NYC Recap

A- a- and again, I know a lot of us sometimes we, we look at the news or we look what's going on in our community and we're like, "Man, is the church gonna exist?" Like, is God even working in our next generation? Are people actually still saying yes to Jesus and going all in with Jesus? Can we just tell you that we saw 11,000 people go all in with Jesus? [applause] I mean, the church is good.

The church is really, really good.

And so, um, we're, we're gonna take our offering, uh, because we're gonna continue to send people on life-changing experiences like this.

And so as you give to lo- uh, to Hope Community Church, um, we send people on marriage retreats.

Uh, we've, we've done stuff, women retreats.

We, we're gonna get some things going for guys.

But we believe something happens when we remove you from your everyday environment and you go somewhere else.

For some reason, in those places, God speaks very loud.

And we want everybody in this place.

We have an opportunity next summer with Amber.

She's leading a team to Toronto, Canada.

We have a mission trip for a week.

And it's not that we're just going and serving people, but it's something about going to a new place where we're gonna be able to hear God clearly.

And so I hope you consider that opportunity as we go and serve as a church.

Ushers, will you come forward, and let's pray over our offering this morning.

Heavenly Father, we're just so grateful for just how you're working, how you're working here in our local church, but also you're working in Northwest Ohio, you're working in the state of Ohio, you're working all over our country and all over our world.

God, your good news is being shared right now.

Your good news that has changed us is changing others.

And we're just so grateful that we get to be a part of it.

Like, we get to worship you in this place, we get to honor you in this place, uh, but we also get to give and we get to send others to go around the world to share your good news.

You invite us, God, broken people, into this, uh, opportunity to reach other broken people.

And so we're overwhelmed by your goodness, because you are so good to us.

We trust you with our tithes and offerings this morning.

As we give, may it be multiplied many, many times so more people can experience something like NYC, where their life can be transformed and they can bring it home and change their schools and their workplaces and their churches, just sharing the good news of Jesus.

We trust you.