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It is the week before back2school.  That means next week is going to be extra exciting and busy.  I am excited, nervous and expecting God to do incredible things similar to past years and even more.  Please pray to that outcome.


There are things to celebrate.  I want to be an example of how to celebrate and even more of what to celebrate.  God has provided the purpose, the passion and resources needed to impact so many lives.  He has given us partnerships that are worth far more than money.


Help me celebrate.  Celebrate what God celebrates. Celebrate people.  


God has given us some incredible people that are making it happen.  Some are pastors.  Others are church leaders.  Some are from our community and others are from hundreds of miles away.  It takes a lot of people to pull off back2school.


Join me in celebrating people.  Say thank you to someone who has done something for you.  Write a card to someone that means a lot to you.  Go out of your way to encourage that person or another person who has been struggling.  Celebrate the people God has put in your life and who are being used by Him.


Choose 5 people to celebrate today.  


As we celebrate people we prove who we are, His disciples.  We show what real love is.


John 13:35  NLT

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.


Take the extra effort to do something that others won’t.  Who are the people you arguing to celebrate?


1 John 3:1  NLT

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

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