Well, it's great to see all of you here. today, I wanna, just thank all the, leaders of the ministries that are represented in the ministry fair, even the crew that was here early this morning setting up tables. and getting, that ready even for the, the ministries before they, they arrived. A lot of work's gone into the ministry fair today, and, and, we just want to thank the Lord and, and thank any of you for your involvement in making that possible.
our ministry of the week this week is our ministry of deacons and, deaconesses, and I want to do a couple of things here. First of all, any of you that are here in this service, we had some in the first service, but you served over this past year. This is essentially the first day of our ministry year and so the terms of deacon and deaconess come to an end, essentially the first of September and then the new terms begin. But any of you that served as a deacon or deaconess here at Cornerstone over this past year, could you stand?
OK. Thank you. Thank you so much for your, faithful service to our church, and some of these same individuals will be, standing again. In fact, what I wanna do is, have all of the, the deacons and deaconesses that are going to be serving, for this New Year's term to come forward as I read your, your, your names.
and by the way, you'll see these names on the back of the bulletin, a, a ministry overview. on the back of the bulletin, and you'll be able to take these individuals and their names and associate them with the ministry that we've asked them to, to be, leading or be involved with, involved in over this coming year. But if you're here in this service, and I read your name, come forward and stand right here. Chris Johnson, Mike Martinez, Seaborn Boone, Joe Sapko, Chris Kidder, Daniel Bend Schadler....
