We Got Adopted by @RedeemerBibleChurchGilbert!!!

Together this evening, hey everybody watching online, hope you're enjoying this, and I want you to open your

Bibles to Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10, as you're turning there,

I bring you greetings from the people of Redeemer Bible Church. This is a momentous day in our history, as of our two churches, as today we adopt you.

We become your sending church, you become our second church plant. So I've said this before, but I'm gonna say it again.

We're doing this first because of your pastor. We love Kofi. We're aligned in our doctrine, we're also aligned with his heart.

We love his love for you. He is a shepherd who cares for his family, who cares for all of you, and wants all of you to know love and serve

Jesus. And so it's those two things, our doctrinal alignment, and our alignment in caring for the flock, that made this adoption even a possibility, let alone today's reality.

So we're doing this because we love your pastor second. We're doing it because we love the local church.

It's the only organization Jesus died for and promised to build. So we want to help you get more more aligned with the biblical model for church planting, which is that churches plant churches.

And we want to help you with the practical side of ministry, things like documents, policy, system structure, and the over 150 years of pastoral experience that we have on our team.

So all of that is available, and even on a greater level now. So finally, we're doing this because we see the need in Medford.

This was clear to me when I came here back in November of 21. This place needs more solid biblical churches.

I don't need to tell you all of that, right? So we're happy to see this need become a reality.

So in fact, Kofi, can you bring a pen and come on up here? So what we're gonna do right now is we're actually gonna both sign our memorandum of understanding.

This officially unites our two churches right now. So yeah.

So it is a very cool thing. So you go ahead. You go first. So I'm gonna remind me what the day is.

Today is the 12th. Oh, you need to turn your mic on, apparently.

No, he's on. I'm on. All right.

It's now official. So all of you here, all of you online, please pray for this.

Please pray for us. You've never done this before, so we're all gonna be learning as we go along. By God's grace, this will be a wonderful partnership in the gospel spreading throughout the