Reasons to believe, part 3: Flight to Egypt

By Greg Byman
St Joe Community Church
December 30, 2018

It was prophesied that the Messiah would flee to Egypt, and that is exactly what Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus did. Was Joseph and Mary just trying to dupe the world into believing that their son was the Messiah, and they were willing to flee to Egypt with the hope of pulling off what they knew was a ruse? Today, Pastor Byman concludes a three-part sermon series that explores the credibility of the claim by Jesus and his followers that undergirds the rationale for the church celebrating Christmas. Part 1, Dec 16: Jesus actually, as a matter of documented history, was born of a virgin. Part 2, Dec 23: Jesus actually, as a matter of documented history, was predicted to be born in Bethlehem. Part 3, Dec 30: Jesus actually, as a matter of documented history, was predicted to be exiled into Egypt.

Successfully predicting simple things like the weather is tough enough. Successfully predicting anything with precision hundreds and even thousands of years into the future is simply impossible for anybody...except for someone with the power to pull it off -- God. Pastor Byman has carved out the last three Sundays of 2018 to present reasons for any intellectually honest seeker to believe, that Jesus is who he said he was -- the Christ child.

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​St Joe Community Church presents the preaching and teaching ministry of Pastor Greg Byman Today is Sunday December 3028 team and Pastor by minutes concluding a 3 part sermon serious and titled reasons to believe in the Christ of Christmas and today's message focuses on the prophesied flight of the Messiah to Egypt you can find this and all of Pastor by his preaching and teaching on your favorite part because platform including i Tunes Go to play stitcher and more or you can visit W.W.W. St Joe Community Church dot org That's S.-T. Joe Community Church dot org And now Pastor Greg Bayamon Well I'm a the 3rd message here in our 3 part series our Christmas stories reasons the seasons reasons to believe based on what God said would happen and then it did happen we talked about the fact that God told prophets long before it happened that Mary would be would bear a child without ever having slept with a man the virgin birth and then it happened. God also predicted he gave the Prophets a prediction that Jesus would be born in Bethleham. And he was we talked about the significance of the coming of Christ and His birth and Bethleham. And a couple of stories that were we're not we're skipping over this year but they're just as important I believe in the older kids class right now they're going to be talking about the that Jesus is presented in the temple and Anna and. IS THAT THERE BEEN there are 2 people in the in the temple that were told hey this baby's common the messiah has as arrived and. SIMON. And Anna lived to see it. And they were able to rejoice that the Messiah was born and then later on within the 2 years it was probably a little under 2 years old maybe a year year and a half the wise men come. And they come and bring gifts what they bring. Gold frankincense and myrrh. And they come to the house where Jesus was staying they were in Bethlehem and they come to the house where he's staying and they present the gifts to Jesus. And worship being him as the one true king but the Messiah the king of the world and they then melt away and they don't go back the way they came because God told them they needed to go a different direction home and it was because what we're going to share in a moment here some big things were about to happen. We're going to I want to read real quick Matthew Chapter 2 verses 13 through 23 kind of set the stage for what happened here. After they were gone this is after the wise men left an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream saying Get up. Take the child and his mother flee to Egypt and stay there until I tell you for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him. So he got up took the child and his mother during the night and escaped to Egypt he stayed there until Harrods death so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled out of Egypt I called my son. Then Herod when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men flew into a rage he gave orders to them to massacre all the male children in and around Bethleham who were 2 years old and under in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men. Then what was spoken through the Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled verse 18 a voice was heard in Rama weeping and great morning Rachel weeping for her children and she refused to be consoled because they were no more horrible slaughter. And after Herod died an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt saying Get up take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel because those who sought the child's life are dead so he got up took the child and his mother and enter the land of Israel but when he heard that ark Arculus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod he was afraid to go there and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the region of Galilee then he went and settled in the town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets that he would be called a now as a rain. We know that in Matthew Chapter 2 verse one. That Jesus was born in Bethleham and in those days King Herod the wise men from the East arrived in Jerusalem and they actually came and we know that that Herod was on the throne this was a a person who was appointed not elected by the Roman authorities who had no religious bone in his body he was just a ruthless leader and he was doing everything he could. To hold power. The question we have this morning is is this a real story or is this just an epic tale. Some of you may have gone to see the movie know what when it came out recently. It was an epic tale it was not a Bible story. And if you read the Old Testament struck closely enough you'll need to know that in some cases that famous 10 Commandments with Charlton Heston why they bring that out every Easter that just doesn't make sense to me but. Even if it has some epic tale to it what we call Hollywood. License a little bit of artistic license. And not exactly the way the Bible says that it is. And fact there was a whole series The Bible made by a watch that are have that on D.V.D. Very interesting some have let me borrow it I enjoyed it but again there was some artistic license that was taken given to that to kind of blunt blend it all together and not quiet exactly is see God's word is God's Word it is what it is and everything else needs to be submitted to what God's word says not vice versa. And we won one any student we wouldn't want any young person to think that these are just epic tales but these stories really happen. That Jesus is life even as a baby is a little child a preschooler. That a wicked king wanted to kill him take his life and he had to flee with his family to Egypt this really happened. You see some people want to make Jesus out to be a great teacher a good and moral example a great leader from whom we can draw principles for our personal leadership and all of those in some case in some way shape or form is true however. I want to read a quote to you from C.S. Lewis in his book Mer Christianity where he says. I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about him I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher but I don't accept his claim to be God That is the one thing we must not say a man who was merely a man and said this sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher he would either be a lunatic on the level with the man who says he is a he is a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice either this man was and is the Son of God or else a madman or something worse you can shut him up for a fool you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call Him Lord and God But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher he has lot left he has not left that open to us and he did not intend to. Either is your savior or he's not he either is who he claimed to be or he's no one to trust at all. If he's a liar then why would I trust him to be a good moral leader he said he was the Son of God and if you don't believe that. Then what you're saying is you don't believe Jesus and if you don't believe Jesus why would you believe anything else he said. This is not just an epic tale this is a real story it really happened Jesus really does flee to Egypt and Matthew records this now some say that Luke in his recording says that they settled up in Galilee in Nazareth and he said well he didn't say that so that must not happen Matthew added it so that he could add some more Bible verses from the Old Testament and the reality is that the way people recorded history was far different than the way we record history today it wasn't much different but it was different enough to say that Luke didn't feel like or he didn't include that but that doesn't mean that because he didn't include it it didn't happen I always say don't use the competitive. View of scripture use the complimentary. Method of scripture let every Bible verse from one book compliment all the other verses from all the other books don't compete them. It completes the story Matthew is completing the story giving us insight that Luke did not give us. And there's nothing to say that it's wrong to suppose that Luke jumped some history. And omitted the very story that Matthew gave us there's nothing wrong with that and it does no injustice to what Luke said by saying that what Matthew said was true and inserted in between when Luke said that they moved up north. In the Galilee into the galley area. Again this is the evidence we have that Jesus fled to Egypt now the prediction is a Chapter 11 1st one. And it's said that he would have to come out of Egypt out of Egypt I called my son. And you can just write that down. And because of this terrible terrible thing that took place. King Herod actually when he realized that the wise men didn't come back and tell him where Jesus was because in the earlier story he said hey when you find the Messiah when you find this messiah that you say the star has led you to oh come back and tell me where he is so I can worship him to lie. He wanted to kill him. Now this is where you realize that when you read when you watch epic tales when you watch Marvel comic tales how it Aqua Man OK that's out there right now and again I I watched it OK what. I mean no I did I'm sorry just whatever. There's always the superhero in the superhero is always persecuted. He's odd he's he's not welcomed in this world. Because he's not of this world he's not like us Superman. Seeking to destroy him as my friend Christopher Reeve is my Superman sorry that's my favorite one that's the one I grew up in the big movie theater and watch in that story and Lois Lane dies in the anyway he turns the world ups backwards that's weird but he way he did it and and turns time backwards so that's my that's that's my and here is. This person who is out of this world who is soon as we find out he's out of this world we go after him E.T. watch E.T. now I'm showing my age E.T. you know E.T. phone home be texting or social media home anyway but it he's persecuted because he's not of this world Jesus. Is persecuted because he was a threat to the status quo. And by the way anybody who threatens the status quo you just try to change one thing. So how many how many church members is it take to change a lightbulb change in a way. That's that's not funny. And by the way around here we try to say the only thing around here does it is the same is that we try to change things and we'll be talking about that in the coming weeks and months as we start moving forward in 2019 hold on to your hats. We've got some good things coming but Jesus is being persecuted and he's trying to be snuffed out and Herod tries to kill him and what he does as he just says puts a circle on the map around Bethlehem and says he's somewhere here kill all the male infants 2 years and under so that I can snuff him out. What a horrific moment for mothers and fathers throughout the land. A totally unjust horrific act of violence 3 months like today when ruthless leaders are just killing people left rise heard read a horrible about how executions in Syria the prisoners are just being wiped there's a mass graves being being made but because they're just speeding up the process to bring them to and there's no mercy and there's just more and more death senseless killing. It's all kinds of things going on in our world today that's just like that people are crying out where is God where is justice. This has been going on since the beginning of time the wickedness of man continues to come out in horrific ways. And that was predicted in Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 15. Where Jeremiah 3115 Jeremiah is talking about in his day but he's also predicting a future day when a voice was heard in ROM a weeping and great morning Rachel weeping for children and she refused to be consoled because they were no more. And Matthew realized wow this event that took place was in fulfillment of what God said would happen in the future day. Again these were the predictions they were given hundreds of years before it actually happened. And Jesus and his the life story of Jesus fulfilled these prophecies and last week I shared with you how it was so impossible for for this just to be chance. And be like putting a couple of feet high of coins all over Texas and throw in one end with a mark on it everyone else is the same take bulldozers and mix them all up as long as you want to. And then take you and drop you into the middle of Texas and you have to wander around and whenever you feel like it you pick one up and the chances of you picking up that one marked coin among the 2 feet high and Texas wide stacks of coins is the same chance that it was for Jesus to fulfilled even a handful of the prophecies in the Old Testament. This is a chance this is divine providence. We know that this is mathematically impossible it's to the nth and so many degrees beyond possible that that bathroom fears and say now never happen. Unless something orchestrated it to happen and we know that history is actually his story. And he's playing it out and we're a part of that story today. Jesus did flee to Egypt and it was predicted that he would do so there was a slaughter of children and it was predicted that it would be so. These things really did happen. Well I want to relate this story a little bit to our lives today Jesus was on the run. Wow. Is this kind of like. What could happen to us as believers Jesus was rejected by the world as soon as he came into the world he was worshiped and then boom now suddenly he's in danger for his life. He's he has an unsafe home. How many people in our world today have homes that are unsafe. My wife has job security because her job as a social worker is to make sure homes are safe. And I wish that they just put her out of business and everybody's home was safe but that's probably not going to happen. Maybe you grew up in a home that was not safe to be. Maybe the place you call home no longer exists. I can remember. Having to leave a church because of some terrible things that were going on in that church as a kid and I never understood why I would have to leave and many of the people there were still there and several were still good people there were some really bad leadership and some they were moving away from the Bible more than they were moving towards the way and we started looking for a Bible believing church and and I thought to myself why Laura do you take me away from the all the people that raised me and saw me and knew me in the nursery and all those embarrassing stories I change your diaper I don't like that story but but all the stories of how much they were part of me and now I have to leave them and they're not going to see me in high school and kind of be there be there for me and B.M.I. cheering crowd they were Yeah I thought of that stuff and I thought I'm not going to be around them anymore and it's almost like it was a early lesson in life that that sometimes your home is not your home. And you can't go back how many have tried to go back to your. Hometown of your lie what is this place is not the same. Some of you one guy who was 1st church I went to says my hat my town's underwater they build a reservoir over it. Everything's gone you can't go home. Some of you all have experienced lost because the place that was supposed to be safe for you became unsafe where you can know that our Savior experienced the same trials and problems that you're experiencing and your lack of safety and the rejection of the very people that should be there to support you encourage you rejected. And then forced to live among strangers he had to go to Egypt did he know Egyptian language I did the family no no I don't know. Some of tried to make a parallel between them being refugees and the current refugee crisis and there are some similarities but really not the same as completely different circumstances than what we see today. And the borders were of the whole the whole idea of world order was a little differently back then but what we do know that he had to go to a foreign land to escape the threat of certain death. Pastor friend of mine here in town he's not pastor in currently but his father had political asylum from Cuba because he was on the wrong side of Fidel Castro and if he had stayed there he would have been put in prison and possibly and executed for his political views against Castro and so Vietnam Vietnamese friend who he is a boat person and college I met him and his uncle is actually a really good friend of mine today as well and they both came across but he came across and had pirates that they had to pay lots of money and then they lost all the money they had on their personhood and he came. Irag California and he made his way all the way to look Grange Indiana I said why La Grange Indiana. Because a family sponsored him he had a family sponsor and they were the ones that and he had family already in La Grange and that had immigrated earlier and and so he raised up and he's a very successful businessman in the Northeast region of Indiana and a good friend of my was in my wedding in fact. So there are some similarities but. But let's just think about this Have you ever had to trust people that you had no idea who they were. Maybe you're a visitor here today. We're bunch of strangers Thanks Jeanne. We're strange. I am but but but seriously you're you're you're hearing God say you need to be part of community. But what does that mean that means entering into a foreign group of people. It means trusting beyond what you know. Now for some people what they know is not good. And their support system stinks. But they like the one that stinks better than the one they don't know because they're too afraid of what they don't know I've been there. Not in maybe extreme circumstances like you and I'm not going to say I know what you're going through. But having to trust people beyond your comfort level is a way of life Jesus experience this at an early early age his family had to live among strangers. And then you have a sense of hopelessness as you're leaving town you hear the edict that all those kids in the nursery at the temple or at the synagogue or wherever they were out they were hanging out together everybody in the preschool the kids went to bed and have that baby and probably they're all going to die. And everybody that was born around the time that Jesus was born in the Bethlehem area was wiped out. And you only imagine the survivor guilt that Mary felt knowing that she was clutching the child in her arms while her friends. Her The other friends who were mothers in that same town were losing their children. What a horrific moment what a sense of hopelessness God are you for real this is the Messiah he already didn't have a place to stay when he was born wow it was kind of a rollercoaster moment wisemen from the show up worship Him This must be the moment. Only to realize that probably they use the gifts that they were given by the wise men to finance their flight into Egypt to escape the murderous threats of Herod. Rollercoaster and a sense of hopelessness what is going on. I am a student not always a fan sometimes a fan but I am a student of pop culture and I try to keep up on things. I like a tune when I hear it. But I've learned that I need to listen to the lyrics before I say it's a good tune. Right. And I go to football games we have the family pass to our football games at our local high school and so it's a cheap date right I mean very paid for in the skeleton and too crowded to go down and get food so honey let's just stay here anyway but but there's always that pump you up music before during and after the game especially before the game and they put it through the speakers especially when they've been that great big one on a cart and put it out there we've got a rinky dink system but when they bring that thing Betty it just pumps it and now love it and one of the groups that tends to get. Used a lot and is actually going to be playing in the national championship halftime show is what. Who's going to be playing in the national half time show and I watch them or imagine the. Imagine Dragons right there or the newest hot. Thing right well there's only one that came out a while back called demons and I know this movie this song in Los Angeles and the song you're a lot you can be Christian and raise your hand if you know I looked it up Hannah knows she's our worship leader. If fascinated me when I started listening to it and like it but it fascinated me. I liked its authenticity. And when the days are cold in the cards all fold in the Saints we see are all made of gold and when your dreams all fail and the ones we hail in the worst of all the Bloods run stale I want to hide the truth I want to shelter you but with the beast inside there's nowhere we can hide no matter what we breed we are still made of greed this is my kingdom come this is my kingdom come and when you feel my he look into my eyes it's where my demons hide it's where my demons hide don't get too close it's dark inside it's where my demons hide it's where my demons hide. And you know that sounds that keep listening when the curtains call in the is the last of all when the lights fade out all the centers crawl so they dug your grave in the masquerade will come calling out at the mess you made don't want to let you down but I'm hellbound. Being honest is like I'm dealing with stuff here that I don't think you even want to deal with. Though this is all for you don't want to hide the truth no matter what we breed we're still made of greed this is my kingdom come this is my kingdom come they say it's what you make I say it's up to fate it's woven in my soul I need to let you go your eyes they shine so bright I want to save their light I can't escape this now unless you show me how because when you feel my he look into my eyes it's where my demons hide it's where my demon side don't get too close it's dark inside. It's where my demons hide. And if that doesn't appear to my eyes pop culture and their search for meaning and truth in words and songs social media popularity power pleasure I don't know what is. There looking. He's looking for something he say don't get too close. He's being authentic and saying I got him but I don't know if you want to see amount of I want to show him to you. And when visitors come to our church every Sunday. What they're saying possibly saying what I know some of told me they're saying is can you be trusted with my story. Can you handle the truth about what's going on in my life. Can you handle my sense of hopelessness because it looks like a nice game out here of good people and they're all doing good things I don't want to mess up your stories by the way I do this for a living and I know a lot of the back stories of people around here and you are who you say you are you're a bunch of thugs and people with the man's inside as well. And if that's what you're thinking about us and you don't know about us you know very well you can be rest assured that we all agree with you that we are still trying to be who we say we are supposed to be and it is only through Christ that we can only get out of the darkness and the hopelessness and it is through trusting in the Jesus of this story not an epic tale that has changed our lives and given us a hope beyond the moment. And that there's in every one of us who call ourselves Christians there was a moment in time when we had to say there's something inside this dark and we need it fixed. And we need help. And we had to reach out to a community that ultimately we had to reach out to Christ and it was through that community we found Christ. And so for you here today if that's your story if those are the lyrics of your life I want you to say walk into the crowd we're all in this together we've all got things we're dealing with and we Christians who say we've got Christ in our lives. We're not there yet. Heavens are real home until we get there. We're still Center saved by grace. And as I quoted a couple weeks ago Charles Stanley said you know being a Christian doesn't mean you're saying less. But as we grow and mature. The goal is that we sin less. But we're still feet of clay. Claiming to the solid feet of Jesus Christ to get us through every 2nd of our life. You see Jesus had to flee to Egypt and you would think to yourself well that's a great place to be and now he's out of the out of this out of the woods he doesn't have to do anything now he can just stay there build a life and move on no he had to leave Egypt he had to get up. And go Matthew Chapter 2 verse 20 he said Get up take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel because those who sought the child's life are now dead you can't run. Yet gotta go back and by the way Egypt is in the Old Testament often a place of refuge for God's people. It happened when Joseph was sent to head he was pulled into slavery. But because he rose to the 2nd in command in Egypt he was able to rescue his people who were the people of God and they were able to settle in Egypt but there was a moment when Joseph said will come when you need to leave this place and when you do take my bones out of here and it was years later many years later generations later. But that fulfillment of what he asked them to do came true it was fulfilled and Moses the great rescuer even Moses had to leave Egypt to get right and come back and rescue the people he grew up in Egypt but he had to leave Egypt to find God. At the burning bush comes back to let my people go member of thing commandments we talked about earlier and the people of God are led out by God through his leadership. They had to leave Egypt their destiny was not to stay in Egypt in other words we can't run away forever from trouble. Some of us think well if I just run away from all the problems in my life everything over you know where ever you run away from. You're still there. I've told people this several times. I'm just going to run away I'm not going to be here any more I'm not going to do this anymore I'm just going to go I'm going to get away from that marriage I'm going to go from that situation. The problem is every time you run from something God's trying to work you through you'll find that same problem somewhere else is going to keep finding it until you work through the problem. You can't run away forever we must embrace our purpose we got to embrace what God had intended for us Jesus was to get on a mission to be the savior of the world and to be in Israel to be among the Jewish people in order for them to be the ones that would either accept or reject Him and we know the prophecy was that he was going to be rejected. We must trust God's plan for a life not our feelings. In January on the begin a series on how to start growing in your faith how to kick start your faith how to kick start your spiritual growth I'm going to have some habits that we're going to talk about of helping you to grow spiritually and they were to talk about how are you shaped by God to serve and to soar and to be a part of what he's trying to accomplish in this world we're going to highlight some great organizations over a period of 4 or 5 Sundays the best Big Brothers Big Sisters is going to come talk to a safe families for children to come Tom talk to us young life actually young lives which is a ministry that actually happens in our building on Thursday nights every couple such Thursdays of the month. They're going to come and share testimonies of what God has been doing in our building. That we just we just give them building space and and they're up say famous for children actually has an office now that overlooks the parking lot the if you look above the porch as you're coming in from the parking lot those windows up there not the men's bathroom but the but the office space rooms that's their office now and they and they'll be sharing what that ministry is all about again opportunities we're going to be talking about a Hope Center and their ministry to 2 young ladies and 2 families to men and women who are experienced in unplanned pregnancy and trying to give them hope in this and a circumstance that they had not intended to be in and we're going to be talking about a couple of others but those are the particularly the ones that are already scheduled to be in our building again it's not just about getting you to learn how to serve here but how are you a Christian wherever you need to be serving the Lord and the plans that he has for our community. And for a world. We must trust God every step of the way. Isee God directed Joseph in the dream go over here so he went up to Galle but then he saw around him that there was still this leader that was the son of Herod and he thought you know I don't want to be too close to that guy so he settled in Nazareth and there's scripture fulfillment of that as well but he would be called a Nazareth Jesus would be coded as a Marine Church of the now as a rain and by Remember those churches around here that's that's there's there you come from OK He was a Nazareth. In other words we've got to trust God by praying. By reading God's word about this in January. By having godly counsel around us people who are trusting God in their lives start listening to people who listen to God. And circumstances. What doors are open what doors are closed I would say I'm not here to kick down a door that God has closed I do juggle handles to see if they're open. I'll knock on a lot of doors but I don't want to go through the ones that God chooses to not open. Wherever you are whatever decisions you're making let God direct you every step of the way. So this morning finally I just want to close by saying that Jesus is a Savior who understands. He understands what you're going through. In Hebrews Chapter 4 verse 1315 Let's read this together. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but one who is tested in every way as we are yet without sin. He went through humanity like you did only to string him and rest of us. Him blow it. He was perfect. So if I was going to pick somebody to follow a pick him. So this morning. I'm asking you to believe in the savior that God said was coming. Believe in the one who God said was the one Jesus Christ. Hundreds of years before he arrived Jesus said God said he was coming. And we know that the chances of Jesus randomly fulfilling all these prophecies is mathematically impossible it's incredibly improbable. No grand conspiracy could come up with this and if anything no grand conspiracy of this wicked world would have ever come up with something as glorious as the coming of Jesus Christ. But finally don't just believe who Jesus was and that he was true but trust in him personally to be your Savior. We must all decide are going to live for Jesus or go live for anything else. Don't hedge your bets it's all or nothing. Is sin say. Come and just give part of you to me. He didn't say worship me and your things and whatever it is in this world. Said Seek 1st the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. And all these other things that you think are so important these things that are important eating where to sleep shelter jobs those are important but we seek 1st the Kingdom of God. And he handles the rest of it and in that order so this morning have you put your trust in Christ. I can be a little dramatic this is the last Sunday of the year. And if you get a hold out for 52 weeks. It's time to break body. It's time to give it up. Yeah you might approach us and said you want to see what's inside of me and I say well I don't want to see what's inside of you but I want to see what God can do through you for His glory and his honor. Thank you for joining us today Greg Byman is a senior pastor of St Joe Community Church located at 2100 North Anthony Boulevard in Fort Wayne Indiana just a few blocks south of Purdue University the same community church ministry exists to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and minister to the Fort Wayne community and beyond we are imperfect people and if you are too well then you'll fit right in we would be honored for you to join us for worship on Sunday mornings at 10 o'clock am to view today's Powerpoint slide deck the pastor's notes or the transcript for this message just click the sermons tab at St Joe Community Church or G That's S T Joe Community Church dot au argy if you have any questions about today's sermon or the St Joe community church ministry please call area code 260-471-4704 or e-mail St Joe community at G. Mail dot com They got richly blessed your week it will see you next Sunday.