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How long?    Joshua 18:1-6

Great privilege to honor our senior Pastor’s Pastor Matt and Pastor Crystal

As we do life together, I have an opportunity to know and see these guys heart. I know you do to.

They are accessible, they are loving, they care so much about our spiritual growth

I could spend the next hour heaping praise on what they have done because they are great people who love people, who worship, love and honor God

Pastor Matt and Pastor Crystal, you guys pour out so much to all of us and today we want to encourage you so you can continue to do what you do.

We want to let us know what a great impact you have on our lives, our families live and all those around us.

A short break, then on Tuesday the congregation can start calling you again.

I speak from a point of transformations – My life, Eva’s life and our girls’ lives have been changed for good forever

Pastor Matt, you have taught me so many things and one of the greatest is to be vulnerable before God…man did I have walls, and as I watched you weep as you preached, I watched and learnt to soften my heart…This allowed God in and He began a work in me

Pastor Crystal- you taught me to face my past through the eyes of God. I heard you share your struggles and how you have overcome because of Christ.

You were bold and you continue to be by showing us your scars, and those scars signify great healing, great love from God and the power overcome. Though I was a sinner, I could still be used by God. I praise God

I am not an exception – One family that goes to our church said ….

Pastors Matt and Pastor Crystal have impacted our lives beyond the description of words. There was a time in our family’s life where we were at a breaking point. Pastors Matt and Crystal came along side us and they were the vessels God used to not only save our family but help it flourish the way God intended it to. ………After a few months of them pouring into us day and night, our marriage took a complete 180 degree turn. Honestly the reason for this was that we were obedient to our shepherds and did EVERYTHING they told us to do. We didn’t get offended. We didn’t get upset. We listened and obeyed. They continue to pour into us and our family and their faithfulness to their flock is incomprehensible. 

When I first came to Faith and Victory, my life was a disaster. It was through this church and the preaching of the true gospel that I was led to a real relationship with Jesus and it changed my life. He restored everything I had lost, destroyed, or allowed to be taken from me, including my marriage, finances, and relationships. I’ve gained friends closer than brothers, helped start two ministries, and serve in several others by the grace of God. He’s healed me of several addictions, given me freedom from sin that had enslaved me for years, and empowered me to serve Him in ways I never would have imagined.

Joshua story – Joshua 18:1-6 Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.[a] 2 But there remained seven tribes who had not yet been allotted their grants of land.

3 Then Joshua asked them, “How long are you going to wait before taking possession of the remaining land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given to you? 4 Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to explore the land and map it out. They will then return to me with a written report of their propo...