WEBVTT - Elevation Year In Review 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.680 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.879 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.600 in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:23.160 Enjoy the message. I thank you that one thought of 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.600 you today, one thought can change the way we see ourselves. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.560 When God puts something significant in me, the enemy sends 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.519 something significant after me. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.200 Find your tambourine and figure out how to praise even 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:42.680 in the waiting. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.520 And the proof that I know that God still has 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.320 something amazing ahead for your life is that you're still here. 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:55.480 Hi. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.560 Everyone, Welcome to church. I hope that you had a 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.400 wonderful Christmas. I hope that you were surrounded by the 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.480 people that you love. I hope that you ate all 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.720 of the amazing foods that you love, because you know 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.600 calories don't count on Christmas. I hope that you had 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.040 time to rest and nap and enjoy the peace that 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.959 this season brings. Now, this is the one Sunday of 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:22.039 the year where our entire church is epham, So I 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.640 want to see the comments flying right now. Let us 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.480 know where you are joining from. Maybe say hello to 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.480 someone else in the chat that's. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:30.520 Not from your state. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.639 Pastor Steven and I are continually amazed at the people 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.840 that God has brought together across the world who make 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.720 up the people of Elevation Church. And it is the 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.280 honor of a lifetime to get to do ministry with you. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.080 Today is evident that you are finishing the year strong. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.560 You're making church a priority, and that is something to 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.960 celebrate because twenty twenty four has been an immeasurably more. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.400 Year for our church. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:03.000 We have seen some true, incredible blessings. We've reached new 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.360 communities all around the world. We've continued to be a 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.079 resource for those in need, and we have seen thousands 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.800 of lives transformed. The impact of our church and our 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.200 ability to share the hope of the Gospel is greater 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.000 than Pastor Stephen and I could have ever thought possible. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.440 And that is because of you. You give so generously 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.919 of your time and your gifts, and you keep doing 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.760 your part, and God continues to move you know, Jesus 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.320 says in John ten, He says, I have come that 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.160 they may have life and have it to the full. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.880 And as we continue to be the church, we get 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.639 to experience the fullness of life that God has promised us. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.720 Looking back on twenty twenty. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.280 Four, my heart is overflowing with gratitude for the ways 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.040 that we have seen God move, and as. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.079 We look ahead to. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.200 Twenty twenty five, I'm feel with expectation, knowing that even 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.359 greater things are yet to come. So today I thought 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.080 it would be fun to take a moment to reflect 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.320 on the incredible moments from the past year and then 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.480 maybe take a peek ahead to all of the amazing 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.360 things that God has for us in the year to come. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.640 And I thought that I would invite some friends to 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.799 join us. It's going to be a great time, a 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.720 great conversation, and I'm glad that you're here with us. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.440 So let me introduce to you some of my friends. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.440 These are all familiar faces, but I just want to 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.720 give you a formal introduction. This is Chris Brown, who 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.960 you probably know from Elevation Worship. And then we've got 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.400 britt at Consola in the middle here, who is our 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:46.320 ministry's pastor. Pastor Chad Zolo, our online pastor you all 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.760 know him, and Pastor chet Pete, who is our UC 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.120 University City shout out campus pastor. We've got to talk 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:58.720 about worship first, because this was an incredible year for 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.560 Elevation worship. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.920 I can't, I can't believe we're what almost twenty years in. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.920 Yeah, we released our. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.520 Seventeenth worship album maybe eighteenth nineteen. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.760 You can see exactly exactly. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.040 That's a long story, all these years in almost two decades. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.840 It's crazy how God allows our ministry to go places 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.760 that we may physically never show up or set our feet, 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.320 but the Word of God goes there, and a lot 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.480 of times that's happening through our shorge. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.680 Yeah, I feel like there are so many people who 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.800 have found our church through elevation. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.200 It's incredible, so grateful. It is a crazy year. When 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.320 Wind meets Fire. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.039 Okay to say, I think When Wind meets Fire is 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.760 my favorite Elevation Worship album. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.400 It's incredible. People ask me what, what's my favorite song? 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.680 What's my favorite album? The favorite album? Answer is always 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.760 what's the most recent one? 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.159 We just did? So I agree it's my favorite too, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:04:59.599 but for good reason. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:00.480 Nowavorite song? 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:06.920 See, it's a album it is you got we might 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.680 get there, but I'll say sure, been good. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.080 Yeah, I love sure been good to the day I died. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.240 Yeah, Jesus are the albums and the songs are like 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:15.839 your kids. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.000 Like you know, you can't choose a favorite. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:27.880 I have a favorite take, you have a favorite favorite song? 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.960 Okay, all right, I'm going to say it. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.920 No when win means fire though the song it's it's 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.800 a rock opera. We got like God is Not against 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.080 Me is on there? Which was what a sermon? It 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.280 turned into a song that also made. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:45.800 Chapter in a book. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.279 Yeah, exactly, and one of the mindsets. I mean, it 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.080 wasn't just a chapter, it was like a section in 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:51.479 the room. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:56.400 Absolutely. I mean, new Thing Coming, which is so fun. Also, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.960 I mean, what a great song to to end one year. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.799 So many great songs. I can't believe it's seventeenth album. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:05.240 I can't believe it is. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:05.920 It's incredible. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.200 Also, I mean, we got a shout out rhythm for 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.280 Goodbye Yesterday. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.080 How good is that song? 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:13.640 It's so good, so good. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.040 Also, actually another perfect song to end one year, And. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:19.159 That's true. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.880 I love worshiping of that song. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:25.279 It just makes me so happy and you start like shouting. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.000 I have decided to follow Jesus. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.800 I feel like at a youth I mean, I got 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.840 a rhythm night and to hear are you declaring that? 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:35.360 Yeah? 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.719 But then to see it on a Sunday morning and 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.840 balanine'e and I mean it like. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.120 They're going strong, it goes crazy. Also, I mean selfish. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.279 I'll shout out praise too, because praise just kept released 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.400 it well over a year ago, not not this year, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.479 but it just kept reaching more people. So the way 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.000 God's working through our ministry, how He's using the songs. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.640 Is it's incredible. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:07.320 I think we have a clipless show saying, hey, I. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:13.160 Got you don't get it what we what we call 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:21.120 don this sol thing. You've never run out big? Put it? 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:22.240 Put it. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:31.800 By God. He's not a dance He's a shires as 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.960 this says a little little wayes Hi. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.679 Do the songs on the bed room right down. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:52.360 Sons to get ready. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.400 For done the one because I done. The money's a. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:22.960 Great shop thing, incredible, amazing, It's amazing how many good songs, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:24.760 so that many. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.080 Song after song after song. I just am blown away. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.560 Okay, So, Chris, one of the things I want to 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.000 put people on the spot that are on the sofa, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.520 and I want to know, are there any secrets. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:38.920 Five. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.199 I want to know, are there any. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.240 Secrets that's the people watching today can can get O? 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.599 All right? All right? So well, can I let me 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:49.400 share a little story? 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.360 Okay? Stories? 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.240 May of this year, I got a phone call. I 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.800 think you happen to be in the car. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:56.360 Okay. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.680 I got a phone call from your husband, Pastor Stephen, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.719 and he says, you know, all these songs that have 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.920 been sitting on our phones, We've never recorded them, we've 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.719 never sung them in church, We've never figured out what 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:08.760 do we want to do with them. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.040 I got the idea. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:15.160 What we need to do is get our friends together, Brandon, Lake, Channer, Moore, Leland, Pat, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.880 the two of us, and let's just have fun and 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.760 let's record these and let's let's start a new group, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.280 a new a boy band, if you will, but not 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:33.079 really a boy band, but a new twenty four twenty 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:38.840 five man band. And it's going to be called Sons 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:44.520 of Sunday. My secret is Sons of Sunday SOS. So 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.440 we got together in September and we recorded so many 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:54.040 songs in this amazing little chapel, and we banged on 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.439 pianos and guitars and tambourines and we cried and we 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.560 laughed and we lost our voice is and we recorded 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.719 so many songs and uh, it's gonna come out in 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.760 full album form, brand new album, all new songs people 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.320 have not heard. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.800 But it's coming, Sons of Sunday. I'll tell you what 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:13.280 you need to do. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.679 You actually need to go on socials right now and 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.280 search up Sons of Sunday because I mean we kind of. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.839 Have been king and then you'll know when it's out 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.080 exactly and every song is so good and okay. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.160 Do we have a little. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:30.840 All right, so the secrets out? 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.800 Okay, secrets out. Check us out. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.439 God gets a hold of you. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.480 It's no town. Watch alluded, nom time, watch. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:56.400 Alloud, my gad, fight my key free. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.640 But if you back, come out, I'm bing out on me. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.480 I got fawing out. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.600 Okay, we needn't. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.120 That's all you get right now. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.040 So sometime in twenty twenty five. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.800 I'll say sometime very soon, okay. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.240 And then of course elevation worships on tour. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.360 We we saw what sixteen cities with elevation nights this 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.160 past year and it was incredible nights in ministry. Yeah, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.000 and then we're headed right back out in February of 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.160 this year. Yeah, eight more cities in February. Can't wait 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:34.840 to see what God does. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:35.960 I mean, tour is amazing. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.760 And the thing that I love about tour is it's 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.079 not just Elevation Worship. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.120 It's like it's like. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.680 Elevation Church came to your town. It yea and filled 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.400 an arena exactly. And so you get like all your 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.600 favorite songs, and then you get a word from Pastor Stephen, 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.240 and you get Epham you know, in the not the lobby, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.199 but like whatever it's called the concourse. Of course, you 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.000 get to meet Chad and all of our e fam 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.560 gets to come together, and they're just such incredible nights. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.319 And we're going back out again and I'm so excited. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:11.960 We have the dates. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.200 But we got another video. We got another video video. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.520 All right, all right, check this out. Here's Elevation Nights. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.679 It's amazing because this last time we had I think 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.240 over one hundred and sixty thousand people who showed up 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.240 this year and it is crazy, I mean you were 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.559 saying it, but to gather in person. A lot of 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.240 these people are part of our e fam who watch 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.160 online and so to get everybody in a room together 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.839 is crazy. One of the things I love that we do, though, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.079 is when we get to meet with a lot of 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.000 the fan people who call Elevation Church family out in 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.040 the concourse. As you were saying, we have these little 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.200 stations set up and people stop by. But what Brick 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.319 gets to do a lot of times share with you 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:09.679 like your little station that you have. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.400 It's awesome, it's so special. It's my favorite thing that 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.240 we get to do. So we have an area where 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.280 we get to pray with you, and so you can 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.839 write a prayer request down and even to this day, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.760 if you've written a request down, we're still praying for you. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.880 We have our teams hereas that pray over you, your 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.319 family or whatever it is that you need prayer for. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.160 And so you mentioned it, it's a night of ministry 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.160 and it goes deeper than just like a room full 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.560 of people. We love the opportunity to see the individual 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.120 people and their needs and then align our faith with 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.040 you and what you need to see God do in 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:40.480 your life. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.839 Yeah, yeah, that's awesome, and we're pouring out as a 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.280 ministry into people. But I will say how much I 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.760 feel like, yeah, I get filled when I get to 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.520 read testimonies or you know, read the cards that someone 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.520 wrote a prayer request down and then months later have 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.839 in fact heard the test mony how God answered that prayer. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.800 We're getting to meet people even there. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:09.079 We've done that backstage and gotten to hear personally from them. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.080 How you know one of our songs carried them through 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.280 a sleepless night and that's just I mean, that's so fueling. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.720 And it's like I have no business being in the 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.000 position i am, but thank you Jesus. And we just 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.080 get to be a part of a ministry like this. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.200 Yeah, and we're not just at our campuses and on tour, 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:30.760 but we also do pop ups. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.200 I mean pop ups have been amazing. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.240 We've been doing these for a few years now, and 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.480 it actually started kind of right out of COVID. We 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.640 were like, well, everybody's watching online, now can we actually 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.480 take church to people on Sunday. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.200 It's not an event, it's just. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.480 Literally we bring some of the Elevation Worship crew and 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.040 we get people from all over the world who say, hey, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.360 I'd love to be baptized. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.880 I'd love to take that step, and we thought, well, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.600 let's bring a baptism. Thanks to that. Yeah, and let's 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:56.360 do baptism. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.760 So this year we've been able to do twelve pop 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.280 up and we're all over the United States. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.960 We wrapped up this year in Los Angeles. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.400 We've seen over fifteen thousand people join with us at 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.560 these pages and we've got the opportunity to baptize over 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.120 fifteen hundred people. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:15.160 Incredible it is. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:20.400 It is absolutely incredible, And every stop it just never 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:21.200 ceases to. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:21.640 Blow a mind. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.520 There's people lining up around the building. But what's cool 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.960 is every place that we go, it's like it feels 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:28.720 like church. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.360 It feels like this is family. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.720 Yes, and we really try to make it feel that way. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.720 From you know, if you attend to campus, we want 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.440 you to come and attend one of these and think 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.880 I want you to see the banner and it's like, oh, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.080 that's my church. They're here, and so as people are 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.960 coming in, you're what you're seeing familiar faces, but as 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.240 people who are part of this family. And so just 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.920 the opportunity that we get, I'm always so blown away, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.720 Like you said, who are we that we get to 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.720 travel around and do this, like to be able to 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.400 go to a place and bring church like this to 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:00.360 where so many of you. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.680 Are One of my favorite things that we did in 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:09.000 twenty twenty four was my husband released a book, and 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.320 it was his first book in eight years, and. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:13.880 The book was called Do the New Year. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.720 Yes, and the book, I mean, besides like releasing it 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.240 to the world and like all the things that came 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.280 along with it, I just so loved this book. Like 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.600 I'm just continually blown away at how God continues. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.920 To use our pastor's words. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.240 So it's it could be when he's preaching, it could 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.880 be through the songs that he's writing, or through the 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:40.920 words of a book. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.800 And this particular book. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.240 He gave us the six mindsets and then the chapters 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.240 within the mindsets, and it was just I mean, it 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.360 was just so much fun to get to read that 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.200 book and release it and to hear people talking about 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.160 it and to hear how it was ministering to all 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:58.480 of you. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.680 And I don't know any of you, I think we 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.280 do have to thank God for the way that he 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:03.840 used your voice because. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.960 If we remember, oh I remember, if we remember pastors, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.200 I mean, by the power of the Holly Spirit, God, 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.000 God use your voice to be able to. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.480 Say, well, it was special for me because you know, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.720 like everybody needs moments where you feel like, oh, God 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.480 does hear my prayers. God does answer prayers. And it 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.520 was like one of those moments. And we shared the 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.639 story many times where you know, I had just been praying, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.440 Like we had many conversations and we had this one 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:36.919 like I wouldn't. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:37.600 Say it was a fight, but it was. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.360 It was a little heated conversation and intense. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.879 And I just felt, you know, like that's enough, Like 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.359 when you know, and sometimes you're having a conversation with 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.960 somebody that you really love and you're really trying to 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.000 push them, but then you know that like you've said 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.960 enough and it's time to just move on. And and 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.520 so whenever that happens to me, I have said enough 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.199 to that. But then I know that a guy can 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.440 say all my thanks to God, and so I just 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.160 kept leaving it with God. And then it just happened, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.400 and we got to release the book and it's so good. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.040 If you haven't read Do the New you you have 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.840 to get a copy. We're leaving all the links, by 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.520 the way, everything that we talk about in the description. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.480 If you're looking for a link, it's going to be 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.280 right there. So if you want to link to the album, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.439 you want to link to Do the New You. It's 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.240 everywhere books are sold and it's so incredible. And so 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.200 then we got to do an E group study with 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.240 Do the New You, and that was such an incredible 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.200 I mean, so many people in our church are part 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.040 of an E group. Now if you're not a part 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.280 of any group, it doesn't matter where you live. We 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.440 have E groups for everyone, every age, every area. We 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.879 have groups that meet in person, groups that meet virtual, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.600 and mostly our groups discuss the sermons. And what was 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.800 cool about Do the New You is that it was 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.119 like everything overlapped, Like. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.320 We had a song, we had the sermons. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.879 Week, we had the book to discuss, and then we 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.520 had E groups that were discussing all of it. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.480 And it was such a great moment. Fun facts about 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.720 twelve thousand people in our church. I'd love to know 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.440 who you are like went through this study together. So 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.200 it was also such a special unifying time in our church. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.080 But we did. We unpacked these mindsets. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:21.880 I love. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:23.840 If you've been around, maybe you've heard of say this. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.919 E groups make our church, a big church feel small, 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.080 and so it's one thing to hear it, it's another 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.080 thing to unpack it and make it personal in your life. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:35.920 And that's what we got to do for these six 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.159 weeks together, and so we got to take them to 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.119 another level, really get them in our hearts that we 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.959 can really love them out. And so we loved our 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.120 time together and it was just really special. 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.159 It really was. You let us so well through it too. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.360 Thank you for videos. Yeah that one, I'm like every 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.159 single one of us were a part of that. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:54.960 Yeah, that's true. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:56.359 Yeah, it was a really special time together. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:57.119 Oh, it was awesome. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.720 And I just I love the e groups of our 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.120 church because it's a place where I feel like God 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.480 can take what he's speaking to you when you listen 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:10.040 to the sermon, but it takes It's like the roots 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.720 go deeper when you are able to discuss it with 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.080 other people and you hear other people processing what God 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.520 is speaking to them, and it just solidifies what God 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.119 is speaking. And so I just think it's so powerful 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:25.520 and you can still be a part of any group 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.400 an elevation. There'll be a link in the description. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.760 Okay, other fun things that have gone on. Tell us 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:31.719 a little bit about outreach. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.359 Okay, you've said this, Pastor Holly, and it has stuck 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.480 with me. You said that if the groups are what 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.440 make a big church feel small, yes, then outreach is 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.320 what makes a big church feel big. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.480 Yeah, And that is so true. 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.399 Outreach is such a special part of our ministry because 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:51.280 it really is one of the areas where we get 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.479 to live out our faith. And I feel like if 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:54.920