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Addie Jarrett | “True friends are the ones who carry you to the healing and saving power of Jesus.”

Raina Songer | “Despite our weakness, He remains faithful. Despite our failures, He remains loving. Despite our wandering, He continues to invite us back into His presence.”

Karli Montgomery | “There is something deeply joyful about reunion. Something that reminds us that separation will not have the final word.”

Amy Storms | “God has good plans, and he’s faithful to carry them out. He writes the best story for our good and his glory.”

Josh Clark | “Discontent rooted in envy is dangerous. It causes the world to go grey, material goods to hold more value than the souls around you, and a victim mindset to set in.”

“MOVE was a life changing experience where I just constantly felt surrounded by God’s love.” – Olivia, age 15

Carryn Osborn | “Great delight. In every part of me? The good, the bad, the ugly, the weird, the anxious, the fun, the creative, the weirder – all of it. He delights in all of me and rejoices over me with singing.”

Avery Oldfield | “We are not only called to do life together, we were also made for it. We see in the creation account in Genesis 2 that ‘It is not good for the man to be alone.’ We aren’t made to face things alone. We are made to live in community.”

Jim Wickenkamp | “We celebrate that in Jesus, our salvation is complete. At the same time, we are still on the pathway of experiencing completeness in Jesus. As we follow Jesus, He is still growing us and maturing us.”

Ben | Barnabas came to Jesus without any foreigners involved. God is already up to some incredible things among the Nosu people.

Flint Spencer | “Some of the smartest people in the world are tasked with getting you to think about your Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter feeds more than anything else. Corralling your attention is a billion-dollar industry.”

Maggie Schade | “He established the Church. Not a building. Not a program. A people. A gathered, committed, imperfect community marked by presence.”

Lauren Bryan | “Photography is an invitation for me—an invitation to stop. To see. To open my eyes a little wider. It challenges me to notice all the little things I know God has orchestrated, to hear the conversations I know He’s working in, and to watch His people love selflessly.”

Jay Greer | “Imagine all the story arcs we will get to connect one day in heaven, where we see just how far the tiny mustard-seed-sized kingdom of God has grown into a massive tree.”

Gabe White | “If not now, when?” That question has stuck with me. It made me start wondering what else in my life I might be putting off. What other good things might I be delaying? Are there things that God has placed in front of me that I’ve been responding to with, “Maybe later,” instead of taking an obedient step forward?

Tara Sackrider | “If a single sparrow isn’t forgotten by God, then our decades of tearful prayers haven’t been forgotten by Him either. He is still listening and still moving.”

Theresa Barnes | “Maybe part of allowing Jesus to rearrange our lives is first allowing Him to rearrange the voices we listen to.”

KaLisa Pray | “But suffering at the hands of others or because of the brokenness of the world feels different than the reality of God Himself taking up pruning shears and making sharp cuts in our lives.”

Laya McAllister | “Ozark is home. The home where I have been able to see the Lord’s goodness and learn far more than I could have ever imagined.”

Jessica Scheuermann | “I am not a Christ-follower on my own. Or at least not a very good one. To follow Jesus is to be in community: a living, hugging, cookie-eating, laying-hands-and-praying community.”