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November 10, 2024 · 59 min
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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In this video 0:00 Vision and Purpose10:55 Impact and Growth28:09 Expansion and Generosity
Vision and Purpose 0:00 Father, I thank you so much for the amazing people that are in this room, who they represent, and the great witness that they are, oh god. We recognize we're living in last days, and we must be about our0:11 father's business. People are dying and going to hell left and right, oh God. And you need us to come alongside and share the gospel.0:24 And so may the next few moments that I and Pastor Adam minister God, may it minister hope and life and purpose, inspiration, soberness,0:35 somberness, seriousness to what you've called us to do. In Jesus name,0:55 for the tomorrow. It's nothing more than sketching an image in a picture that we will travel on. And vision is a strategy. It's a strategy, a prayer,1:07 ideas, creativity, sacrifice, Because1:19 if we did not have vision, we would still be at 11549 Oldfield in my house in Southridge if there was not a vision. We1:31 would still be at Shadow Hills Elementary School at Oldfield can allow 33 people to come to church and that was it. Elementary1:43 could only handle 2 peep 200 people and that was it. So vision made a stretch for more room to go now, to the business park. And the1:54 business park, we could sit in our main sanctuary, 8 40 people. But that was it. And we had to go bigger and we had to occupy these 30 acres, 250000 square2:06 feet, build a 4000 seat auditorium, but it stretched us. It wasn't enough. We had to reach another community and that other community was Pomona and so on and so forth.
2:18 With vision pushes us forward. Along in the journey, but very few of you were in
2:30 my house. So vision demanded that we grow bigger so that you could come and your lost loved ones could come and find Jesus Christ and faith in God.
2:43 Very quickly, I'll read you a scripture. It says in Luke the fifth chapter, as the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God's word, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.
2:55 He saw 2 boats. Notice what's highlighted. At the edge of the lake, fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. We know
3:07 as Peter and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, put out into the deep
3:19 water catch. Master Simon Peter replied, this professional fisherman, we've worked all night long and caught nothing.
3:31 But if you say so, I'll let down my nets. Great number of fish and their nets began to tear. So they signal their partners
3:43 in other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled the boats so, so full that they began to sink. The first lowrider boats ever recorded in
3:55 history. When Simon Peter saw this, my God, this professional fisherman that's spent his lifetime, He saw his daddy, his granddaddy, but never seen anybody do this. He fell on his knees in the
4:07 middle of that boat, on that boat, in the water. He said, go away from me because I'm a sinful man for he and all those who were, all those who were with him were amazed
4:19 amazed at the catch a fish they had taken. Notice my first point is this. They worked all night and caught nothing.
4:31 Jesus' vision for the church, for others, and for you individually, is to put an end to your nothingness. Because the title of the message is simply, Jesus
4:42 has a bigger vision for you than you have for yourself. And Jesus' vision for your life, the vision for this church is to put an end to
4:54 our nothingness. Maybe when we experience some failures or losses, when things are of no avail in our lives, when we are not getting the results or little
5:06 results in our churches, in our ministries, in our businesses, in our homes, and in our families. We're living unfulfilled life, an empty life, a barren
5:18 life that causes us to be frustrated, tired, and angry. God wants to put an end to your nothingness. Just a few weeks ago, I was in Sitka, Alaska,
5:30 and there's these amazing pictures of me catching so much fish, I didn't know what to do with it. I caught a lot of fish, over a hundred pounds of
5:41 fish. That put an end to my How many times had I gone in my past fishing and tried all the best bait and tried the best lures and and and
5:53 spent all day to catch nothing. But that day, it was a race. I couldn't remember my nothingness for the amount of fish that I had caught. And that's what vision will do. You
6:05 know, and and the of little veil in your life and little results. The second thing that I recognize that happened is this, the fish catch was so large,
6:18 they signaled their partners. Jesus vision for the church, for others, for us, and for you. And it includes others. The vision
6:30 is not just for you. We have a saying here at Patriot, we don't do life alone. Life is to be shared with somebody. You have to create partners,
6:42 community, relationships. And we see these relationships that were done in catching this fish. So my thought to you is, who are you gonna call when you need
6:54 help? Who are you gonna call when you need assistance? Who are you gonna call when you need aid? Peter knew who to call when he couldn't do it alone. Who are you gonna call?
7:06 Or who can call on you when they've got a heavy load that they're trying to bring in, but can't do it alone? Can they call on you for their weighty
7:18 and heavy load? We do Who are we going to share? Who are we going to share the blessings of the Lord that God has blessed me with,
7:30 with others? Peter could have hoarded this fish my household, and nobody else. But the blessing was so big,
7:42 he wanted to invite others. Petra at Rancho is so big, we invited Pomona, and then we're going to buy Corona, and who knows who else we're going to invite? When God
7:54 has blessed you with resources, who are you going to include in those resources? I have some pictures here. This is just 1 of my freezers.
8:09 Fish and all kinds of meat. And I'm just talking because 1 day it's gonna come up there.
8:23 There. I have all kinds of deer in there. I have all kinds of pork in there. I'm an amateur hunter. I went and got all that, and I fish for it. It's so much. I give it away. I give it
8:35 away to employees. When I go to sheriff duty, I give it away there. Whoever wants it, I'll give it away to you. I got a ton of chorizo. I give it away. I've got so much of a bountiful blessing.
8:47 I don't hoard it for myself. I want to give it out. I want to give it out to other people. That's why we have vision. That's why we do what we do.
8:59 And the last thing and I'm done, I wanna show you this little video right now, and then I'll talk about it and we'll end it. Watch this.
9:07 Here, bring him in. Oh my goodness.
9:11 Oh my goodness. That guy is massive.
9:16 Joking. You got him in the eye. Look. Woah. You got him in the eye, man.
9:27 That's the biggest that's the biggest salmon I've ever seen before.
9:29 That's a big king, bro.
9:32 How many is that 25?
9:33 Yeah. That's unbelievable.
9:41 8 pounder. 20
9:57 and for others and for us as individuals that involves generosity, sacrifice. Yes, it will require obedience. It will stretch us to greater heights than we've ever done before. It will challenge every
10:09 person that considers Patriot their church. It's all about the fish. It's all about the catch. It's all about the souls.
10:22 We gotta make room. We gotta make room for more fish, more testimonies, more lives changed, bodies heal, more deliverance, more miracles, family, friends, co workers and
10:34 neighbors. That's why vision absolutely has to grow so that we could stand and be in awe of what Jesus did like Peter was. I'm amazed. I'm astonished of what you've done
10:46 God by saving my life and saving so many others. Peter's vision was changed that day. It went from singular to plural. It went from small to big all
Impact and Growth
10:58 because he saw a visionary at work and his name was Jesus. Pastor Adam Yeah. Would you share with us the vision? Come on. Let's give it up for Pastor Adam as he shares the vision. Alright.
11:10 Well, hey.
11:12 At this time, what what we do wanna do annually is you'll see up on the screen, there's a number you can text. What we're going to start doing every single year in our Vision Sunday is we're going to create what's called
11:23 an impact report. There's a few things that are up on the impact report. You'll see it up on the screen. If you pull out your smartphone, if you'd like to follow along with me, You can go to our
11:35 website. So you could go to patriot. Church. You go to our gif page, and you'll see it say impact. You could also, right now, for the sake of services, you could to the number 7 1 7 6
11:43 6 to the number 7 1 7
11:49 What this impact report will have, and we're gonna walk through it a little bit today, is we'll share and celebrate what God has done in the past 12 months.
12:01 Celebrate where God has taken us over the past 12 months. And so we're going to share with you salvations, baptisms, grow track, neighborhood groups, attendance.
12:14 Things that's coming on the horizon. And then lastly, at the end of the impact report will be our financials. And so 1 of the things we wanna do is we wanna disclose with you all of our financials.
12:26 Giving, how much has been what goes into staffing, what goes into mortgages, what goes into our our our maintenance. We want to be able to share with you. If you're giving in this church, we want you to know
12:41 Yeah. So that is you trust Patriot to be fertile soil for the good news of Yeah. And not only meet your needs of ministry, but the needs of Yeah. We want you to know this is what God has done.
13:00 And it age where people are going if I give to the where does it go? We want to share with you where it and we want to share with you where it and we want to share with you where it and we want to share with you where it
13:06 and we want to share and we want to share
13:22 own at your leisure to know what's going on. But really, I'm gonna highlight, some key things that we see. And then I'll close it with a little bit of financials and then also a little bit about what we're doing today
13:33 for Vision Sunday, because we want to close our year out strong. A core Yeah. If you've been part of our church for a number of years, every year we would do an anniversary offering in the month of April. Well, we've
13:45 moved it to Vision Sunday now in November. You notice in April, we didn't do an offer for any Yeah. Because we November. And I'll share with you at the end what that 1 time
13:56 offering is going to go. So on top of our ties and offering, I'm going to share 3 projects, really 4, that we want to finish by the end of this year and
14:21 our campuses and our church. The way we count salvations is those that take a next step. And so if we just counted hands, that number could be bigger. But for us, we want to
14:33 know not just did you raise your hand, of faith in your journey? Did you go to the website? Did you sign up for baptisms? And so 11 68 people went to a next step in our
14:45 church. The next thing is we had 1800 people baptized our campus. We also had our largest baptism we've ever had, which was over a
14:57 thousand during, Pentecost this past year. We thank God for that. Also, right now from our last year,
15:14 when you take in all our other growth factors, When you look at Wednesday, when you look at our youth ministry, when you look at all our other, that percentage
15:26 is a lot higher. And the next thing I want to is last year's Easter, we had 11666 people show up. This Easter, we had
15:35 15315 people, come. Lot. We grew this past Easter by over 3000, people, which was absolutely
15:47 incredible. In our kids' ministry, we saw 12 65 new first time
15:52 visitors in our kids'
15:52 ministry, a lot. In our kids ministry. So in our youth ministry, we do something called Jesus Club. We're amongst 4 high schools every
16:04 single week at lunchtime once a week. They preach the gospel and they serve pizza. We have on average 9 50 to 1000 students taking a break from
16:16 their lunch to go and hear the gospel at their local high school. You'll notice there that it's an increase of 30 percent. They increase by 200 students on
16:28 average from last year. It's moving in our student ministry and our high schools. And for us, boots on the ground. We love what we're doing in our gyms and
16:40 in a but these kids are in the schools. Parents don't understand the value of student ministry. So let's go to them. Hungry, and our students are exercising leadership. If you're with us last
16:52 week, we had you heard from 1 of our students about how he started a Jesus Club, and how God has been moving. I want to share with you a little bit about our faith journey as a church. Faith journey. When someone comes
17:04 up to us and they say, How do I grow in my faith? We call it the faith. And simply put Salvation would be a part of that. Baptism would be a part of that. Our forward
17:15 experience would be part of that, which heals trauma and trauma. But also on top of that, our small groups are part of that. I love to share with you. This past year, we had 6 17 people go through
17:27 growth. We had 148 people go through. Neighborhood groups going on at 1 point. We had 5000 people in
17:39 neighborhood groups at 1 point. I'll tell you this family. This is a big deal because if you've been part of our church more than 10 years, you would know that we started about 6 versions of
17:51 small groups over the past 10 years. Because people just wouldn't join them. They wouldn't sign up. And so we tried we threw everything we could to try to create community.
17:59 And at 1 point, I remember, we had a hundred and 50
17:59 people active in small groups. And then to hundred and 50 people active in small groups. And then today, we have 5000 people actively in small groups. God has been absolutely answering
18:11 incredible prayers. We had 600 people go through our care and counseling. And So that's either a counseling small group, meeting with 1 of our pastors, taking 1 of our courses on counseling. 600
18:23 people went through this year. And then lastly, 16 42 people are actively serving in the ministry, today. You may see
18:35 everything we celebrate. You say, hey, I want to get involved in that. I want to grow that 1600 people. I want to start getting involved. I want to help in kids. I want to help in youth. I want I want to help in dream
18:46 team. I want to serve in generosity. And, whatever it is. You can go through growth track. If you go through growth track and go to our
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19:20 we all gotta start doing our part, and we all are doing our part. And I the little bit of vision. If you saw in your impact report, there's a ton of other data that you'll be able to see about
19:32 what God has done. And now I want to step in with a few moments. And I want to talk about, what we're making room for. So I want to talk about some campus specific, and then I also wanna share about some church wide
19:43 things. But before we do that, I wanna share with you an update video on 1 thing.
19:49 Hey, Patriot. We are so excited. We have some amazing news for you. God is doing big things in this kingdom and here at Patriot. We are headed to a new location.
20:01 You know, earlier this year, we had shared with you in April about God calling us to the city of Corona. Around the same time, God started to develop our relationship with 2 incredible pastors, pastor Fuego
20:13 and Tiffany. Over this time, as we started to not only do life with them, they would come down, to us, and they we would spend time with them, and and we would resource them. We really felt called to them because they
20:25 were church planters, and they had planted for about 3 years, Encore Church. During this time over this year, we really felt like God was doing something between us and their church, and us
20:36 and them as pastors. And over the summer, God really began to knit them to our church. And during that time, we all started talking, and we really felt that the spirit was leading us,
20:48 to become 1 family. And so during that time, pastor Fuego and Tiffany, they sought the Lord. We sought the Lord. We had a lot of conversations. We had a lot of time. God, is this your will? Holy Spirit, are you in this?
21:00 And we had had moment of confirmation after confirmation after confirmation. We knew that God was in this. And so just not too long ago towards the end of the summer, we believed that
21:12 God was making Encore to become patriots. So in just a few moments, it's my honor to introduce you to our new campus pastors, pastor Fuego and Tiffany, but you'll notice I
21:24 haven't said what city we're going to because after many, many years and 30 years of being in Southern California, we will now be in Northern California for the first time in the Bay
21:36 Area. We are joining together as 1, and we're gonna be serving and reaching the city of Alameda, California. Alameda is right outside of Oakland. It's a diverse
21:48 community, and pastor Fuego and Tiffany have been in this city for 3 years and have a thriving congregation of about 500 people. And so now on December 20 second, they will become
22:00 patriots Alameda. They will be joining this house and this family, and we couldn't be more honored. So why don't I introduce you now to pastor Fuego and pastor Tiffany? So here we are with pastor Fuego and
22:12 Tiffany. We're so excited that they're becoming and joining the family. Pastor Fuego and Tiffany, let's introduce you guys to all of our campuses. And first, tell us a little bit about you guys, how long you've been
22:22 married, a little bit about your family. So shoot it off, pastor Fuego.
22:25 So we've been married for
22:27 8 years. We have 3 kids, and we will be having an, daughter-in-law as well.
22:31 Last week. Just proposed Yes.
22:33 He did.
22:34 Last Saturday.
22:34 Kinda like a metaphor for us joining together. Right? Yeah. That's the fam bam.
22:39 Let's
22:39 Yeah. That's what's cool. So they had 1 a dinner, and their son proposed, and pastor Fuego and Tiffany kinda used that moment to talk about this marriage between Encore and Patriot and how Encore is gonna be changing
22:49 their last name Yes. To really Patriot now. But your guys' heart, your vision, stays the same. 1 of the things that I loved about you guys, I've I've known you pastor Fuego for a couple years. And then I met
23:01 Tiffany earlier this year, and I was like, oh, we're gonna be friends. You guys gotta come down to Southern California. But at that time, it wasn't until in August I came to your church, which is where we're at right
23:11 now. Yeah. And I was here, and I was just like, man, this this is our church. It looks like our church, feels like our church. Yeah. Still never thought it would be a campus. Yeah. But it was more so like, oh, we're
23:21 we're doing ministry alike. Yeah. But really then in that moment, god starts stirring something. So why don't you share a little bit about, like, your heart for this city in Alameda? What has god done for you and Tiffany
23:32 to draw you here? There's so many cities in the Bay Area. The Bay Area is actually only 1 of 3 cities in America that's the least Christian in all of the United States. So Yeah. You came to a missionary place
23:44 Yeah. To reach Alameda. Where did that come from?
23:47 Well, hey. It was all birthed out of prayer, and definitely, God gave us this vision that this Alameda is an island surrounded by water, but it was spiritually dry. And so when we were here on this island, we wanted to
23:58 do we wanted to seek the lost, right, teach the found, and send disciples. And so our missions align. But being here, we just saw so many families serving together, and that's what we even love about Patriot. It really
24:09 is family. And so we were seeing all families work together, little kids, to their for their mother and father, all working together in kids' ministry, security, and they're coming and bringing other family members. So
24:21 we are just excited about that, making an impact in high schools, everywhere, outreaches. And so it's the same thing that Patriot does. We just started to see, man, like, our hearts align, and we know that our friendship
24:32 grew from there as well. Yeah. So we just love, like, being able to have your covering. And now we have found our own family. We did a series called find your people, and we didn't know that we were gonna find our
24:43 people.
24:44 Literally. Right.
24:45 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
24:46 Seriously. And I think what's incredible and speak a little bit to this is in April, you know, we changed our name from Abundant Living Family Church to Patriot. Yeah. And 1 of the reasons why is because me and my dad,
24:58 our founding pastor, we did have a huge sense that God was gonna expand our family 1 day. And we thought we would lead by example by first changing our name. Now many people in our church didn't get
25:10 that right away. Yeah. They're like, why? You know? Normally, when you change a name Yeah. Something wrong happened. Yeah. But when you feel like God is doing something and you have an opportunity, you either be obedient
25:21 and you say yes or you don't. And you you through your own pride or whatever. So we felt we were obedient. We said, hey. We're gonna be patriot because we felt we needed to lead by example that 1 day other churches would
25:33 join our family. And we wanted those churches to see, hey. We did it first. We changed our name first. We did all these things first. And so, man, I didn't know God would answer that prayer within 9 months
25:44 Yeah.
25:44 Like giving birth to a baby. Like, within 9 months, the first church was all ready. We were like, hey. This is family. Yeah. So, Nick, what happened where you guys said, hey. We're Encore. Most people,
25:56 they we hold tight to, like, our own thing. Yeah. But you both were just, like, we're gonna join what we feel like God is doing. And and and we're gonna we're gonna maybe step this name to the
26:08 side and become part of Patriot. Like, what what over the past couple months has stirred in you guys to do that?
26:13 Well, I would say to me, it's pretty simple. Like, we've been approached by other churches to see if we wanted to join, but we're like, no. No. Like, we kinda have our own kinda thing. But, when we were asked by,
26:25 you and Aaron, like, something just in my heart just started to bubble up. And I started to think about myself, why am I wrestling with this? Do I not want it? Is it pride? Is it because I want a name? And then really,
26:37 I just heard you put language to something. Like, man, is it about the name or is it about the mission? Yep. And so that just blessed my heart to to know, like, it is about the mission. We wanna make disciples of all
26:48 nations. Right? Yeah. And that's what we wanna do. We wanna do it together. I mean, I don't I I think that looks more like family. We are setting the tone and example for other churches and other people to know, Like,
26:58 we're here to lift up the name that's above every name. Right? And that's the name of Jesus. Yeah. And, man, if we could do it together, with Patriot being the name family, let's do it then.
27:07 Yeah. Yeah. Let's do it then. Yeah. Man, that's incredible. And I and I think that's really the place we were at too, which was, you know, our name had meant everything to us for 30 years, but it was God told us, behold,
27:19 I'm gonna do a new thing, you know, declares the Lord. And we didn't even understand it. But now as we see moments like this Yeah. We understand even why we became patron. We understand. I mean, I think what's beautiful
27:29 is, like, you would you guys had come down to our church many times over the past 12 months. And every time, you would get clothes from us, hats and T shirts, and you'd wear it. You'd wear it to your church. But what's
27:40 funny is, like, we didn't know this originally, you guys, your church was was just gonna join a network of churches that we were gonna start. And we always do. Encore would be Encore, but we would be still maybe a
27:50 covering Yeah. In a network family. Yeah. But for both of us, God just said something different. Yes. And God wants to reach the Bay Area. We wanna make disciples, and we're excited to do alongside of you guys.
28:01 So You got some too, Rob.
28:02 So, Patriot, we're so excited that on December 20 second, Encore Church will become Patriot Alameda, and we are so thrilled that Fuego and Tiffany, we will, bring them allShow more
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