Courting, in.
Good morning. Some of you guys don't know me, but I went here when I was a single person, and when I was married and.
Just kind of wanted to give a quick update. My name is Tim Scanlan, and I serve Bible translators.
My wife. Sharon and I went here for a while, and.
John Dockcorn married us, and.
Just really have been influenced by the chapel and many individuals in the chapel, in my walk with the Lord, and in ministry, so just, very thankful for those of you that it's known as me. My wife and I will be married 34 years this month, so very thankful for that gem from heaven.
And my son Steve just got married or not married. Just got engaged a week or so ago, so we're very thankful for that.
My daughter.
Is 28 now, and she serves in a church working with the music ministry in Colorado.
And my son Luke is 19. He still lives at home, and.
Just doing well in school in a local school near us. But if you think of Luke, pray for him, he's still got some teenage challenges in his life a little bit.
I want to. Just give an update for on Bible translation. There's some really interesting good things happening right now.
Kind of significant things, and I want to read just a verse here from Matthew 2014.
And the good news about the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world.
That all the nations will hear.
And then the end will come. And that's happening in our day. I'm gonna put my glasses on so I can actually read this. But Wycliffe has something called vision 2,025. And it was basically in 1,999. The leaders.
Looked at the progress of Bible translation and thought.
How long will it take to at least get a translation started in every language that needed it?
And it was the number was 150 years.
So they kind of went and were praying and saying, Is there.
God! Is there a way that this could happen quicker? And they came up with something called vision.
To see a Bible translation program started in every language that needs one.
By the end of 2,025.
And we kind of progress towards that.
But it was clearly not going to be reached.
But some things happened like the last 7.
17 years, 5 years whatever, something like that.
And it's and really the only thing I could explain it would be that.
God is raising up the global church.
And that the the church, the local.
Taking ownership of their own translation.
And it's it's a partnership. So it's the local churches.
Mission agencies, like-minded agencies.
Getting together and talking about. How could we do this together?
And it's it's just pretty exciting, like pretty much
Right now. There's about 3,000 partnerships.
Working together with Wycliffe, at least.
And again, just local churches taking ownership of.
Of the work, and this was that partnership, I guess, with the local church is accelerating this work in great ways, but, like some of you may have seen this. This was the 500th New Testament of Wycliffe.
And it took 67 years to get to the 500.
So 67 years! 17 years later they reached the 1,000.th
So just the speed of translation work, the accuracy of it in 1,009 sorry, 2,019.
Every 120 h there was a new translation. Work started in 2,024 every 15 HA new translation is started.
So there's actually today, there's 450 days.
Left till the end of.
End of 2025.
And right now there's 1,982.
Projects going on in the world.
And as of September first, st there's only 985.
985 languages left.
That still need a translation. Work started, and that seems like a lot. But so far, this year, in 2,024 languages have been started so far just this year. So it's a very real possibility that every language on earth.
That needs a translation will at least have a Bible translation project by the end of 2,025. That's that's pretty amazing.
And when you think about a language project started.
It's missionaries going to that field.
There's people praying, there's funds going to there. And traditionally, even if really difficult things happen.
Those people working.
Persever through that, and the translation work does get done.
So it's just a very exciting thing to see what's happening. And again, that Matthew 2414.
And the good news about the kingdom will be priests throughout the whole world.
So that all nations will hear it, and then the end will come.
It's just pretty exciting work to think about when those new translations are started.
You know, there's a verse that comes out.
Or there is a portion of Scripture, or there's the Gospel of John.
But that's the 1st time that Scripture's been available there. So it's like for that language community. Sometimes it's that country, sometimes it's a whole region.
So some real significant things happening.
My role. I guess in this.
We've been involved with Wycliffe for about 10 years.
I'm the director of workforce mobilization. So recruitment and mobilization.
So we, we support the work.
By pretty much praying and seeing God raise up the new missionaries that will complete this work and stuff. So that's my team's work.
I have mobilizers that go to.
Christian campuses and churches.
Get presentations and call out the new workers.
And then we have recruiters that work one on one with people.
To to prepare them and help them find their assignment.
It actually practically happens where there's these partners.
That are doing the work on the field.
And then the the leadership of those partners say.
Or but these are the jobs we need. These are the missionary roles. We need.
To actually accomplish this translation.
And then our team is really focused on praying and seeing God fill those.
I think that's all I really wanted to share, but it just.
Our God is doing an amazing thing in our time.
That that has never happened ever before, that.
Every language on earth would have Scripture in their hands. So something to be praying about. And again, it's not Wycliffe.
God doing His work, and the body of Christ doing the work together.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Tim.
So everyone should have received a bulletin.
In that bulletin. There's a.
An agenda sort of laid out about the things that we're gonna be discussing today.
And I have the pleasure of being able to.
Talk to you about the new.
Church management system that we're going to be launching into. And it's going to be.
We've started using it this year for some background things that.
Aren't particularly significant to anybody's actual.
Day-to-day life, but.
We're going to be now moving into the next phase which is going to be impacting everyone.
And Jamie and I have realized.
That we do better. Our kids do better when we give people like a 5 min warning like, if the kids are playing in the basement, we're like.
Come up here. They're like grumbling and grouchy, but if we're like you've got 5 min.
Then they kind of like get it out of their system.
And so this is your 5 min warning. It's coming, and there's going to be changes that are affecting to everybody. But.
Good changes some of the things that.
I've heard not. I wouldn't call them criticisms, but
Areas that we can improve on as a chapel ways that we can.
Potentially do better is communication.
Organization. And this, very specifically, is going to help us.
Try to be organized and try to communicate better. So it's gonna be a wonderful.
Tool that's gonna be very powerful for all of us.
Who here has ever used the Internet before.
Does anybody actively own a computer.
Does anybody have a smartphone.
Okay? Well, you're in luck, because this is gonna be right up your alley.
So this is breeze. This is the church software.
That. Okay. Sorry.
So this is breeze. The thing before was just a picture of the stained glass. This is breeze.
And this is what the the.
What we're switching to.
There is kind of like layers that.
Is going to be implemented where there can be kind of users who are going to be able to impact more like behind the scenes stuff. But this is what the regular.
Everyday person who's attending the church is going to have access to.
And it's going to be 3 primary things.
It's going to be church directory.
It's going to be a calendar.
Of the events that are going to be taking place.
And it's going to be the way that we communicate prayer requests and requests throughout the chapel. Those are the 3.
Functions that everybody's gonna have access to.
So it starts with our own profiles that we're going to.
Be able to kind of update.
John Darby, one of our older members, 223 years old. So.
We're gonna be able to have information about ourselves. Information about our.
Phone numbers and our addresses email addresses. So it's a way for everybody to in real time. As you move as you change your phone number, as you have different.
Life. Events happen. We can stay connected.
Through, either.
Desktop version of this or through an app that's on your phone.
I'm gonna be out in the lobby in the coming weeks to help everyone kind of.
Get set up.
And then, as more people start to feel comfortable with it, you can help your neighbors, and it can kind of disseminate out like that. But this.
Is the first.st The 1st aspect is you yourself, your own profile, setting those up.
The second thing would be the church. So this is.
A list of all the people who are.
Currently attending the chapel that we had information from.
If you're newer here, and we don't have your information. I'm sorry we don't have it yet, but on the back side of the meeting agenda.
There should be name phone number, email, address.
On a little.
Handout that that's on the back of the agenda, and then there's a basket on the pew back pew.
That you can just drop that in. We can.
Put the information in there and get you.
An invitation to set up your own profile.
So that's.
This isn't going to take away the hard copy of the church that's still going to be an option. But you also have the ability to have.
A church directory on your phone at any given time. So you can in real time contact people, you can send emails or text messages.
To anybody who's on the list who's provided email addresses and cell phone numbers.
So.
Better way to communicate as far.
Planning an organization goes.
We have a chapel calendar. So this is the upcoming week today is obviously we have the Lord Supper. We have the family hour.
Tomorrow's an elders meeting Wednesday night, the regular Wednesday night study. There's a Thursday night.
Or there's a Thursday morning study this upcoming Saturday on the 12.th
There's a lady's fellowship event, and we can just.
Again. You can have this on your phone. You can have this.
Where you can regularly check in what's going on at the church. Is there anything that we need to be doing.
As far as events that we need to be attending, or whatever we we are able to communicate, that in real time.
For some of the people who are going to be leading things.
There's also ways to implement.
Like.
Like. There's gonna be the ability to put in here. Who's gonna be doing music on a weekly basis? Who's going to be participating and taking down the Lord's table, or.
This function or that function. We have the ability to actually go in here to set up reminders. So that if you've signed up to be a part of a ministry. You can.
Be reminded to participate when it's time.
Very very helpful.
Again. This is this is the 5 min warning. This is the brief overview. This is just to let you know that it's coming, and.
As we get into it, there's going to be more information. It's just important that everybody is on the same page, and that we all know.
This is coming. The last thing.
Would be. There's forms that we can fill out. So couples are treated as coming.
We have the ability with this.
To sign up online to pay your registration fees online.
Do all the required things that we're normally doing. At the last second.
Rushing to get through the information.
We can now plan to do this beforehand and get everything squared away, so that when 0 h comes we're ready.
So again.
This is breeze. We're going to help.
Get everybody on the same page. We're all going to go through this together. There's going to be learning curves. There's going to be.
Hiccups along the way. We're going to learn the process as we go.
But this has the ability to be very, very powerful. Tool again, to help us communicate, to help us stay organized.
And this is going to be something that.
Is coming, and as it comes we're gonna communicate with you.
What is required of you, and how.
Taking feedback. How we can do this.
Even better, so that everybody can.
Do the best that we can do, so.
That's it for me. Craig is gonna be coming with the financial report now.
And I'll get him squared away.
And just.
With breeze. It is just a tool. It's not something that you have to use.
All the communication through will either go to your cell phone number if.
You allow it to, if you can, opt out of text messaging, and you can opt out of.
The emails that come through breeze. But anything that's communicated through breeze would just go to your actual email.
And what's nice is with the chapel email that we have now, it's going out to people that were here maybe 25 years ago that are still in there. They don't have a way to opt out unless they email and say, Hey, take me off the list.
This have an unsubscribe button right at the bottom.
But there's so many things that we can do so.
It's pretty exciting. One of my favorite things is you can go in at the end of the year and download your contributions for the year.
With a letter from the chapel that.
Says all the necessary things for tax donations and all that stuff. So.
There's a lot of things that it can do, and it's gonna be a great tool. But.
It's not anything that anyone's gonna be.
Forced to use breeds if you don't want to use it. We're still gonna have paperies in.
All that stuff side note. When I went to the baptism I went in my breeze app.
Pull up. Carmen clicked on the maps and got directions that easily so.
There's a lot of cool stuff I can do.
You had mentioned it. There.
Yes, yeah, I mean, that's that's a function that an Admin has a member.
You just have certain rules and restrictions of what you can see. So you just see your own.
Donations and people's information just like that. It's in the directory. You wouldn't see anybody else's.
Contributions. Is that what you're asking.
Yeah, yeah, you'll just see your own. See? The whole list.
Yeah. So I'm Craig Mackenrick. I've been a treasure here for, say, like 14 years, and I've been a deacon for does anybody know how long I've been Deacon.
Job, I say, like 8 or 9 years, I think.
7, 8, 9 somewhere in there.
I should know the exact date, but.
So I have served as a treasure, and.
Really, I'm grateful for the position and just gonna go over a little bit.
As deacons. What we do is we have 2 meetings generally that we run. One is the business meeting.
Which is kind of the update that I may give you. Today we meet monthly. We go over the finances of the chapel. We go over the.
Contributions that came in, and all the expenses that went out. And then we talk about various ministries and.
And needs like building needs of the chapel.
Is that basically we need to spend money on.
Or things that we should be spending money on like breeze.
Things like that that came up in a business meeting. The other meeting we have is, we have a monthly deacons meeting a lot of times we meet with our wives.
And from that perspective we.
Look it as assistance to the elders where the elders are.
Overseeing everybody, spiritual needs and all that. And we are kind of looking at more like the physical needs of people.
So we meet. We have a list that we go through of individuals on. There we pray for them.
And discussing.
We bring our wives into that. So.
They're.
Just an extra set of eyes that can help us to see, and maybe.
More insight information on some things that we wouldn't have as men so.
Those are 2 things that we do on a monthly basis. My time is running quickly.
Just gonna give a financial how we are year to date and.
Go over some of the monthly support.
That we have. I think we shared just the last time, and then.
Just talk about a couple of other funds that we have.
So this year, financial update year to date through the end of September, we have.
General fund income of 157,000.
We had general fund expenses of 195. So you can see this year we're running at a deficit of $37,797.
And we have a general fund balance of 41,000.
I'd say it's.
Mainly due to just contributions, are down this year as compared to last year.
Expenses are pretty much the same.
Some of the big expenses that we have is one of the things we did. We plan on for the last.
We've done it for a while, has a.
Matching Scholarship Fund for students from assemblies. You go to Emas. If.
Their assembly sends a contribution of 500 h for the student. They will match that 2 to one, so they'll give $1,000 to the students. Go in there per semester.
So the students that we have, I think we currently have 4 there. So we gave this semester 2,000 h gift.
Which then is turned into.
That'd be 4,000.
To everyone for those students that are attending.
This semester and.
The monthly support is what we give to our.
Commanded workers. So it's a little over $10,000 a month in.
Friends of the assembly and.
That's that's our biggest expense.
10,000 over 10,000 months. Of that our insurance annual insurance is.
6,000 ish, we cut that in half. It was 12,000, and speaking so when people come.
On a Sunday, and they speak, or they come to a conference.
And like the upcoming retreat.
We will give them a gift and pay for their travel, and those kind of things.
That total for the year is.
20,000. So of that, you know.
That's well over half of that 197,000 h between these expenses that we're doing.
These are just the people that I mentioned for the monthly support the missionaries and commanded workers of what's available that we.
Support on a monthly basis the amount that we give.
And we also have the Gus Quinn Fund, which is.
The one that we have available to help send kids to camp because camp costes keep rising. I think this year is over 700.
Camp to go to Wika Camp. So we we support anybody who wants to go to camp because it's been a huge impact in my life and many people's lives. So we.
Really want to encourage kids to go to camp. I think even again this year.
At the baptism. Colton talked about how it impacted his.
His faith and his by going to camp. That was a big impact in his spiritual life. So.
Something that we really want to continue as a chapel.
So we do like a 50% shift to anybody. And then anybody who needs more.
We work with you to get you.
Fully funded to go to camp. So it's just a reminder to send your kids to camp.
And then last page is currently have a building fund. Balance has not changed in a while, but it's at 182,000.
As we're currently continuing to see where the Lord leaves us in finding a new building for us just.
You know, and other things here at better parking, more space, more classrooms.
All that kind of stuff. We have a sign going.
That's honestly they get a new sign or get a new building.
Either one. You can go towards either one of those. But if we were gonna stay here.
You know, long term. Then we'd want to have money to get a new sign.
Our insurance fund. We just set them.
Assign one each month to parent bill annually, that we pay every July.
And then at the business meetings we discuss various special ministries.
Has a list going of monthly like.
Which ministries we're going to give to. So some up here. Cml.
Cf. Which is Charlie Evangel.
Evangel was Fellowship, fellowship, cornerstone Magazine, Emma Spott. Things like that made us worldwide my equipment. Industries.
It's on our list of.
We gave you their 500 or 1,000. We just discussed that the meeting, how the month was, and.
Or a finances. I would give gifts each month to.
Various ministries.
Those organizations.
So that's all I have for my time.
Unless there any questions about anything.
Okay.
Yes, please. Support.
Not okay. Sorry. That's year to date.
Yeah, that is kind of confusing. We don't care about 96,000 a month.
But at after 9 months.
It's at 96,150. So.
So divide that by 9.
Nice whatever that comes to 10,000 something a month. But yeah, that.
So I should have done a monthly annual amount. But yeah, it's like 10,000.
150 that we do a month.
Thank you. Thanks.
I think next is Kadim.
To be talking about Sailor. Our youth group here at the chapel.
I'm kaden for those who don't know, so let's get straight into it.
Alright! Let's see.
So what are we studying this year? Well, basically, we're going through the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
So we're taking a deeper look into different Bible characters by doing that.
So, for example, this past week we talked about Noah.
And Philip did the teaching on that.
The week before that we talked about.
Adam, Adam and Eve, and.
How, how it relates to the story of the Bible, how it relates to Christ.
So my last point there you can see our goal is that as we walk through the story of the Bible.
By studying types of Christians, will have a greater understanding of Scripture.
Those dressing in their relationship in Jesus.
The goal is to basically tell the the full story of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.
And I'm very excited to get into that. It's a very interesting study.
I think the kids are enjoying it. So far they seem to be really into it.
And we basically came to this conclusion. We meet every year before we do the sail we meet with the hurdles, and one is, and we kind of talk about what we want to talk about for sale. What's what's on our hearts? And what do we think would be beneficial for the teams.
And we thought this would be super interesting.
For the simple fact that I think there's a lot of Bible stories that we grow up learning in the Bible.
We always have the question, How does this relate to the New Testament? How does this relate to Jesus.
That's pretty much our purpose in our teaching, and.
Yeah, I think on the next slide.
So I have some charts that we're using this year. The chart on the left is the chart that.
One that says, sun, Mediana.
And so we've been using that to, or plot rather. But we've been using that to.
Kind of tell the story of the Bible. So we have, like the intro.
The escalation, like the rising conflict.
Climax, resolution, and then the ending here.
And so this is one that I found online, too. It's pretty cool, has more of a artistic.
Tone to it. But we're kind of like walking through. Okay, what's the creation story all about? How does that relate to the climax of Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. So we took a look into Genesis, chapter 3, where we see the fall of mankind, but we also see God offering a way of salvation, redemption, and genesis. 315.
And then we also have the.
The fall in action, which is basically.
You know Penta calls to Gospels.
And the cool part about this is we get to tell the teams. Listen. You're a part of this story.
Right here for the resolution you get to be a part of God's story, and God can use you as well. He has a purpose for you.
So that's something that we're using to kind of illustrate where we're studying.
Alright some more admin stuff. So for upcoming events.
So this schedule is still in the making, in a sense, so I didn't want to put the whole schedule on there. But for the rest of this month we are.
Started with Abraham on October 11.th
And then we do have a cormace. On October 18.th
So, families. That just means that, you know you can bring your families to come.
I think we will have more information about that soon. I believe Laura might send something out.
In the coming weeks it'd be my 1st time doing the crime. So.
You guys should come out pretty fun. So.
October 25.th It says, no sailor. I would have to talk to Seren more about that.
We might do something fun that week, but it could be event going on so like I said, the schedule is still kind of in the making.
And then November 1st will be continuing with the character of Joseph in the Bible.
Some special events were already mentioned, so be sure to come out to that.
November 20 second, we're having a service project.
I believe we might do something for the homeless this year will be last year.
But we would keep you guys up to date on that.
And then December 13, th we're doing Carolyn again. So last year was my 1st time going. It was a lot of fun. A lot of people came out. And I think you guys should come out for that, too.
And it's just a good time, this fellowship and.
Just have some fun with the teams. So.
We have those special events. We have more coming up as well throughout the year. So we'll keep you guys updated.
Which we're always trying to decide what to do. We have all these ideas, but.
In the short amount of time. So we.
We'll keep you guys updated and.
We'll let you know. So next slide we have.
I just wanted to say thank you to everybody who's participated from leaders.
Different couples serving for the food.
Our Galli Council is basically people who.
We go to to receive prayer and guidance, like the Hardels.
People who've done the youth group in the past.
We also talked to the others quite a bit, and also he gives us some tips, too, as we.
Move along. And this is a huge thank you to you guys, you.
Are really good at just supporting us, and that means a lot.
And just thank you to the the leaders like Philip Laura.
Sarah Esther Seren, you guys are great to work with.
And you guys make things a lot easier. We get to see each other gifts being used.
In the church. So that's pretty awesome.
And then I do have a couple of pictures, so I.
Esther, and to send me some pictures.
I know they have way more than this, so I don't know they were busy or not. But
So on the right here. I believe this was earlier this summer. I want to say May or June. We had, like a summer activity for sale.
So, and this was at Monte House, I believe. No, no.
Oh, Hannah, okay, this is actually yeah. It was a fun time. We had the bonfire.
We had some. There's some music. We had some games.
I just think it's a fun picture more of a silly picture. But it was a fun day. You can see one is on the side there. It looks like he's going to tour, or something. I don't know.
And then on the on my left. Here. This is our kickoff, for that we had recently.
So this was just a couple months ago.
And Neil and Alex's house.
And this was just a fun time. Oh, man, I'm missing this up. Ok, the show.
You guys, houses look the same. I don't know
Yep, but
That's right. That's right down the street. That's right.
But yeah, this is a fun time to actually have a short video that I'm gonna show you guys.
And the kickoffs are always a fun time.
So this kickoff I was supposed to get Polly in the face, but they forgot.
Esther is not gonna be happy because she got in the face. I think last year she's never gonna let that go. So.
But yeah, all. No, I think that's pretty much it for the Admin stuff.
No, it's pretty short. But again, just thank you to everyone, and.
Again. Lots of people are involved in, say, behind the scenes as well. People who are praying, people who are.
Given those resources.
So again, just thank you to anybody who's helping us out.
And then I do have a short video. It's.
I think it's less than 1 min, so we'll show that now.
I think it might have to.
Think we got the solution.
Well, Jim's got it.
Same boat.
Who's been doing.
Is like.
Yeah, yeah.
Thanks, Kadim, appreciate that update. I believe Erin is gonna come and give an update on the ladies. Now.
Okay.
Hi! Everyone for those who don't know me and who are new here I did see a couple new faces.
My name is Aaron Schultz, and I help.
With the Ladies Ministry at Double Bible Chapel.
So I want to share. I was thinking about.
Why we do what we do. And I was thinking about.
How the Lord.
How the Lord is using the Wava Bible chapel.
And so here the Ladies ministry provides an opportunity for the ladies and the young ladies. We've seen a lot of like middle school be more involved.
And it gives our ladies an opportunity to fellowship and build a sense of unity.
Our events throughout the year, aim to bring the ladies of our chapel together.
And also to encourage one another, and to be able to encourage one another in the Word of God.
I was thinking about a verse. Lord, what.
Is a good verse just to kind of have for a theme this year, and I thought about if we 1st John.
If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another.
And that's just a but the second half of that, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us.
So as we meet as believers, and as we meet and gather.
You know we're in the light together.
And we can experience.
The cleansing.
Of his, of his blood.
You know whether it's meeting, and it's a quick prayer with a friend.
Or it's a older lady encouraging a younger.
Lady, you know it's a good time.
To meet and be encouraged.
With us women.
I just want to talk about a couple things. This past year the Ladies Ministry has been active.
And more assisting with bbs.
The youth rally, and supporting other events at the chapel by providing snacks.
And other needs that do relate to meals or snacks. The Ladies Ministry is always available to help. If there's an event.
A funeral, or anything that the chapel may need.
There is a group of women.
Everyone is available to be also a support.
Starting this past January, the Ladies Ministry was involved in preparing monthly.
So that was something new. Starting in January.
It was an opportunity for the chapel.
To come together for a midweek meal.
To encourage each other.
To hear missionary reports.
And to hear ministry.
It brought us together, and I do have to say.
It was not that we talk numbers, but there was a big response to that. I think every.
We had a Wednesday night dinner from January. Didn't have one. In September. We had one.
I believe. In August we had over 40 to 45 people come.
To those Wednesday night dinners, and we were able just to be together midweek.
Which is always encouraging.
And plus it was a night I didn't have to.
So that was always, I mean, maybe I did some cooking, but.
That's always a plus.
Right? Okay? All right. We also gathered this past may.
For joy break. We had Carol Brampton speak to us.
About being rooted.
And grounded in the Word of God.
This past June we had Our Lady's dessert night.
And we heard from Lena.
Isaac's sister-in-law.
And this past September we had our kickoff.
Ladies Ministry, where we had our Lady Salad. Supper.
And foz encouraged us with a message focusing on serving one another in chapel.
There is also numerous ladies Bible studies that happen throughout the year. We had 2 summer gardenings.
For the women to get together as well.
So that's kind of where we've been from. January.
To now
The events that are upcoming.
Consists of our monthly ladies.
Breakfast fellowship. Our next one will be October 12.th
At 9 A. M. Where we have Laonda sharing her testimony.
We also have a November ladies.
Breakfast in November. Well, that would be a sharing time.
Possibly some of the younger girls will have an opportunity to share just what they're thankful for, and then we do open it up for the women.
You've been encouraged in the Lord for that sharing.
We will continue our monthly Wednesday night dinners.
November and December are quite busy for us as a chapel, so we may try to get one in October.
So maybe we can do that through breeze. I'm imagining, like even hearing Luke's.
Presentation, and, like all these events, I was like.
This is, gonna be good. Okay.
Our next joy break. Next year we'll have it'll be may 9th and 10th over mother's Day weekend.
One of the unique things that I think a neat opportunity for us ladies.
We are able to support.
Other women in the ministry.
And so we pass a general fund. Sometimes we pass a Speaker fund. We pass.
Different types of funds where women can donate.
And then we were able this year to give Sonya Bass.
And the the unique thing about it. It was. It was for her.
As a missionary wife.
The second person we were able to support.
Was a woman, a breelecki. Her husband came and spoke.
On Wednesday night, I think sometime in the summer they were from Arizona.
And they they had moved. She was a missionary wife, and we were able to support her just for her.
I remember her telling us what she had used those funds for.
We were also able to donate twice.
To the Missionary Education and Assistance Fund through Cml.
Now I believe it.
Is a missionary education for missionaries, children in school, so it would go to assist the parents who are missionaries and provide an education.
For their kids, which I think is.
Is huge, and also we were able to provide.
And donate and support Joyce.
Which is where Fozi works.
And so that was a neat opportunity for that.
And, like, I said, we also have a shower fund.
That helps assist with wedding and baby showers.
And so that is also.
Available to us for women as well.
I do have to say.
There's a lot to do and.
A lot of women contribute. I would want to say up here and just thank every.
Single woman who has provided, who has prayed, were all in it together.
If you have a desire to serve in the Ladies Ministry, please let me know.
Get involved, participate.
These meetings.
Can change your life. I mean just interacting with one another as women.
I feel we need to be
Weekly and daily from one another.
You know. We need prayer. We need help with our kids. I need help with my children. I needed.
Counsel. I need, you know, in these opportunities, because I was like.
Want to do something, and it doesn't have a purpose. But I'm like these opportunities are for us to get together. And it's so unique. And it's so.
Amazing. When we put it aside. Time, I always leave encouraged.
Always as much as the enemy doesn't want me. There.
I just know. I always.
Leave encouraged. I'm really looking forward to a great year ahead and in fellowship and in service.
All right. Thank you very much. That's all I have.
Joel's gonna come up and give us a.
Update from the elders.
Well, good morning. I'm Aaron's husband.
So I am the one standing between you and lunch. So I'm not gonna take a lot of time.
So that was my house you saw in the video with. They were throwing flour at each other, and eggs.
And then they got out the water bottles, and they started pouring water on each other so.
I basically had pancake batter on my driveway.
So.
Yeah, still, no? Well, actually, it was. It's homecoming. So we got egged a little bit and some toilet paper. So we've got a lot going on. So.
So I'm Joel Schultz, and I'm here as.
Giving a report for the other elders. Here Jim Quinture and Ray Jeannini.
We meet at least once a month, often much more than that.
Just to discuss the spiritual needs of the Lord's people. Feel free. If you have any desire to meet with us, to talk to us for.
Please reach out, and we can.
Make sure that you that we have a time to talk.
To you as as the elders, so.
I wanted to just look at a verse.
And you know I was thinking about this verse 12.
I was thinking about this.
And as I'm hearing these reports, I just.
Confirmed that.
This is an important.
Concept here that we.
And we're a body of Christ.
And we
We enjoy our fellowship with one another, because God's doing something.
God is working.
And if he wasn't, what's the point? Right.
This is about him.
So it says here in 1st Corinthians.
12.
Versus. I'm just gonna jump down to verse 4.
There are diversities of gifts.
But the same spirit.
There are differences of ministries.
But the same Lord.
There are diversities of activities.
But it is the same God who works all.
In all. So there's gifts. There's ministries all these things. It's the Lord. The Lord is doing all of these things.
So.
What we're involved with. We can. We can trust him. We can see him work.
We can see gifts.
Being developed.
All these things. It's the same Lord who is working it says they're in verse 6.
It says, but it is the same God who works.
All, in all.
And then it goes on. It says.
In verse 7. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one.
For the profit of all.
You know every one of us has a gift. Every one of us has something that God has given us.
And extra being exercised in that gift.
Is essential, is, is very important.
For the profit of all.
When when you are, when you see your gifts.
When you're exercising it, you help build up the body.
What a calling! That's what we're involved with.
So he is working. He's building up his church, those living. He's building us up.
And as we are exercised.
In our gifts.
So that being said, you know, if there's something that you.
Want to see happen if there's a ministry that you see a need for. If there's something that.
You. You see a need, whatever it is, let us know.
Let us know our brother Luke. He!
Let up the man's breakfast.
You know we would do it once in a while. But he said, Let's do this. Let's do this once, and he's doing it.
Wonderful. You know. Some brothers wanted to do an outreach in the neighborhood, and Nate and Steve got together, and they said, We want to do an open house. We want to do an outreach. Great.
Let's do it. That's what I'm talking about. If you see something you want to do, something you want to be exercised in your gift.
Let's do it. Let's go forward and do it.
Together, and see the Lord.
That's an exciting thing.
So I wanted to just.
Look back and see some of the things that have been happening here at the chapel.
And.
You know. And again, you see, God's working. And I was actually, I was going through this. And I was saying, This is.
You know we were busy. We had a.
You know, last few year or a few months.
Looking back, so.
Wednesday nights we have our Bible study, and we finished up the Book of Acts. We had started the year with acts, and we finished it up.
And then we actually started those monthly meals.
Which is great.
So we'll continue to do that.
As Erin mentioned.
We had some missionary reports.
So we invited people like Abraham and Len.
We invited Shabazz.
From Pakistan, George Varghese from India, Cleveland, Mugfor from Alaska they came, and would give missionary report to encourage us to see how the Lord's working in their ministries.
We have the the summer Sunday services with.
Younger men can get up and speak. It's a great time, for if you have a burden, do you have a desire to learn how to get up and speak, and preach.
Sunday evenings, and the summer is a perfect time to do that like I said. The exercise in your gift.
Last year.
In March. We are. Excuse me. Earlier this year in March we had the Men's Retreat. We do that every year we had Rex there. Conference point.
We also had we. We did a youth rally. So we actually.
Got a group of of us. There's about 25 people. We drove out to Iowa for a youth. Rally there in March. We did that.
And then also, we had our own youth rally here in April.
We had about 75 people from around the Midwest come.
And have this youth rally. They descended upon this neighborhood. I don't think I think they're still recovering from us going out. We played a game bigger or better.
So that was a blast. We went around the neighborhood and asked.
You know, knock on a door. Do you have something bigger or better than this pen? And so you just keep going around until people are bringing bikes.
People are just getting rid of their junk.
But but it was great. We had a great time. Kids loved it so.
You know, and we're gonna continue to do that.
Continue to do that youth rally.
You know we see fruit.
So we're gonna continue to do that.
A vbs, we had vbs.
In August we saw a lot of young people.
We saw salvation at at Vbs, so continue to pray for that time, continue to pray for the labors at that time.
We had a baptism, a brother, Colton, Fry.
Was baptized at that time.
Now this year couples retreats coming up. Now we had.
For the last few years we had our brother, Steve Price.
Do the couple's retreat. We traded him in for a different Steve.
Steve Caldwell is going to be there at the couples Retreat, October 25th and 27.th
Now. Recently we added 2 deacons.
Our brother Luke and our brother Aldo added to deacons. So there's work right. There's there's work to be done.
There's things to do, you know.
If there's probably need for more. So.
Brother, Nathan Keller is is leading the Music ministry, which is a wonderful thing that he's able to do. He's got a gift for that.
So like, I said. If you have a gift.
Be exercised in it.
You know there's averse proverbs. 18. A man's gift will make room for itself right.
If you're gifted in something there will be room for you, and that's what we want.
The future.
We want to be ready for the future. We really don't know.
What's going to happen in the future. But we want to be ready.
We. We want to be looking for additional ministries that we may be able to. Maybe there's open doors for other things that we can be doing.
So that's why one of the things we're doing is looking for a larger facility.
A larger, more classrooms.
We have a huge youth.
You know, group. So something.
With a gym, or maybe some we could, we could build a gym. These are all things that we're doing. We are looking at a building right now.
So be in prayer for that. If you have any questions you can ask us, and we can give you some more of the details. But so that's it's a very exciting thing to start thinking about.
Maybe we move to a larger facility, more room.
More opportunities for more ministries.
You know who knows what the Lord's gonna do in the future?
Spanish-speaking ministry. We have the Congolese here.
Opportunities for things so.
Just continue to to pray. We. We cover your prayers when it comes to.
You know what this chapel is doing and what we're moving forward to.
It's a privilege.
To be serving in this way with this assembly, so.
Why don't we.
Are we ready for lunch? Are we ready.
1127, yeah, okay.
All right, so.
So we will pray.
We'll close the annual meeting. If you have any questions.
Concerns anything, feel free to talk to us afterwards.
But let's go ahead and pray.
Our Heavenly Father. We thank you.
For this assembly. We thank you for your people. We thank you, Lord, that you have given gifts.
And Lord, we thank you that.
You desire that this.
Assembly be built up.
Or to be edified, to.
Lord, to.
Continue to grow in depth.
Lord, we just look to you for that. We thank you for.
This time together, that we can go over the things of the past and look forward to the future.
Heavenly Father. I do now pray for this food that we thank you for those that have prepared it.
We thank you for this time of may it be edifying! May you use this time for your glory.
We thank you and praise you.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray.
Amen! So.
We would like to release first.st
Seasoned citizens. So if you're 60 or over.
No, this is like vbs. You can't let everyone just run downstairs for the snack. It's you gotta do a little bit orderly.
So we're gonna let our older.
Members go first.st
Feel free. Yeah, John, that's you.