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Hello and welcome to Trinity Sermons. We are a church located in the heart of Streetsville,

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Mississauga, and we want to spread the good news with others as we work together to love

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Jesus, live like Jesus, and lead others to Jesus. In our sermon today, Rob Hirkmans

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is going to be taking us through Part 2 of our Ready, Set, Grow services as we move towards

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preparing for two Sunday morning services. Our scripture reading comes from Mark chapter 10,

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verses 42 to 45. Our sermon is titled Set, and we are learning about taking our places and getting

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in position on our journey. We hope that you enjoy the sermon and God bless. So today's reading is

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from Mark 10, 42 to 45. Jesus called them together and said, you know that the rulers in this world,

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lord it over their people and officials want their authority over those under them. But among you,

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it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants

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to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. For even the Son of Man came not to be

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served, but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many. This is the word of the Lord.

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Well, I want you to imagine the scene. There they are. The runners are all loosening up.

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They're getting ready. The audience, the crowd, the spectators in the stands, they're all getting

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very, very excited. The race is about to begin. And so the starter walks onto the track. Of course,

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the starter is holding the starter's pistol, and they walk over to the starting line. And

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everybody's getting really, really psyched up. And the first thing that the starter says is

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something like this, runners, take your mark, mark, mark, mark, mark. And so they all kind of find

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their way up to the line, and they start crouching down and getting into position. And in just a few

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moments, boom, the starter pistol is going to go, and they are going to run their fastest. But,

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but in between the starter's command to take your mark, mark, mark, and go, go, go, there is this

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other thing that the starter will say, and that is this. The runner will, the starter will say,

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get set, set, set, set. So it's not just ready, go. It's ready, get set, set, set, set, go. Right?

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Getting set, it turns out, is actually really, really important, a really essential part of

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having a strong and successful race. You know, when a runner gets set, you've probably seen how

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this goes. When they get set, they make these little moves that put them into the perfect position,

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the perfect position, so they can get maximum horizontal acceleration when the gun fires. And

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usually that looks like kind of, they're obviously, they're crouched down. They, they, when they say

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get set, they, they, they bring their, like, their backside up a little bit over their, their

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shoulders. They extend their, their legs a bit, and they put their weight toward the front. Sometimes

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it's just really their fingertips are really the only thing that is touching the ground and in front

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of them. Ready, get set, go. The get set is important. Well, back on May 28th, we kicked off

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a campaign here at Trinity called Ready, Set, Grow. And it wasn't a campaign to raise money,

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so don't worry about that. It was a campaign to raise energy, because we know that on November 5th,

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the Starters Pistol is going to go here at Trinity Streetsville, and we're going to launch a second

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Sunday morning service. And so back in May, we talked about how can we get ready? How can we get

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ready? And you guys actually asked a whole bunch of really helpful questions, and we tried to answer

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some of those questions. And in fact, this, this week coming up, we're going to be publishing a

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video where we answer a lot of the real common questions you guys had about this new service,

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like when it's going to happen and what it's going to look like. So stay tuned for that. And then in

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November, of course, we're going to go. We're going to go. But between the getting ready and the

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going, there's this other thing that we need to do, which is to get ourselves set, to get everybody

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in the perfect position and the perfect stance to make sure we make the most of this opportunity.

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Because one of the things we know that is as a church grows, the number of people serving,

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the number of people volunteering and doing ministry must also grow. And so this fall, before

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the starters pistol goes, we want to make sure that we all get ourselves into position, the

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perfect position to get set in volunteer ministries, serving roles, to make sure that

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everybody is perfectly placed before we start. That's why after today, we're having our ministry

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fair. You've already heard us talk about that a couple of times this morning, and there's going

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to be tables and you're going to be able to walk around and talk to ministry leaders, ask questions,

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find out more about the ways you can get involved and maybe even sign up to get involved. And again,

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for those watching online, do not tune out at the end of the stream because the live stream is going

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to continue and Elizabeth is going to walk you around the ministry fair and find out about all

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the opportunities that you can get involved with too, because we need people serving here at Trinity

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in all sorts of ways. But here is the thing. Here's the thing. Before we go and look at those

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ministry positions, we have to look at our hearts position. Before the church gets set, we have to

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get our hearts set. And here's why. It's because we live in a culture that doesn't value serving

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others. Most of the world defines greatness in terms of power and position and prestige. If you

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can get people to serve you, then you're successful. If you're serving someone else, it's usually a

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sign that you haven't arrived or you're not successful. It's a self-serving culture. It's a

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me first mentality. There's been thousands of books written about how to be a great and effective

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and strong leader, but very few books have been written on the topic of servanthood. Most of us

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want to lead. We don't want to serve. You need to only look at our scripture reading today and see

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that taking the role of a servant has never, ever been a popular concept. Just prior to the reading

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you heard, the story starts. This is 2,000 years ago. James and John, who are the sons of Zebedee,

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they were fishermen. They were early followers of Jesus and they came along to Jesus and they

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said, teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask. Well, excuse me. Well, okay. Jesus says,

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what do you want me to do for you? He asked them and they replied, let one of us sit at your right

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and the other sit at your left in your glory. You see these two disciples, they wanted to be served.

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They thought that's what this was about, about being served, not about serving. They wanted the

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place of honor. They wanted the place of privilege. They wanted to be sitting on the throne. They

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wanted to be in charge telling others what to do. See, this has always been this way, right? They're

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even trying to tell Jesus what to do. And I love Jesus's response here. Jesus says, you don't know

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what it is you're asking. You don't know what you're asking. In other words, he's saying, you're not

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set on the inside. Your heart is out of position. We got to work on getting your heart into position.

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They don't realize that for Jesus, the throne is the cross and they don't realize that Jesus's

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glory will be his death. Here at Trinity, we say almost every Sunday that we want to live like

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Jesus. But in order to live like Jesus, we have to learn to serve because that is what Jesus did.

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He was a servant. He laid down his life and that was a lesson that his disciples had to learn 2000

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years ago. And it's a lesson we need to be reminded of, especially on a day like today. Therefore,

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before our church goes and gets set in ministry positions, we need to get set in our hearts.

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Before we look at those positions, we need to look at this position in here. Four things in

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particular I just want to look at today. We need to get our perspective set. We need to get our

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hearts set. We need to get our minds set. And we also need to get our priorities set in order to

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really get set. Let's take a look at the first one here. The first thing we need to do is we need to

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get our perspectives set because you might be saying, Rob, you know what, Rob, don't you feel

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guilty going up there on stage and asking all these people to volunteer for ministry and to

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volunteer to get involved in church? Where do you get the gall to do this, right? To place such a

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burden on people, people with busy lives at work, they have busy lives at home, lots of demands on

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their time, and here you come along and you have the gall to ask them to give a little bit more,

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to do a little bit more, to serve more. Rob, don't you feel guilty? Now, that is one perspective.

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That is one perspective. There is another perspective though that I think you're missing

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if that's what you think. You see, of course, most of us have things we do all day long. We have jobs.

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You might work, for example, in the manufacturing field. And so for 10 hours a day, for five days

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a week, you work at your job and you love your job and you're good at your job, right? But at the end

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of your day, you come home and you do not feel a deep satisfaction in your soul. When you are

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standing at the drill press all day long, you don't feel a deep satisfaction in your soul. You like

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your work, but it's not the same thing. Or let's say, for example, you work in finance, you work

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in a bank, or you're an accountant or something like that. And again, you're amazing at your job.

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We need you to be good at your job. We're glad you're good at your job. And that job has been

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good to you. It has put food on your table. It has put your kids through university. And yet,

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selling an insurance policy doesn't give you this deep and lasting joy in your spirit.

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Some of you might work in healthcare. You might work in schools. You might work in law enforcement

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or construction or real estate or whatever. You love your job. You're good at your job. We need

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you to be good at your job. And yet, you don't arrive home at night and say, that's what life

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is all about. But serving in your church is different. Here at Trinity, we believe that the

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church is the hope of the world. That it is through the church that God is restoring and

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transforming our world and all creation, the whole cosmos. That the church has something. That the

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world desperately, desperately needs. So when you serve at the church, you are going to be used by

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God in ways that you never, ever imagined. When you serve at the church, you're going to realize

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you had gifts that you never realized you had before. When you serve at the church, you're going

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to meet people that are going to become like family to you. And you will not have expected that. When

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you serve at the church, you're going to get a chance to make an impact in people's lives that

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will last for an eternity, not just for an afternoon. So what we want you to do is that when you go over

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to this ministry fair today, we don't want you to go over and say, this is something that I have to

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do. This is something that you get to do. Or in other words, we're not talking about a obligation

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today. What we're talking about is an invitation. Don't walk out of here today and say, well,

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better sign up for something. No. Walk out of here today and say, I get to be part of God's mission

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to heal the world. That's the perspective we need. When Jesus invited people to join him in his

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mission, he didn't go around and say, well, you know, I hate to bug you guys. You guys look really

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busy. I know you're fishing here and I just, I really, I don't even want to say it, but would you

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mind just, could you spare a little time and just come along and maybe just spare a little time and

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spend a little bit of time volunteering with me and my mission? No. That is not what Jesus said.

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Jesus gave them an exciting invitation. He said that time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is

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at hand. Come on and follow me. To serve in the church is to participate in the kingdom of God

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that Jesus is building here on earth as we sang this morning, as it exists in heaven. Can you imagine

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anything more exciting than that? Anything more thrilling? And I tell you, I tell you this,

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when you realize that you've helped another person have a life-changing encounter with Jesus,

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experience maybe the sense of forgiveness. When you help another person know that they have a group

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of people who love them, when you help another person realize that God loves them, then I will

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tell you that will give you a sense of deep, deep satisfaction in your soul. And you will come home

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at the end of the day and you will say, that's what life is all about. So no, I don't feel guilty

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when I ask people to volunteer and to serve in their local church, not even a little bit,

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because what I'm asking you to do is to come off the sidelines and get onto the playing field and

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get involved in one of the greatest adventures ever. That is the adventure of following Jesus

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and changing the world. That needs to be our perspective before we head over there.

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That's the first way we need to get set. We need to get our perspective set. But the second way we

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need to get set is we need to get our hearts set. True service and ministry always begins in the

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heart, begins with love. Imagine, for example, if it was our anniversary and I came home

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to Sally and I brought with me a bouquet of flowers and I gave them to her and she was like,

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oh, these are lovely. I love them so much. Thank you. You're so thoughtful. You're so sweet.

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Wonderful. Great, great, great. Great. And then I said to her in return, I said, well,

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it's kind of what you're supposed to do, right? I mean, what's the big deal, right? You buy the

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white flowers on the anniversary. And I can guarantee you, if I said that, you know what she'd

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probably do? She'd say, on second thought, I don't really want the flowers after all, because what

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she sees in me is my heart is not in the right place. My heart's out of position. It's not

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set right. She only wants the flowers if they flow from my love, if they flow from my heart.

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In other words, she can tell, she can tell if the reason that I'm doing this is out of duty or if

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it's out of love. Sometimes we serve people and sometimes we serve at church and we do it out of

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a duty. We don't really want to do it, but we do it because we have to. When you love someone,

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you don't actually mind serving them, right? The service flows right out of your heart. It's not a

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chore. It's actually something you want to do, you love to do. I don't want anyone to walk out of here

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today and go to the ministry fair and say, okay, let's see. Well, I guess I'll volunteer to help

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take care of the kids. We don't want you to take care of the kids. It's not just about taking care

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of the kids. The whole idea is that you'd actually love the kids. The whole idea is that you would

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actually, Sunday by Sunday, see this 30 or 40 or 50 kids running around here and your heart would

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break for them and you'd have a burden for them and you would say, you know, actually I care about

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them. I'm concerned about them and their future. Being a kid these days, it's really hard. There's

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so many influences. There's so many kind of pressures on these kids and maybe I could be of

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some help to them. Maybe I could be a positive influence to them with all the kind of influences

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around them. Maybe I could help them learn a more positive lesson about Jesus because I care about

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them and I love about them. That's why I want to serve them. What about youth group? Maybe you go

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by the youth group table and you're out there and you say, you know what, I can remember what it was

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like to be a youth. It was a confusing and crazy time in my life and I wonder what's going on in

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the lives of our own youth and I wonder if they're struggling with anything and my heart breaks for

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them and I want to care for them. I want to love them and I want to pray for them and I want to have,

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I want to be an example for them and maybe I can help somehow because I care for them and I love

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them and that's why I want to serve them. Or maybe you are a youth, a young person and you're here

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today and for you, like your online community is the most important thing to you and you know exactly

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how important it is for people who are online to have a sense of community and so you have a heart

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for people who are trying to connect with Trinity and trying to join the Trinity community online

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and you say, you know what, I want to be part of the social media team or I want to be part of the

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tech team or I want to help engage our online audience somewhere because I don't want to do it

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out of duty but because I care about them and I love them that's why I want to serve them.

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That's what Paul said in Galatians 5 13. Paul writes, he says, serve one another

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humbly out of duty. No, no, he said serve one another humbly out of obligation. No, he said

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serve one another humbly out of love. So whether you volunteer with the kids or the youth or the

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cemetery committee or the property committee or the media team, I hope you're not doing it because

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well I need to serve somewhere, sure I'll work with the kids. No, actually care about the kids,

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actually love the kids, actually love the mission, actually love the ministry, actually love the

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opportunity that stands before you. It's all got to come from this place. It's got to come from our

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heart. If you leave here today feeling like I better do my duty, please don't sign up.

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This has to be done out of love, not out of duty. That's why we got to get our hearts set. So we

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have to get our perspective set. We have to get our hearts set this morning. But thirdly, we have

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to also get our minds set because to truly serve another person requires a mental shift

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and the mental shift that needs to take place is you have to think more about others and less about

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yourself. Now that is really easy to say, but that is really, really hard to do because even times

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when we think that we are thinking more about others and less about ourselves, we actually might

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be thinking more about ourselves and less about others, right? So for example, when you're serving

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others, but we're serving other people in order to get some people to like us or we're volunteering

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in order to be admired or to achieve our own goals somehow. If you serve in that way, then you know

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who you're really thinking of is you're really thinking of yourself. Or sometimes when we serve,

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we do it because we think that maybe if we do something for God, then God will do something

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for us. And so our serving becomes a bargaining chip, say like, I'm going to serve now and God's

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going to owe me. And but what's really happening there is instead of letting God use us for his

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purposes, now we're using God for our purposes. And again, that means we're still just, we're just

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thinking of ourselves. Jesus told his disciples though, he said, listen, whoever wants to become

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great among you must be your servant. He said, whoever wants to be first must be the slave of

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all self promotion and servanthood cannot coexist. Servants don't serve for others approval. They

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don't serve for the applause of others. They serve for an audience of one. And that one person, of

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course, is God. If I'm honest with you, I spend most of my time thinking about me. And maybe you

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do too, because I am and you are, we are and human beings are, I think by nature, very selfish.

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And the kind of humility that we're talking about is it got to be like a daily struggle for each

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and every one of us. You know, C.S. Lewis once said that true humility isn't thinking less of

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yourself. It's somehow just thinking of yourself less. Or Paul once said this, Paul once said,

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forget yourself long enough to lend a helping hand. Maybe you could advance to that slide, Kevin.

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Forget yourself long enough to lend a helping hand. That's the shift that has to happen in our

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minds to forget ourselves. Because it's only when we stop focusing on our own needs that we can

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actually start to see the needs of another person around us. He goes on to say, he goes on to say,

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let the same mind again, let the same mind be in you that was in Jesus Christ who when the time

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came, he set aside his own privileges and took on the status of a slave. So if today you go and sign

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up because you think it'll make you look good or you think God will be impressed and God will be in

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your debt, please don't sign up. First, we have to change our thinking. We have to get our mindset

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in a different way. So getting set means, let's just review, it means getting our perspective set.

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It means getting our heart set and it means getting our mindset. But here's the last thing,

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we have to get set and that is we have to get our priorities set. I wish I could tell you that today

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out there, there was a great serving opportunity for you that will not cost you any time, any energy,

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any thought, any inconvenience or any sacrifice. If we had a volunteer option like that, I guarantee

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you'd be the longest line at the ministry fair. But no, serving and volunteering always cost us

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something. They always cost us some of our life or some of our schedule or some of our energy.

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There is no way around it. Serving will require you to rearrange your lives, to rearrange your

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priorities. And you might say, well, listen, I'm here today, Rob, and I've been living my life to

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the max. Like I have no margin for anything else to happen in my life. Not one more thing. And I

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suppose what we could say to you at this moment is, well, then, hey, I understand. Don't worry

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about it. Obviously, now is not a good time. Obviously, God doesn't want you to serve right

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now. God doesn't want you to volunteer. We can't expect you at this time with that schedule to get

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involved in a time like this. And I guess maybe we could say that to you. Or we could say maybe

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this is a chance for you to do a little rethinking of your priorities, to reevaluate how you spend

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your time. You know, I know in some office environments, they have this calendar system

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where different staff members can share their calendars with each other. And so staff can

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actually see each other's calendars. And some offices, staff can actually see an opening and

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book themselves into each other's calendars. Now, we haven't got that far here at Trinity,

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and I'm not really in a rush to get there. But I can tell you that God does want us to share our

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calendars with him, to give him the permissions, click, click, click, permission granted to

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to rebook our schedules. Is there room in your calendar to serve? Can God mess up your plans?

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Can you give God your schedule and work around his priorities? Paul used a military analogy.

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That was an office analogy. But Paul used this other analogy. He says that no one serving as a

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soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please the commanding officer.

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The soldier needs to be ready to go at the moment's notice when the commanding officer says,

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I need you. They can go and God's people need to be ready. They need to be available to serve him

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when he calls us. But maybe the best way to say this is just what Jesus said. Jesus said,

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seek first the kingdom of God. Priorities are always about what comes first and what comes

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second, what comes third and fourth in your life. And Jesus is saying, you can decide what

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comes second and what comes third and what comes fourth in your life. But first seek the kingdom,

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first serve the king. Can you set your priorities to put God's kingdom first?

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So just a few moments, we're going to head across to that ministry fair and we're going to get

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set for all the opportunities that are before us. But first we need to get set in a bunch of

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ways inside of us. We need to get our perspective set. This isn't something you have to do.

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This is something you get to do. We need to get our hearts set. We do this not out of duty.

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We do it out of love. We need to get our minds set. We are not thinking about ourselves here.

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We're thinking about others. And then we need to get our priorities set. We're seeking first

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the kingdom of God. You might say, Rob, that's a lot. I am not sure I can get my mind, heart,

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priorities, perspective set like that so quickly. How would I get there? What would be the motivation,

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the determination, the inspiration to get set to serve like this? Well, that's why I need to end

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this way and just say that Jesus himself is our inspiration. Jesus who said, even the son of man

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did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. We can change

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our minds and think about others because we know that Jesus thought about us first. We can give our

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hearts to others because we know that Jesus gave his heart to us first. And we can sacrifice our

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time for God because Jesus sacrificed his life for us. And we can make God a priority

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only when we realize that God made us his priority first.

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Thanks be to God. Amen. Let me send you away with a blessing and then we're going to,

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we're going to switch the live stream over to Elizabeth to take our online viewers through the

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ministry fair. But may the peace of God that passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds and

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the knowledge and love of God and of his son, Jesus Christ our Lord, and the blessing of God Almighty,

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the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen.

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Over to you, Elizabeth. I'm an engagement director here at Trinity Church,

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Streetsville, and I am so excited that we are continuing our live stream for the very first

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time and we get a chance to do that during the ministry fair that is happening right here,

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right now, outside of the sanctuary right after our service. So thanks so much for joining. We

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are excited because we have 21 tables and 30 ministries all representing the various groups

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that contribute to the life of the church here at Trinity Church, Streetsville.

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Some of these ministries are long-standing and they've been here for years and years.

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Now some of these ministries are brand new and this is their very first year being represented

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at the ministry fair. But regardless, we can consider ministry something that is done when

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we give our time, our talents, our resources, and as Rob mentioned, our hearts to be a blessing to

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others. But I like to think that in giving of all of these things, we are as well blessed.

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Trinity is heading into a time of significant growth. We are going to be heading to a time of

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two services very soon. So there is no better time to get involved in the life of the church

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here at Trinity. So what I'm going to do is wander around to various ministries,

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meet some of the ministry leaders, and get to know a little bit about who they are and how we

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can be involved. Well, we have one table over here that we are going to visit and we are going to

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first start it with the coping table. Here we are. I'm going to be right here for the coping table.

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It's very busy here, so just bear with me. We're going to meet table number one. May I have your

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name, please? Hi, I'm Annie Shalvarchin. And what is your table? My table is the coping,

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the Streetsville Coping Program, which we've been running at Trinity since 2013. So every fall,

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we run a bereavement support group for people in the community who had a death in their family.

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And it's a very difficult time for them. They're hurting, and we try to give them emotional support

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and also the love that Jesus gives us, we share with these individuals.

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Thank you very much. Now, can you let us know just a little bit about how we can be involved? Can we

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sign up for the program or can we contribute or support to it even if we haven't experienced grief

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or loss? Actually, we have a brand new flyer that talks about the support that individuals in our

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church can provide. We're asking if they could provide hospitality support. Every time that

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we run our group, we host food for the individuals because often when you're grieving, you forget to

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eat and look after yourself. So if a life group, for example, or an individual who wants to do it

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in memory of a loved one would like to sponsor the food for that evening, we run it for eight weeks.

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And we would welcome that. You can contact us through the church office and we can do that.

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Yes. Thank you very much. This definitely sounds like a ministry that would be very important for

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so many people as well. It would be a ministry that many different people can get involved with as

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well. Maybe your life group would like to help support the coping ministry. That would be great.

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Now we're going to head over to the prayer chain.

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There's a lot of chatting happening. Hello. May I have your name, please?

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Susan. Yeah. So that's Susan and we're going to find out a little bit about the prayer chain.

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Can you tell us a little bit about the prayer chain? Yeah. It's a group of people who pray

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for other people. When we get a prayer request, we send out an email to all of the people

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and everybody prays for whoever. That's wonderful. Right now we're talking to our online audience.

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If someone is at home and is a member of Trinity but doesn't come to church,

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can they still get involved in the prayer chain? Sure. It's a group that is confidential.

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If you want to be involved, yes, I think that's great.

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There's opportunities to get involved. Thank you very much. If you're part of the online group,

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you can get in part of the prayer chain. You can also still submit your prayer requests to the

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prayer chain and they will be happy to pray for you. As Susan mentioned, it's all confidential

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and it's done in a loving heart. We are now moving on to the home visitors. The home visitors is one

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of our newer ministries here at Trinity. May I have your name? Ruth Flynick. So we've got Ruth

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and I'm going to ask Ruth just to tell us a little bit about the home visitor ministry.

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Hi. Yes, we started the home visiting ministry back up again, I think post-COVID. It was

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not happening as much. But now we have five teams of two people each to go visit and provide

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communion as desired to those in the home setting who aren't able to make it out to a service.

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Training is provided and as I said, they always go in teams of two. We also are providing visiting

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to people in hospital when we hear about that as desired. Thank you very much. That was great.

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And I think that the home visitor table is going to be very popular because they have a candy dish.

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All right. Thanks, Ruth. All right. We're going to head over this way to the Stephen ministry table.

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Come with me this way. As you can tell, it's very busy. We have a lot of action going on.

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We have a whole team of people over at the Stephen ministry table. Who would like to talk

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at the Stephen ministry table? Who's our spokesperson? Wow. Don't all fight over it,

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guys. I think we've got Tracy here going to tell us a little bit about the Stephen ministry or

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Stephen, which one would like to talk and tell us about Stephen ministry? Oh,

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all right. I'm going to hand the mic over to Tracy.

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Hi, online Trinity. This is Stephen ministry and we are a group of trained volunteers who offer

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one to one care to people who are going through a difficult time in their life. It could be,

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you know, you've you're grieving the loss of a loved one. You're lonely. You've lost a job.

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You're new in the community and you don't know anybody. We basically meet with you for one hour

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a week as members of the church and we listen and we pray for you and we offer encouragement and

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support. Have a good day. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Stephen ministry. We're going to actually now

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head into the room that used to be the library. So as you see, we're going to fight the crowds.

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We're going to walk through here into this room where we have two different ministries. Oh, hello.

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We're going to patient. Oh, it's time. I'm not sure where Gary is. It's just Diane. It's the

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Diane show here. We are now in the room that used to be the library and in this room is our table

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for the community Bible study as well as the prime time group. I think Diane Diane can wear all the

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hats, all the hats. She just wears all the hats today. So Diane, do you mind just telling the

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online viewers a little bit about community Bible study, which I think we call CBS as well, a little

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bit about prime time. Well, they're two very different things. Community Bible studies,

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we've been hosting at Trinity for many, many years. And this year we're doing a special core

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group here and it's on Wednesday mornings at nine thirty to eleven fifteen. And we're going to be

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studying community Christian living. And it's the study of the Book of Philemon and first and second

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and third, John and Jude. And then after that, we're going to do a study of Ruth and first and

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second, Samuel. I'm just going to ask a quick question about CBS. Can anyone join?

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Our particular core group is for women. And yes, anyone can join. There is a co coed group that

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runs on Tuesday evening online that we are also a part of. And so if you have any more questions

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about it, you can always contact me. Thanks so much. Now we're going to put her on the spot

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because Gary was supposed to be here, but he's not. So Diane, can you just tell us, just maybe

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just shove over to the next chair. Now she's Gary and she's going to tell us a little bit about the

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Primetime group. Well, Primetime is a group for seniors at Trinity and their friends. They're

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invited in to bring friends from the from the community along with them. And it's just the time

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that we meet. We used to meet once a month, but we're down to like five times a year this time.

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meeting from 1 30 to 3 30 and have a great time just kind of getting acquainted with each other.

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Have fun activities, sing, usually a speaker of some kind on an interesting topic to us.

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And it's just a wonderful time to connect. And particularly people, you don't want to admit

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you're a senior, but you know, if you've reached 65, that's what you're going to be able to do.

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And that's what we consider a senior. And so you're all welcome. Amazing. And I don't think

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we're checking anyone's driver's licenses either. So if you would like to join Primetime and you fit

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in the senior category, that would be great. I know they're a very active group and they have

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some really exciting events that happen. And if you do have any questions about any of the ministries

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that are going on here, feel free to give us a call at Trinity or email us at info at Trinity

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streetsville.org. Now let's continue back out into the very busy hall and find a few other groups.

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We're going to walk past the welcome table. Maybe we'll just wave at the welcome table.

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If you come to Trinity, the welcome group will be happy to answer any questions that you have.

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Here we have the chancel guild, which actually this ministry was referenced by Rob during our

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service today. They are sometimes considered a behind the scenes ministry, but very important

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to the life of Trinity. I'm just going to ask them to tell us a little bit about who they are

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and what they do. Would you like to tell us a little bit about what the chancel guild is?

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The chancel does is sets up the vessels for Holy communion. So we bring out the chalices

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filled with wine, the bread baskets, doing the appropriate candles, making sure that the

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proper colour of the church season is on the altar. At the end of the service, we do the cleanup,

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which is getting rid of the consecrated stuff, which means you either bury it, eat it, or burn

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it. You cannot throw anything away. So there is a process in doing that. Then you wash chalices and

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wash linen and you're all done. Thank you. Thank you. Again, a very important ministry here at the

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church. So it's very interesting and they are always looking for new people to join their group.

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We're just going to wave at the communion assistance. Would you like to tell us a little

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bit about being a communion assistant? All right. This is Nellie. All right. So we're going to

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have Nellie. All right. Let us know a little bit about what you do here at Trinity. Okay. So it's

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my passion. Like every week we celebrate the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So we serve

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communion. And so we serve the re blood of Jesus Christ and the real body of Jesus Christ. So the

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assistant server in communion and they are giving this to the people. So the first time you're going

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to be trained for that. And it's really, very nice. I really enjoy it. And it's my passion to serve.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I love hearing that we're finding pleasure in our giving and

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in our ministries. When we find something that we love to do, that is what it's all about.

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We're going to skip past the prayer and worship group right now. Change of plans. We're going to

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join in. We've got the prayer and worship table here. Um, may I first just have your name? My name

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is Rick Bradshaw. All right, Rick, you are at the prayer and worship table. Can you tell us a little

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bit about what the prayer and worship ministry does? So we organize, uh, we're trying to encourage

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corporate prayer in the church, which means praying together. So, um, we have a monthly

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prayer and worship meeting on Sunday nights, first Sunday of the month. And then at the beginning of

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each year, we have a week of prayer where we encourage people to come every evening in the

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prayer and into the church and pray. Uh, I'm also at Easter. We've running a good Friday prayer

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vigil. So it's really about organizing that and then getting involved in, in those services.

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Now, Rick, just a quick question. Who can get involved? Can anyone from the church or community

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come to these events? Absolutely. Anyone can be involved at the moment. We're not doing online

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versions of this, but that would be somewhere we want to grow. So, uh, but all I'm planning

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meetings are done on zoom. So if you're interested in, and you are maybe can't make it to the church,

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but you live somewhere else, but you're, you have ideas, you want to get involved,

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maybe help us expand into the online world, then that's exactly the kind of people we're looking

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for. Uh, anybody, if you're interested, just get in touch with me. Thank you so much. Again,

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I think that we are now heading into a season where we're back to doing our, our worship nights in

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person. So we're really excited to get that started. Now we're going to just head over to

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Grace here. Grace has been doing ESL, which is English as a second language for several years.

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Hi, Grace. We are actually doing a live stream interview with some of our ministry leaders. Can

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you tell us a little bit about what that ESL group is at Trinity? Okay. It's a group of mainly seniors

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and they are not, they come from different parts of the world. Okay. They are usually shot in

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grandparents looking after young kids. So they're not fluent in the language. Now the ESL we teach

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is mainly conversational stuff that would give them confidence in going to the drug store and to the

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and to the grocery and to get on a bus and even to talk to people. Yeah. That's great. What an

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important ministry. And I believe Grace, anyone from the community comes, they don't have to be

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church members to come to the ESL group. This is a community based outreach program. Is it community

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based outreach? So the people that come aren't necessarily members of Trinity. They aren't,

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they are not members of Trinity, but some have joined the church. Yes. So a wonderful outreach

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ministry that happens. Thanks, Grace. All right. We're going to actually backtrack through here.

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You might notice we have coffee hour set up. The cookie trays are starting to dwindle. Maybe there's

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going to be a few cookies left for me. I'm not sure. We're going to head right over past the coffee

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hour and visit the table that is the Trinity board. Wow. We've got some lovely people here

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representing the Trinity board. I believe actually all people at this table are members of the board,

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but we've got Kyla over there who does our neighborhood assessment group, which is one

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of our new groups. But I think I'm going to ask the Trinity board to tell us a little bit about

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who you are and what you do. Don't all raise your hands at once guys. No, no, we need the mic first.

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Just let me know your name and what you do. So the Trinity board basically provides governance

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to the church. We help make some major decisions around operations and any type of programs going

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on. And during our general or annual meeting, when we need to, that's when we decide who the

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new board members are going to be. Thank you. Amazing. How many people are on the board?

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I would say that we have, we're in the process of gaining some new members. So right now we

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probably have at least six or seven and we're getting quite a few more. Thank you. And thank

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you, Curlin. Bye Kyla. Now we're heading back out into the lobby towards some more ministries. As

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you see, it's a very active place here. Here we are. We're going to head towards the cemetery group.

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I see the cemetery team here. Hi, we're doing some live stream interviews. Hello. So first

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may I just have your names? Oh, I'm Laura, Debi. Hello Laura and Debi. Which one of you would like

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to tell us a little bit about what the cemetery committee does? Well, we've been around for a few

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years now. Well, there's been different iterations of it over the years, but this current one,

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a few years. And our mission has been to try and beautify the cemetery and honor those who have

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gone before us. And so we beautified it. As you can see, there's new walkways and the fences were

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just painted. There's the new Salmon Hazel McCallion Memorial Prayer Garden. And so now we have,

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our newest projects are we want to plant some daffodils in the fall to just make it look nice

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and sunny every spring. And we also have in the background, we have this new database. We're trying

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to keep really good records on who's there, who can be there in the future. And so we want to do

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more historical research and put that in the database as well so that people can just click

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and go, oh, that's my Auntie Grace. And she was, you know, a settler of streets fills, that kind of

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thing. There certainly is a lot happening in the cemetery. I do notice your Come Plant Daffodil

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sign up sheet. Can anyone sign up for that? Sure. Anyone who's interested in any part just

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or in the background stuff for more just planting and making it prettier. Absolutely. Okay. So if

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you have any questions about the cemetery committee, you can again email us at info at

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trinitystreetsville.org. There are definitely lots of ways to get involved with this committee.

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It's very active. And if you haven't had a chance to check out the new developments that have been

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going on in the cemetery, please make sure to come by and check it out. It's a great place of

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peace and rest and as Laura said, beauty. Now we're going to head over to the women's ministry in

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just a moment. We have Karen here at the women's ministry. Again, a ministry that can be very active

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at some points. If you are a man, I'm going to have to say no boys allowed here, but we are going

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to, uh, we're going to talk to Karen. She's going to let us a little bit, let us know a little bit

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about what's going on with the women's ministry this year at Trinity. Hi, Karen. Can you tell

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us a little bit about what's going on this year at Trinity with women's ministry? Hi, Elizabeth. Hi,

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everybody online. Um, women's ministry is a way to connect women with each other. And our goal this

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year is we're going to plan some Bible studies and we will have online groups as well as in-person

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groups. And then we have, um, women's breakfasts and women's stays apart. And we've, in the past,

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we've had hikes. Um, and we're always looking for ideas of different events to plan and we're

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looking for, always looking for people to organize, whether, uh, be an online leader for Bible study

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or something along those lines. That's perfect. I'm looking forward to it for sure. Now we're

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going to continue on down along our window here to the Trinity moms ministry. Again, a ministry

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for women, but specifically for moms. And Jen Searson has been heading up this ministry for a

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few years now. Jen, can you tell us a little bit about Trinity moms? Okay. So Trinity moms is an

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extension of Trinity Tots. Trinity Tots meets on Friday mornings from nine 30 to 10 30. And then

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we have an hour that's just for the moms. So we have childcare for the littles and then the moms

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will come and just have time with each other. And it's a time of just encouragement and care for the

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moms. Um, there's also moms that come that don't have little kids. Um, their kids are in school or

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older. My kids are teenagers. So, um, I'd say 50% of the moms are, uh, moms with little kids,

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like toddlers and babies. And then 50% are moms with kids that are in school and they, they just

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come for the mom time. Uh, what we really could use help with is, um, people to help mind the

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babies. The ones that have babies and toddlers need someone to take care of the little ones. So

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if, uh, you have a heart for, if you love babies and toddlers and, um, we could definitely use

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help with care for them. Thank you very much. And my kids have all gone through the Trinity,

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Trinity Tots, and I have definitely been a part of the moms group in the past and it's wonderful.

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So thanks Jen. All right. Hope you get a lot of signups. We are going to actually head towards

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the youth table here. We have a new youth leader at Trinity Church streets. Phil, and I wonder if

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you can just tell us a little bit about what is going to be happening in the youth group this year.

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All right. Zion, welcome first of all to Trinity in this new rule. Can you tell us a little bit

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about what we can expect for youth group this year at Trinity? Sure. So youth group is going to be

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every Friday, um, for up to four hours. We split them into two age groups this year. So we're going

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to have the junior youth, which is grade six to eight, the middle school age. They're going to be

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here at the church from six to eight PM. And then from eight to 10, we've got the high school aged

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youth. Um, and while we're here, we're just going to be playing lots of games. We're going to do,

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um, fun activities and we're also going to have time for Bible study each night, of course.

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So we'll just need people who are good influences for the youth and, you know,

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they're willing to have fun and play games as well. And then on top of that, we're also going to have

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about one, one Friday each week, we're going to go out and we're going to, uh, do a fun activity

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like mini golf or go karting and trampolining, something like that. So if you're willing to come

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out and help supervise and have fun there, that would be awesome as well. And that's about it.

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No, that's great. We're looking forward to it. Youth group starts next Friday. So if you are new

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to Trinity, if you are new to the area, you are welcome, bring a friend. And I think it's going

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to be a lot of fun. Now you may have seen grace before, um, she's our, uh, kids director and she

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has three different signs on her table. So maybe grace, four, I don't, oh, okay. Grace is chatting

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away, but she doesn't have the microphone. All right. She's going to let us know a little bit

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about what's going on at her table. Hello, I'm grace. I'm sure you know me. Uh, you're probably

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gonna have to turn down your volume because I am a very loud person. I actually have so many

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ministries that I have an extra table here. So let's start out with this table. This table here,

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we have knitting for others. So we have a group of congregants who meets at the church from one 30

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to three 30 every Wednesday and they get together and they knit different projects. So some of them

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go to children's aid. Some of them go to long care term, um, long term care homes. Um, and so they do

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lots of knitting. Actually a way that you could get involved is if you love to knit at home,

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you could knit at home and you could maybe drop off your knitted stuff or you could mail in your

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knitted stuff and we can get those to all our donations. Um, another part of my table, let's

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go to the opposite end of our table is we have Trinity Tots. So every single Friday morning from

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nine AM until 10 30, we have, um, a little play group together and caregivers and moms and dads

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and grandparents are welcome to bring their little, little ones who aren't in school over.

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We have toys, we have crafts, we sing some songs and it's just a time for caregivers and parents

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to come and have a cup of coffee and just talk with other people who are in the same life season

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as them. Um, as well on a Sunday morning, we have Trinity kids. If you watch the live stream,

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I'm sure you see me dismiss them every week. We have different programs from anywhere from

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um, newborn to grade five. Um, it's a great way to serve. It's a great way to, um, meet new people.

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And our last one, my most favorite one is our community events. So why don't we open this up,

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Elizabeth, can you open that for me? So here are some of our community events coming up.

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We have dog day, which is fun. We have them over. We have little competitions for your dogs.

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We have prizes for humans and dogs. We have trunk or treat, which you can have families

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come on out. You carve a pumpkin and then do some trick or treating from everyone's

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trunks in the parking lot. We will be handing out free hot chocolate at Christmas in the village

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on November 18th. And last but certainly not least, we're going to have a gingerbread house

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decorating evening. Now I know I just sped through all of those super, super fast, but we're going to

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have all that information coming up on our social media over these next couple of weeks. But this is

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a great way to maybe invite your family with kids to these events. Um, it's just strictly there to

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serve the community and, and, and love them and welcome them. There are also a bunch of different

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ways you can volunteer. So for dog day, you can help set up or take down for trunk or treat. We

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love to have people handing out pumpkins, welcoming the families. And of course we need people to

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bring, uh, treats from their trunk to hand out. Obviously you can't have trunk or treat without

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treats from the trunk. Say that five times fast. You can't. I know. And then we have Christmas in

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the village. If we're handing out 1000 hot chocolates, we need some help making 1000 hot

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chocolates. So that's a way that you could come in. Um, for gingerbread houses, this is actually

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one of my most favorite ways you can serve. So if you have a gingerbread man, cookie cutter hanging

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around, you can register here and you'll receive a recipe for gingerbread. And then you can bake

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your gingerbread and drop it off at the church. So we'll be using this gingerbread to hand out to our

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families who come to the Christmas Eve service to the kids who come to the, um, community kids

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Christmas party and at our gingerbread cookie decorating event. So I know I just went through

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lots of things with you. If you have any questions about knitting community events,

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Trinity tots, or Trinity kids, please feel free to reach out to me. My name is Grace and my email

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is grace at Trinity streets, fill.org. Thank you so much for coming to my table. I hope you have fun

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at our event. That was a lot of fun. And that does seem like a lot of fun. I'm a little disappointed.

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There's no cat day. Um, I have two cats at home, but, uh, dogs, you know, dogs are all right too.

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So we're going to head over to the sanctuary, but as we do, we're going to pass the online table.

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That's my table. And because we're a newer ministry, that means we have some newer volunteer

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options. Um, what I'd like to do is just to let you know that I'm looking right now for people that

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can do some online reading as well as do some intercessory prayer. And what that means is doing

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some pre-recorded scripture readings or doing some pre-recorded prayers, send them in ahead of time,

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certainly something that I can help you with. And then we can have that on during our live stream.

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So I would love to have you join me as well. If you are interested in hosting, if a microphone is

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something that you'd like and you'd like to be in front of the camera, I'd love to have someone join

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me as we're looking to do a few more online segments in the coming weeks and months. All right.

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Let's head into the sanctuary. Okay. We've got, I believe a few tables set up in here. Hello, Rob.

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Rob, how are you finding the ministry fair right now? It's very, very exciting. Yeah. I just hoped

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everybody knew that there was also some tables in here, but as you can see, there was a good crowd

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of people for all the tech stuff, which is great. Yeah. Excellent. So that means we're going to see

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some of the people that are often behind the cameras and behind the scenes. That's right.

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All right. Well, I hope more people find out about it in here. Oh, actually, I don't know what he's

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talking about. There's a big crowd. We've got a crowd, but we're going to talk to the worship

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band as well as to our AV and tech team. So we have Stephanie here, the worship band. And Sean,

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are you also here at the worship band table? Sean, would you like to tell us a little bit about the

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worship band, what the worship band does, as well as what the commitment looks like? Yeah. So I've

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been, I've been working with the worship band for a long time and we have, we have many different

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opportunities, including vocal opportunities, instrumental opportunities. If you play an

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instrument, it doesn't necessarily have to be like electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums,

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those sorts of things. We're also completely open to concert band instruments. Like if you can play

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the trumpet or the saxophone or anything like that, it would be super cool to have you work with us.

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The commitments basically align with how much time you have for rehearsals. Right now we're

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doing rehearsals on Thursdays and they're, they're like way after when work would be and those sorts

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of things. It's like seven o'clock ish. I kind of forget, but it's more, it's later. We do those

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rehearsals and then we also have early Sunday rehearsals as well. But yeah, if you're interested,

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please, please sign up. We would love to have you with us. Thanks, Sean. That's great. Definitely.

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I know we have a lot of talent here at Trinity and if that sounds like something you'd be interested

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in, we'd love to see you come out. So now we're going to just sort of wiggle our way through here.

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We have Stephanie and we've got our speaking role people over here. So our speaking role ministry

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involves those who do online hosting, those who do online or who do not online hosting. What am I

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talking about? Who do in-person hosting and who do in-person intercessory prayer and who do their

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in-person readings. But we're going to skip past them right now and get right to our tech team.

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So here is Alex. He's busy. A lot of people interested in the tech roles, but I'd love to

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talk to Alex and Liz about what the tech team does here at Trinity. There are a few different roles.

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Hi, Liz. Hi, Alex. Could you guys let us know a little bit about what the tech team does at Trinity?

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Sure. Yeah, there's a huge blanket of media roles covered under the tech team. So we have camera

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operators, there's video switchers, audio, what else? Photography and there's also in-person slides.

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Do you want to talk to us a little bit about what happens with that? Yeah. So there's the projecting

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the words on the screen, everything that people see on the screen. So the words to songs and the

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liturgy that the person in the back booth is a projectionist who makes all that happen. And

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those words also appear on the live stream as well. So really, really important part of the service.

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And I've been talking to a lot of people who've been really interested to learn about this, which

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it really excites me, I have to say. And, you know, I've been talking about how the, you know, having

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the words on the screen is a real, a fabulous expression of hospitality as well, because it's

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a way to ensure that everybody has access to the words and they can participate in the prayers and

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the singing. It's just a great opportunity and it's a lot of fun and it's sort of behind the

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scenes as well. So for people who are maybe don't like being up in front of, you know, a group of

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people or whatever, they can have a really significant impact in the service and with the

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congregation and they don't have to be in front of people, which is, you know, always a good thing.

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And piggybacking off that, it's a great way right now we're giving accessibility here to everybody

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online who's joining us right now. And there's lots of ways that people can get involved. And

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this is the new era right now. Everybody's online. We need to provide this service. So it's really

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helpful to have a huge base of volunteers that can come, takes the load off of everybody if we

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can all share that responsibility, because it's not going away now. And we have, yeah, we have

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multiple camera operators. So you don't even have to sign up for every Sunday kind of thing. It

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could be once a month, could be twice a month, could be even less than that. So I would definitely

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suggest we have an orientation that's coming up. And if you're interested at all in tech, we have

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we have any range of background, could be amateur, anything. We'll train you up as long as you're

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interested and you have drive, you want to learn, then you're hired. So come on down and yeah, even

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just come for the orientation. We'll show you all the gear and decide then whether or not you're

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interested and what that commitment might look like for you. But yeah, lots of roles and excited

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to see all of you joining tech team. I sense a competition here at Trinity. Who's going to get

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the most signups? Well, I see a few signups there on the tech team, so they may be in the lead.

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Actually, I don't know. I don't know. I'm just giving them some some false hope.

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But as you notice, I'm wearing gardening gloves. And that's because the theme of this tech,

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of this tech, of this ministry fair is ready, set, grow. And at ready, set, grow, that just means

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that we are looking to develop and to strengthen and to just to grow our ministries here at Trinity

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so that we had some plants, we had some garden hose. And at ready, set, grow, we hope that you

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can help Trinity to develop and to grow as we move towards our mission, which is to love Jesus,

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to live like Jesus, and to lead other people to Jesus. As we know, Jesus himself, like Rob said,

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did not come to be served, but to serve. And that's what we are called to do as well. So if you find

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it in your heart to join the life and the mission of the church, we would love to have you. Thank

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you very much for joining and have a great week. Thanks so much for listening to our sermon today.

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back next week. Today's sermon was taken from the September 10th, 2023 service at Trinity Church,

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Streetsville and Mississauga, Ontario.