EP: 17 "In the New Year”

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Howdy, and welcome to episode 18 of Hello Fairview, your local podcast made right here

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in Fairview for people in Fairview and the surrounding areas.

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This is a weekly show released every Wednesday featuring stories that aim to inform and inspire

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local radio stations and newspapers don't exist in small towns like ours.

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So we use Hello Fairview to fill that void with news related to Fairview.

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you receive. This concept was founded by the pod father himself, Adam Curry, and his co-host,

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John C. Dvorak of the No Agenda Show over 18 years ago. Currently, this is just a one-man

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operation. So if you have any ideas, events, business opportunities, or job openings,

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please don't hesitate to let me know. Use the contact form on the website and we'll work on

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getting those updates out on the next episode. You are a producer of the show. You are not the

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product because your time and attention are not being sold for advertisers for value.

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Some of these shows will be longer.

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Some will be shorter.

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I'll do my best to always try to keep things relevant to the news at hand.

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Traffic time.

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Well, it's normal busy.

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You can still wait two to five minutes to make a left turn in the morning and afternoon.

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Cumberland 100 is still getting some regular work.

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Looks like it paused a little bit because we've had some rain and I guess over the holidays too.

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So we'll see as that picks up again as they keep going further down the road east to move those pipes and everything.

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So we're less than a year out from that.

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We had road closures.

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We mentioned that last week on Chester Road closed, and that was reported to be for drainage

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and some utility work.

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And it looks like it's wrapped up.

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So that means that's good for people that live down that road.

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Red light update.

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We still have three, one at Old Cox and Publix and Walmart.

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Still, we'll be getting one eventually at City Center entrance and the Cumberland and 100

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intersection that is being worked on right now.

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I'm not sure how either one of those is going to help or hurt with the morning and evening school rush.

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We're growing.

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Well, city news, nothing really got posted as everyone's kind of come back into the mix.

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Homes for sale were down to 201 from 209 last week.

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And it's the same highs and lows from last week with a $3.495 million house on 70 acres and a $250,000 townhome with no acres.

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town meeting updates well there has been no meeting updates since last time there was a

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park and landscape board meeting on the 5th but just like we have mentioned before there's no

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notes or official things posted on the website to help keep track of what they're doing we

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mentioned it last week with that we know from the last planning commission and board of commissioners

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there will be more work for them to do and so i'm hopeful that they got a couple cool things on their

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list and we'll hear from that shortly because when it comes to town meetings our next ones are you

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know next week january 13th uh at 7 p.m is our planning commission january 15th is the board

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of commissioners meeting uh and january 29th is the board commissioner's town hall and around town

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coffee is january 14th so next week is probably getting back into the groove which is good

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state of tennessee well not a lot of news seems like all the news agencies and newspapers and a

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lot of that stuff took off uh so the only two things i thought was kind of interesting is the

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the tennessee senate panel wants officers that privately run prisons by uh that to wear body

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cameras on there uh and this is in opposition to the state correctioners commissioner so we'll see

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what happens from there i think that could be a good thing it will definitely obviously change

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behavior and will help and can hurt officers and inmates if something goes on.

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But I think body cams have been a great addition to law enforcement and have helped save people

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and both directions of that.

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The Leadvale access area on Douglas Lake is still closed to public as crews work to still

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repair damages caused by Hurricane Helene across the area. A popular entry boat for fishing in there

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sustained significant structural damage during the storm. The bills, well, you know, if they

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haven't been doing anything for a couple weeks now, and next week and a little bit of this week,

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it's on like Donkey Kong. There is the State Building Commission is meeting tomorrow on the

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8th at 1 p.m. No agenda posted for that. January 13th, basically it's like a full day, 2 o'clock,

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1.30, 2.30, 3 o'clock, and 3.30, different areas of it. But basically, we've got a Senate floor

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session, a Senate's finance, ways, and means, a Senate state and local government committee,

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a state commerce and labor committee, and the Senate judiciary committee. They're all meeting

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at different times tomorrow. And I guess one thing that's going to be interesting is that just proves

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that there's not a lot of people, I guess, or nobody that sits on multiple boards like that,

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because they couldn't be in four places at once. But the Ways and Means Committee is the only one

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that had a meaningful agenda. And so we'll kind of go through that. So we look at SB 1152. This is

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the Ola May Ransom Reintegration Act, which exempts veterans of the United States, including

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the National Guard reserves from a payment of $15 for a business license. So kind of like a

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interesting name for it, but I guess there is some story there. SB 735 has introduced just

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the compensation to be paid for the acquisition or removal of outdoor advertising. Lawfully erected

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prohibits the use of amortization to provide such just compensation. So something to do with

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Al-Sorad advertisements, kind of interesting there. SB 1069, this as introduced will attire

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with prior notification that the auctioneer is required to send the motor vehicle commission

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of time and place of auction where the motor vehicles at a going out of business sale will be

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sold and sent electronically. So I guess they were sending manual papers and now they're going

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to do it electronically. Another one amends TCA title 67 chapter four as introduced exempts

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childcare agencies from business tax requires state to annually allocate the amount of such

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taxes derived from the childcare services and received from counties and municipalities in the

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2023 to 2024 fiscal year. So kind of interesting how it's like kind of backdated a little bit there.

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SB 918, Boat and Boating amends the TCA Title 69, Chapter 9, as introduced increases from 12 to 16,

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the minimum age of operating personal watercraft without direct adult supervision requires persons

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operating Watercraft to maintain financial responsibility in the same amount applicable

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to vehicles, which aka means insurance. SB 1101, taxes exemption and credit, amends the TCA

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Title V Title VI and Title 67 Chapter V as introduced creates tax exemptions for portions of property that provide tree canopy covers in counties whose local governing bodies elect to create this exemption

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So if you make shade, you get some cool thing.

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We definitely got to look at that as we get closer here.

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Then we have education curriculum.

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Amends TCA Title 49 is introduced, requires each local education agency and public charter school to annually implement an evidence-based substance abuse and violence provision program.

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And a school that serves students of any grades 3 through 12 to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use by students.

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SB 1411 criminal offense amends TCH title 39 and 49 chapter six and as introduced makes assault

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against school employees a class E felony under certain circumstances and then there was one more

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thing which was SB 141 which just says department of treasury high priority items for 2026 with no

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other details so i guess cool story they're doing things uh so it'd be kind of interesting to see if

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there's any reports out of this ways and means after that how's the hill well uh back at it you

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know it's passable we're back to warm again uh the weather guessers are predicting highs in the 60s

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almost 70s and lows down in the 60s uh and even in the 20s in the next week with some rain on

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Friday and Saturday. New businesses, nothing spotted. Ace Hardware is still brewing.

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We have seen a couple of people post on Fairview Then and Now about job openings and they haven't

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been posted yet, but apparently the website's getting close. As they're getting closer to

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construction, they're going to start doing that. So that's great to hear. The property across from

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Car Orthotics is still for sale, so we're still waiting for that. And there's a couple other

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properties. No new properties on the commercial side have been listed. The same three things have

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been for sale. Farmer's Market, make sure you head to the Farmer's Market every Saturday morning,

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8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Messick Chiropractic and Fairview Fresh Deli Donuts. Located down the

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road and across the road from Publix, there are so many good places to get breads and treats,

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local beef and pork, fruits and vegetables, along with some hot sauce, fishing lures, and other

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holiday gifts as those wind down for the year, so you'll see some of the regulars coming back,

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and so that's great. Old Town Antiques is our local business brick-and-mortar highlight.

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This is our local antique mall.

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It's a must place visit and you should check it out every now and then because things change

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all the time.

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Some of the booths have been recently updated and other booths have been added since then.

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This is a great place to support local businesses and people.

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The staff is amazing and help you track down something and always a pleasure to check out

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with.

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Get some, you know, goat milk soap, some Coca-Cola memorabilia, old vinyl, jewelry, kitchenware,

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toys, and a whole list of random things that are constantly changing.

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Check them out on Facebook.

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They always have promotions and sales and stuff like that.

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So definitely follow in there.

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Job openings.

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We still basically have the same 29 job openings, which basically means there is every major

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food retailer has job openings along with, you know, Sherman Williams, the Fairview Animal

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Clinic, Publix, Welch Associates, Covenant Primary Care, Brookside Properties, Walmart,

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Jingo Market, Dixon Medical Associates.

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The city still has their police officer position, and Destination Pet LLC has an animal care attendant.

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So if you have any other jobs that you know or internships or cool things like that, please let us know.

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Just fill out the contact form on the website.

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We'll be glad to announce those job openings to make sure people can have a way to find them.

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History nugget.

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Well, we're going to do Whippoorwill Drive.

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This is the home of the Whippoorwill Farm Day Camp.

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This camp was started in 1971 by Sidney Wooten as a place for kids to learn about nature and having a great time.

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This camp has won many awards and positive reviews over the past.

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The camp announced in September that after 50 years, the camp was permanently closing because the owners were ready to retire.

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I know our kids got to go there.

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It's an amazing place, and it's sorely missed.

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but it's a cool thing to have the road and a little bit of history there out in that Fairview

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Fernvale area. So good stuff there. Upcoming events. Well, nothing to really recap from last

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week. You know, new events that are coming up. We've got Bowie Park, you know, Tuesdays and

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Wednesdays at 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. is that Project Feeder Watch, which is at the Nature Center.

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tomorrow at january 8th at 10 to 11 is the ooey gooey amphibians designed for uh seven and under

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kids at the buoy nature center january 13th the buoy scrapbookers are going to be there from 10

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10 10 a.m to 12 p.m where you bring your scrapbooking stuff and people will help you get

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it all assembled and we had this submitted by someone that's at the fairview high school band

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uh january 17th uh there will be a songwriter's night the high school band and fsd performing arts

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center at 10 30 excellence way this is 6 to 8 30 a lot of big names there will have that flyer that

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they sent us uh on the website so you can see that so you can see jada cato jim collins eric

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halbig collins horton jill uh goolsby uh and lauren maschidi uh and uh a couple other people

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will be there and if you look at the list of songs that some of these people wrote and help perform

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and do all kinds of things in the music business it's really impressive so the seats and prices

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are anywhere from 30 to 75 dollars so we have the link on there to do that january 22nd 2 to 3 p.m

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is the herp heroes eight and over we'll learn about all forms of lizards out there so january

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30th is their seed swap at Bowie Park. So come and exchange your cuttings in there.

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And then the park and city had a big update, came from Bowie Park, but their Easter egg hunt is March

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28th. Arts and crafts fair is May 2nd. Movie night at Bowie is May 16th. The fishing rodeo

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at Veterans Park is June 6th. That's a great time to go through there through July 3rd.

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um back uh july 3rd is the 4th of july celebration uh so we will be rocking that back to school

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is uh at city hall is august 1st this back to school bash we'll see what that turns into

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nature fest is september 19th fall fun day is october 10th trunk of tree is october 24th

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the tree lighting event is uh december 4th and december 5th is the christmas parade

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with December 12th as being the alternate if there.

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So that's really good.

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One of our commissioners here posted, Commissioner Buffalini, the voting calendar for 2026.

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If you don't know, this is obviously one of those every two years something important

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happens in the country, in your area.

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And this is one of those years where there's going to be a good chunk of people running

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for election this year.

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So May 5th is the county primary.

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August 6th is the state primary and county general and November 3rd is the federal state and municipal

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election so that means for our town we have the mayor coming up and a couple other positions so it important for there and we got the early voting we added this all to the calendar and we going to post this photo so that we got all that

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stuff listed out there nice and clear for everybody. For the kids. Well, there are still

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tons of activities and sports to do to keep your kids engaged. There are some cheer programs,

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recreation teams for baseball, basketball, football, and others. There's a thriving Girl

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Scouts and Scouts BSA programs from elementary to high school kids. If you have a homescaler,

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always make sure you're checking out the Bowie Park schedule for clubs that meet there.

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And if you have kids that are interested in dance, gymnastics, or cheer,

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make sure you reach out to Lala's Dance Studio and Elevate Gymnastics and Cheer.

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Vigilance Martial Arts is our local taekwondo and jiu-jitsu school that teaches way more than just moves.

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And then the Fairview Youth Jacket Wrestling Program is a great program with a lot of summer options.

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And it looks like the Rec Volleyball League is getting cooking.

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And so all games will be played on Saturdays with most games being held at the Academy Park and Gymnasium down in Franklin.

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Practice begins the week of March 16th.

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And specific practice day range per age group will be determined.

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But right now they've got games on March 28th, 11th, 18th, 25th, 2nd and May 9th.

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So we'll get those added to the calendar.

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And basically there's 9U, 11U and 14U.

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So 7 to 9, co-ed is there.

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And ages 10 to 11, there's a girls' intermediate league.

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And ages 12 to 14 is the girls' junior league.

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So if you've got someone interested, definitely do it.

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School news.

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Well, Christmas break is done.

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Everyone's back to school.

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And we are rocking and rolling.

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So that's great.

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Hawk and Tiger news.

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No new news since last week.

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Falcon news.

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School is back, but there was no newsletter released like there normally is before the show.

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They obviously posted about e-books coming up, and makeup exams are going to be on January 13th for math, social studies, and enrichment makeup exams and assignments.

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So if you had a student that missed it, that's their chance.

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Then we have Wednesday, January 14th, is the ELA makeup for there.

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there was also a basketball game last night with the sixth graders and and the seventh and eighth

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graders i could see the parking lot was full on thursday there'll be a jv a game against grassland

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p.m there'll be a meeting at the mechatronics program at the f-pack at the high school to talk

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about that program. January 16th is the Falcon Pride schedule. And January, February 12th is the

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Spring Pictures, a new date. March 5th is the Makeup Pictures for Spring Portraits. The Lady

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at the library. The high school counselors will be meeting with students to try to come up with

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some of their freshman classes February 19th through March 5th. So please set up a meeting.

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We already got that. And yeah, the Monica Burr Foundation Teen Safety Matters curriculum is getting rolled out.

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The MBAF Teen Safety Matters Preventment Treatment Human Trafficking stuff was a comprehensive program for middle school students, grades six to seven.

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So if you've got a seventh grader and you want to learn about the teen safety matters, make sure you send an email to them.

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Jacket News, school is back, but no new newsletters.

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Applications for the Innovation Center are on ClassLink from December 2nd to February 13th.

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Senior jackets and rings can be ordered.

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Faith moment.

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Well, this week I found the message from Bridge Church out in Fredericksburg, Texas,

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starting about how to start off the new year with prayer and some time with the Lord. Pastor Jimmy

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talks about some of the steps and the benefits of it, and I think you'll really enjoy. And basically,

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in the simplest sense, is start small and finish big, right? You don't have to dedicate hours,

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days to meditation and prayer. Just put some time aside, and you'll start seeing how important that

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time is. So here we go. Preparation precedes breakthrough. We need to prepare ourselves

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for what God wants to do. Small steps of obedience create space for God's power.

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Small steps. Again, I've talked about goals being highly overrated. We're setting all these big

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goals, but what about just walking every day with him? Do you have a morning time that you spend with

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the Lord. If you don't, I want to encourage you. You should get up a little bit earlier,

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just a little bit. It doesn't even take much. Get up earlier and get on the, on the YouVersion

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Bible and, and download a couple of those devotionals. I love My Outbusters Highs by

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Oswald Chambers. I'm back on that. I've been doing that for a while now. It is speaking into the deep

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places of my life, but there is so much available out there. If we will avail ourselves to it,

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Get up a little earlier.

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Honey, we walk with you this morning.

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Me and the Lord, me and Jesus are talking right now.

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We're having a conversation.

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It's so special to me and so precious.

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The next special time of my day is being with my wife.

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Faith is completed through obedience.

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That's sarcasm. James is a brick in the head kind of guy. Cinder block brick. Listen to what he says.

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But be doers of the word. Be doers of what God says and not hearers only. Deceiving yourselves.

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He said if you just hear the word, you just hear the Bible, you just listen to sermons, you just

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download and listen to worship and stuff. But if you don't do anything about it, then you're

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literally deceiving yourself. You got the t-shirt, you got the bracelet, got the bumper

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sticker, you got the Bible app on your phone, but that doesn't mean you're after God and

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that you actually doing what he told you to do James 1 22 in the message translation pastor Eugene Peterson puts it this way Don fool yourself into thinking that you a listener when you are anything but Letting the word go in one ear and

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out the other. Act on what you hear. Letting it go in one ear and out the other like it did not

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stick somewhere. It just went right through us. Here's the key thought in this. God moves

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when his people move in faith. God is waiting on us to move. Last week in communion, I talked

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about James 4.8. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. It's covenant language.

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That covenant language and covenant promise still stands that when we move, he moves.

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the prodigal coming home

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he saw him, he was moving

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and the father went to him

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listen, this is a biblical principle

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make a move

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say, you know what

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I'm going to get into God's Word

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I'm going to spend time with God

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hey, if all you know is the Lord's Prayer

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pray the Lord's Prayer

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go to our page

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There's a great place to start.

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There is so much available.

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This is not a year to stand still.

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This is a year to rise up, to step out, and to speak out.

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We talked a lot about cultural engagement.

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We've got to engage our culture with substance, with answers and solutions.

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Not opinions, not memes, not the latest black hole, rabbit hole piece of news,

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but with wisdom from God's word.

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That's what the world's looking for.

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That's what people are looking for.

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They're looking for the real thing

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And we have an opportunity to present it

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So we're going to do our closing declarations

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We did this last week

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I reshaped these a little bit

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Why don't you stand to your feet

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Let's do this together

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There's something powerful happens

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When you declare things out of your mouth

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When you declare truth

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Your brain hears it

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It's still helpful

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It builds yourself up on your most holy faith, as Jude says.

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So listen to this, Joshua 3, 5.

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Joshua told the people, consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.

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I believe that for you in 2026.

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This is going to be a great year.

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Because we have a great God.

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Amen?

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I didn't say the circumstances are going to be great.

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I said the year is going to be great because God is great.

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So let's do our declarations.

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You ready?

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All right, let's read these together.

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Ready? Read.

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We thank God for his faithfulness in this past year.

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We release regret, disappointment, and fear.

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We choose gratitude over resentment.

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We look forward with the eyes of faith to what God has for us.

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We choose hope over fear.

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We will engage culture with a biblical worldview.

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We are starting this year strong because we ended 2025 strong.

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And we step into this new year trusting the Lord with faith, hope, and expectation.

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In Jesus' name, everybody said amen and amen.

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Give the Lord a big clap and a shout.

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He is good.

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And we get to do this.

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Let's pray together.

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Father, thank you for your word.

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Thank you for truth bombs that you just landed on us today.

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We receive them, Lord.

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We prepare our hearts to cross over, to move into this new place, this new space with you, Lord.

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That's our heart.

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Father, we're not talking about epic and sensational.

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We're talking about the dailies.

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Everything, the little things we do every day, making right decisions and doing the next thing, Jesus, you tell us to do.

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to do the next right thing on a continual basis.

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Long obedience in one direction.

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That's our heart for this coming year.

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And we know in that we will meet you

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with our head, with our heart, and with our hands.

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Thank you for truth that changes,

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truth that transforms.

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Father, I pray if there's anyone here this morning

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who's ready to take a step of faith

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in their walk with you,

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take a step, their first step on the journey maybe,

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to come to know Jesus Christ and invite him to be the Lord of their life.

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Father, if they're here today, would you give them the courage to come down here?

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Just so you'll know, we're going to have people ready to pray down here.

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I would ask that our prayer partners to go ahead and come down here.

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Go ahead and make your way and stand here.

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If you're here this morning and you need prayer for anything,

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we are here to pray with you.

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We want to pray with you.

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My word for this year is pray.

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My phrase for 2026 is let's pray.

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Annette's word for 2026, which she got in the middle of the night, this morning, early this morning, too early, two something, is more.

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So if you have prayer, need prayer, we're here for you.

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Let's pray more.

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Father, in Jesus' name, we honor you with our hearts.

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We honor you with our heads.

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We honor you with our hands.

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In Jesus' name, God's people said, amen and amen.

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God bless you.

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We love you.

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Have an amazing week on purpose.

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Welcome back.

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I hope that message resonated with you as we are in the new year and we're doing these new things.

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You can check out the full sermon online.

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