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We had the chance to create an event where we brought our international missions partners to church and gave them the opportunity to share their vision and mission with the greater church body. It was such a blessing to have these 'workers' in the same room with us, sharing what God has called them to do.

This summer we headed to Washington DC on our missions encounter for students. We had the chance to sit down with Maverick and Andy to talk about their experience.

At RISING we are very invested in what happens around the world as well as right here in our back yard. This episode we had the chance to sit down with Katie Hove and member and partner here at RISING and talk about the Path Project. This is a ministry started in Buford by Katie after it's been in Georgia for a few years now. I trust this conversation is encouraging to you as it's been to me.

In May this year we sat down with Mike during the Memorial Day service and he mentioned the idea of prevenient grace and how it's played out in his life since the 1970's. You'll hear about near death experiences, skydiving, motor cycles and semi-trucks. This is really going to bless your day as you hear Mike's story.

Financial Peace University has been a classroom setting opportunity created by Dave Ramsey with the primary goal of giving people financial freedom in their lives. We offered this class at RISING Church in late spring of 2018 and we have the chance to hear the impact this class has had as we talk to David and Tommy. We hope you enjoy this podcast episode.

In early June RISING Students took a team of rising 7th and 8th graders to Bayou La Batre on a missions encounter. They had the chance to serve with each other along with YouthWorks by painting home, leading kid's club and lots more. Katie and Coco take a few minutes to share their experience with us.

Chris is a good friend and great servant as he serves in the Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This is a great opportunity to get to know Chris a little more and understand what he's doing to serve others.

We had the chance to share some thoughts and ideas for the next few months at this special meeting called by the elders at RISING Church. If you have any questions or would like to add to the conversation with suggestions and/or recommendations, please email elders@risingchurch.org

As many of you may know we just had a team return from an experience in Israel and unlike years past, we are looking forward to what we may do now to make it possible for anyone interested in going in 2020. This is a recording of this past week's information meeting introducing anyone interested in going in the spring of 2020.

We had the chance to visit Isreal and have some amazing experiences there. Jerry and Lisa sat down with us and shared some of their more memorable stories from their time. Our hope and our goal is to return to Israel in 2020 and create another opportunity for people to visit the Holy Lands. We'll have an important information meeting on May 6th right after the service. rising church.org

As part of the SENT series at RISING Church this past fall we've been able to send out various family and adult mission encounters and this conversation is with mother and daughter, Kimberly and Camden sharing their experience going to Haiti with Young Life | Haiti. risingchurch.org

We've had the great chance to know Harrison and his family over the past few years and we wanted to take the opportunity to share the beginnings of their story in the way they are changing lives.

Camp Chaos is coming and we're excited to get you informed about what to expect. We sat down with Mia to go over what you may expect, asked about the why and dug into the how. Hopefully if you're interested in being part of Camp Chaos, this will be a great tool for you to know what's coming.

After a long time of thinking about what we could do next to engage more people in the stories of what God is doing at RISING Church, we created a channel to do that, a RISING Church Podcast. We wanted to share something that was easy, convenient, sharable, relevant and relatable. We hope you're excited about what's to come and where we will go next as we capture and share God's stories through RISING Church.

We had the chance to serve alongside RISING's Mission Partners here in the city of Atlanta for 4 days this spring. Today on the podcast we get the chance to hear a few stories from 2 of those participants, Brendan Kaplan and Robin Axelberd. risingchurch.org

Every few months we have the chance to hear the stories of God in the lives of people who go to RISING Church. It's very simple, God is at work in the lives of people and we take a moment to share that. Today, you'll have the chance to hear from Chandra, David, Michael and Melodi. risingchurch.org