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Missions Sunday | Interview with Ken McLemore
Join us for a captivating journey into the heart of international missions with Ken McLemore, a seasoned missions pastor and a cherished friend. Ken, with his extensive experience, reflects God's passion for all people, drawing on both the Old and New Testaments for guidance. We unpack the significance of Mission Sunday at First Baptist Church Powder Springs and celebrate the church's unwavering commitment to global outreach. Through Ken’s personal journey and his work with the International Mission Board, he shares a vision of mobilizing churches to reach every corner of the world, reminding us of the divine calling to support and uplift missionaries everywhere.
In a series of compelling stories, we explore the profound power of personal encounters in mission work. From a thought-provoking discussion with a former KGB agent named Victor to an inspiring conversation with Sadeer, a Muslim carpenter in Africa, we are reminded of how transformative these connections can be. We also hear about the sacrifices and challenges faced by missionaries like the Hoskins family in remote locations such as Madagascar. These narratives illustrate not only the hardships but also the immense joy that comes with spreading the gospel. As a trustee of the International Mission Board, I share insights into the strategic planning and support systems that empower missionaries to thrive in even the most challenging environments.
Finally, we emphasize the significant impact of mission giving and explore how resources can be directed to those who need them most. Highlighting the essential work of the International Mission Board and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, we explore how these efforts facilitate the spread of the gospel to underserved populations. Through a heartfelt call to action, listeners are invited to reflect on their relationship with faith and consider becoming partners in this divine endeavor. With gratitude for the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ, we encourage everyone to worship fully and embrace the opportunity to be part of something greater than ourselves, uniting in our mission to spread the gospel across the globe.
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Amen, put your hands together for all of our missionaries this morning. Thank you for being a part of this. We're just so grateful that God has called missionaries to the mission field from our church the Hoskins family, the Darnell family, the Morgan family Kevin Darnell grew up here, deborah Hoskins, who is Deborah Yawn, grew up here, gant Morgan grew up here and, of course, the Morgans, their parents, are part of our church here. The Darnells obviously here as well, and so we're just so thankful to be a church that we get to support foreign missions, but also we have international missionaries on the field. So I just want to say good morning If we've not met yet. My name is Chip Dean. I get to be the senior pastor here, and this is a very special Sunday, as every single Sunday is always about how we can take the gospel to others and ultimately to the nations. This is a Sunday that we get to dedicate every single year that we get to personally and as a church, support international missionaries as they take the gospel to the nations, and what a joy, what a privilege, what an honor it is that we get to do that. I want to introduce you to our special guest this morning. He's a great friend of mine. He was my missions pastor at my previous church, liberty Live in Virginia. His name is Ken McLemore.
Speaker 1:First and foremost, ken is a follower of Jesus. He is married to his wife, carmel. They've been married for 39 years. Is that right? 36 years? So sorry, 36. He's a dad of three grown kids. He has served as missions pastor at Liberty Live Church in Hampton, virginia for the last 31 years. He has served as missions pastor at Liberty Live Church in Hampton, virginia for the last 31 years. He has served as a missionary to Russia. He has served as a trustee to the International Mission Board from 2013 to 2021. He has also served on the search committee that brought the president of the IMB, chitwood, paul Chitwood, as president. He has co-authored a book that's called Holding the Ropes as well, he has published many articles, also by the IMB and through his church, liberty Live. Along with being a missions pastor, ken currently serves with the IMB on the North Africa Middle East Advocacy Team. He continues to lead and speak in churches and mission conferences. He is also the CEO of a company that helps mobilize churches to work among the nations through global missions consulting.
Speaker 1:So First Baptist Church, powder Springs. Please give a warm welcome to my good friend, ken McLemore. All right, ken, thank you so much for being here with us. Thank you for coming this morning. One thing we man I love you, brother One thing we all want to know is what you do on your free time.
Speaker 1:You are a busy man, you're a busy man, and Ken is. He's from the great state of Texas, graduated from Texas Tech. He's a big Patrick Mahomes fan, but so are the NFL refs, so we are so thankful that Ken is here with us. Like I said, we got to serve together and Ken, the Bible calls us to boast in the Lord, and I've just got to boast in the Lord for a second. When God called Michelle and I, our family, here at First Baptist Church Powder Springs, we had no idea that God had called us to such a missions-loving church. I am so thankful. Not only do we have our own missionaries from our church who are serving overseas, but our church loves to give, loves to pray. We've done a lot of mission trips in the past, we've got a lot of plans for mission trips in the future, and so I just have to say thank you to our church, first Baptist Church Powder Springs, for your engagement in international missions. Thank you for being here today. Thank you for being a part of all this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my pleasure, and we love Chip and Michelle and we're glad for them to be here. Our loss, your gain.
Speaker 1:It is true, as we love and miss our Liberty family, we love our First Baptist Church Powder Springs family and what the Lord is doing. So, ken, I've just got five questions for you this morning, and these five questions were all designed to help us all understand from Ken, who has life experience in each one of these areas, when we give to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering and when we give to the IMB and when we give to missionaries around the world, as he has served in each and every one of those facets, what does it look like and what is it that our giving, our going, our sending is going toward? So just to dive in together, ken, first of all, can you just share a little bit with us about how you have seen personally God's heart for the nations play out, and how has Scripture shaped your understanding of this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what, I don't know how you guys grew up. I grew up in a Christian home and you know what? I always grew up hearing the word Gentiles and in the Old Testament it seemed like God really hated the Gentiles and I was a Gentile, you know. It was kind of weird. And then you come into the New Testament and you see that, oh okay, now he likes the Gentiles.
Speaker 2:But when I got home from the mission field, when I came home from Russia, I was handed the book called Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper, and as I began to read that book my eyes began to be open, chip to the scriptures that I never understood. First thing I began to see is that God didn't hate us. Back in the Old Testament, from the get-go. You see it through all the scripture I have a heart for the nations, I want to be glorified among the nations. But then you come into the New Testament. Of course he says make disciples of all the nations and he talks about the nations. But you know what? The second thing I learned was this the word nations has nothing to do with countries. That was revolutionary for me. The word in the Hebrew. It means families, it means people group, it means language groups, the actual word in the New Testament. When you look in Matthew 28, you look all through the New Testament, the word is actually the word ethnos, the Greek word ethnos, which means ethnic. So what he's telling us is I'm not looking for you to go to countries, I want you to go to ethnic groups. But here's the reason why when an ethnic group gets the gospel, many times in different countries, they hate each other. They look just alike, they're fellow country members, but they hate each other.
Speaker 2:I became aware of this when I flew into one of our partnerships in Central Africa Flew in dirt runway, the whole thing and I met a guy who had three scars. He was a state representative. We were meeting with him to see how we were going to help their country and help their state. And it was a mud hut village, believe me. It's out in the middle of nowhere and this guy had three scars on his face and you could tell they were put there. That wasn't some accident and I you know, being the extrovert, I'm talking and he could speak pretty good English and I'm like what's up with the scars? And he goes you know what?
Speaker 2:A thousand years ago, this tribe over here would come and they would rob children for slaves from this tribe. These two tribes hated each other. They hated each other and so the scars were there so that when my tribe got enough power to come back and try to take the kids back, they would know who the kids are because of the scars. So, as you can see, if the gospel goes to this tribe, they will not share it with this tribe, and that's the way it is today.
Speaker 2:Even we've seen that happen to where when God says I want you to go to that ethnic groups ship, that was revolutionary to me because in any given country there might be, like in the city we worked in, there were 150 different biblical nations. In India, when it comes to biblical nations, ethnic groups, there were 150 different biblical nations. In India, when it comes to biblical nations, ethnic groups, there's over 1,500 that don't even have a single missionary or Christian that we know of among them. So that's kind of was revolutionary to me, you know. And so we begin to set our church strategy based on that, and the IMB began to do the same thing back in 97.
Speaker 1:So man, that's so good, you know. Just hearing you say that you were a missionary and then you learned that after being a missionary reminds me that we are never done learning about missions. There's always more to learn. You talk about people, groups and ethnos, ethnicities, and just hearing from Kevin and Mandy Darnell that they don't say they're called to Spain. They're called to the Basque people of Spain, of Spain as well, and uh, and also we as a church. They're called to the Basque people of Spain as well, and also we as a church. We are called to be a church of different ethnicities. That's how God is glorified, when we are unified in the gospel and the diversity of our ethnicities together. We're not called to be a white church, a black church. We're called to be a gospel church. We're called to be a Jesus church, all about him, and so we want to reach ethnicities and go and reach the ethnicities of the world.
Speaker 2:And if you look in Revelation 5, 9, and 7, 9, the picture around the throne is every ethnicity that ever existed is represented. Amen, so that's the picture.
Speaker 1:You're right. Second question for you, Ken, Having lived on the mission field what was a moment that made you see the unique challenges and joys of a missionary's life?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, there's lots of challenges everywhere you go. For me I couldn't find anybody that could speak Texican. They all spoke Russian and so as an extrovert, that was kind of hard. I wanted to talk to people and that was very difficult for me. I remember the first time I got a call from our church, they called me in Russia and I just started boohooing because I was just homesick. So that's one of the difficulties Shopping's a difficulty, just getting around's a difficulty. So there's a lot of different challenges that we don't really have to deal with, living in our culture here and that you really can't understand until you go. And that's part of the challenges.
Speaker 2:But I want to share the joy because the joy is overwhelming. One thing, pastor Chip the joy was what I learned from a KGB agent. We had hired this guy and he was 72 years old and he didn't tell us this. The other people in the city told us oh, he was a KGB agent, that's why he speaks English so well. He was one of our translators and I'm going really, and they even showed me newspaper clippings, you know, of Victor, and I think he lived in Sacramento, california, as a spy, you know. So it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2:So I'm walking along one day and Victor and I are talking and I'm sharing. We were going for me to speak at a school and I was sharing how we got these materials by Josh McDowell, francis Schaefer and then some others that had some apologetic materials. I got all these materials and you know what? Victor looks at me and he goes Ken, they don't want your materials, they want you. That was a radical thing for me because I get. So I came out of the business world at General Dynamics Corporation and I was so mixed up in out of the business world at General Dynamics Corporation and I was so mixed up in this. You know the program, the program, the program, and so I I'd forgotten. It's about people and that today is what I want to implement in my ministry.
Speaker 2:But, chip, the other thing is this man. The things you get to see on the mission field are incredible. We run a missionary training program that Chip and Michelle know about, called 2414. We take students in high school and we train them for a year and then we take them to work in one of these unreached people groups in Africa, mainly Muslim. So I'm walking around with students and we meet this guy in a carpenter shop. And so I walk in and God is working in dreams, with Muslims, through dreams and visions, and that's the way they just believe in those. So he works in that way.
Speaker 2:And I asked this guy. I said have you ever had a dream? He goes oh, yeah, I've had a dream. I said well, tell me about it. He said well, there's this huge river and then there's a guy on a horse across the river and he's on this horse and he yells at me. He says come across the river. And he's on this horse and he yells at me. He says come across the river. And my friend Sadeer goes well, I can't get across that river, it's too big. And he goes I'll send somebody to tell you how to get across the river. And Sadeer looks at me and goes are you that guy? And I go I'm absolutely that guy.
Speaker 2:I begin to tell him the story, the biblical story of the resurrection of Jesus, and I said that guy on the horse is Jesus, he's alive today and he's talking to you. I said on the wall you have a picture of Falou, who is a Muslim leader who's dead, who can't come back to life and who can't tell you what's on the other side. Jesus knows what's on the other side, and so I shared the gospel with him. We gave him a Bible, and that was eight years ago. I was back there in July and I went and talked to Sadeer and I said, sadeer, do you remember that dream? And he goes. Oh yeah, he told me word for word and I'm going. God is moving. When you get to see that, pastor Chip, that is incredible. That's a joy beyond what I could imagine.
Speaker 1:And these missionaries, our missionaries, are willing to go through all of these challenges because of the Bible, says, the joy that is set before them. Right, and we think about the Hoskins. They go over to Madagascar. They live 10 hours from the closest gas station. In their first few years there they lived in a tent out in the woods, out in the jungle, if you will, of Madagascar. It was, I think. After the first few years he ended up having to build his own house out of the materials that he found around there and just over the past few years the IMB has been able to build a house for them because of how remote they are and they're willing to go through the challenges because of the joy of Christ that is set before them, the calling on their life to spread the gospel.
Speaker 1:Ken, the third question you've served as a trustee for the IMB, the International Mission Board. Can you share with us the experience, that experience that gave you a deeper understanding for what they do? Yeah, you know what? As I began to serve as a trustee, I began to see how they were implementing what we just talked, what?
Speaker 2:As I begin to serve as a trustee, I begin to see how they were implementing what we just talked about. That is, going to places that need the gospel demotes. There's 3,000 people, groups that we know of that have zero witness. There's not a single French, german, it doesn't matter missionary, anybody working with them. So there's 3,000. The IMB says we want to start working with them. So the first thing I see, chip, was the strategic impulse and I love that. I love the strategy. The second is the training. They give great training. It's the largest mission board in the world and I believe they're one of the most strategic and they do some of the best training. But I think the thing I love the most about them and what I saw was the support they give to their missionaries. Their missionaries have incredible health care and they take care of them not only by training them. They have people that will help counsel them if they're having struggles. They have team leaders, of course, that help them with that and then counselors that will help them with that. But I'll tell you where I saw it come to life more than anything was.
Speaker 2:One of our partnerships was working in a country, a war-torn country in Central Africa, and the northern tribes were coming down and everybody knew it. I mean, it was all over the place and they were coming, moving down and they were going to try to have a coup against the president in the southern capital, and so our missionaries lived about halfway through. Well, our missionaries were IMB, but there was a guy with a different organization that was working with our team out in this bush of this certain country and he kept emailing his leaders saying what do I do? What do I do? And they never would answer. And he kept what do I do? The tribes are coming down, there's going to be war, the IMB guys are leaving, they're going. What do I do? What's my support? He got none.
Speaker 2:And so finally our IMB guys said come on, you're coming with me. The IMB took him under their wing, they took our missionaries, the troops came into town. While they were still there, they worked to get the French troops, to get them out of the city and into Paris, and they supported them. They put them in hotels and they took care of Joey, who was not an IMB missionary, and they took care of them in unbelievable ways, went through counseling, until that same team about that's probably about three months later got to move back into that country. So I look at the support Pastor Chip and I'm going. That's incredible and that's what made me really love and appreciate them, the way they take care of their people.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's great, brother, that is great. Fourth question for you In what ways can our church's actions, our church, our actions, our prayers reflect God's love for all people? Do you have any examples of churches that embody this heart for the nations?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what he mentioned prayers. That is huge, that is gigantic. Now I know y'all are talking about going and being a part of your people, and that's a great thing too. I believe the church is called to do missions, not the mission boards. The mission boards help us do missions. It's our job and our calling to be the ones to go do it. But I'll tell you what about prayers? Prayers are huge.
Speaker 2:We had a people group that we were working with in another African country and our missionary from our church went there and there was a lot of strife among the missionaries. Do you know, the number one reason why missionaries come home is other missionaries. People don't realize that it's very difficult and sometimes they just can't get along, and so that was one of the problems they had. Other was they were just having a struggle in this country. It was hot. I remember going there my first time taking a thermometer, putting it outside, Pastor Chip, and when it hit 125, I thought I need to take that thermometer back in the house, which it was only 104 inside the house, so I guess you'd call it cooler than there. But anyway, we went and we began to pray. We began to pray the first Thursday of every month and we began to pray for those missionaries to be reconciled. And then we prayed for the gospel to go into this heavy Muslim country. Tell you what happened. Those missionaries started getting along. To this day they're best buds. They're all home now, but they go see each other. One lives in Texas, one lives in Virginia and they see each other all the time. They're best buds. But let me tell you what happened.
Speaker 2:One of our ladies on the team was being trained by a Muslim guy in the language. You have to learn the language, and it was horrible because this guy was not treating her too good. We kept praying Lord, do something with the interpreter. She gets a knock on the door. Our missionary does this guy. Her interpreter is standing there, going here. This is so-and-so, she's like you, meaning she had become a Christian and she wants to teach you language. And Kim was just like oh my goodness, thank you, that is such an answer to prayer. But you know what? It didn't stop there.
Speaker 2:Kim's sister was the fourth wife of a Muslim leader in the cabinet of the country. As a matter of fact, he was one of the head military guys that were leading, and so we had the gospel go into him. We tried to reach him. But then we found out also that in this process the Campus Crusade had just finished the Jesus film in this language. And so my missionary friend calls me back and says can you find out? So I'm calling Campus Crusade, I can't find anything. So we kept praying. We kept praying for the gospel to go into this cabinet, the gospel to go into this country. And so I'm speaking at a missions conference and a guy comes up to me afterwards and goes by the way, my wife is the head lead project manager on the Jesus film for that language you're looking at. If you'll call me we'll get you copies. So I got copies, took them into the country. They were able to show the Jesus film because of this language teacher's relationship to her brother-in-law to show it to that country.
Speaker 2:The colonel we call him the colonel. He's passed away now of cancer. He became a believer. Before he died he told our missionary friend. He said you know what I'm sick of fighting 26 years of battling other Muslims. He says I'm tired of it.
Speaker 1:He became a believer tired of it and he became a believer. Cool Praise God. I love those stories and I pray that God continues to work in our hearts.
Speaker 1:As a church for missions, I believe that we all should be asking God. I once heard a missionary say we need to ask God, not if we're called to go, we need to ask God if we're called to stay. We're all called to go. The question is, are we called to stay right? And so, as a church, I believe that God is going to call some of us here to be lifelong missionaries. I believe God is going to call some to be long-term missionaries. I believe God is going to call some to be short-term missionaries to go on mission trips. I believe God is going to call some to be short-term missionaries to go on mission trips.
Speaker 1:Today, ken is going to meet with an international mission team that Pastor Allen Davis has put together here in our church so that we can begin international trips together and just start with going and ministering with our own missionaries out on the mission field. And we're all called to give and we're all called to send others and we're all called to pray. So my prayer is, as your pastor, is that God uses me, that God uses us as his church, that we would do our part as God has called us, like every other church on the planet, that we would be mission giving, going, praying and sending church just like all the others. May God use us here at First Baptist, powder Springs and Pastor Ken. Last question what does the Lottie Moon Christmas offering mean to you personally? How does it help bring the gospel to people that may have never heard it before you?
Speaker 2:know what? 87% of all the money to give into all churches, not just Baptist, but all churches in America states, right here in America, the most evangelized place on the planet 12% goes to places. While they may be foreign, they already have the gospel in their language, they have Bibles, they have churches. They already have the gospel. Did you know that only 1% of the money given to mission efforts goes to the most needed people in the world? There's about 3 billion of them, pastor Chip, that don't have access. Now, that's a key phrase.
Speaker 2:I have guys in my church say you know what? Why aren't we sending money over there? Because we got lost people across the street and we're like, yeah, they got you, they have access, they can walk across the street to our church. There's 14 churches, chip and Michelle can tell you this. There's 14 churches on Todd's Lane, which is a street right outside our church that has churches. But you know what? There's places around the world that people could walk for days and weeks and never find anybody to tell them about Jesus. What I love about the IMB is they're focusing on that 1%. They're saying you know what? We're the largest mission organization in the world and we're going to send our people where they're most needed, and so that is so important to me. That is why Lottie Moon is so important, because they're going where it's needed the most.
Speaker 1:Amen. Can we thank God for Ken McLemore? Ken, thank you so much for being here with us. Brother, thank you Really appreciate your influence. As Ken taught us this morning about the Lottie Moon Christmas offering and the IMB and what missionaries are doing around the world, I just want to remind us this morning that when we give and you'll have many opportunities to give throughout the end of the year when we give, your giving, hear me, goes to over 3,500 missionaries that the IMB supports around the world. Your giving goes to reaching, just this past year, just through this past 12 months, 1,036 unique people groups. He talked about ethnos, ethnicities, that 1,036 unique people groups were engaged with the gospel around the world. Hear me, how many got saved over the past year from missionaries because of your giving. 879,798 people got saved just this past year. Put your hands together Because of your giving, because of the missionaries going. Also, I'm sorry, that's how many people heard the gospel 141,206, and 12,618 were trained in church planting. So I want to encourage you that here in a couple of weeks, december the 8th, we are going to be able to give specially to our Lottie Moon Christmas offering. But, just to be honest, you can give it anytime through the end of the year. You can go online to our website, fbcpsorg slash giving. You can go there anytime and give to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering. I want you to know that 100% of your gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering, through our church, directly goes to the missionaries. Not to any organization, not to any staffing positions. 100% goes directly to the missionaries.
Speaker 1:My favorite passage of scripture that is about giving to missions is 3 John, the book of 3 John, verses six through 8, and it says this is that they have testified to your love before the church. Speaking about the missionaries, it says this so please help them in a way that is worthy of God to continue their journey, for they have set out for the sake of the name. These missionaries have given up their very lives. They've gone to the mission field for the sake of the name of Jesus and they are accepting nothing from the pagans. In other words, the lost are not going to pay their way. The world is not going to help them. It is gonna be the churches, it's gonna be Christians like you that is gonna be able to send them to the nations. Therefore, we ought to support such persons so that we may be co-workers in the truth. In other words, whenever you give to missions, you become a co-worker in their mission. You become a partner in the gospel to that people group. You become a partner in the gospel with that missionary and your giving goes to over 30, I'm sorry, your giving goes to over, let me say it again 3,500 different missionaries that you become a coworker in with the truth.
Speaker 1:2 Corinthians 9, verse seven, simply tells us that we should just give as we have decided in our hearts. But we're not making our own decisions. Our decisions are simply discerning God's direction. God is already working in me and my family's life in what he has called us to give. I pray that he is working in you and your family, or you personally in your life, according to what he has called you to give. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under any type of compulsion, but God just simply loves a cheerful giver.
Speaker 1:I'm going to ask us all to bow our heads and close our eyes right now and I just want to encourage us to give us just a time to pray. And maybe you're here this morning and maybe God is speaking to your heart, and maybe this morning that you're not ready to give to mission yet because you have not yet given your heart, your life, to Jesus first. Maybe this morning is your morning, that God is calling you to be saved. God is calling you to be forgiven. God is calling you to give your life to him and God says you are just a heartfelt prayer away from your life and your eternity changing forever, felt prayer away from your life and your eternity changing forever. God says that he loves to save people, he loves to forgive people and so maybe that's you right now. You're not ready to give to mission yet because you're right now the mission field and that you need to first get saved.
Speaker 1:I can't pray this for you, I can't save you, but you can pray this and God promises to save you. You can say in your heart, as long as you mean it with all of your heart, you can say this in your heart to God, right here, right now, you can say dear God, I need you and, dear God, I believe in you. And God, you can tell him right now I pray in Jesus' name, as I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins. You can say right now that, god, I pray that you would forgive me of all of my sin. Jesus died for my sin. And you can say and God, I believe that Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus is alive and so I give him all of me today, because he gave me all of himself.
Speaker 1:And the Bible says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, call on Jesus to be the Lord of your life, you confess Jesus as your Lord right now and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. God, we believe that. We thank you for that truth, god. We thank you for anyone that prayed. That Prayer gave their life to you and they're saved in this moment for the rest of their life, for all of eternity. God, we love you and we pray these things in Jesus' name. And all God's people said amen. Put your hands together for anybody that prayed. That prayer gave their life to Jesus.
Speaker 1:This morning, we're so thankful for all that God is doing. I want to encourage us just to stand right now, as we're all going to stand together. We're going to sing one last song and I want to encourage you that, as God has sent Jesus into this world so that you could be saved, so that you could have peace with him, so that you could know him, so that you could worship him, so that you could have an eternal home with him. You don't have to wait. You get to live for him now. You get to worship him now. So I wanna encourage you to pour out your heart to him, even just in this moment, as we end this service with this last song. I pray right now that you would lift your heart unto him because of all that he has done for you.
Speaker 1:Heavenly Father, we give you our worship as our offering. Give you our worship as our offering. We thank you for giving your son as a sacrificial offering. We thank you for his death. We thank you for his blood. We thank you for his burial. We thank you for his resurrection. And, god, we thank you that you have called us, you've invited us, you've included us in mission. That we can be a part of something far greater than our own selves, something far greater than our own lives. God, that you've given us an opportunity to partner in what you are doing around the world, in people groups, in people's lives. God, may you move in our hearts, may you move in our church. God, may you use us, may we worship you right here, right now, with all of ourselves. We love you In Jesus' name, we pray, and all of God's people said let's worship him right now, with all of ourselves. We love you In Jesus' name, we pray, and all of God's people said let's worship him right now.