Good morning church, it is so good to be with you all. My name is JJ and I’m the lead pastor over at Center Church. We are your closest sister church in the Zero Collective. As I’m sure you guys are starting to get familiar - Zero Collective is a network of churches sold out on the mission of making sure zero lives are unchanged by Jesus, and for a long time there have been four sister churches. Frontline is the biggest sister - over on plainfield, then Story with Pastor Kyle

Today I want to start by telling you the story of Wangari Maathai. Wangari is from Kenya, and she might be one of the most impressive people I’ve read about in a long time. She was a very influential and important person in Kenya back in the 70’s and 80’s. She had a big pile of degrees from all sorts of international schools - Nairobi, Germany, she got her PhD in 1971. Later she ended up getting elected to Kenya’s National Assembly, was the leader of the National Council of

Today we are continuing our series called “All Hands on Deck” - and we’re going to tell the story of a guy who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in only 52 days, but he did it with 41 different work crews, and all of them had the same mentality: the job gets done, when everyone owns a piece. So let’s dive in. If you want to grab your bible, we are going to be in Nehemiah, chapter 2 and 3, but we’ll start in chapter 2. And while you’re looking that up, I want to give you a bit o