2. Serve Our City Event 12 Churches In Attendance Almost 400 people @ Kickoff Meeting @ Genesis Project Community service project @ bus station on 24 th @ Wall Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

4. Kickoff Meeting Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

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10. Teen Bullying & Teen Suicide Ministry Saving countless lives every year by bringing the hopeless to Christ

11. Who Shaped Nick’s Destiny? Nick dealt with bullying and contemplated suicide as a teen What if he gave in? What if he was never freed from personal feelings of inadequacy? He would not be confident enough to be the person God wants him to be Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

12. Josiah’s destiny of Reformation fulfilled  Josiah called by name in prophecy ~300 yrs. (2 Kings 13:2) At the end of Josiah’s life, the Bible says this: (2 Kings 23:25) Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him TRUE REFORMATION STARTS IN YOUR HEART Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Josiah Meets his Destiny

13. Our Destiny: What is holding You back? Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Is the pain of your past shaping your future? Am I good enough? – Feelings of inadequacy? Constant struggles within? Is all your energy wasted on staying where you are?

14. Am I Getting In My Own Way? Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Are you allowing God to move you forward, or are you stuck in the mud of your mind, emotions, hurt, anger, sin, etc.? (Romans 7:19-24) – For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then the [n]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

15. Why Am I stuck? Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Are you allowing God to move you forward, or are you stuck in the mud of your own mind, emotions, hurt, anger, sin, etc.? (2 Corinthians 10:3-5) – For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

16. How Do I Get Unstuck? Restoring Hope in our Community Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Renewing of your mind, Transforms your soul (Romans 12:2) – And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Freedom lies in seeking God (James 4:7) Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.