Worship, Community, and Kingdom Impact: Using What We Have for God - 3TC Podcast - Jeff Ryan - 6/22/2025

Pastor Jeff emphasized the importance of worship, community, and stewardship. He highlighted the continuity between the early church and the current congregation, stressing the need for passionate worship and the transforming love of Jesus. Pastor Ryan used the story of Alexandra Scott to illustrate the impact of using what we have for God's kingdom, encouraging us to reflect on our values, deepen our relationship with God, and be good stewards of our time, talent, and treasure.

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Well, good morning, free timbers. In this frigid, cold weather that we're experiencing, would you please stand and join us? Do love me. I was Not, but He Brought Me. You, I'm Amen. Good morning, church. Morning. You just said that we are a child of God. So turn to your brothers and sisters and say, Good morning. Course, you know we we tend to think that we're so different than the early church, but we're not. The early church was believers gathering, believers singing, believers studying the Word of God together. So as much as we think we've changed, we have. And worship is about being called into the presence of God because you've been called into a relationship with God, and God has called us to be this church, to connect people the transforming and redeeming love of Jesus Christ through passionate worship, which I want to deliver to worship. Of God, actually, by the power of God's Word. Let God's word guide you and lead you and define you, and to have a presence in our community, which we're doing right now. So I want to encourage. We're going to pray. We're going to ask the Holy Spirit just to wake us up, to let us know that we're on the holy ground. We're on sacred ground. We're not in a high school. We are in the presence of God, because anywhere that God is is holy. And then we're going to read and call to worship together. Let's pray, Father, God, I pray you would send your Holy Spirit, Lord on each and every one of us. Wake up our hearts. Lord, to your glory. Wake us up to your mercy. Wake us up to your peace and your joy. Wake us up, Lord, to your hope. We are your people. You have called us to come into Your presence. Lord, I pray that we would worship you actively. We would let the power of your word, Lord just roll over us and cover us so that we can have a presence. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen, join me in the call to worship. Come and hear all you who fear God. Let me tell you what he has done for me. I cried out to him with my mouth. His praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But God has surely listen and has heard my prayer. Bring his feet to God who is not rejected by prayer or withheld His love For me. Let us continue to worship our Church to Oh, you came along. I do you sing The hall? Singing grave. Lucky you give Beauty for Ashes. And ashes. You turn chain into glory. You give Beauty for Ashes. You need for ashes. You turn chain to glory. You turn bone to. of thee Amen, praise God that we serve such an amazing God, and there is truly nothing better than them. I just I want to share a story really quickly, because seventh grade project organization that I run, God is running. Holy Spirit is running this organization, and sometimes his timing is not our timing. And when it comes to finances, that is usually the way it is. But the other day, we were praying because we desperately needed money, and God provided a check for $15,000 that we were not expecting. I still don't know why it came. I don't care why it came. God knew, and as we were praying for it, the very next day, we got a scripture that talks about God hears our prayers and answers our prayers before we even know. And so I just want you to know that whatever it is you're praying for, there may be a yes, there may be a no, there may be a not yet, but God is so present and powerful, and he is answering our prayers before we even know that they're answered. And so God, we just thank you for that. We thank you. You that we can come to and we can for everything, and He will give us not what is good for us, but what is good for you and what is the absolute best in what you want your will to be done. God, we praise you, Lord, we do ask that you mold us, mold us into what it is that you that is not always easy. It's not sometimes there is Nothing better than Doing Jesus. You I take me I Give my love to me, leave me, walk beside me. I give my love. As we dismiss the kids for junior church to take our Offering, let us ask the honor To mold us. You. In the city, thank a verse that God really put on my heart this week that I wanted to share with you. It's from Hebrews, and it talks about Moses, the. And Moses was an imperfect man. We know that. But it says this in Hebrews 1126, he said he regarded the straits for the sake of Christ as greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. And it just really got me into thinking about those things in our world that we think are treasures, those things that we think are so valuable, are so special, are so important, because the world tells us they are. We've been raised to think that this is more valuable than this, and this is more valuable than that, but really, at the end of the day, the only thing that has any value is God. That's the only thing that has any value is God. Is knowing God and knowing that God knows us. So everything else that we think has greater value than God, and a lot of those things are good things. They're not evil things, they're not bad things. But if we have elevated that may be greater than God, and that is sin, that is placing something of greater value than God. So it made me reflect in my life, what are those things, even though they may be good that I'm saying, by the way, I use my time, talent and treasure are more important than God. And so as we gather here in the presence of God on holy ground we are in the presence of God. We have to confess that Lord, we have value some things more than we have valued you. We have to confess that he already knows we're not fooling him. And so we want to take time, maybe just to search our hearts for just a moment and say, What if I put ahead of God this week. What have I valued more than God this week? Now that's the bad news. We gotta confess that. The good news is that we will read that once we confess we are so let's take some time just to reflect and confess those things that we have placed before God, let's pray, Father God, as we all reflect in our minds, and I know in my mind There are too many things that I have put before you, my comfort, my convenience, my wants, my desires. I have valued them. I have given them more thought than perhaps I have followed you. I have given them more time than I have spent you So Father, I and we, all of us, confess Lord that we have not always put you first, the Lord we ask for the will with the power of the Holy Spirit that we would put you first that Lord, we would start with you, and then everything else will fall into place. Lord, I ask that each of us confess our other sins. You know them, and Lord, that we would allow ourselves to be forgiven by you, and if you have forgiven us, Lord, then we must forgive ourselves. We cannot punish ourselves if you will not punish us because of grace. So Father, thank You for the joy of knowing that we are forgiven. Amen, will you join me in the confession of faith? If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all. Those are good words. I don't know if for you, but I know good words for me to hear. That's for sure. If I were to say the name to you, Alexandra Scott, you may say, Who is that? And if I told you that Alexandra Scott was a very young person like not even Tim, if I said the name Alexandra Scott, you would think, well, that's great. I'm sure she's a lovely job, but she probably couldn't or wouldn't have any kind of impact on our lives, or really anybody's lives, because she is just a child. She is the second of four children born, born to Liz and Jay Scott. But what you don't know is that Alexandra Scott was diagnosed with cancer before she was one, and when she was in the hospital, the doctors told her family, even if she beats the cancer, she's never been one. Well, Alexandra having her parents trying to tell her that she was sick, that she probably walk again. Did exactly what Alexandra Scott does, which is to inspire, which is to encourage, which is to defy the odds. And so she wiggled her feet well. She beat back cancer, and like most kids that. Were two and three and whatnot, she had a wonderful time running around, but the cancer came back at four, and as she was in that hospital in Philadelphia going through all of those treatments, she said to her mother, mom, when I get out, I want to do a lemonade stand and help all of the doctors so they can help all of the other kids who have cancer. And her mom said, really? And she said, Yes, so with the help of her big brother, when she did get out of the hospital, she did have that lemonade stand, and she raised$1 million she raised $2,000 that first year, and for the next four years, until God called her home at eight years of age, she raised $1 million I want you to think about that for a minute now. You may know, as you see up here on the screen, Alex's Lemonade Stand, but what you don't know about Alex's Lemonade Stand is what has happened over the years. It has been 25 years since Alex passed away, and in that 25 years, the Alex lemonade stand Foundation had been started, and now there are all kinds of fundraisers, not just in Philadelphia, but all over the country. There are 5k races, there are gallons, there are all types of things. It is literally in every state in the country. In fact, June is their month of celebration, of houses of names in and can I tell you that as of this year, they have raised over $400 million to fight pediatric cancer. And you say, why would you tell us this story about this little girl who had cancer? I'm not trying to impress you, I promise you. I'm trying to show you that there is an incredible biblical principle here. She left us too soon. She passed away at eight years old. It was not the quantity of her life, but it was the quality of her life. She may not have had a lot of time, but it's what she did with the time she had that matter, and she has had a huge impact that continues to go on today. That little girl at four years old, wanted to start a lemonade stand here we are, 25 years later. Why? Because she was a better steward of her short eight years than many of us are of the years of the time that we have, and Jesus addresses that here in the Gospel of Mark, that it's not what you have, it's how you use what you have. So if you want to open up your Bibles, we're going to take a look at Mark chapter four. We're going to take a look at primarily verses 24 through 25 I'm going to be reading at the NIV version. I'm going to back up just a couple of verses to verse 21 but we'll read all the way through verse 25 it says this in mark four, starting at verse 24 he said to them, you ring in a lamb and put another a bowl or a bed, and said, Don't you put it on and stand for whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out in the open. If anyone has ears, let them hear it. Consider carefully what you hear to do if the measure you who use it will be measured to you. Whoever has will be given more. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. There's that word that Jesus uses again that we have been looking at whoever it shows us that you don't have to be at a certain level, whether it's economic level or education level, or material level or age, it's whoever meets these qualifications. And Jesus uses it again here. So let's take a back row. Look here for a second. So the gospel of Mark is to show the purpose and the teachings of who Jesus is to his followers and how what his expectation is that if you are going to say, I am a follower of Jesus Christ, he is my Savior, He is my Lord, if you are saying that, then there's an expectation of a certain behavior that Jesus says that you need to have. You have to understand the gospel of Mark. We see a lot of things happening. Jesus calls the 12 that we go and take the message of the Gospels of the world, all the while cleaning off attacks by the religious people who are always trying to tear him down. Him and discredit him, as we talked about a couple of weeks ago, Jesus says, Let me define for you who my family is. Family is not defined by blood, except his blood. Family is defined by who does the will of the Father. Jesus says, whoever does the will of My Father is my mother, my brother and my sister. So again, that that word whoever is, and then whoever we're, our collection of whoever. If we do the will of God, we are part of the family of God. And we will see how Jesus uses that word, whoever. Again, in chapter four, right before our text, comes a parable. And I love parables. Parables are a literary way in which Jesus would teach a lesson by using examples, but to make those examples having a greater point. And so what we're going to look at really quickly here is the parable of the soils. And the parable of the soils is the seed represents the Word of God, like a farmer would go out and put seeds in the ground, and then the different types of soils represent the way people respond to the Word of God. So let me give you an example. The seed is thrown on the path Well, the devil just comes and just snatches that, just like an animal will come and snatch sometimes a seed that is thrown down, that sometimes we throw the seed down, we share the gospel with somebody. We want them to know Jesus, but the devil just comes and takes that seed. Sometimes seed is thrown on rocky places, and those are people who hear the word of God, but it doesn't take it doesn't stick with them, because they have no roots, and the first sign of trouble they they go away. The third soil that is mentioned in this parable is thorns. And I think this is where a lot of people are. It says that the the seed is thrown in, but the busyness of life shows it out. I want to be there, but I just can't I'm so busy that I can't get up and spend time in prayer or spend time in Word. So a lot of times when we share the Gospel, the reason that people don't get it is because they're allowing other things to choke it out. And then lastly, that seed that is thrown on a loose soil that is someone who says, I hear the Gospel, I accept the gospel, I ingest the gospel, and I'm living and studying and growing and seeking the Kingdom of God. And so what Jesus was saying to His followers is, if you have accepted the gospel, if you believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and rose on the third day and one day will come about. If you believe, because of your faith in Christ, that your sins are forgiven, we just talked about that, if you believe that when you die, you will go to heaven. If you believe that, then why are you sharing? Cuz Jesus said we read this in verse 21 who happens a lamb and hides it under gold. There's no denying that we live in dark times. We can't deny that we all talk about that. We worry about this part of life. We worry about that part of life. We worry about what's going on here, what can go on over there? We look at our world, and we bring our hands and we say, I don't know what's going on, and I'm scared. Things are getting dark, and yet, here we are holding the light of the world this morning. Before church, we were talking, and I was talking to Curtis. I don't want to call him out, but his son, his son, brought the flashlight. And I'm like, That is so cool. I think he's stuck in it. I don't think he got mom and dad's approval on that, but he brought the light to church. I love that we need to take the light from church. Don't take kids, because I think he really likes this question. But we need to take the light, the light that shines into the darkness and the despair that our world has. The world is looking around and you're looking at the church saying, Where are you? You're the people of hope, you're the people of joy, you're the people of peace. And we have taken our life and we've hidden, and Jesus says, Why would you do that? You are the light I have given you, the light, and the light of the world shines when people can see God working in our lives, when people see that that God is the vital authority in our lives. When people see that we are guided by God's word and not our will, when people see God working in us and through us, that is letting your light shine, some people think to let your light shine as well. They confront somebody about their faith. No. Letting your light shine, because the light that is in you needs to come out. Other people need to see how God is working in your life. So why are we hiding? We can hide it under busyness or selfishness or laziness or fear or rejection, we can come up with all kinds of reasons to justify why we don't, why we can't, why we shouldn't, or why we wouldn't, but what we're doing is we're missing an opportunity to change life. Alexandra Scott had eight years, and she was a great steward of those eight years, and she let her light shine on pediatric cancer and trying to find help, she didn't care if people rejected her. She's not going to let people know that this is what I believe. We cannot allow anything to dim the light of Christ in verse 24 Jesus said, be very careful what you hear, and that that wouldn't stop me in my tracks, because when you think about spiritual formation, so much of it is what We hear, and if all we hear is what the world wants us to hear, slander and gossip and darkness and judgment and all those like, if that's all that we hear through what we listen to on the radio, what we watch on TV, to the conversations that we have that is spiritually forming, how we think and it's how we Look at people. So we're going to look at people with judgment and anger and hate and all of those things, and that's what we hear. But if we hear through God's Holy Word, the hope and the joy and the peace, then we're going to look at life differently. If your outlook on life is dark and depressing and dismal, ask yourself, What are you listening to? What are you hearing? Because what you listen to, what you hear. Jesus says, Be careful what you hear. And there was never a better example of this for me than this past week. So I went to the Verizon store to pay off the phone. I had money that I was going to give to Verizon. You would think they would have bet me at the car, okay, but they didn't. So I go in, they say, What's your name, and I gave it to them, and they said, Great, put you on the list. We'll see you in about a month. Just have a seat over there. Oh my gosh, this is like the doctor's office, right? Arrived 15 minutes early, but wait 45 minutes. So I was there for like an hour and a half waiting. At this point it became a mission. I'm not leaving. I will close this door, but they are going to see me. So finally, this little girl comes up and she's like, Okay, I think we're next. And like, I'm red. I'm really getting frustrated by this. So we go up and we sit down, and this young girl, she clearly doesn't have any idea what she's doing. You know, I said I have money. I want to give you. I have money. Here's money. And she's asking 37 questions, and she's calling the manager over, and she's calling me over, and I'm like, Oh dear lord, what do we got ourselves answering? And then I remember what I was listening to driving to the store. I was listening to a max Bucha podcast, and it talked about, be encouraging to somebody. Change somebody's day, change somebody's life, encourage them. As I'm standing there and I'm sitting there and I'm mad and I and I'm about to tell everybody a few things, right? The Lord says, be encouraging. Now I don't tell you that to make myself look good. I'm trying to point out how bad my mindset was. But when you get the right things coming in, the right view comes out. And so all of a sudden that anger, that two hour journey of waiting in the writing store that went away, and God said, focus on this young girl. It was like, Maybe her second or third day, she was scared to death. I said, You're gonna be okay. It's gonna be fun. But what God was saying is you gotta make sure you get more of the right stuff coming in, so the right stuff comes out, and that's what Jesus is saying. He's going to be very careful what you hear, because he says in verse 25 whoever has been given will receive more, and whoever doesn't receive what I'm offering. It that'll be taken away from you, and what has been given? What Jesus is saying in here is the knowledge of God. He has given us a knowledge God. If you're here today, or you're watching online, you have a knowledge of God. I don't know if you have a relationship with God through Christ, but you have a knowledge of God. So what are you doing with the knowledge that there's a God, what are you doing with the knowledge that God had created the heavens and the earth? What are you doing with the knowledge that God wrote it down on how he wants us to live, and if we're going to be a follower of Jesus, what are you doing with that knowledge? Because what Jesus said, Whoever has been given and accepted Don't be given more knowledge. But if this just sits on the show, even that knowledge is going to go away, we have a tendency to think the only way that we can have an impact, even a kingdom impact, is if it's big. Right? We live in a world of showmanship and everything's gotta be big. It's gotta be brand new. It's gotta be huge. It's got to be this unbelievable thing. And that's just wrong. It's not what you have, it's how you use it. Be focused on the what we have, instead of the how do we use it? I want to read you this text story from Mark 12. The widow's mind says this, Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasure. Many rich people threw in large amounts, but a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins worth only a few cents, calling his disciples to Him, Jesus is truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all others. They all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything, all she had to live on. It wasn't what she had. It was how she used it. She didn't have as much money as all of the rich people that Jesus described, true, they can put a ton in, but she was all in. She was all in. She said, what I have, Lord, is yours. I don't have a lot that I give it to you. So the question that we have to wrestle with, and it's a hard question, is, how are you using what you have? You may say, I don't have a lot of time, okay, but how are you using the time you do have for God? You may not have unlimited time, but how are we using the little time you have every day for God? You may say, I don't have a lot of resources. I can't really contribute a lot, but you have some. How are you using the little resources that you have for God, you may say, Hey, I'm not. I'm not as talented as a lot of people who can sing it by an instrument or this, okay, you may not be, but how are you using the talent that you have? It's not what you have, it's how you use it. In so many ways, this text is about stewardship. Are we good stewards of our lives? Are we good stewards of the knowledge of God? God says, I have given you information, knowledge of who I am, of how to live, of how to have a marriage, how to raise kids, of how to grow old, of how to retire, of how to use it. I've given you this. How are we doing with it? I can tell you my parents gave me a Bible when I went to college, and it sat on that shelf, and it sat on that shelf and it sat on that shelf. I wasn't using it, but when I finally started to use it, things really changed in my life. That's what Jesus is saying. Here is, are we being good stewards? Because Jesus was on to say that every blessing is a promise of a future blessing. You may say, Wait, that sounds prosperity gospel. It's not that if you say blessed, because I used the time I had to learn more about God, you're going to be blessed with more time you watch how God will loosen up your schedule. You'll have more time to pray, you'll have more time to discover, you have more time to study, and that's what Jesus is talking about here. See, we have to ask this hard question. Is our relationship with God deepening or drifting? I had a high school basketball coach that said something that I never forget. He says that you never stay the same in your Billy you're either getting better, or your skills are eroding, but you never stay exactly the same, and anything in life. So we have to ask ourselves, Is my relationship with God deepening, or am I drifting? That's a powerful question that everyone of us have. To answer individually, and the truth is, we all know that answer. We may not like it, but we know it. So what are we going to do about it? We have to be good stewards of what we've got. What we've got is the word of God. We've got scripture right? We've got so many ways in which we can access and grow deeper in our relationship with God and not drift from God. We can't allow this servicing. I know enough to go through. My grandmother was one of the most interesting people I've ever met in my life, not just because she was my grandmother. My grandmother loved to go to Atlantic City. She loved to nail him. She loved to drink. She was always trying to get me to have a drink, even when I was, like nine or 10 years old, she would always tell my mother, oh, he's fine. He's fine. And and when I when I went in the ministry, my grandmother could not understand this, and so she blamed my mother. Somehow, my mother was at fault because I went into ministry and I said, you know, Grandma, you know, what do you think of this? You know, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to teach people the Bible. She was alive. I know that, Grandma, you don't know this book. She don't know this book. She accepted, and I love my grandmother, she accepted the surfacing knowledge that she had is it was enough, the minimum was the maximum. Is that sometimes, where we settle, I know enough. I don't need to know more. Another basis, we can't have this surfaci relationship. I mean, when you think about when you started dating, maybe you're now spouse. Did you settle for justice? Surfaci, I know their name and I know their occupation, no. Or did you say I want to know more about them. I want to understand how they think. I want to know what they believe in, when, when you applied for a job, did you just know the name of the company and where they were located, or did you say, I want to know more about what they're doing and how conscious they are to other people? We can't accept surfaci levels. Do Do we accept just a doctor? Because it says Doctor, well, do we not ask questions? Where do you go to school or or do you practice it? We cannot accept a servicing shallow relationship with God, because what Jesus says here, if you aren't going deeper, then you're drifting. When I was in college, one of my finals, this is hysterical. One of my finals was just a piano, so I was required to take a semester of piano. And so we had this, this woman, this teacher, she has to be a singer, and so in there, trying to learn how to play piano and learning things. And Stephanie can probably correct on this, like all good boys, you know, do something, they're all couching. I mean, learning I couldn't do anything, all I knew is I had to play a song for my final. And I would say Beethoven was here. I was probably way down here, and so I played the final, and I think she passed me because she didn't want to ever hear me play, because I was so terrible, but I practiced and I practiced and I practiced and I practiced just to be bad, and then I now had to practice, and that very quickly, I couldn't remember anything about the family. Well, if we are daily growing in our relationship with God, we're going to forget even the basic things. We're going to forget that tells us in Hebrews, Let us not go. That's not going to happen. We're not meeting together. We will forget all the basic things that God does for you. We will forget the basic things about grace and hope and second chances, and we forget the things about God's timing or$15,000 check show because God said now is the time for them to show up. We forget about how God saves and how God provides. We'll forget those things. We need to be persistent and consistent in our knowledge of God. We need to thirst after knowing more about God, because if we're not persistent and we're not consistent, we're not going to grow and then we're slowly going to forget. Here are some of the reasons why people are not persistent and consistent. Too busy. Too busy. I'm just too busy. But what is that really saying? That's saying my priorities are here. It's about priorities, right? I'm too busy. At the end of the day, people do what they want to do. So if we want to learn about God, we will find the time second we become uninterested. It's not entertaining. You. I once had so many years ago, asked about coming to a church I was pastoring, and they said, Well, is it entertaining? So I don't know, but I said, it's going to be informative for you. And then, thirdly, people become unmotivated. See everything that every one of us has something that motivates us. Everybody's motivated by something, whatever that may be, people are motivated. Everyone of us has that internal thing. So this is what motivates me to get out of bed or to do the things that I do. What motivates you to either spend time with God, either it's I desperately need God, or I think I'm good there. Is a joy in understanding how much God loves you. The man does God love you? He loves you so stinking much. But we have to understand that listen to what it says in James. Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in the mirror, and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever, or whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it will be blessed. And when you look at those words, look intently. How intently Are we looking into God's words? Freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from anxiety. How much are we continuing in it, not forgetting it's powerful. When you think about it, it's not what you have, it's how you use it, whatever amount of time you have. How are you using it to go deeper in God's word, whatever resources you have? How are you using them to further God's kingdom? A little girl who only had eight years used her time to COVID, duplicate, replicate and assimilate people into giving almost $400 million from pediatric cancer and million dollars per pediatric cancer. Imagine what an entire church can do if we all say it doesn't matter how much I have, it's how I'm using what I have to know God and to let people know God, what an unbelievable impact that could have. Amen, let's pray Father God, we thank You, Lord, for what you have given us, the time, the talent, the treasure and Lord, I pray that we would not focus on the what, but the how. Lord, how can we use what we have to go deeper in our relationship with you? How can we spend more time with you? How can we let your light shine through us and despite us? Lord, how can we make a difference in our homes, in our places of work, in our neighborhood, in our with our kids? Lord I pray, Lord that we would settle for the service, but we would go deeper. Lord I pray, Lord that we would not just hear these words and then just go on about our days if it didn't happen, but Lord that these words would resonate with us, that they would comfort us, that they would convict us, that they would challenge us, that we would just file this in our check the box went to church. But we would, we would really say, Lord, what are you trying to tell me, individually, Lord and that Lord, we would be intentional about saying, I want to go deeper, and I don't want to drift you. In the Name of Jesus. Amen. Amen, would you Stand with us? You He Lost, we please be seated before we take time to break just a few things. Just want to praise God. Our kids got back from camp, and I think Garrett brought most of the bags, but I think that was really good. They had a great time, and I will let him share some of the really awesome things that God did at that camp. I know it's tough to think of Christmas when it's 200 degrees outside, but Operation Christmas Child isn't as far away as we think it is, and now is a great time to maybe start to pick up a few items for that that you can start to keep things that we can then pack in the boxes of November. So I would encourage you to do that. Also, I want to personally invite you any Sunday, the third or fourth Sunday of each month. We go over to the retirement home here in Richmond, Russ and I third and fourth Sunday. And those folks would love to just that Pat can come and be a part of that, just to have fellowship with them. They are amazing, wonderful, kind, giving people and so much to offer. For me, I know that I didn't talk to them, I want to encourage you. It's a great way to spend half hour, 40 minutes and just be with people. It's a powerful thing. The ministry of presence is the most powerful ministry, so I want to encourage you to be a part of that. We want to thank those of you that have joined us online. We'd love to have you join us in person here in Bennington, when you are in our community. And also, if we can pray for you, please let us know at info, at three timbers.org, and we will pray for you. Thanks for joining us.