00:07welcome to living word my name is payton and i'm hayley and we're so excited to have you here to
00:12celebrate our 40th anniversary here living word we're all about building strong homes and families
00:17that's our number one mission and we accomplish it in a bunch of different ways first is saturday
00:21night date night after our 5 p.m service we watch your kids for two hours completely free so that
00:26you and your spouse can take the night for yourselves on wednesdays every family member
00:30has a place to be we have men's and women's bible study here at 6 30 p.m as well
00:35as kids and youth
00:36and if you're looking for a church home i may be biased when i say this but living word is
00:40the place
00:40to be now i know some may say that it's a little too early to celebrate christmas however it is
00:45never
00:46too early to put polar express on your calendar december 12th and 13th our polar express show is
00:52coming back if you saw it last year you're going to want to see it this year because it's going
00:56to be
00:56bigger and better than ever december 12th and 13th put it on your calendar so now that you know a
01:02little bit about us take a look at some of our early beginnings hey i actually i want you guys
01:06to
01:06look at this okay oh my gosh wow oh my gosh look at that okay so my first reaction uh
01:18is jason
01:18leading worship with uh resound and i'm first like taken back because it reminds me of you
01:28because i feel in love with you because i felt in love with you when i watched you
01:31and performing
01:41so great man thanks
01:45when she cries i cry
01:50this is a faith explosion
01:52you can see on the screen behind you remember faith explosion yeah you go to church in the morning
02:01eight you get done around three days in a row three in the afternoon come back at night it was
02:09amazing five days in a row of faith trying to discuss speakers we had church boy
02:16i did look at my mom she looks so cute you know i look at this picture and and it's
02:23crazy to see
02:24the different seasons that god grows you in and and how he makes um he enlarges our capacity this is
02:30from um my season of mom's destiny and running the mom's group and this is from a season when i
02:36was
02:37very much actively leading praise and worship and i i actually think that i'm pregnant with savannah here
02:44like i think i'm i'm having that last child and it's really wild to just i don't know reminisce about
02:51where time's gone by and where we're at today you see this one right here me and my mom used
02:57to
02:57always do the announcements at the end i remember this you made everybody laugh because you would always
03:02have this last little like retort and your mom was never expecting it and it always mom was so funny
03:08she was every time so people literally would wait to the end for the announcements also it's kind of
03:13cool because now peyton and hayley are doing the announcements so it's like the next generation
03:17true very true god brought people all along the way from that first building through javelina through
03:25foxwood and gilberth to this building so many different things that god brought exactly who we needed
03:31so when we talk about this 40 years of celebration we know that we didn't do this we know that
03:40that god
03:41worked through us but he brought the people into the house that put their life's blood into this place
03:51and built this place and i'm so thankful for all of them some here some in heaven some have moved
03:58on to
03:58other churches but we're thankful in our hearts yeah for for what they invested in god's vision
04:05if you could share one thing with every family at living ward about the future of our church
04:10what would it be shocking shocking we're going to shock the world i love that and we're just getting
04:20started i'd like to invite you to stand to your feet and give a warm welcome to pastor ben graves
04:28who's
04:28going to give us amazing word tonight
