A Living Hope You Can Be Persuaded Of

but before we bring him up here we we want to let you in on what we do here at Journey Church we sponsor hundreds of children in Uganda now I want to tell you about child sponsorship for just a moment and then I want to invite a friend up who's going to share a little bit of her story of meeting her sponsored child uh personally our family has a sponsored child that we've had for over 10 years we we partner with a Ministry called arm Africa renewal Ministry and it's actually the parent organization of where Pastor Alex he he came came out of this organization he's going to share a little bit of his story today but I want you to know the power of investment Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world yet it it is one of the most uh opportunistic countries in the world the land is fertile the people are amazing they're

strong they're smart they love the Lord Jesus but it's also a place of corruption and poverty and school is not free there so if you do not have the means to go to school you don't go to school so if you grow up in a poor home and you are born in the slums or you don't have the means to go to school you can't go to school and if you don't get an education you can't get a job and if you can't get a job you stay poor and then you have children who are poor and they stay poor and there's a cycle of poverty that continues now we have a God that can bring hope to absolutely anyone and everyone and so what we do is we partner with arm Africa renewal Ministry and we want every single child sponsored in the city where Pastor Alex is the lead Pastor now his church is growing has multiple campuses but we've committed in this particular city is

luzer where the largest prison in Uganda happens to be in the city but now they're going to be known for Jesus Christ and we said we're going to sponsor every child that's there now in this season we have more kids available than we have for years there are 81 kids that need sponsorship got 81 kids I'm holding in my hand Isaac Isaac mukisa Isaac Isaac needs a family that's going to sponsor him I'll tell you Isaac is is caregivers he's raised by his grandparents so his parents aren't in his life he loves to play his health is good his dream is to be a soldier let's pray that he' be a soldier in God's Army this is this is Isaac so for 4 or $50 a month

you choose you can help send Isaac to school you get him all the means to go to school you get him a meal at school you get him the health care to go tool school and even more importantly he gets connected to a local church and it's not just Isaac it's his parents I've been there and I've spoken to the parents a number of times and I'll tell you Journey Church they're grateful for you they're so grateful for you how many of you have a sponsored child in Uganda in Uganda through arm look come on you guys are heroes there was a lot more people that don't have a sponsored child so today we want you to leave with one of these we have 81 children available I want to invite Kathy up right now now she recently just went to Uganda oh not very long ago uh just a few weeks ago with our our team that went to Uganda and Kathy was one of the team members there now Kathy I want you to tell us a little

bit how long have you sponsored your child what's your sponsor's name and then tell us about the encounter that you just had hi um as you know I'm Kathy and I it was an honor to go to Uganda and I wanted just to thank everybody who helped sponsor us to go it was um an amazing experience um my the child that I sponsored um was just since last I think it was April or um March or April I can't even remember exactly when but um we got I got to meet him in person which was so cool and um a really fun part of it was it was his birthday that same Sunday so um I could see that from my card ahead of time when his birthday was so you know I brought

him a soccer ball and some school supplies and stuff like that so that was really cool I mean how often do you get to actually meet them but they're real kids um they're the Sunday schools are just full because that's one of the requirements is that they need to go to Sunday school so they get to hear about Jesus which is one thing I hadn't didn't know about but um so it's so cool the other thing that was really um impressive was that um all the you know the young adults that we ministered with door Todo they were all sponsored kids too so you know it's just full circle they're pouring out into their churches they're all helping with the Sunday Schools they're um they have um some of them aspirations to be you know lawyers

or doctors and beauticians all different kinds of things but um they're you know they're giving back so that is really cool too so I encourage you to sponsor child thank you Kathy so very much Kathy will actually be at the table after the service so if you've got more questions you can talk to her about this I'm telling you you can change a life and not only the life of a child you can change the trajectory of a Nation Uganda truly is the pearl of Africa God is doing a great work in Uganda I believe Uganda could change not only the continent of Africa but the world and we get to partner with them uh if you want to go to Uganda they'll actually be an interest meeting today at 1:00 you can come back at 1:00 the target for this particular trip is for 16 to 23 year olds to go that it would be a young

adult trip but we also need some people who are more mature to come so if you're interested in going come back today at 1:00 and you can learn just a little bit more about this so if you want to go if if if you're not that age I know some of you are like wait I'm way past 23 uh we need you to be a mature leader over those uh I tell you we witness God Work mightily we're committed to the city church and the partner of what Pastor Alex is doing and we want to invite you to be a part of that it is it is a massive commitment uh it's it's up to you to uh commit to raise the funds and to partner with this but it is lifechanging it will change your life so you're invited uh to come to this interest meeting today at 1:00 now let me just tell you a little bit about Pastor Alex if you've not yet met Pastor Alex uh he is an anointed man of God he's not just a pastor he is Dr Alex

mugia everybody so you can call him doctor he has worked hard to get that degree and to get in that place uh he's written many books he's traveled all over the world we have been friends for longer than Journey Church has existed our wives carried uh their our daughters together uh my daughter was Elana his daughter is Aaliyah and so they were born only a few weeks apart and they they actually we've got pictures of them as babies and they're still friends to this day and this partnership that we have is absolutely incredible our churches grow almost at the same rate we experience similar stories whenever pastor and Alex and I get together uh we get to cry together and we get to laugh together we get to celebrate what God is doing doing but here's the deal in Uganda they're so hospitable in Uganda they're so passionate and lifegiving and I really want Pastor Alex to feel at

home today so I need some of you who are just used to the American Western culture of sitting in church to get a little uncomfortable so I'm just going to ask you in just a moment we're going to show a video when Pastor Alex comes up here would you give him a huge cheer when he comes up it's not going to be when I'm done after the video and then I want you to the remainder of the service to give him shout backs as if you're in Africa I just need you to shout back and I need him to feel welcome so that he will come back here can you guys do that let's just pray over Pastor Alex today Lord we love you and we ask for an anointing today in the name of Jesus Christ that your word would come alive for us that we would hear you we thank you for his ministry and all that he's doing we thank you how he's impacting many generations not only with the young at happy heart school but with Fit for Life and the entrepreneurs we thank you for

all of the Crusades of thousands of people saved and God we're expecting more in the name of Jesus we're expecting that God you would create a Revival in Uganda just as you're going to do in Oregon so for that we thank you in advance in Jesus name amen amen let's watch some footage from our last Uganda trip so you can see how spectacular it is out [Music]

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hello everyone I'm so delighted to be part of this ceremony here to talk about what Jesus did for me I was so delighted I was so excited with the word all the fun it was so beautiful it was so wonderful we had all the fun from Pastor Ryan we learned about our identity in Christ and actually the greatest thing is that I accepted Jesus to be my Lord and Savior [Music] [Music]

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] amen Janny Church praise the Lord hallelujah I I'm told there are some people who may be uncomfortable with noise but we are all going to heaven and heaven we are going to have a lot of Africans in heaven so better get used to Let's Make a Joyful Noise to the

[Applause] Lord you know it's a Biblical instruction the Bible tells us Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord and Shout To God with a voice of Triumph can we do that Shout to the Lord amen [Laughter] Hallelujah wow oh you guys when I say hallelujah I'm expecting an amen amen when I say praise the Lord just shout back amen when I say hallelujah just shout back amen praise the Lord amen woo amen wow father we thank you and we praise you again for the privilege of uh

gathering around your word it is our sincere desire to know you more perfectly and to serve you even more Faithfully we thank you that we can call you ABA father and that you are not ashamed to call us your very own children we want to thank you for Jesus Christ Our Redeemer our high priest and indeed our sooncoming King we want to thank you for the Holy Spirit whom you have given to us to be our teacher and to be our guide we thank you that even today he is guiding us into all the truth we thank you the we for the

anointing of your Holy Spirit upon us all we know that right now he is anointing every ear to hear and every heart to believe I want to thank you that you are moving in this place you are moving in Journey Church and that as your word is declared the supernatural will be in manifestation today to bring glory to your name and deliverance to your people oh Heavenly Father for all that shall be done here today for all that shall be manifested for faith that is going to be created and for joy that is going to be manifested we want to convenant right now in advance to give you all the glory all the honor and all the Thanksgiving in Jesus's name and all God's people

said amen hallelujah I think you can you can tell I'm very excited to be at Journey Church it's been it's been a good long journey together and a joyous journey together you you know when we talk about child sponsorship uh when our church was starting uh I was I was handed over a church that was in trouble and uh uh the way it had been started was that uh there was a church in Texas that was partnering with our mother Church to plant this other church called luia Community Church and part of the agreement was that that church was going to support and sponsor children in this

community uh but uh we had uh some doctrinal differences so the church in Texas decided ah we no longer want to support the church and we are dropping all the 200 children we had picked up to sponsor yes and then and then I was asked to take over the [Laughter] church and and by by by that time we were friends uh again with Pastor Keith and Kara and and I and I just shared I'm going back to Uganda we're going to we're taking on this church but there's all these children that have been dropped that had all these hopes to go to school and Pastor Ki said you know what we are going to do it Journey Church is going to sponsor all those

children it's been 12 years now and it's amazing that uh so many of our current ministers musicians and uh people serving in all different uh uh uh Ministries in church have been part of that child sponsorship and they are knowing Jesus Christ uh and for me it's a it's a a very it's a thing that is very close to my heart because uh I remember the day when my pastor Found Me by The Lakeside and put me on the back of his bicycle and took me to church it wasn't a Sunday they took my picture and they told me that there's someone in the in America who loves you who is going to

take you to school and that's how I've been able to go to school to learn Jesus I gave my life to Jesus when I was 14 through the sponsorship program and and look at what God can do and and so I'm so I'm so excited that again we get an opportunity to change other people's lives uh even today so um uh Pastor k and Pastor Kara I I I'm so grateful for your heart for your faith for your love uh I'm so grateful for your service to the Lord come on let's appreciate God for them let's appreciate God for [Applause]

them amen wow um let's get into our Bibles we're going to uh I think let's get into the word uh let's get into the word woo uh 1 Peter 1: 3-9 says are we all there let's let's open that together 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 3-9 it says blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to His abundant

Mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance Incorruptible undefiled and that does not fed away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time in this you greatly Rejoice though

now for a little while if need be you have been grieved by various trial s that the genuiness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire may be found to to praise honor and Glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ whom having not seen you love though now you do not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inex impressible and full of Glory receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls

Hallelujah I feel that part of our a big part of our job as pastors and preachers is to try to convince you our listeners of the things that are already a reality of you of they already a reality that God has done in you and get you to a place where you actually are convinced about them and and and because uh when you believe a lie you Empower a lie but when you believe truth you rise and so one of the truths I always tell

my people and I and you are my people is that the Christian Life is an exciting life and I always tell people it is actually abnormal for a Christian to not be excited now it is possible I many of us know that by experience that there are several times when yes you are a Believer but you're not excited I just want us to just agree and uh that it is abnormal you get it so so that even when it happens to you you know um yeah it is

happening but this is not my normal because the there's a lie of the enemy where you can accept abnormality for no and and I don't have to say a lot about that here because there's a lot of abnormal things that have been believed by our times today and you look at it and you're like but that is AB normal but everyone so many people think oh that's normal but one of the things that is abnormal for us as Believers is to be a to be in life that is an that is that you are not excited and the reason we are excited is because of Salvation and salvation is one of them

in fact it is the most important thing that can happen to a life oh yes it's true salvation is the most important thing that can happen to a man and therefore the most important preoccupation of any man should be to understand Embrace and express the Gospel of Jesus Christ oh yes because the gospel of Jesus Christ

is the greatest news it is the greatest experience in the Gospel of Jesus Christ we get to understand that God the creator of everything the one who has caused us to be has stepped into our world and into where we are become as we are so that we can get the opportunity to become as he is oh and I know that there are people who will look at us saying this thing and excited about it and you you they are wondering I know there

are and and to those I am saying listen give yourself the opportunity to think so that you can understand what this gospel is because when you understand it and when you embrace it three big realities become part of your life and so a a man or a woman that has oh by the way many times I use just the word man but I I use it you it means both men and male and female yes uh but I know that any man or

woman who has em understood and embraced the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be marked by these three things almost continuously you will find present with you Joy oh yes you will find present with you an unexplainable anex unexplainable peace you will find because of the joy and the peace and the understanding of what God has done for us through Jesus Christ then you will find gratitude thankfulness they just come

out that's why I was very excited about the songs today one of the songs was Joy Joy to the World because that's it that's it and then gratitude Thanksgiving they they come out of that that place where the Overflow of understanding and embracing the gospel is joy peace and gratitude and this joy peace and gratitude come because we have a Living Hope what we just read it's called a living hope we have hope and and and please don't understand hope as we un as we express it today because I I think

this uh in our day hope is like you you it's it's almost an uncertainty but your hope that it won't rain today it's like you don't know if it will or it won't but you are hoping it won't so you are you are trying you are you you are expecting something positive but you're not sure whether it will be but you hope it will be that's not in in the scriptures that's not hope in in the scriptures hope is a certainty of a positive eventuality you are certain that the what will come out is

great you have and it's because we have an assurance of Eternity because of Salvation we have an assurance of Eternity and and and and and I know that when we talk about eternity there's a number of us again who will push eternity into the end of Ages but you must understand if eternity is only at the end of the ages then it is not really Eternal because uh eternity is it's it has no beginning or end which means the moment you come into

Christ you have entered a space of Eternity or everlasting life or life in its fullness we will not die by the way Believers don't die they sleep according to the scriptures and so that is our hope it is the H and so when Peter is writing now uh Peter is an apostle uh one of the 12 disciples that Jesus chose and made him the leader of uh the church at the very

beginning and Peter writes to us and he is not trying to argue this point he is he he is simply stating it when you read he says blessed be the god of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to His abundant Mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope which therefore means one of uh uh one of my jobs

today is to get us to a place where we understand we Embrace and we walk in the reality that you and I have a Living Hope oh yes now I'm talking to you who has embraced Christ yeah you have you have come into Christ you know that you are born again you know that you have got this salvation if you have this salvation and you do therefore you have a Living Hope someone say I have a Living Hope again let's shout it loud until we make the enemy mad I have a Living Hope um let's make the demons all around

very uncomfortable by saying we have a living hope I have a living hope I oh yes oh yes oh yes come on let's praise him let's Praise Him [Music] amen and and it is this hope that is the anchor to our souls in Hebrews chapter 6 uh from verse 17 the Bible says to vers 20 the Bible says thus God God determining to show more abundantly to the hairs of Promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an

off that by two immutable things in which it is impossible to for God to lie we might have are we are we all there or are we still looking for here okay I I want us to move together we go okay I'm a bit distracted let's go back to vers 17 he says thus God determining to show more abundantly to the hairs of promise now when he says the hairs of Promise that's you and me and his promise toward us is that he is going to be our God we are going to be his

people this is why I say it's exciting to be a Christian to to to Simply carry the understanding that God is mine and I am his oh my goodness whatever is born of God overcomes the world and determining to show more abundantly to the hairs of the promise the immutability of his counil immutability that it can't change it is locked

in of his counil his wisdom just the decision that he has made because he is God he says he confirmed that by an author and that's why uh the writer here is telling us that it is by two immutable things which make it impossible for God to lie two uh two um things that are immutable uh because first of all uh God as God he cannot lie it is impossible it is not in him to lie kind of like uh there are

many of you here who cannot speak luganda all right so even if you tried you couldn't it's that way that God when God speaks a word it immediately becomes what he has said because he is God so when he says you will be my child uh in the very breath of what he has said is the content that makes that which he has said come to pass and therefore he cannot lie but he says even with that he added an off which makes what he has

said uh oh excuse me I could preach like that but I know there will be some people who will be completely distracted [Laughter] and so God in himself he cannot lie but then he also adds a promise an oath to the promise so that we can be sure we can be certain we can be convinced which is why the reason many

of us uh may live a life that is not as exciting a life that may not be full of joy when you lack joy peace and uh and thankfulness in your life it's really simply a function of what you have believed and if you will change what you have believed you will find you don't even really have to work on your joy like 12 steps towards Joy and all you need to do is sit with the word and see what God says about you and then believe it I believe it you see I always like telling stories if I married my

wife I wanted to marry another girl and I told her I loved her genuinely I did she did not believe me I tried to convince her I do and I want to take you and be my wife and all of this I tried she did not think I was serious and so she did not agree to my proposal hos and then uh my wife by the way I have the most beautiful woman you can ever

see she's so beautiful I I love and her name is Faith because without faith it is impossible please God soed but I took I took Faith out on our first F the first first time I took her out we sat ate lunch and afterward I looked at her I said I want to marry you and then said she's like let me think about it after a month she came back and said yes let's do

this and you know we've been now married for for 17 years five kids ah Hallelujah and and she believed me she took it and and because she believed me I married her and for many of us God he said all these nice things about us all these promises all these great things and he cannot lie he cannot lie he and he added an off to that I am God I cannot lie I love you I want to make you my own and I want my power to flow through you I I want my spirit to live in you H and and I have a place prepared for you I am your God I want you to be my person

and and all he is looking for is yes every day I wake up in the morning and I say yes yes to your love yes to your peace yes to your joy yes to your word ah it does not I it doesn't matter what is coming my way today I am assured of your love I'm assured that you are with me and if you are with me if you are for me who can be against me glory be to God and so he says and so he says to us that

uh which by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we might have strong consolation who have fled for Refuge to lay hold of the hope that is set before us sorry I'm an African preacher we have all these things glory be to God Amen it's like there's a hope set before us and it is not a mere expectation of a

thing I'm not such about it's a certainty it's an assurance and God has both given his word and also in case you don't think his word is strong enough he has also given an oath to it he has placed a covenant on it and he said there's a hope set before you and he says this hope is the anchor to our soul it's both sure and it is steadfast this very hope that we have enters the presence which is

behind the veil that's why when he died on the cross the Bible says the veil that was separating us from his presence to from up to bottom so that right now we have have wide access into the presence of God woo glory be to his name amen so he says this hope is the anchor to our soul and it is entering the presence where Jesus Christ where our Forerunner has entered even Jesus having become high priest for us after the order of mcedc now I'm not I think you can see I'm not trying to do

um a an exposition of each of the uh of the scriptures I'm giving to you because uh some of these things uh must be as clear it must be believed and he's saying this is a hope set before us this hope is sure this hope is steadfast this hope is uh is held by Christ Jesus who has gone ahead of us and therefore when our soul is facing all this turo and life is hitting us from one side to the other side and when uncertainty is setting in and when we are are going through unexplainable

challenges and things don't look uh right and and and our world is kind going upside down we don't understand as much he says but you know what hold onto this hope it's an anchor it's an anchor it's steadfast it in fact when we hold on to this hope it thrusts us into his presence oh yes and again he says this hope does not disappoint in Romans chapter 5 vers 5 he talks about the same hope and he says now hope does not disappoint and the reason it's not going

to disappoint is because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who he has given to us so I therefore understand that the question I must answer here is do you do I have the Holy Spirit and if if my answer is yes then I am certain I am sure I got this hope

and I have this hope and this hope is not going to disappoint because the love of God so what the Holy Spirit does is he pours into us and communicates unto us that God loves us oh my goodness um I hope you start with someone you like because I'm don't ask you to turn to them and just tell them God loves you God loves you God loves you God loves you and and and and and and so there are several evidences of God's love for us

um number one uh from uh Romans 55 is that he has given us the Holy Spirit his Spirit to indwell us and by the way you cannot be saved without the Holy Spirit and so it's the Holy Spirit who comes and convinces you of Salvation now he convinces you of salvation but the Salvation is accomplished for us by the coming the life the death the resurrection and the

glorification of Jesus Christ Our Savior who is coming back for us and so when you go down in Romans 5 again from vers 6 he will tell you this he will say for we when for when we were still without Strength In Due Time Christ died for the ungodly oh yes thank you Jesus when we are still without strength Christ

died for the ungodly and he goes on and says it gets better says for scarely for a righteous man will one die so uh uh maybe so it's like every now and then which personally I've never seen uh that for a righteous man someone may give their life all right uh and then but then he says uh yet Perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die all this is within the assumption but God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for

us come on so one day I was um the the road that leads to my house there were all these uh a group of men and women who were drinking they were doing drugs they I mean you look at their lives it seems very wasted and they're smoking all manner of things right there in the open and my children have to walk through and and and go through and and I'm passing by and I'm thinking to myself this guys why what are they why are they here why why aren't the authorities doing something

about this they it's unsafe it's uh it's terrible and and so I'm passing by and I'm seeing all of this so I pull out my phone uh I dial to call the police so that I can tell them this is not good you need to come and do something about this as the phone begins to ring the Holy Spirit Whispers to me and says so do you think I love you more than I love them and then I realized I've always passed these people I'm a pastor I've always passed these people and not even greeted them in my mind I had dehumanized

them and I realized that God loves these men God loves these women I mean the enemy has done a number on them that is terrible but God loves them in fact he died for them there is no man or woman in the sound of my voice that who Christ has not included in his blood and his death and that is God demonstrating saying I don't care whether you acknowledge that I am or not I still love you I don't don't care whether you know me or you don't know me I know you and I still love you I I I you may believe me or you may not believe me I it doesn't matter I I still love you and

I have died for you he has died for the ungodly ungodly and ungodly is amazing because it's anyone who you may not acknowledge that he is there uh he still died for you uh you may acknowledge he's there but you you like I don't uh I don't care he still died for you we we have a guy in Uganda he said you know what I Fear God so I don't go to church and and he still died for you so at whichever Spectrum you are in you you could it could be that you come to church but after church you live your life the way you want to live it okay that's still ungodly he loves you still so and and you may be in church your trying everything you're trying to do

because you you really think I need to to to get God to like me or good news he already does so at any Spectrum where we lie he has demonstrated his love for us by sending Jesus Christ to die on the cross for us so that we can get a place in him that is the Hope We Carry and that hope is living that hope is undeniable that hope enters the veil for us that hope is an anchor to our soul that hope does not disappoint because God's love for

us is real and he has demonstrated it and so he says um well let's go to Romans 8 31 where I want to end he says you see the thing is this when you receive Jesus you receive God's love when you receive receive God's love you receive a Living

Hope and so he will say to us what shall we say to these things if God is for us and he is what can be against us he who did not spare his own son but but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things who shall bring a charge against God's elect it is God who justifies who is he that

condemns it is Christ who died and furthermore he is also risen who is even at the right hand of God who also makes intercession for us glory be to his name and and therefore then he will go on and say who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation shall distress shall persecution shall femine or nakedness or Peril or toward as it is written that for your sake we are killed for all we are killed all day long we are counted as sheep for Slaughter and he says yet in all these things we are

more than conquerors through him who loved us I am persuaded and Paul was persuaded you know what I am persuaded are you persuaded I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels no principalities no powers no things present or things to come no height no depth no any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus

our lord nothing nothing nothing nothing he loves us he loves us I just want us to stand up on our feet and I don't know whether you do this here but we're going to do it nonetheless we all going to raise up our hands and just say Thank You Lord For Love loing us make it personal say Lord thank you for loving me can you receive his love would you receive that love would you see him loving you and he has demonstrated that love for us to the utmost by giving us Jesus as our savior and our

Lord he has given us life he is God right there where you are just thank him for loving you receive that love you've just heard a passionate message about who Jesus is and what he offers today if you've not received that it's yours in Jesus Christ it's a free gift it's yours but you have to take it you have to grab it and believe it and act upon it it's yours today if you want that the Bible says you got to believe in your heart and confess it with your mouth and Jesus will not only save you but give you that undeniable hope we're going to have a prayer team right up here at the front of the platform if you need prayer if you made that decision today would you come up and tell a prayer partner would you say I believe

if you say I believe they're going to give you a booklet if you need a Bible we'll give you a free Bible we'll make sure that you have that hope today so there will be a prayer team right at the front after the service one thing I forgot to say during the sponsorship is we do have a very special opportunity that you could actually send a student to college it's a little more commitment than the monthly amount for the child sponsorship it's $200 a month you can send a student in Uganda to college otherwise they would never get that opportunity somebody did that for pastor Alex and he's here today because of that so I want you to consider how many do we have eight total we actually have three we only have three left we only have three left so if you want to sponsor a college student to go to school they otherwise won't go to university but you

would send them to University $200 a month that information is out there as well Pastor Alex has a table out there with um some gifts from Uganda there's not enough for everybody but if this is something that you want to pray for the City Church for pastor Alex and his family we say take that and then make sure you treasure that and you pray for them as well uh can we just pray together as we leave here today and then if you need prayer and you made that decision step forward and say I believe Lord we thank you for this time today thank you for the anointing of Dr Alex Mia and we say God The Best Is Yet To Come Lord may we too say I am persuaded may we too be unashamed may we too be excited for the living hope that we have in you Jesus we love you Lord in your name we pray today Jesus amen amen