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We recognize that 1986 is, if the Lord carries and allows us to live, going to bring another

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And the numbers don't get smaller, do they?

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They keep going up.

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We're reminded that time is passing and with time, so is the life that God has given us

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to live.

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And so it's an appropriate time for us on an occasion like this, I think, to look backward

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and reflect upon the goodness of God.

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And we want to give you an opportunity to do that publicly, especially on this last

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year.

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We have a couple of mics up here and John and I are going to carry them around and give

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you an opportunity to say something if you'd like to, to the Lord's glory.

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Looking upon his faithfulness, his goodness, his love in your life this last year, it's

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also a time for us to look inward and to examine our hearts to see where we are tonight and

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then to set some new goals, perhaps.

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The Christian life is a series of new beginnings and there's nothing like the beginning of

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a new year to establish a new beginning.

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So what is it but a time of rededication as well?

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Maybe there are some areas of your life tonight you want to give afresh to the Lord.

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But first, let's talk about the things of the past year.

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As you reflect upon the last 12 months, maybe the last week, would you like to share something

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with us, all of us, what God's done in your life?

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John, why don't you grab the mic there.

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You may not feel that it's profound enough to share.

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Well, you know, that's not the case.

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It doesn't have to be profound.

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All it has to be is sincere, something God's done in your life.

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Perhaps you're visiting tonight and you'd like to share something.

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That's fine.

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Who'll be first?

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Right over here we have one.

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Hello.

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There we go.

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Right over here we have one.

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I need to stand up.

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Give us your name first.

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I've never been here before.

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I'm Steve Sater and we heard about the movie tonight.

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The best thing, I guess, that happened this year, the Lord's been just a blessing in all

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areas.

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But my wife and I were married on March 25 of this year and I'm blessed.

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Great.

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Thank you for being here too.

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Yes, we're glad to have you.

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Does she have a word there to share?

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Rebuttal?

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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And I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I'm glad you're here.

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Great.

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Thank you for being here too.

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Yes, we're glad to have you.

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Does she have a word there to share?

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Rebuttal.

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I'm sure she feels equally as blessed.

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No, no.

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Let's be the first year.

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How many of you were married in the last year?

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I think there are several couples here.

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Look at this.

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My goodness.

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Happy anniversary to all of you.

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I've been married a long time ago, but I was married this year, too.

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He's tired tonight, folks.

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Who will be next?

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We've got one over here.

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You have to give him the name first.

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Steve Peterson.

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The Lord has really blessed us in many ways this year, too,

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but I guess the biggest blessing of the year was leading

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Rose and I back into ministry with Youth Investment and

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something we always wanted to be a part of and glad to be back

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with them.

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It isn't an easy road, is it?

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I just want to thank the Lord.

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You need to give us your name first.

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Gabriel Woods.

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I call him Gabe.

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I just want to thank the Lord publicly tonight for his

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faithfulness and his, I'm trying to think of a proper word,

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consistency and taking care of me and my life no matter what

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the circumstances have been.

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This year has been a year of like a big rollercoaster ride,

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a lot of physical problems, but then again a lot of material

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blessing together.

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And he is just, well, the words can't describe it.

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I just want to thank him publicly for what he's done and

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for the prayers of the people in this church.

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Can I ask you one specific thing?

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This last year the Lord provided Gabe with a van that he

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can use to drive himself.

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You've been dependent pretty much upon other people to

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take you, haven't you?

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I had a car, but I had to have help to get in and out of it.

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So now he's able to get himself into the van and drive where

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he wants to go and that's been a blessing to you, I know.

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We rejoice in that.

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Thanks, Gabe.

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Inevitably there are people who say, oh, I wish I had said

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something.

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Here we go.

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Here we go.

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All right.

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Marge Charles from Gardner, Massachusetts.

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And I just looked at the next verse down here that said,

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through him let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise

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to God that is the fruit of lips that give thanks to his name.

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And I can just praise God that he is faithful and that in

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times of difficulty that we do not understand we can offer up

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sacrifices of praise and we can give thanks to him.

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I had this experience this year on October 18th when I found

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my husband dead in the bathroom.

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My immediate one was a panic first, but after I called the

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ambulance for help, the Lord just filled that bathroom and I

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could offer up sacrifices of praise to God and fruit of lips.

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And the ambulance lady that was still on the phone, I had a

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cordless phone, and she just heard me just praising God and

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thanking God.

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And she said, oh, my, it must be wonderful to have such faith.

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And it really is.

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You know, when you're filled with the Spirit, when you walk in

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the Spirit, the Holy Spirit is right there to minister to you

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in your time of need.

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Great is his faithfulness.

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Thank you.

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Amen.

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We have one over here.

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As I told you, it was starting to go.

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My wife will be thankful all year.

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Name first.

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My name is Cheryl Dankers.

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I'm not used to that microphone.

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The Lord's really blessed me in several areas in my life.

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One is that my husband Mike and I were married about six weeks

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ago.

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That's just terrific.

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Another area is that I was able to witness to an attorney that

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I worked with that he's been dealing with alcoholism off and

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on for about the last six or seven years.

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And it came to the point where I was going to help him jump start

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his car.

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Practically blew up my car.

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And so later called me that evening and we ended up being on

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the phone for about an hour and a half and I was able to share

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with him all the joy and all the blessings that God's been able

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to bring into my life.

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And I feel really blessed that God gave me that opportunity to

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witness.

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And I've also really noticed for the first time in my life I

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really gave up something to God to take care of for me.

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And that was I was during the summer having some difficulty

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choosing what kind of employment options I wanted to take.

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And I just said, God, there's too many choices here and I don't

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have any answers here.

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You take it.

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And it was just a real blessing because I really gave everything

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to him in that area and he really led me in the direction I

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felt I had to go.

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It's been a really marvelous year.

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Thank you.

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About two more minutes we're going to let everyone testify by

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taking an offering.

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How's that?

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A thanks to the Lord.

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That's my cue to the fellows who are going to help us out there.

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That means ushers get ready.

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This is as far as I can come so you have to come the rest of the

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way.

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Name first.

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My name is Allison Holeslider and I really thank the Lord that I

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can be here tonight because on the 21st of March this year in

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Africa at 430 in the afternoon my wife and I with several other

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missionaries from MAF were dumped in a river with no life

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jackets and a boat with no floatation.

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The river was about three times as wide as the Mississippi over

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at 694.

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We all came up and was able to grab onto the boat and we finally

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got the attention of two fishermen who came to our rescue

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and eventually got us all to shore.

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My wife could not swim.

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She went under a couple of times, finally came up.

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I don't know who got her but anyway they did.

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I can swim but I hadn't been swimming for 20 years.

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And we had three children under five years old.

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Everybody got onto those children.

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And finally our daughter went back up the river with two

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fishermen and got a boat down to rescue us about 930,

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plenty really black dark.

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When we got back there was a large group of natives and people

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from the native church there to greet us.

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And I just know that we never would have made it.

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The Lord just reached down and took us out of that river

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because we were helpless.

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John Lewis is an MAF missionary over there and he's married to

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our daughter Anita.

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And I've read many times in missionaries where they've had

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miracles happen and even though this was a very bad experience,

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I shared a miracle with missionaries and now when I read

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those stories I really appreciate the stories.

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And I just thank the Lord that I'm here tonight because I know

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that he just, I'm here because he took us out of that river

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and I just can't thank him enough for it.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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I read that story somewhere.

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It's been printed in some periodical since last March.

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In MAF's paper I think that's where I read it.

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Thank you.

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Yes, we'll do that now and we'll come back to another time

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of testimony here in a moment.

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My friend Sam Grant here in the front is from Canada and up

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there would like to say it's time to lift the offering.

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However, lift has a little different connotation here in

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the United States so if he ever says that to you,

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why don't be alarmed?

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He's not going to mug you.

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But it is time for our offering and this is a real joy that we

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have to share together in the ministry of the Church and I

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know that there are some who want to take the opportunity to

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share tonight in particular so we'll do that right now.

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Would you join me please in prayer?

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Let's bow together.

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Lord, we want to thank you for sparing the lives of these folks

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and their loved ones and other missionaries and even some who

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are here in this auditorium otherwise tonight.

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So wonderfully have you protected and guided us in this year

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and yet in some other cases you've chosen to call home

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faithful servants too and we bless you for that.

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Your plan is perfect Father and we're glad that we can relax

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and rest in faith knowing that you make no mistakes.

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Thank you for allowing us this time together tonight and for

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bringing us together as a family,

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a family of the children of God.

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Bless I pray our sharing in the offering this evening in Jesus'

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name, Amen.

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My name is Don.

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Don?

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Yes, Don Sattler from Northwestern College.

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Sattler, S-A-T-T-L-A-R.

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Do you have any relatives in Michigan?

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No.

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That's my sister's name, just one.

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Oh, okay.

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Since I came to know the Lord, he's become really real to me

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and through my trials and joys and through a lot of prayer

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and as I draw close to him, he's become really,

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very real to me.

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And during the beginning of this year,

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the start of this year, I'd like to see not only myself

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say I encourage you or challenge you or whatever.

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I'd just like to say please draw closer to the Lord

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and I hope and I pray that he becomes incredibly real,

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more than just a friend, you know.

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A savior, the savior, I hope he becomes really real to everybody

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and he's becoming real to me and he's becoming more real,

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more real every day.

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I just want to say let's go for it.

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Thanks, Don.

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Did you say yes or no?

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Okay, go ahead.

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I'm Mike Gessler.

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The other day in the mail I received a little notice

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from the Association for Retired Persons

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and I knew that a lot of things had happened this past year

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and as I read through that, it said that you needed to be 50

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to qualify to be a member in this organization.

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I thought, well, I did a lot this last year

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but I didn't think 15 years got added on to my age.

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But in any case, my wife teased me quite a bit about that

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and we finally threw it in the wastebasket

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and it's time to carry on.

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The thing I'm most thankful for this year is something

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I had struggled with for a long time and that is that

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in the family that I grew up in, we always drank beer with our meals

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and I was very used to drinking beer and thought nothing of it

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with a name like Gessler and a good German background.

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I just thought that was normal.

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And I finally got to the point in my Christian walk

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where I decided that I needed to quit doing that

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and it was very difficult for me.

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And since May, I've been victorious and have not had alcohol beer.

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Fortunately, they make this non-alcohol beer

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and I still love the taste of beer.

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But I try and limit myself on that too.

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But the victory over not having to have an alcoholic drink

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or a beer with a meal is something I had grown up with

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and I thought I could never overcome that,

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but the Lord does supply and give the power to overcome anything.

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Amen. Thank you, Mike.

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This Irishman up here was just saying,

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Amen, Amen.

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The pastor's been picking on me tonight.

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I don't know why.

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I want to thank the Lord that we were led to Minnesota and to this church.

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We have really met a lot of friends, our families in Toronto

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and other families in Belfast, Northern Ireland,

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and we have just met the Montgomery's, the Slaytons.

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There's just an awful lot of people that we have met.

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It might be a big church, but if you go searching,

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there's other people here who want to meet you

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and want to have friendship with you.

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And here's the best pastor I've ever had,

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and boy, he makes me feel welcome in a church.

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Applause

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Wow, thank you, Sam.

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I think it's time for the film.

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Should we do that, John?

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Fine. Like I say, you're the boss.

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Yes, I know.

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Do we need somebody on the projector for you?

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Okay.

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The film tonight is The Godmakers.

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It is a film that is an expose of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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It is a very powerful film.

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I talked to a friend of mine today who's...

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Concluding