Gooday folks. Pastor John Tyson here. Thank you for tuning into the Church of the City, New York

podcast from wherever you find yourself listening today, either here in New York or around the world.

I wanted to take a moment to say thank you so much for listening in and having an awareness of what God's

doing here in our church. For us, it's been a really remarkable year in our church. And I wanted to take a

moment just to say thank you for being a part of our one-line community and joining what God is doing

here in New York. And I wanted to invite you not just to listen to our podcast, but join us here

in our mission. You know we love New York City. New York is the 16th most lost city in America, statistically.

Almost 5 million people in the city do not know Jesus. In the last two decades, we've seen

in almost 20% decline in adults who claim any religious faith or belief in God.

Stats on The Next Generation show that bar a radical move of God and youth discipleship,

we're going to reach a place of almost irreversible decline. And our church is here in the middle

of New York, giving ourselves to do something about that. And right now we're in the middle

of our end of year giving campaign called Living the Liturgy. And we're asking God for $3 million to extend our mission here in New York.

Got a couple of things we're working on.

We're going to build a center for vocational mission.

Most people come to the city for their jobs.

And most people have a very, very thin vision of discipleship in the workplace.

We've got some really fresh content on this,

and we are really committed to bringing experts

in their industries and fields together

to think about how the kingdom of God advances.

We're gonna talk about a theology of each industry,

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