Vision Sunday // Pastor Chuck Colegrove // Oct. 12

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Um you may be seated, it's it's that wrestle
of you could watch first serviceonline this week, but I feel
like something needing to happenor something waiting to happen
is needing to be said, and weneed to declare some things over

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this house, and uh I'll tell youthis that vision vision is is
sight, and vision is alwaysmoving forward.
I'll never forget the year was2013, and we had just finished

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our first year of being achurch.
I mean, Arshana and I and thefour boys, we moved here.
We didn't know anybody in OakPark at the time, knew no one.
My brother lived out in the Westsuburbs, and he told me that
they would be the first members,and I'm like, thank God, we're
now a church of ten.

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And our very first freeway thatwe had, we had 11 people there,
so I felt, well, we're growingalready.
We started with six, added four,and now we added one more, we're
11.
But then she moved back toHouston, so we were back to 10
again.
I felt like Jesus.
Already lost woman.
And um, but in that year of 2012to 2013, God moves so

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wonderfully, like always kept usprovided for us.
I'll tell you, there was somequiet Sundays, there were some
long weeks, there were somemoments where I was like, I
don't know God how we're gonnapay that next bill, but God
always provided, always made away possible.
And um, I told you that becauseat the end of that first year,

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uh, one of the team members thathad that was from Oak Park and
had joined the team afterlaunch, was like, so what's the
vision now?
And I was like, Well, it's kindof the same, but we're just
gonna try to do it better.
And um, I really feel like thisyear the Lord's been moving in a
powerful way.
How many can attest to it?
It's been your best year yet.

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In some ways, best year yet, youjust gotta like claim it.
Like, you may not see itphysically, you may have faced
difficulty.
Miss Ruby, I'm thinking aboutyou and your family.
This year has dealt your familyso many difficult losses and
tests.
I wouldn't even call them tests.
It's just it's literally, I feellike the enemy has attacked your

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family in such a way this year,and loss and in what seemed
disaster, but I want you to knowGod knows exactly where you're
at in your family, and the wayit started, and the way it's
going is not the way it's gonnaend.
That your family's gonna see arevival, your family's gonna see
miracles happen.

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And I just I would just speak toeven the looming uh financial
need over your family, extendedfamily, that that the Lord's
taking care of it, and God'sprovided a way where there seems
to be no way.
Matter of fact, church family,just stretch your hand to Miss
Ruby right now.
Father, I just pray for MissRuby's family, Lord.

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And I need you need to knowthis.
Recently, her nephew was hislife was taken through gun
violence in the city ofRockford, 18 years old, if I'm
not mistaken.
Um, tragic, and um such loss.
But um I believe what the enemymeans for harm, God's gonna use

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for his favor and his his good.
And I just pray right now aprayer of a Ruby.
Lord, you give her strength, youencourage her.
Would you just, Holy Spirit, noone else can do, Holy Spirit,
what you're about to do rightnow in this family, wherever
they're at, in all regions ofthis location, from here in Oak
Park all the way to Rockford andeverywhere in between.

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I pray a Holy Spirit fire ofencouragement to burn out any
depression, any lack, any loss.
I just pray right now, comfortand strength and peace that
passes understanding in Jesus'name.
Amen.
Amen.
So, what I think is that a lotof times we can physically look

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at something and it not seemlike our best year yet, or you
can just, I'm not in the name itand claim it kind of church
life, but I am in the power ofwords.
And that even when it doesn'tlook like victory, you can
declare victory and you canspeak victory.
And so, what today is VisionSunday is us looking into what I

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believe God is moving, what Godwills to do.
There's there's promises of Godthat are yes and amen through
Jesus.
And God gives a promise, and Iwant you to know of this
scholars debate whether there's7,000 or 8,000 promises, all I
can tell you is that's a lot ofpromises.

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And God has never come back voidon one promise.
When it says in the Bible, God,when God says, I will, he does.
When God says I will, you cancount on it, and he is not going
to ruin his perfect record onyou.

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And so when God says, I will dothis, you can count on it, and
really you can expect it, andyou can actually start to live
like it's already happened in aresponse of faith, of what God
wills to do in your life.
And so when I share this today,I I want you to know I'm sharing
it from a position of these arethings God has shown us and that

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we're seeing, but we don't justwant to see it, we want to speak
it.
Because first you have to seeit, and then you speak it, and
then you share it, meaning yourun together with it, and then
it becomes success.
Not in the way that we countsuccess, but in God's arena.
He says, You'll be the victor,not the victim.

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You'll be the overcomer, notovercome.
You'll be the first and not thelast.
God says, you will accomplishthese things when you follow my
commands.
And so we are a church, aBible-believing church.
And so when I talk about vision,we say vision is sight.
It's always moving forward.
I told you that because visionis moving forward.

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And yes, the vision uh itcontinues to go to the same
space, but sometimes you got tochange up how you say it.
Because it has to be clear, andit has to be something that you
can run with.
And a lot of you are saying,well, today it's October 12th,
2025.
Why would we talk about visionfor 2026 already?

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It's like jumping the gun.
It's because I can't wait to getthere.
No, the reality is because whatI believe God is putting into
this house and through thishouse is of such that we need to
pick up our pace and be at theright pace when we get to 2026.
We can't we can't back our wayinto what God wants to do in

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this new year.
And like, oh, we barely made it.
Let's go 2026.
No, we're gonna keep with thisbest year yet and roll into 2026
designed to see what God willsto do in our life.
And I would often say, like,there's a lot of things that are
really bad in life, but one ofthe worst things is not having
vision.

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Proverbs 29, 18 says, wherethere's no vision, the people
perish.
It's literally, if there's nosight, there there's no
movement, there's no goingforward, if there's no seeing,
if there's some of you are inlike, well, I'll believe it when
I see it, but no, you've got tosee it, you've got to believe
it, then see it.
You believe first, and then yousee it.

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And so I want to just speak tothat for a minute.
Um and I want to just lean infor the power of vision, because
when we lose our way, we when welose our why, we lose our way.
And Habakkuk 2.2 is a famouspassage of scripture talking
about vision, but I wanted todraw your attention using the

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message translation, which saysthis in verse 2, and then God
answered, write this, write whatyou see.
No takers are history makers.
You gotta write it downsometimes, but write it in big
block letters so that it can beread on the run.
This vision message is a witnesspointing to what's coming.

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So we share this today,hopefully, clearly, uh, with
clarity, so that you can runwith it.
And as we post it, you see itand you know, yeah, that's where
we're going.
That's vision is sight, andthat's where we're going.
Vision is sight, and then valuesare behavior.
So we have values surroundingwhat we see so that we get

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there.
But I want to say that vision issight and we're moving forward.
If we're moving forward, let mejust quickly talk about where
we've been.
2025, we declared at thebeginning of the year that it
would be our best year ever.
Which it's crazy because in 2023we called 2023 the year of
discipleship.

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Um 2024, I was trying to lookthrough, I don't remember what
we said about 2024.
I must not like I'm trying tothink, what did we say about
that year?
And I was looking through mynotes and I could never find
like a distinctive pattern uhfor 2024.
But and then 2025 we said thisis our best year yet.
And I just want to show you whatGod has done in free church and

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through free church and for hisglory.
In 2024, we averaged 263 inattendance, and this year to
date, uh in 2025, we've averaged330 people.
That's a 25.5% increase.
And um, and and God's moving inpowerful ways.
In fact, on one single Sunday acouple of weeks ago, we had um

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almost an 80% increase in justadult attendance, which is
amazing.
And God's moving powerfully, andwe're so thankful for that.
This year already, we'vebaptized 60 people.
6-0.
And there's one more, one morebaptism service happening
November 16th.
Um, if you've never beenbaptized, if you've taken a step

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to follow Jesus but haven't madeit public by baptism, I would
encourage you to take advantageof November 16th.
Otherwise, you gotta wait till2026.
So, but take it take advantage.
Bring your family, bring yourfriends, celebrate baptisms.
That's gonna be a powerfulweekend.
Pastor Robbie will be here, hisentire family.
It's gonna be a great weekendand baptism Sunday.
Uh this year, freeway, which isour path to membership and

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discipleship and leadership, um,serving on the Dream Team.
Freeway, we've had 74 peoplecompleted already this year,
which is incredible.
And we have one more opportunitynext week.
So if you've never been throughthe freeway, no matter what age
you are, if you've never beenthrough the freeway, we invite
you to join us.
You just forward slash DM Reneeor forward slash freeway, and

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that's how you register forfreeway.
It'll we have a light lunch,child care, it's gonna share
heart and vision and um do acouple of things that will help
you discover your purpose.
So it's a powerful time, but 74have already completed that this
year.
And then one thing that I'm mostexcited about is you know, free
church operates on thegenerosity, solely on the

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generosity of the families andpeople of this house.
And um this year already, we tiewe give out and around, so we
give, we say we give up, out andaround to plant churches for
global missions, for uh partnersand local support around uh free
church and the community.
And this year already, we'vegiven$47,846 out, up and around

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to move the kingdom of Godforward.
That's all through yourgenerosity.
You didn't even know, you didn'teven know that's how much we've
done this year.
It's amazing by your generosity.
That's what we've been able todo so far.
And so God's done amazing thingsalready this year, but we
already have our eyes set onwhat he wants to do next year.
And so I want to just speak tothat for a moment.

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And I'm just gonna skip ahead toActs.
Well, no, let's start here.
Let me start here.
Don't go there yet.
So for the last 13 years, wehave been a church that we've
always made this declaration.
We're here to help people knowGod, find freedom, discover
purpose, and make a difference.
And that that part of what we doin church, and how you know, we

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help people know God on Sundays,we help people find freedom
through small groups, we helppeople discover purpose through
the freeway, and then we helppeople make a difference on our
dream team.
Yesterday we had an incredibleDream Team Connect.
There were 59 Dream Team membershere, which was an incredible
number and a great Saturdaymorning, powerful moments of
worship and some fun games, anduh, and and we shared and got

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teams to do best practices withteams, so it's a really powerful
time.
Uh, but I say all that to saylike that that part of saying
that mission of what we're hereto do to help people know God,
find freedom, discover purpose,and make a difference comes out
of the scripture.
And it comes out of the promisesthat God has for his people.
It's found in Exodus chaptersix, verses six and seven.

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And um, God says this to thechildren of Israel God says, I
will bring you out from underthe yoke of the Egyptians, I
will free you from being slaves,I will redeem you, and then he
says, I will make you a greatnation.
And so when we talk about themission of this church, it comes

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from this passage of scriptures.
So it's not like that justsounds good or it's easy to say.
It literally comes out of adeclaration of God's promises
for his people.
God says to the children ofIsrael, now this is when they
are enslaved in Egypt, andthey've been slaves now for 440

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years, and God says, I'mbringing, I've heard your cries,
I'm bringing you out of Egypt.
And whatever we see in the OldTestament is a type or shadow of
the New Testament.
And so Egypt is a type of sinthat distances us or is the gap
between us and our HeavenlyFather.
We're born into sin, the Biblesays, and we're born with this

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gap, or we're born into theslavery of sin, not because
we're bad people, it's justbecause of the fall of man.
This is how we're born.
And so God says, Listen, mypromise for you is that I'm
gonna bring you out of thatcondition.
It's a very free promise.
The first promise, the gift ofsalvation.

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It's an I will.
I will bring you out from underthe yoke of the Egyptians.
And then he says, and I willfree you from being a slave,
which always to me sounds likethe same thing.
Well, you're bringing us out ofEgypt, so we'll no longer be
slaves.
Yeah, but I'm not only bringingyou out of Egypt, but I'll get
Egypt out of you.
And that's what God wants to dowhen he saves you.
He doesn't just want to save youfrom your sin, he wants to set

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you free from the habit and theconstraint of that sin in your
life.
The, the, as Ephesians 1:7, Paulsays, from the penalties and the
punishments of that misdeed.
So God says, This is my promisefor you, that you'll be saved,
that you'll be set free.

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And he says, and I promise Iwill redeem you.
You it's not, you were not meantto be enslaved.
You weren't meant to be captivein Egypt, but I'm gonna redeem
the original promise that youwalk with authority and you walk
with power and you replenish theearth.
And that's the promise God hasfor you.
And then he says, and then Ipromise, everything's personal,

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but then he makes it real a bigfamily.
He says, I'll make you a greatnation.
I'll make you a part of afamily.
You had to come through anearthly family to be a part of
his heavenly family.
He says, I'll you, and how weused to say, we you'll find
fulfillment when you serve God'shouse and serve God's people,
you'll find fulfillment in lifethat goes beyond just being

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happy.
It transcends the idea of justliving for yourself.
Now I'm living beyond myself,I'm making a difference.
So it occurred to me over thecourse of this year that as
we've been saying, we're here tohelp people know God, find
freedom, discover purpose.
And we help people know God onSunday, find freedom in small

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groups, make a difference, ordiscover purpose through the
free way, and make a differencein the dream team.
That really what we're doing isdeclaring God, it's all a
declaration of a promise.
Everything we do as a church, wedo as a declaration of a promise
of God.
And so, what I want to positionfor us and write it plainly so
we we can run with it is thisidea and move the vision forward

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of free church like this.
We are one church declaringGod's promises, fulfilling his
purpose until the whole worldknows.
So we put that in there, onechurch, because in the future
we'll be able to say we're onechurch, many locations.
And who knows?
The south side, the north side,the west side, Michigan,

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Indiana, Iowa, wherever the Lordwould lead us and position us
here locally, nationally, evenglobally, but for now, we're one
church declaring God's promise,fulfilling his purpose, until
the whole world knows.
Until the whole world knows God,until the whole world knows they

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can be free, until the wholeworld knows they can be
redeemed, until the whole worldknows that they can make a
difference.
We're one church.
It seems like a big thing, butwe're one church and we can do
it together.
Amen.
So, so now let me bring you tothe book of Acts, chapter one

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and eight.
The book of Acts, which is afoundational passive scripture
for our students, but it's alsofoundational for us as a church.
And this is what Jesus says.
He says, but you will, see,there's another promise.
So I want you to startconsidering when you read
scripture, that when you readsomething that's a promise, you

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underline it, circle it, andit's something for us to make a
declaration of.
God says, You will receive powerwhen the Holy Spirit comes on
you.
And watch this, you will be mywitnesses in Jerusalem, Judea,
Samaria, and even to the ends ofthe earth.
Now, I've preached this frommany different avenues, but

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today I want to just kind ofcamp out in this thought or this
process of lanes that I'm notgonna go so much geographical,
but in terms of Jerusalem,Judea, Samaria, and the ends of
the earth in lanes that we'llrun in for 2026.
And the first lane is for freechurch, Oak Park.
We're gonna what we're gonna dohere in this assembly to move

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the vision forward, and thennext generations, what we're
gonna do for our free churchkids and for our witness youth
and for young adults to move thevision forward.
And then the next lane would bethe lane of local, national, and
global missions or outreach,what we'll do to make an impact.
So Jesus is saying you'll be awitness in Jerusalem, Judea,

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Samaria, and to the remote partsof the earth.
And that's really the lanes thatwe're gonna run in.
So let's talk about it in thefew minutes that I have left.
So here at here at Free ChurchOak Park, this location, what we
aim to do through this church in2026, so in the next 90 days, we
will begin to translate ourservices in Spanish live in the

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moment so that anyone whoEnglish is not their first
language or even their secondlanguage, they will have uh
means and access to hear thepreached word of God in service.
And so that's in 90 days we'lllaunch, we'll launch Spanish

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translations in service.
And then in 120 or 180 days,we'll launch a Spanish-speaking
small group in response to whatI believe our community and the
surrounding area is facing rightnow in terms of culture, and we
want to aim to have a voice fora group of people who it seems

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like they're being overlookedand and um just overlooked.
That's the best way to say it.
So that's we're doing now.
We have a bunch of other thingsin the portfolio, but I wanted
to share those two with you.
So that's 90 days, 120 to 180days, and then two or three

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years down the road, Lordwilling, and the way the
ministry grows as we translatein services and then as we run
small groups, um, uh then theLord, this is a dream.
The vision is we're definitelydoing it.
The dream is that we will launchuh Iglesia Libre.
I say it right, close a freechurch, Spanish service with

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worship and preaching, and umjust believe God's gonna move
powerfully in that.
So, next generation, so that'sthe first one, free church.
So in next gen, next generationare kids, our youth, our young
adults, and we have, man, wehave a heart full for our next
generation, which by the way,they fill this front section in
every service.
They out-worship all of us.

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And uh I don't, I mean, I don'tever like I want to see this
group continue.
I want them to fill all threesections.
So keep working, you're doinggreat, but let's keep going.
Um, can you imagine like how howloud that would be in worship?
Like they're already out singingthe band.
So um, but in terms of nextlevel, it's been a dream.

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So there's a difference betweena dream and a vision.
A dream is an idea, a preferred,uh a picture of a preferred
future.
A vision, though, has the meansand the support and the steps
behind it.
So you can dream dreams, andthen you have vision that
actually is no, this is actuallywhere we're going.
But this has been a dream sincewe moved into this building.
In 2017, we moved into thisbuilding to lease this

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auditorium and just a smallportion of the lower level where
our kids meet.
It was like literally the maybethe uh a third of this stage, it
was tiny.
And it it housed it had to houseeverything because the Hemingway
Museum was the primary tenantdownstairs in the lower level.
And when we moved in in 2017, weknew they were closing.

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It had just been announcedpublicly.
And January 1st, they were outof the building, and we assumed
the entire uh space to lease.
And then uh in 2020, we put thedownstroke to purchase this
building to God be the glory.
But it's been a dream of ours.
So, really, we had enough moneysaved up at that moment to like
either do the lower level or tobuy the building.

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And like, whenever you get achance to own real estate in Oak
Park, you go for the realestate.
And so that's what we did.
And now the vision, the dream ofupdating the lower level will be
a reality as we in the next 120days move into upgrading that
lower level for our kids,world-class accommodations for

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kids and youth in the lowerlevel.
Amen.
I think we have we've showndrawings and different um
renderings before, but this iswhat it's gonna look like.
Full walls, classroom space,gonna be incredible, and um
still very functional for all ofthe things that we do down
there.
So that's free church, that'snext gen, and then the last

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piece, local, national, andglobal.
And I'm I'm excited.
This again has been a dream ofmine, but now it's becoming a
reality as we move forward.
And in 2026, we build out aColombian programming center
that will be a feeding center tothe community.
We're still working on the cityright now, um, but we're working

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with Convoy of Hope, and we willbe building out a feeding center
that um will feed the community,and then as we strengthen our
position there, we'll begin toum it will become an
empowerment, a women'sempowerment center where we'll
train women uh as entrepreneursin areas of business, and then
we'll train farmers inagriculture, and then someday,

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Lord willing, it will be freechurch, whatever that city in
Columbia.
Amen, church.
So obviously, as with anyportfolio, there's probably a
number of things in there thatwe'll share that are beyond
these three key things that I'veshared.
But I feel like it was importantfor me to share three of them

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that we're already movingforward on, and then there'll be
other things that you'll get tosee and be a part of.
But how are we gonna do it?
How do how do we we've writtenit plain?
It seems to me to be prettyplain, but how do we how do we
move forward with it?
Well, number one, here's how yourun with the vision.
Number one, we pray first, andall of us can pray.

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And I want to encourage all ofyou to pray, pray specifically
for the Latino community, prayspecifically for those of you
that pray in Spanish.
I want you to pray in Spanishover this church, over this
congregation, over thiscommunity.
And if it goes into tongues,that's fine, but like start in
Spanish because we want to makewe want to make a declaration in

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the tongue uh in Spanish to saythis is gonna be a house that
will reach people with thegospel of Jesus Christ
specifically through uhtranslation and then small
groups and then a campussomeday.
And um, but I'm everybody canpray, and I want you to pray for
next level, the the nextgeneration, pray for our kids,
pray for our youth witness, prayfor our young adults, pray for

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the global impact we've had.
We've had already a tremendousresponse of people saying how
they want to serve in this area,but we're gonna pray.
Everybody can pray.
In fact, we always start theyear off with 21 days of prayer
and fasting, and I want you toalready put this on your
calendar, January 4th through25th, that we're gonna go into
21 days of prayer and fasting,and we're gonna pray and fast

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our way through all of theseprojects and believe God moves
powerfully in them.
So we can all pray.
Number two, most of us can give.
Not all of us can give, but mostof us can give.
And um, I just want to, youknow, let you know um we've done
this over the last few years.
It's been one of our mostgenerous days of the year.
We call it it's it's a part ofGiving Tuesday.

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On Giving Tuesday, over there'llbe billions of dollars given to
non-for-profit causes all overthe world, but we've
participated in this and it'smoved the vision forward every
single year.
This year we're gonna do it withsome intentionality and
significantly move the visionforward through the fund we call
Kingdom Builders.
We we launched that uh rightbefore we started raising money

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for Puerto Rico this year.
We've used Kingdom Builders toadvance the vision of the church
and above and beyond our tithe,and and we're positioned to move
forward on many of theseinitiatives already, but we want
to move it forward in and reallyit's not about the size of the
vision, but what paces thevision is how we see it, how we
pray through it, and how we giveto it.

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And so just on December 2nd, I'myou'll start to hear more
information about GivingTuesday, but start preparing and
thinking about and praying, God,what would my part be to move
the vision forward on GivingTuesday?
And as a church, we'll allparticipate.
And I really I I'm believing for100% participation on Giving
Tuesday, not equal gifts butequal sacrifice that we move the

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vision forward.
So we're gonna pray, we cangive, and then we're gonna
serve.
And already in Renee, we haveset up for you if you forward
slash DM Renee a forward slashserve, and you can select from
these four new teams that we'relaunching as part of the effort
to see the vision through.
Number one, the Spanishtranslation team.

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So if Spanish is your first ormaybe second language and you're
fluent, and you think you cantake my preaching and translate
it for the people in theaudience, I'll never forget.
Um, I told a story in firstservice.
Uh Liam, you guys can come andwe can close this thing out.
I feel like I might need to landthis plane.

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Um I uh Edgar and Nisma came toFree Church back when we were in
the theater from Columbia.
And I'll never forget Edgarcaught me after that first
service that he came to, and invery broken English, he told me
that he was gonna learn Englishthrough my preaching.

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And I told him, I'm so sorry.
Like I might be the worst personto learn a language from because
I'm not ever I'm very rarely canI be grammatically correct.
I'm a marketer, not a not alinguist, and so like I'm so
sorry.
And I talked to him afterservice today.
He said, and he's fluent,brilliant, teaches kids

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downstairs.
His daughters have bothgraduated out of free church,
and one the youngest one,Sophia, is a student at UIC,
becoming an engineer, justincredible.
And um, it's just amazing.
But if Spanish is uh a languagethat you're fluent in and you
want to be a part of translationteam, somebody I'll preach.
You'll have a headset in theback room and you'll translate

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live and then people can listenin the service.
And I think it's gonna be ablessing to our community.
So that's one team.
The second team is constructionteam.
We have we have a good number ofqualified men that are in the
trade.
That'll that'll general contractthis project, but I told
somebody at the end of service,first service, like, well, we're

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gonna need a lot of hands, a lotof people to carry sheetrock and
hammers, and let's go.
Let's get it done.
And I believe this is mythought.
I don't know, the guys willprobably shoot me down on this,
but I believe we could clean outthe lower level on a Sunday
afternoon, start the project onMonday and close it out by the
next Sunday.
Come on.

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One, build a church in a week.
Come on.
And um, because we got enoughpeople to do it.
And then, so that's a team.
The third team is our missionsteam.
If you want to be a part ofglobal efforts through free
church, you can be a part ofthat team.
And then the last one, the lastone is for there, there are many
of you that can do this that'llfeel called and compelled to do

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it because you have a gift ofgiving and giving beyond your
tithe and your offering, andeverybody could be a part of
this team.
But I want to encourage those ofyou that just feel like the Lord
has put on your in your life theability to give above and beyond
and to give generously.
You have the gift of giving.
It's literally one of the giftsthat Paul talks about in uh 1
Corinthians, but you have thegift of giving, and this would

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be our kingdom builders team,and that's how we're gonna
advance this vision by believingtogether, giving together.
And it's not, it's never, well,I've already said it once, it's
never uh equal gifts, but equalsacrifice.
So I just believe we're gonnamove the vision forward
exponentially.
And I'm excited about the year2026.
I got a lot more to say about itas we get closer to it, and

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obviously we're gonna start theyear strong, but that is my
belief that God is moving inthis church through this church
and for his glory.
Can you receive that word today?
Amen.
Hey, let's all pray.