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When my heart begins
to fear He is my Light.
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I can smile for He
is near, Jesus my Light.
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When I'm blue and
feeling sad He is my Light
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He reminds me I can
be glad, Jesus my Light.
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He is the Light,
Yes, Jesus my Light.
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In Him is no
darkness, In Him is no night.
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Wherever He leads me
He makes my life bright.
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I'll shine for
Jesus Jesus my Light.
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Hey, it's Aunt Francine.
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Hey kids. How are you? I can't
wait to be in the tree house.
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Are you excited to be here
in the tree house. Yes. I am Ho!
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You know what, today I'm out of
breath. Getting up those stairs,
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I should say ladder, I get a
little tired. But you know what
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we want to welcome you to Jesus
My Light. I'm Aunt Francine and
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this is Little Ginger. You
know Sabbath is supposed to be a
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wonderful time with your family
and to do fun things. Sabbath is
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meant to just learn about Jesus.
And I hope that we can enjoy the
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Sabbath day. And you know
there's a song about that. How
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singing This Is the Day.
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Sounds good. What do you
guys think. You want to sing it?
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You ready? Yeah! Yes!
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I am so thankful for the Sabbath
day. Do you think you're ready
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for the story time? Yes! Yeah!
Where you learn about Jesus?
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So it was the Sabbath day
and Jesus was walking toward the
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temple. And on the way there
there was some sheep gates and
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the sheep gates there you would
buy. And He went to the pool of
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Bethesda. Now Jesus was seeing
one of the poorest looking man
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that was there. After all, he
had been there for 38 years. Can
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you imagine being in one place
for 38 years. And each time they
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believed that if the angel of
the Lord would stir up the pool
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of water and they were the first
one to go into the pool, they
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hoped that they would be what?
Healed! You know the story.
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Healed. And so he was
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hoping that he could be
there some day but you know what
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he didn't have too many friends.
After all, they may have gotten
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better or maybe they just left.
But there were five porches and
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so I believe he was there under
one of those shaded areas and so
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he would be there and he'd said
Ho man. And then he saw the most
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gentle eyes coming, walking
toward him. And you know Jesus
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came up to him.
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Do you want to be made well?
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Sir, I have no one to put me in
the pool when it is stirred up.
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While I'm coming
another one steps before me.
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Arise, pick up your bed and walk
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And you know what happened right
You know the story very well. He
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gets up out of his mat and he
goes. And he's so excited like
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he's running out. He's so
excited. And who comes up to him
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It is the Sabbath. It is not
lawful for you to carry your bed
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He who made me well said,
Take up your bed and walk.
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Who was the man that said to
you take up your bed and walk?
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See, now you are well Now sin
no more so that nothing worse
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happens to you.
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Jesus, it was
Jesus, it was Jesus
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Of course, the law was very
important to them and they made
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sure...But you know what they
realized and recognized this
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lame man. They had seen him
before. After all, he had been
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lame for how many years. 38!
38 years and so they recognized
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And they said well who
healed you? And you know what?
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He didn't who it was. Who was
it? So he just went on his way.
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And the Pharisees inside their
hearts and in their minds said
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Oh, Jesus, He's causing trouble.
He's healing on the Sabbath.
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They weren't so mad at the man
carrying his mat. They were more
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upset that Jesus was healing on
the Sabbath. Now was Jesus doing
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something really good on the
Sabbath? Um-Huh. You're right.
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He was doing something about His
Father's business. He was doing
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something really good. He was
on His way to the temple but He
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wanted to go about His Father's
business. And He wanted good
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things for this lame man. And so
later on, we know the story well
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all right, he finds out it's
Jesus and Jesus is there and
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again he recognizes Jesus
and he finds out that it's Jesus
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and so he sees the Pharisees and
Jesus, it's Jesus! Once again
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he couldn't keep quiet Can you
keep quiet when you have some
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really good news? No. He
had to go tell everyone he could
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find. He was so happy that he
was healed. And he was so glad
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that he had the faith because
you know he just got up and
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decided to have faith. What
if the man decided to just stay
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there. And we can look in our
picture. What if the man just
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decided to stay there and
not trust Jesus? Do you think he
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would have still be lame?
Uh-huh. Yeah. I think that you
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can come around over here. You
see he is so lame and he wanted
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someone to help him into the
pool and there was nobody there
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to help him in the pool. And yet
Jesus told him to grab his mat
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and go. He was so excited. You
know, how many of you like to go
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swimming? Does anybody here like
to go swimming? Me! I love the
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water and my dad liked it even
more than I do. And you know
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what? Water is wonderful. It's
fun the play in it. And have you
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heard of hydrotherapy, have
you ever heard of that? Yes.
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Sometimes people would go into
the springs. Do you like the
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springs of water? Sometimes...Do
you want to see these pictures?
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Do you want to come again? Oops!
Some springs of water. That's
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kind of fun because it's natural
and minerals in the water. And
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so they were there. And they had
five porches there in the pool
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of Bethesda. And so people
enjoyed being there. Fortunately
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there was shade but I believe
that they had some minerals in
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there that also helped and were
soothing. So how many of you
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like to go in a hot tub.
You don't want to stay there too
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long, right? But sometimes
that's good for you to go and
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enjoy the water. Because after
all, it's refreshing, right?
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Yeah. So here's another thing
to do. I want to talk about the
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Sabbath. Sometime we adults
and I'm sorry about that. I will
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speak for the adults. Sometimes
we say, Oh you can't do that on
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Sabbath. Oh what will people say
I remember one time I was trying
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to go roller skating one time
and I was trying to clean up the
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nuts on my driveway on Sabbath
so I could roller skate. And my
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mother said to me, oh you better
not do that. What will the
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neighbors say? Now you know
sometimes we make choices right
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but Sabbath is supposed to be a
delight. We're supposed to have
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fun. So forgive our parents
every once in a while when they
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say something like that. We need
to have fun. I like to go by a
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lake. Do you like the lake?
Yeah! I really like the lake.
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Sometimes I find little critters
like salamanders and frogs. Do
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you like picking for them,
looking for them and picking
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them up. Yeah! I hope you put
them gently down. Jesus was all
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about finding and doing
wonderful things and I hope that
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I hear some of the things. What
do you like to do on the Sabbath
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day? I like to go for walks
especially when it's by a creek
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or a lake. Do you like doing
that. Yeah! What do you like to
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do? I like to go with my
Grandpa and Grandma to a creek.
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A creek too. Anybody else?
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Yeah, I like
skipping stones in a lake.
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Skipping stones.
How many can you throw.
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Oh, once I did 10.
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Ten one time. Yes.
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I like going in my backyard
and playing in the creek.
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Oh, you like water too? I hope
that those of you at home...Oh.
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I saw you were going to speak up
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Ah, I like water and so what
I like doing on Sabbath is going
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on hikes.
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On hikes. I would like to hear
from some of you at home. What
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do you like to do on Sabbath
so that you can connect with God
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Again, nature is all about who
Jesus is. And we can learn so
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much about nature. So I hope
that you take time to find some
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things and learn about Jesus.
But you know what? I used to do
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something else and let's see
if I can get my picture back...
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There's something else that I
like to do on Sabbath. I used to
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go to an old folks home and sing
How many of you have done that
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before? Yeah, maybe. Or
sometimes we even got together
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and we made a lot of extra food
on Friday so that we could take
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it out to a shelter on the
Sabbath. So sometimes we would
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get a whole bunch of food
together and have it all ready
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so that after church we would go
to something like a soup kitchen
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Do you want to see this? Here's
a soup kitchen and you know they
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all are serving food to help
others. Sabbath is about having
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fun, learning about Jesus, but
also doing good, right? There's
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balance where we don't want to
do our own business but we need
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to be about the business of
doing good for others right?
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Can you
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think of ways that we can do
that? I hope so, that you can
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find some things that you can
do at home or in your community
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that you can bring the joy and
love of Jesus. So are you ready
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for some questions? Yeah!
Yes! All right. Let me get my
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questions out. All right here
we go. How many porches did the
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pool of Bethesda have? Was it
A - 3; B - 5; or C - 7? How many
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porches did the pool of Bethesda
have? If you said B you're right
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There were five porches. What
did Jesus ask the lame man to do
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A - Do you want to be healed?
B - Do you want to be whole?
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or C - May I help you into
the water? What did Jesus say?
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If you said B you are correct.
Besides being upset that the
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lame man was carrying his mat,
what were the Pharisees really
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angry about? Ooo, that's a tough
questions. Is it A - The man was
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healed; B - Jesus didn't
heal everyone at the pool; or
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C - Jesus healed on the Sabbath.
What really made the Pharisees
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upset? Did you get it right
at home? If you said C - Jesus
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healed on the Sabbath, that is
what the Pharisees were really
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upset about. So don't worry,
I mean you want to follow rules
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and respect Jesus but you know
the biggest thing is to have fun
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Going about and doing good,
helping others. Don't you want
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to help others? Yeah! Yes! Find
an opportunity. Maybe it's a
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neighbor. My daughter and I we
have some neighbors that we go
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too often and we share Jesus.
We just spend time with them.
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Sometimes we bring a meal
to them and we eat with them.
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Whatever you can do try to
find some kind of opportunity to
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share Jesus. I hope you'll
join us for another time of
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Jesus My Light.
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