent a month there. In that month, so that's... They went, like, one village on Monday, another village on tuesday, another village on, and they'd repeat for a month. Okay? So like five villages a month, each team did for those two years. In the last two years, we went to every single village that that came to that 47,000 person crusade, and by the time we left, there was between thirty and fifty believers with 10 to 12 leaders who are ready to lead more groups. It's crazy. God's good. So what you're seeing there is one of those groups at one of those villages. That's one of the evangelist. That's full time. Giving his life for that. Go the next. Go to the next. That's just ba baptized in a ditch in Pakistan. Go the next. That's another group, another village of new believers given their life to Jesus. Go to the next. They're about to get baptized. One of our evangelist about to a baptized believers in a village. Go to the next, baptized them. Given their lives, given up their their livelihood, a lot of times they become out cast when they become Christians Next. Next, another one. Next. Another one. Another evangelist. Sharing the gospel, disc a nation, Pakistan. So this is where I'm going, me and est. This is why we're going. We're leaving on Tuesday. And we're going. Now we're in three people groups. It's multiplied that much. The Mar tribe, we're bringing in a thousand leaders, and we're gonna reinforce the the disciples ship trainings. We're gonna teach them. And then we're gonna commission them. They're gonna set goals and go multiply all the more. Then we're going to teach us the second conference of 500, 300 of the Pac tribe and 200 dat. These are un people groups that now are being reached. We're now in half of the villages and send of the Mar people. It's amazing where they were un unleashed by the gospel before. So the the Pac and Dat, 500, do a conference there, commissioned them. They're newer. And then we're gonna talk to the 11 of Evangelist, the volunteers, a a group of about 50 and just sit with them encourage them here, testimonies and stories. We're going. This is a trip that we're going to encourage and guess what guys. It's covered. Financially the trips covered. It's a big deal. And I wanna encourage you guys, like, there's some movement here. I'm about to do something very important. So please stay. Please stay. And and, Joe, if you could encourage any of the volunteer team to come back in here. That'd be great. So here's the thing. So where you wanna go? And as you go so, and where you sow you will go? Why because the seed reproduce after its own kind. My challenge to you guys is this. We have 11 full time evangelist. I want 33. 33 of Evangelist, 22 more full time of evangelist. What does it cost? $300 a month. 150 for gas for the motorcycle, and 150 for to their family responsibility, and you'll be a part of helping that evangelist that you sponsor go from village to Village. Sharing the gospel and raising up disciples. My ask for you is to ask the lord does he want you to do it? $300 a month, not everybody will. Not everybody will God ask you to do it. Be obedient into the Lord. Does that mean that you're gonna go to Pakistan one day? If you sell, maybe, but you will also reap harvest. Your heart will be entangled in it. And when you hear the testimonies what your evangelist is doing. When you see the the the stories of what how they're impacting others, you're going to share the gospel more boldly in your daily life. You're gonna see more of what they're seeing in your life because you're sowing into them because your heart's entangled there, you're honoring it and you're receiving from it. It's just how the kingdom works. Now, it's not transactional. God's not this gum ball machine in the sky where you sow into it and you get what you want, and it's all about what I get. It's not transactional. It's transformational. He has you so to transform you by what you're sowing into, so your life can produce the same things. Yeah. You do it out of obedience to him, not to get anything, but there are laws in the kingdom. You understand? So my request is that you pray about. Sowing and sponsoring a evangelist monthly. For how long. Well, I hope for life, but you can commit to a year or two years, I however long the Lord says, But when you stop, they'll stop, k? So just be free them. K? If you wanna do that, you can give not to these boxes. Did they... When did that giving box go back out there? I hit it. Just now? Okay. Perfect. The box in the back is for Pakistan. K? Now, if you can't so monthly to that, That's okay. There's an individual opportunity as well. We also need to buy motorcycles for every evangelist that we hire full time. A motorcycle cost $1,200 and a satchel is $30 for them to carry their bible and tools as they go. So $1,230. So twenty twenty two times $12.30 is 27,600. Over 60... $27,060. We also need to raise one time gifts of that many of that much. And so just ask the lord. And if the lord moves on your heart to do that, praise the Lord. So either individually or, like a one time thing for that, or monthly for that, and praise Lord, I'm excited for the fruit that god's gonna cause to happen in your life because if you're going to be transformed by it. And so will our church in our community by what god does in you and through you here. Amen. Now if you give online, there's a Pakistan drop down. If you do a reoccurring gift, I will assume that it's for the hiring an a evangelist. K? If it's a one time. I'm assuming that it's for the motorcycles. Makes sense? You guys good? Let me pray for you. And then I wanna have the alter ministry team come forward because we wanna administer to you as well. If you need to give your life to Jesus. If you've never sold your life into the kingdom by saying I wanna surrender my life to you, today would be the day. God wants to do it. But let me let me pray for you. And and then I think Mark gonna close us out, and we'll be done. So father, I thank you for this this church. I thank you for what they're doing. I thank you that they're sowing me an Est bond into this ministry in Pakistan for the next week. Look God, and I thank you father for all the lives that Are gonna be transformed. In Jesus name I pray. Everybody said? Amen.