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Transcript:
Ray Waters:
Well, good morning. Thank you for tuning in. This is the Sunday morning service for The Village Church, also the Sunday morning service for Everybody Church. We are honored, honored, honored that you are with us. I want to begin the service acknowledging Juneteenth weekend. Isn’t that interesting to get to say that? So we’re really happy about that. As you know, if you follow The Village for any length of time, we have no problem at all saying, Black lives matter, and we have no problem at all acknowledging systemic racism is real and needs to be dealt with. And so, I’m grateful for small steps and I’m grateful that Juneteenth is now going to be a day that kids are going to grow up and they’re going to know what that day is, and I think that’s very, very important.
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