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okay guys how are you? I have like a praise report it just happened hot off

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the presses so I was like you know what I have not done a journey share this

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week maybe not now last week either let me get one in so um so I was I mentioned

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a little bit on the last fireside chat that or journey share evening that you

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know you know I had basically been asking God like for you know I've been

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talking to him throughout the course of the day just like learning that I can do

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that and just like it doesn't have to be a designated of time whatever and so I

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just been asking about things that are you know I'm like hey you know what

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should I do about a job situation like yada yada yada and it's good but you

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know I was like you know what this morning it was probably like Wednesday

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or something I was just like you know what like I've been asking you for a

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lot of things Kim seems kind of one-sided like what can I do for you

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like how can I serve you today and let me tell you so the same day then this

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lady who I'd sat next to in church in early February that I felt like was a

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God appointment because I wanted to start serving in the children's ministry

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and she like got me hooked up to the children's pastor like so fast and you

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know I was able to fill out the paperwork and stuff and so I hadn't

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finalized the last piece and so she texts me that same day that I would ask

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God like what can I do for you and how can I serve you and like it was asking

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me about like could I work this Sunday at the children's ministry and so I was

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like oh my god this is so cool so I was like let me um let me reach out to my

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dad and ask him because we were supposed to do like celebrate his birthday that

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same Sunday just but we hadn't nailed down the exact time that day so I talked

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to him and then he goes on and he tells me like oh sure Tamia because you know

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obviously I'm gonna be going to church that day and I told about it he told me

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his conversion story a little bit of it and then he told me about like his call

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to work with children and it was just amazing and then he told me about my

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little sisters who are like five and seven and so in like how about them

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wanting to be baptized and saying like I want to be the church I want to get

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today and so anyway I just was like astounded that it was like I heard this

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testimony I asked God how could I help and serve today and then he connected me

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back with Rachel who had met at church like a month and a half before and so

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today I'm in the church parking lot I met with the youth pastor Nancy and

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because I'm going to be serving on on Sunday and so that's great in itself but

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like y'all I'm gonna tell you about this meeting with Nancy so you know I

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filled out the little questionnaires like you know just asking kind of a

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little bit about your walk or why do you want to serve with kids it was it was

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good questions and so but she just like kind of went a little deeper she was

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like well tell me more about that totally like this awakening that you've

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had because that's what I call it this rest attention and so in a little bit

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about your your your you know past history or whatever so told her a little

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about that told her about this and so I'm like I'm trying to articulate like

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what I've been like experiencing and the just change and the the truths that I

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understand deeply and have experienced now as a result of being in the rest

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intensive and I'm like I don't know if I'm articulating it but she was like

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yeah yeah she's like I'm tracking with you I'm tracking with you I really am

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and so and I was like okay and then she started to talk and I promise you y'all

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she was using some of the same terms that Ashley was using I was like dang

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look you really are tracking with me like you really get it and so I just

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started like crying because I just was like when she walked me through like the

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schedule for the kids in the heart of like the ministry and what she wanted

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what they wanted to get across to the kids it just was like I was like oh my

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golly this really was a god appointment because it they are teaching the kids

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like the same stuff or similar stuff that we're we've been learning in the

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rest intensive and that's been my heart this whole time I just was like when I

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started to like when it started clicking I was like oh my god like I just want I

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don't want kids to have to I don't want people to have to wait to their 44 to

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get this like I want them to be able to understand it from a young age and grow

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up in their faith at this level you know that we're experiencing now and so

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I'm like not mad at God I'm just like astounded because that's exactly what it

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is and she was like you know what the number one thing I

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I want the kids to be safe.

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She's like, the second thing is,

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I want them to like experience God and encounter God.

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And she's like, if we get to the,

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and then she was like, if we get to, if we get that,

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then the third thing is this, that they know that,

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you know, and she just was going through it

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and I just was like, oh my gosh.

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So I know that, I don't know if you can understand this,

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but like, I'm like really excited.

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I don't know if I'm explaining it correctly,

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but long story short is that God answers prayers

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and I love that he has put this desire in my heart

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and he's like plugged me in to the place

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where I can express this.

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And also I think about it just now and I get emotional

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because I was at this church in the spring,

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March of last year,

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when I was just really going through some challenging times

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and stuff and God really like used this,

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like the body here, whether it's just purely in worship

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or going up for prayer to like really like speak to my heart

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and the fact that like now I'm just like,

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I see like God, he knew it all along.

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He knew where I was gonna be in this moment

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and he really did, you know,

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and he led me to this point,

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but he already knew, you know, back last spring

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and then he knows even, you know, next year.

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So I'm just like, just overjoyed,

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heart full of gratitude because he's just amazing.

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It's just another episode of experiencing,

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like experiencing his love.

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And so I just wanted to share that with y'all

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while it was fresh and I hope it wasn't too convoluted,

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but if nothing else, I think you, my heart,

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you heard it through this message.

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So anyway, I love you guys

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and I guess I'll see you for our last

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Fireside Chat this Thursday, bye.