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Then why I like that so much is because the church like weird.

We have a community who we can, but we also support other people to go out and and they are an extension of Oak Grove.

We support them serving the same, God and King and Sometimes, it's cool to hear what's going on and how we are connected with that this morning, when I introduced you to Aaron Copland, if you never met him before, he was with Navigators and Cedar, Rapids, and ministering to the local colleges in.

Elk Grove, it's so good to be here and get to visit with you all.

I'm so thankful for you guys, and I remember many of you.

Fondly.

It's just a joy and a blessing to get to come and be here and share with you all what we've been doing this again.

Thank you.

You guys the church and many of you individually sponsor us and he'll make this ministry possible for us to be able to serve on the college campuses and Cedar Rapids, and it's just a real blessing that we get to do this Saturday.

I was going to give you a little bit of update about what we're doing, what's been going on with God's been doing and just some of the things that were looking forward to for the summer and kind of next year.

And the college campuses.

We server Coe College, Mount Mercy University in Kirkwood Community College.

So, uncool update.

Is this your two people at Coe College decided to trust.

Jesus is Lord, and that's just a really cool to see Goku.

Actually been a place where it's been a little harder for us to get momentum there.

And it's cool to see Atco where we have people coming to believe in Jesus.

We have lots of people getting involved, many of our new student leaders for this coming year, are from Co.

And so, guys, just doing a wonderful thing there, we've been able to be on all three campuses.

This year.

We started this new thing called nap connect.

We're we're on campus, and we're doing our Bible studies there, so that we can be more available to be able to connect with the students that are there on campus.

We've seen two of those studies growing without a little bit of trouble at Mount Mercy with getting that one to continue and grow.

So, we'll be focusing their little bit more this next semester in the fall, but it's cool to see new students coming.

If you saw all the people that are there like a year ago, All the fit.

Many of the faces are there, her new?

Which is cool.

To just see all the new people are student leader team.

Actually is a more than doubling this year, and it's cool to see that God is raising up students.

I want to belabor so that want to be invested and 10 best in others and teach other people about, Jesus.

That's what a student leader does.

It's where they're taking the next step that they want to go to like, a no.

I want to invest in other people.

I want to Mentor students.

I want to get involved with the vandalism.

I want to lead a community service project that we do on campus and things like that.

So like they're taking that next step and getting more involved, which is really need to see.

But I want to tell you two stories, just about like what we do Navigators, we really believe in investing, in the individual.

Are we have a motto where it's Noah Christ, make him known to help others do the same and we do that through discipleship and investing and want like a few p.

And then building their relationship with God equipping on sending them out and then teaching them to invest in somebody else.

And so I only tell you about two students that are doing that.

So the first one is name is Thomas and he got involved through a friend of his, in his Bible study recommended him to get connected with us and he's had a hard time getting connected because he works a job to put himself through college at Kirkwood.

But the cool thing is is I've been able to meet with Thomas individually and it's fun to see him grow a katchafire to share the gospel to lead Bible studies.

So me and Thomas we've been able to meet together for like the last year and now he's one of our new student leaders and he's helping me lead.

Our summer, Bible study for college students that are staying in town and it's just really cool to see him.

Get excited about learning more about the Bible building skills and investing in other people wanting to be a leader.

He's considering going to Bible College in the future.

The summer, and has things actually a really important time because the other student that I want to tell you about, got involved in our summer nav program.

It's a girl.

I met at a church in Vinton.

She got connected to our summer.

NASA program coming out of high school.

And then she is now like, one of our main student leaders at Kirkwood.

She's our Kirkwood Club president.

She's been inviting her friends and her class has to come to like Bible study and learn about Jesus.

She is engaging in evangelism like once like a week with us and just things like that.

So it's cool to just see how people are engaging with the message of Jesus and taking it and growing.

And that's what we do with Navigators as we invest and focus on mentoring individuals and then teaching them how to go and share their faith with people and have their own kind of personal Ministry, and equip them.

I want to tell you about a couple of opportunities that were looking forward.

So my name kind of goal.

This summer is working with Thomas.

We're leading the Bible study.

I'm over at our house.

So they'd come students are coming to our house and we're sitting through the book of Isaiah and just kind of reading and seeing what I have to say about God's justice mercy, and hoping.

So you can be praying for that.

Just that guy would use our summer Bible study.

Another opportunity that I get to do.

This summer is I get to go on with call the survey trip to Namibia in Africa.

God is always plan his gospel to go to the nation's and we believe that very strongly in The Navigators.

And so we want to teach our students that that's always been God's plan.

It's a one way that we do that is we get to send students overseas to get cross-cultural experience and see how the gospel is at work in other countries.

And so we get to partner with local missionaries.

I'm here in Namibia and then I got selected with another guy to go and do what's called a survey trip.

So, we're going to go and we can figure out the logistics to send a group of college students next year to Namibia.

And so, we're going to go and we're going to meet with the local missionaries.

See how we can help them, encouraged them, learn from them and then talk about the logistics of like what is it going to look like if we bring like a team of like 10 students to your country and what can we do to help serve you?

How can you teach them and help us grow and in work with our students and so get to do that here in June.

So really excited about that, but that also comes our cost.

And so one thing that we're doing this year is that we're trying to raise some money for one-time cost to cover the trip.

So, if you'd be interested in helping us with that, I'd love to talk to you later afterwards.

And also, we're still building our prayer and financial partner teams.

So if you'd be interested in helping us to do that, we would love to talk to.

You would love to meet with people and Talk about what's going on in your lives and pray with you, as well as just tell you what God is doing.

In her Ministry.

We're trying to cover about $1,200 a month and a monthly giving.

So if you probably do to help you, consider helping us with that.

We love to talk to you more.

But as I said, just thank you for the opportunity to come and visit.

It's a blessing just to share with you guys doing with The Navigators and will be in the back, will have some pictures and stuff.

You can see of just our students and things.

So I'm thank you guys.

Well, good morning church.

We've not met but allow me to introduce myself briefly.

My name is Eric rosener.

I am one of the pastors that has the opportunity to serve at Faith Bible Church in Cedar Rapids.

I've been there for about seven and a half years and it's an honor to be with you.

This morning already, just be able to worship with you to meet many of you and to just celebrate and to Worship the Lord together.

So I bring greetings to you from Pastor, Steve at Faith Bible and know that we have a kindred spirit with one another.

And so it's an honor and a joy to be here today as we jump in.

I want to ask if we just pray for God to bless our time in his word and that he would be present and that we would be able to respond to him.