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Hey, man.

I pray that that is our prayer today, has a hard song to sing.

Especially when we have all these other things in life that we are so preoccupied with.

Help us seek you first.

Love you niece morning as we speak your name.

And my name is Brian and family here, and I love the opportunity to preach when I get the chance to a friend of mine.

And if you would refer to him as that old farmer guy.

And tell her we went to church together when I was a child and I'm not really sure how I was introduced to him to begin with, but I assume my parents had a role in that somehow or maybe as you're here.

Maybe he was seeking me out.

But as I grew up when Tom and I saw each other, he would he would make the effort to come and talk with me.

You want to catch up there.

And so after church before church, in those times, when I was going to lingering, if you just make sure to say hi.

Occasionally, he would invite me over to his farm, to hang out and I didn't grow up on a farm and I didn't know what farm life was like him.

So, I would do that.

And I grew up with my dad, my dad, having a Woodshop in the basement.

And so, I spent a lifetime building things.

And Tom had a lumber mill, and that was really cool because occasionally, be working on projects.

And like, there's one time, I was building, this big are acrylic, oval Frank, the sign I wanted to Terry frame for it.

And so if you ever going to Home Depot and you're looking for a large piece of cherry, you're not going to find it.

And so I called Tom and I'm like, hey, what, what do you know?

What do you think I could do until?

He's sure I'll do it for you until he gets all these boards and he biscuits them together and planned it down for me is like here you go and doesn't charge me anything for it, and I'm like, that's dumb.

Play something contagious about him.

When I was in Middle School, I volunteered to help as a true leader in VBS.

And as a middle schooler, I wasn't exactly a responsible enough to be trusted with the souls and lives.

A bunch of little children.

So I was put with an adult and low and behold.

I was put with Tom to be that cold leader.

It's a dream that we could bbso those magic chaos and crazy games and Bible teaching on loud music.

And I got to know, Tom even more even realize that Tom became this Mentor for me that he and I never even said the word, it is just the relationship developed in the way.

What he had was rubbing off on me.

And you tell me how you praying for me.

He would tell me how you believe the Best in Me.

Molecular shapes that week of DDS in middle school with him.

And now that I'm in the position I am at Oak Grove and having led a couple of VVS weeks here I think back to that time.

It went I'm signed up to help with VBS who was the target audience.

Who was he trying to do ministry to the kids?

Right?

But in reality, I would be very surprised if any of the kids that he and I influence that week had their lives changed as much as I did and I wasn't even the target audience.

What are the college, call me every five or six weeks?

And it would just discuss theology has went to school for Bible and Theology and psychology, but we won't talk like academic theology.

He would talk about how see ology connect to his experience of God in his life, and he would connected to Ministry.

Then go tell Matt, he's praying for me.

And then when I went to Seminary, call me every five or six weeks like he does and you'd ask me how my family is doing well as learning from God and how was using it, and he'd remind me that he's praying for me.

And Tom and I still talk Keith.

You still tells me he's waiting for me to ask me how Ministry is going.

He still goes to the church, I grew up in and so he updates me on some of the things there and drink things as Old-Timers do and so he's like, here's what I'm thinking about lately and I'm mostly just listen, but what's a parent is that he has a his life is dedicated to Jesus and it pours out everywhere in his life.

So, he encourages me.

It's no secret.

That sometimes in Church times for a pastor times, get tough.

Just like, just like any job there Seasons when you just are having a hard day or had a hard week.

but, In those times.

I know I can call Tom and Ann and Tom answers the phone and he encourages me and he tells me about how he seen God work and he reminds me of things in the past of what God has done and all the sudden this bad season that I meant isn't a season of woe is me, but now is a where in the mission and there's a lot of work to be done.

The recently called time to catch up because it's going to get 12 or 15 weeks last time.

I called him and left a voicemail with his dad.

His wife, write a note for me and I'm not sure if I got to him.

I'm so, it makes it until I called him.

And we talked about this idea of multi-generational ministry multi-generational Ministry.

This is Ministry.

That is not one-size-fit-all Ministry.

It's not cookie-cutter Ministries, not everyone, sitting in their own age group Ministry, but multi-generation.

I was meaning that multiple Generations are sharing the love of Jesus together.

Recognizing that the children are children of God is just as much as the seniors are children of God, and there's a lot that of stuff that can be done through that.

It's all the time, something became new to me this time.

And where I realize is that my relationship with Tom was not unique to me because I talked to him about that.

He starts to tell me stories.

I have some why why do you minister to kids right now?

Is he is I thought I'll get to hear he's helping with the little kids.

A lot and his peers often are like, why are you doing this?

You had knee surgery and hip surgeries in your spine doesn't work.

And you're on your under the floor.

Talking with kids.

They just don't understand and he's Tom is a guy that knows what he believes and he will continue to do what he believes.

If I had somewhere to the thumb from what they start telling me stories and so he told me that at an older age, you can become an example.

Numerous people doubted that time could lead to something like a Bible study because he didn't have a formal education.

And his personality is such that sometimes he knows what he believes and isn't going to cater to the needs of other people.

He's going to teach the word and share Jesus and so because of that Ministry, leaders and pastors, don't tend to go to him and say, hey will you see your head that project?

But he went to the children's pastor and he said, hey, I want to be a part of the water program and eventually the Pastor said sure like to do it.

Because guess what?

I want to program Burns.

A lot of leaders often.

Is it to play with kids every week?

It's so beneficial and still useful for the ministry and dirty some Jesus.

As we're going to get to But you need to help, Tom got to have the opportunity to be a leader and pretty soon.

It wasn't long until time was being pulled.

The other people that he was being seen as a leader in the Cubbies program for 3 and 4 year olds.

And I'm talking Tom talking about the kids.

He tells me how they just want to sit with him and talk with him because he's old.

They recognized it and they respect him for it.

If you ever come to our program here, you'll see that there's kids everywhere and it's chaos Place, organized, and kids being kids.

They Don't really know how to read the room.

They sometimes don't know how to be respectful.

They don't really don't know how to interact with others.

That's the whole point of come insane time with kids and doing in the way that centered around Jesus.

But you telling me a story about a time and Cubbies, and he told me that even though the kids are in the state of chaos, they would still respect him enough to bring him a chair to sit in so that you don't have to sit on the floor with them.

And then they would talk with him.

There's asking questions about the Bible three and four-year-olds one evening.

They were playing games and all the sudden Sarah stops, and she's crying and understand her.

What happened?

If she was hurt or what was going on on the L ran to her and asked her what's happening then she and she says, I miss my grandpa.