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Wow, what an honor. What an honor. And, hey, before I begin, I just want to say on behalf of my wife wendy thank you passion

has had a significant influence on us and our kids years ago louis and shelley would allow us to

sneak our middle school age kids into passion which was awesome and they just kept coming back year

after year and now our kids are adults by the way for the young parents in the room, Winnie and I highly recommend empty nesting, by the way, just telling you

know that. But both of our kids are in ministry now, and so much of that was influenced by you.

Years ago, I had lunch with Louis, and Louis was telling me about this idea that the Lord had

laid on his heart in Shelley's about launching Passion City Church. And now look at all that it's happened. 515, look at the

incredible work that's happening there. Cumberland, this is amazing. Trilliff, I was there this

week. That's absolutely phenomenal. We were at Passion D.C. last summer. I just want to say to the

doorholders, first of all, thank you.

To those of you that give financially to make all of this happen, thank you. And we're so

excited about what's going to happen next month at State Farm Arena. I just want to say thank you.

And if you're here for the first time at any of our locations, I just want to let you know,

you're surrounded by some of the most amazing, wonderful people. And so I just want to say thank you, thank you,

thank you for the influence that you've had on our family. I'm also honored to be here in this

incredible collection of talks that Louis has done over the last couple of weeks called grace and

glory if you haven't seen those the next last weeks you need to

and then I also love the fact that I'm here in Christmas because when it comes to Christmas

I've never really grown up when it comes to Christmas I love Christmas I love Christmas lights

I love Christmas movies I love 24 hours of Ralphie when TBS shows the Christmas story for 24 hours in a row.

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