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Couple of little announcements to make you want to remember that next week is daylight saving time. So now I've warned you and so if you're not here, it's your fault. And you get a tardy note and letter will go to your parents. And also next week is the men's breakfast. And so with the signup sheet out there, and because Frank and I make the men's breakfast, we need to know how many are coming. So make sure you put your name in the signup sheet. It's a great time for the guys to get together and talk about the things of God and just have fellowship with other members. And so that's all I have for announcements, right? Okay. We want to remember Jill's dad in prayer. Joe pumping his dad and he is in a very difficult place physically, and he needs to know Jesus. And so let's really keep him in prayer. And also our brother Joe, Diana. And you know, his, his mom always sits over here. Diane Diana. And as you all know, we've been praying for him because he needs to have a liver transplant. And he was found unconscious on his floor because his blood pressure was so low. And so they had to take him to the hospital. And so his mom had put on the prayer chain that he would be able to get a better strong Memorial. And what was an hour later, he had a very strong Memorial. So now we have to be praying that a liver would become available for him to have a transplant. So let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name and we thank you so much for the fact that you're the God of love, who loves us even when we're unlovable. And Lord, we pray, Father that you would just pour out your love on us as a body as a fellowship. us a message this morning to encourage us and draw us closer to you. Father, we pray specifically for Jill's dad is Jerry and we asked father that this would be the day of his salvation, that you would work a miracle It'd be the day that he would commit his life to you. And he would have eternal life, this life would just be a byproduct of the new life you've given him. And Father, we think of our brother Joey, and we're so thankful that he's it has the better strong Memorial. And now we ask father, that you would find a liver for him, that he might be able to have the transplant that he so desperately needs. And we pray, Lord, that whoever the donor would be that person would be a believer as well. And Father, we thank you for the very fact that you have given us eternal life, not because of any worthiness in our own part, but because you're worthy because if your love It's enough, Father, come and minister to us, I pray in Christ Jesus name, Amen. And Amen. You know, it's interesting that a Friday night we had our first and if you missed it, don't feel bad because we're we are going to do it every couple months now. But we had our first fellowship night where We just came, brought something to share. And we just talked about questions we had concerning the Lord. And one of the questions that was asked Friday night was, Why did God create us? I mean, you really think about it, we ended up becoming such a pain. You know, why did he create us? And, of course, none of us really knows the full answer. But we know he is our Heavenly Father. And one of the things I was thinking about is why do we have children? We know they're going to be a pain. But we love them and hopefully through our encouragement instruction, they're going to end up doing well in life, right? And God is love. And His love is so beyond what we can even understand that for some reason, he desired to create a people for the very express purpose of loving him.