Our Remembrance Sunday 2020 service. We pause to honour those who gave everything, reflect on sacrifice, and consider what their example asks of us today.
01We Remember Because We Should Remember
Remembrance Sunday is one of those occasions that catches you differently depending on where you are in life. For some, it is a formal observance — two minutes of silence, a poppy on a lapel, a nod to history. For others, it is deeply personal. Matt Edmundson discovered just how personal it could be only weeks before this service, when his father sent him a photograph he had never seen before.
It was a picture of his great-grandfather, Wilfred Edmundson, a driver in the Royal Field Artillery who was killed just before the end of the First World War in 1918. His grave is in Jubbulpore, India. A kind stranger had recently managed to photograph it.
"It's amazing to me that I only really found this out a few weeks ago," Matt said during the service. "This is my own family. And there are so many untold stories, even in our own families, of bravery and sacrifice."
02Why a Poppy?
The service opened with a video from Phil Watson, filmed at Toxteth Cemetery in Liverpool, where a war memorial lists roughly eighty names — eighty families who lost someone in the Great War.
Phil was direct about why remembrance matters: "You might have all sorts of opinions on just war, right war, wrong war, the colour of the poppy that we should wear or not wear. But to me, we should just remember. Because we should remember. We should remember as a sign of respect."
Matt then traced the origin of the poppy back to the battlefields of Flanders. During the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, a young Canadian artillery officer named Lieutenant Alexis Helmer was killed. His friend, Major John McCrae — a military doctor serving in the same unit — was asked to conduct the burial because the chaplain had been called away.
It is believed that later that evening, McCrae began drafting the poem that would become one of the most recognised pieces of war literature in the world: In Flanders Fields.
Sally Birch read the poem during the service: "In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly, scarce heard amid the guns below."
The final stanza carries a charge that has lost none of its weight: "To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields."
03Nuclear Giants and Ethical Infants
Matt quoted Colonel David Hayes's address about the armed forces, which spoke of being "humbled by those loyal young people who possess a generosity of spirit, of courage and endurance, and of light-hearted gallantry — those qualities that are the heart of Christian discipleship."
Then came a quote that stopped the service in its tracks: "The intent to destroy through maiming and killing will prevail. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
Matt sat with that for a moment. "The Bible never glosses over human suffering and loss that is inevitable from war. It doesn't talk about the triumph of the resurrection without first describing the agony of the crucifixion."
War, he suggested, is an inevitability of the human condition. Sometimes it is fought with weapons. Sometimes with pen and paper and greed. But within the Christian story, there is a thread of hope — the conviction that death and suffering do not have the final word. "Central to the Christian faith is a truth that Jesus came as God to earth to rescue mankind. He took upon himself all of our evil, all of our hatred, all of our violence, all of our shame and our guilt and our greed and our selfishness... and he died a violent and painful death as a result. But he didn't stay in the grave."
04The Letter You Would Leave Behind
The photograph of his great-grandfather set something in motion for Matt. It got him thinking about legacy — not in the financial sense, but in the way that truly matters.
He referenced Proverbs 13:22: "Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren." And then he pointed out what Remembrance Sunday teaches about inheritance: "We don't think about how much money people left, do we? We think about their lives and the way they lived."
So he asked himself: if he could write a letter that his children would read after he was gone, what would it say?
What followed was one of the most personal moments in any Crowd Church service. Matt shared what he would put in that letter, unscripted and unhurried.
"To my boys, I'd tell them to be men. God men. Men that love their wives and their kids. Because I think the world needs fathers. It needs husbands more than it needs most things."
"To my daughter, I'd say don't ever feel like you're not good enough. You don't ever have to compare yourself to anyone. Enjoy being you. And find a man that will love you as Christ loved the church. That is the standard."
He would tell all his children to be good stewards of their bodies, their time, their talents, and their treasure. To laugh as often as possible, especially at themselves. To ask for forgiveness often. To make memories, even small ones. To give to God first and to trust him even in the storms. To love God. To take risks. To learn to handle failure well. To invest heavily in other people and encourage them at every opportunity. To forgive. And to "fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run."
He would end by telling them how proud he was and how much he had loved every minute of being their dad.
05The Glaring Question
But then came the harder part. As Matt started writing those ideas down, a question confronted him that he could not avoid: "Am I living the legacy that I want to leave?"
"Will my kids actually read that letter and go, 'I saw my dad do every one of these things'? Do my kids see me being a God man? Do they see me investing in them? Do they feel like I love them? Does my daughter see a man love his wife as Christ loved the church? Do they see me trusting him even in the storms?"
He paused. "Sometimes I just have to say ouch to some of these things."
The gap between what we say matters and how we actually live is the real measure of legacy. Remembrance Sunday honours people who took action — who did not just talk about courage but lived it, often at the ultimate cost. And that standard, Matt suggested, applies to the rest of us in the ordinary moments of life.
06Holding the Torch High
The service included a video of Bernard, a member of Frontline Church and a veteran who had made it home from the battlefield. Bernard had since passed away, but his prayer — recorded five years earlier — was played as an introduction to the two-minute silence.
"Thank you, Lord, for those who gave their lives and did not come back. We thank you, our Father, for we think at this time of the parents whose sons and daughters never came back."
After the silence, Matt returned with a reflection that brought the threads together. The poem says "to you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high." He felt the weight of that charge personally.
"I have a duty, I have a sense of responsibility, to take what they did and to hold that torch high as they've passed it on to me with their failing hands."
Remembrance, in this framing, is not just about looking backward. It is about living forward — carrying the values of courage, sacrifice, and faithfulness into the everyday decisions that shape a legacy.
07The Question That Remains
Matt ended with an invitation that was as much for himself as for anyone watching. What would you put in your letter to the next generation? What would you want to be known for? And — here is the part that stings — are you living it right now?
"If it's what I do and how I live that builds my legacy, and it's what I do that determines how I would be remembered — that's an important thing to remember, isn't it?"
What would your letter say? And would the people closest to you recognise the person described in it?
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hi and welcome to frontline city we're an online church for those who are not sure about god or the christian faith but who'd like to find out more my name is sharon edmondson and i'm part of the team here it's great that you could join us today for those of you who are new to frontline city we're part of frontline church which is based in liverpool in the uk and we're here to inspire you about jesus and how amazing he is so please feel at home with us now if you're watching this live you can join in using the comments below the live stream say hi and let us know what you think ask your questions and debate just make sure you do it respectfully if you're watching the replay of the live you can also write in the comments as we do monitor them you can also message us on the whatsapp number shown on the screen and we especially love it when you send us your photos though be warned if you send your photos we'll probably show them why not send us a photo of where you are now and how you're watching the stream as well as comment give us a like and if you're happy to do so why not share the live stream out too it's always great to reach out to new folk around the world okay so let me tell you what's coming up in today's live stream for the last few months we've been working our way through the book of mark but we're not going to do that today as it's remembrance sunday so we're going to have a remembrance day service matt will lead us in our service and share some thoughts as is usual we'll have catch-up photos and videos towards the end and we hope to finish around 10-5 well good evening good afternoon how are you all doing welcome to frontline city to our church online i was just responding back to uh matt cruz comment where he said it'd be slightly hilarious if sharon fell in a puddle at the end of that walk not sure sharon would actually find it that funny but it does remind me of the vicar of dibley you know that scene where she jumps into the water and just totally disappears man that would have been hysterical but alas mats that was not set up uh but did you see sharon did you see her walking through the woods with a gimbal recording and remembering what to say hey hey my wife is getting all kinds of tech tape today she recorded that intro this morning and i'm bus well let's just say our production levels have gone up a lot uh welcome to oh sharon's just put here i'll try and do that next time we're gonna try and jump in the puddle next time uh let me move those up there so where can i put those let's put them here because there's a lot of stuff on the screen um so yeah why if you do make sure you're recording it babe that's all i'm going to say so welcome one and all it's great to see you uh hey anton how you doing great to meet you this week uh you and your beautiful wife welcome welcome to the broadcast great you're here uh wherever you're watching it from and whatever you're doing we're going to try and do the um sort of remembrance service sort of frontline city style today so it is a little bit different like sharon said so do feel at home with us uh as we get into this um and we're gonna we're just gonna start right now so i'm gonna run a video i'm gonna hit a button on my little desk uh in front of me here and i'll be back in just a second i'm at toxic cemetery in liverpool i've come to visit the war memorial here uh and i've counted about 80 names on it so that's 80 families who all lost a loved one sometime during the great war or as we know it world war one that's an awful lot of suffering um but i think over a million people died on behalf of the british empire during that conflict and of course millions of others from many other countries and very very few of the bodies of those uh those soldiers were ever brought back home for families to mourn and to have a funeral for um the war ended on november 11 1918 famous words went round the world all quiet on the western front but the end of hostilities didn't mean that the mourning and the grief had ended and people were still in mourning for the soldiers that had died for the people that had died uh and it was decided that one body would be brought back from the battlefields and that body would represent all those service personnel who died they were put on a gun carriage they were brought to westminster abbey great big church in london and they were given effectively a state funeral now the great and the good were invited to the to the funeral and also 100 men her specific men who had all won the victoria cross which is basically means they were incredibly brave 100 women were also invited to that funeral and these women had lost not just their husband but all their sons i find it humbling i find it inconceivable that people went through that amount of suffering now you might have all sorts of opinions on just war right war wrong war the colour of the poppy that we should wear or not wear but to me we should just remember because we should remember we should remember as a sign of respect so what i'm going to do is leave this at this memorial uh as a mark of respect for all the men and all the women who have served and not come home thank you thanks phil uh appreciate you doing that video but we remember because we should just remember we remember as it's a sign of respect that's what phil said and i think it's very very true indeed i don't know where you are in the world watching this we've got people from all over the all over the globe tuning in it seems which is great thanks for saying hi in the comments feel free to comment as we go through to join in uh as we as we are doing our remembrance service now you will notice that phil had in his hand a cross with a poppy on it and on there it said the words in remembrance because today is remembrance sunday but why a poppy well this stems from the great war that phil talked about the first world war which started in 1914 the british empire and their allies france russia italy and america fought a war against germany austria hungary and the ottoman empire and as phil said millions of men joined uh joined in the the war that went on millions lost their lives or were injured and during the early days of the second battle of epray a young canadian artillery artillery officer called lieutenant alexis helmer was killed on the 2nd of may 1915. the battles were taking place in fields full of poppies okay and one particular field was called flanders field now he had a friend a canadian military doctor artillery commander major john mccrae who was serving in the same unit now major mcrae was asked to conduct the burial service for lieutenant helman because the chaplain had been called away and he was somewhere else on duty and it's believed later that evening after the burial that john began to draft his now very famous poem called in flanders fields so we're going to play that poem which is read for us by sally butch in flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses row on row that mark our place and in the sky the larks still bravely singing fly scarce heard amid the guns below we are the dead short days ago we lived felt dawn and sunset glow loved and were laughed and now we lie in flanders fields take up our quarrel with the foe to you from failing hands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high if ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep though poppies grow in flanders fields thanks sally so we wear the poppy to remember so i have my little poppy pin sally had a much more uh elegant crocheted uh one by the looks of things that she was wearing but we we we wear this to remember we remember those that died in the great war but all the wars since then including our modern day conflicts now in an address at the abbey church colonel david hayes said of our armed forces that we should be humbled by those loyal young people who possess a generosity of spirit of courage and endurance and of light-hearted gallantry those qualities that are the heart of christian discipleship and indeed across all the faiths which our armed forces represent be they the british forces from the nations of the commonwealth or our gurkhas in their hindu and buddhist faiths today we place our thoughts for those who have known and those we have not known who have given either their lives or given away the straightness of their limbs in the service of our country those who have done so in years past those who do it now and those who should do it in the years ahead for our service men and women of our united kingdom alongside all of those of all faiths of our commonwealth and now nations and our gurkhas on this day of remembrance we thank god indeed we do right i mean that's such a great quote now today gathers countless of memories and untold stories of bravery of sacrifice and of anguish into church buildings and more likely into digital churches like this one right given that the era in which we're currently living and we place them in the context of the great christian story of jesus uh crucifixion and the hope of the resurrection as colonel david hayes remark let me see if i can bring my slide up here the intent to destroy through maiming and killing will prevail ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants we know more about war than we know about living we have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount what an extraordinary quote you see the bible never glosses over human suffering and loss that is inevitable which comes from war right it's an inevitable outcome it doesn't talk about the triumph of the resurrection without first describing the agony of the crucifixion war it seems thanks to our humanity is an inevitability of the human condition sometimes the wars we fight are violent and bloody and sometimes they are fought with pen and paper and greed yet there is hope and we see that in the christian story we see that the end is actually the very beginning in a kind of weird way it's a new kingdom a new life a resurrection as we call it and central to the christian faith is a truth that jesus came as god to earth to rescue mankind some would argue that we actually don't need rescuing i don't know how you feel about this but this is you know i i get it right but the fact that we have remembrance services would cause me to argue otherwise right he took upon himself all of our evil all of our hatred all of our violence all of our shame and our guilt and our greed and our selfishness and he called it sin and he took our sin and he died of violent and painful death as a result he paid the penalty that we were due to pay but he didn't stay in the grave he rose again from the dead and in his resurrection is our hope that the death of our servicemen and service women and the grief that follows is not the end there is eternal life and this has been the testimony of the church for the last 2000 years it is a hope that has been carried in many a war through the prayers and hymns on the battlefields of the land the sky and the seas so in that same spirit in that same spirit of hope we're actually going to do something a little bit unusual this time we're going to actually break now and have a hymn it's called when i survey and it speaks of the hope that we have in the life and death and resurrection of christ is such a cool hymn i love this song and if you can and you are able sing along otherwise just let this song minister to you and i'll be back at the other side of it when i surveyed the wondrous crowds on which the prince of glory die my richest gay counted lost and poor content on all my prizes save in the death of christ my god all the vain things that charming most is them to his plans see from his head his hands his [Applause] floaming me or thorns composed so richard i thank you for the cross i thank you for the cross i thank you for the cross my lord i thank you for the cross i thank you for the cross i thank you for the cross my lord of nature might wear sing so divine demands my soul my life my own i thank you for the cross lord i love you for the cross i love you for the cross i love you for the cross i love before do what a great song uh thanks john anna grace for doing that um it's john and anna grace who are singing hence the reason that matt crew in this comments calls him jag the jeremy clarkson jag anyway bit of an in thing so uh so yeah so here we are we're talking about remembrance sunday right now it was uh a few days ago i got an email from my dad right and in this email was this picture here okay and this is my great grandfather this is a photograph of my great-grandfather wilfred edmondson and here he is again uh a little bit taller now uh he was killed just before the end of the war in 1918. he was a driver in the royal field artillery unlike many people he paid the ultimate price for our freedom right and his grave is in if i can pronounce this right jubble poor i think that's right in india and my dad actually connected with a super kind chap who managed to get a photograph of his grave so i got this like a few weeks ago right now it's amazing to me i mean probably amazing to me uh that i only really found this out a few weeks ago right so just a few weeks ago and and this is my own family and there are so many untold stories on there even in our own families in my family of bravery and sacrifice and you know what this got me thinking it kind of got me thinking about my life and what would i be remembered for and i think every now and again it's just good to think about this kind of stuff what is the legacy that i am building now if i can bring it up here there we go proverbs 13 22 tells us that good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren okay now i don't know about you but i want to be a good person right so i should plan on leaving an inheritance for my grandkids according to the bible and if there is one thing that we can learn from today you know um about remembrance sunday inheritance is way more than just the amount of money and cash in our estate isn't it at the end of our lives uh it's kind of just sort of got watered down to that but but remembering sunday is mo we don't think about how much money people left do we know we think about their lives and the way they lived and and all that kind of stuff so how will i be remembered and is it more than just a bit of cash in the bank what will people think what will people remember me for when i too no longer walk this earth the inevitability of it right so anyway these questions got me thinking and if i were to write them down um what would i put what did you write uh what if i a wolf had decent so max was put in the comment my my great grandfather had decent hair because matt is always going on about how he doesn't like my hair he thinks it's always messy but then matt has no hair so judge for yourself anyway so what were we talking about so yeah so if i could write a letter right um that say my kids could read after i'm gone what would it say what things would i actually want my kids to know what would i put in the letter and that kind of got me thinking so i think to my boys i'd tell them to be men god men men that love their wives and their kids because i think the world needs fathers it needs husbands more than you know more than it needs most things to be fair and to my daughter i'd say don't ever feel like you're not good enough you don't ever have to compare yourself to anyone enjoy being you right and find a man that will love you as christ loved the church that is the standard right men listen up now i tell them to be good stewards of their bodies be good stewards of their time their talents and their treasure and always remember a good alliteration right i tell them to laugh as often as is humanly possible especially at themselves i'd tell them to ask for forgiveness often to make memories even small one to always give to god first and to trust him even in the storms of life because he is worth it and he is faithful i tell them to love god to go for it to take a risk to learn to handle failure well to invest heavily into other people encourage people every chance you get because by doing so you will encourage yourself i tell them to forgive as the very famous poem says to fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run one of my favorite lines ever in a poem understand what god is telling you to do and for that season do it with all you can right and i would end this letter with letting them know how proud i am of them and how on the whole on the whole they've been a few moments but on the whole i have loved every single minute of being their dad and i count it a real privilege that i can call myself the dad and i could go on and i could talk about how it's not about the job and the career and it's a jeremy and all that sort of stuff but what about you what would you say what would you put in a letter to the next generation even if you don't have kids what would you want people to know and what do you want to be known for what would be the important things the lessons in your life that you could distill down into these sort of letters that you could write and for me actually this was an absolutely fascinating thought exercise i'm not gonna lie it was incredible right and i realized something though as i started to write these ideas down and i and i started to think about the principles that i thought were important for living a meaningful life and i certainly became aware of this glaring and obvious question that confronted me like head-on jeremy and the question was this am i living the legacy that i want to leave will my kids actually read that letter and go i saw my dad do every one of these things will they will they will they remember me as someone who lived out what i thought to be important important enough to write it down so for example do my kids see me being a god man do they see me investing in them do they felt like i or do they feel like felt feel like i love them do they see me love their mum did does my daughter see a man love his wife as christ of the church do they see me being a good steward of the things that god has given do they see me trusting him even in the storms right or is this just a cliched saying that i say would they say that i love god and that i know god do they see me take a risk and do they see me handle failure well sometimes i just have to say ouch to some of these things right as dave connolly would say because if i talk about investing in others or if i talk about living with courage am i investing in others am i being courageous myself do i fill the unforgiving minutes with 60 seconds worth of distance run am i living out god's plan for my life and is that noticed in any way now if it's what i do and how i live that builds my legacy and it's what i do that determines how i would be remembered that's an important thing to remember isn't it because we remember people that did that took action uh this is what remembrance sunday is all about people who took action and what i say has to match up with what i write there has to be that level of integrity and so for me remembrance sunday is like a two-edged sword i remember people like my i remember friends and family and members who put their lives on the line even in the modern conflicts and in doing so it reminds me to live my uh to live a life and to leave my own kind of legacy i may never ever end up as a soldier on the battlefront but it challenges me to face the danger and the adventures of life like it says in the poem flanders field to you from failing hands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high and i have a duty i have a sense of responsibility to take what they did and to hold that torch high as they've passed it on to me with their failing hands and i thought you know what it would be inappropriate that we observe the two-minute silence albeit a little bit later than the rest of the nation so please use this time as a time of reflection of as a time of prayer just to remember and to be grateful and to be thankful and to leaders in this time i'm actually going to play a video of a chap called bernard and i call this video bernard's prayer he's a member or was a member of our church um he was one of the brave service men lucky enough to make it home from the battlefield and who has since uh this recording it was made five years ago he's gone home to be with the lord and i've played this several times at uh remembrance service because bernard was an absolute legend i thought he was a great man and i thought it'd be brilliant if he uh through modern technology uh could pray for us and then we'll observe the two-minute silence and then i will be back here so here's bernard so i'd just like to say could i just pray with us all now just a little prayer say thank you lord for those who gave their lives and did not come back we thank you our father for we think at this time of the parents whose sons and daughters never came back we thank you lord for those who came through and still remember you and still thank you for your grace and your goodness and we'd love to hear your voice and to continue holding this little memorial with a two-minute silence to remember those who were one at that time and well i'm just going to pray real quick lord i want to thank you for the brave servicemen and women of our country of all the countries and nations around the world i want to thank you for everybody that has given so much uh that we could be here today i thank you uh for people like bernard uh for my great grandfather uh for people that went and have fought in wars and in battles so we could be free and lord uh as we stand here and as we remember i pray that we would be challenged and that we would learn how to live uh ourselves and how to take on that torch amen amen well i mean how do you feel about remembering sunday such a fascinating day uh of the year for me uh a lot of my family uh have connected with the services in some way so um really really powerful stuff and so i hope you feel inspired i hope you feel challenged i hope you feel grateful actually uh for the people that have given so so much uh and uh as what's matt put here so bernard seems like a legend hoped to meet him in heaven he was an absolute legend such a lovely guy and great see him still on screen such as the power of technology we can do that so uh just in case you kind of joined us halfway through and think what is going on here uh we are an online church because you know in the elmer elm in the in the realm of covid online church seems to make a lot of sense and so we do online church we say that frontline city uh which is soon to be called crowd church getting renamed um is a church for those that don't see the point of church you kind of go well is church relevant for me does this even make sense well that's what we're trying to be we're an online church for those that don't see the point of church but who do want to find answers on how to live a meaningful life that's what we're here to do and as sharon said right at the start we just want to inspire people about jesus so it's great that so many of you joined us during the remembrance service you are more than welcome to join it at any point uh in the comments uh just say how is it hi whatever language works for you just connect with us be great um to to know that you're here to know that you're watching what's going on and like i said we stream at 4 p.m every sunday so do feel free to come back and join us and one of the things today has been a little bit unusual because it's been remembrance day um one of the things that we do typically do every week is we have something called catch up now uh this i'll let josh actually explain to you watch catch what ketchup is so uh here's josh and i'll be back when he's finished hello and welcome to this week's sunday catch up now for those of you who don't know me allow me to introduce myself my name is josh edmondson i am a technically second year student at the university of saint andrews studying theoretical physics if you've never watched this part of the stream before let me fill you in on what's going to happen catch up is part of the service where we get to look at videos sent in from members of the community just to see what we've been getting up to so we have an opportunity to well catch up with each other over the next couple of minutes we're just gonna share what people have been doing throughout the week now a few very special things have happened this week one of course there was the whole presidential election there was also bonfire night on the 5th of november today is remembrance sunday and on wednesday it was matt cruz birthday happy birthday matt i hope you had a fantastic time i saw the videos that you sent in and one of them is you singing happy i thought i would try and join in now if i butcher this please do forgive me you know this way it was like i was there in spirit happy birthday to me happy birthday happy birthday to you free cheers crew hip hip hooray hip hip hooray hip hip hooray happy birthday matt crew happy birthday matt crew indeed fantastic i hope you had a wonderful wonderful time yeah this week has actually been quite busy i've actually done something i know it's it's shocking if you've watched this before you might remember i mentioned i had a lab experiment that i did remotely it was the last week it might have been last week actually everything's kind of rolling into one by this point well this week i had my very first in-person lab session it was quite a momentous occasion granted only like two of us out of the class of 40 actually turned up to the the lab session this is what i did i'm just gonna gonna switch over real quick then we just hit this button look at that we have a flashing light ladies and gentlemen i i don't i don't think i need to finish my degree i think i've reached my peak right here but anyway that's enough from me let's get on to the catch-up videos you like your boots you're the birthday girl you're the birthday girl great thank you for sending those in eden i i love your enthusiasm for those boots zoe love how you're making another sign and i love the fact that you were woodworking in unicorn slippers that's all from me thank you very much for watching i hope you have a fantastic week and i will catch you next time very good love the catch-up video thanks very much for sending in uh your videos uh so we can catch up so like josh said we just like to see what you guys are up to because obviously we're not meeting in a building uh we are now an online church so you sending him videos enables to see all the different things that you're up to uh yeah sharon's just put here in the comments i enjoyed the birthday duet i agree i thought the duet was something quite extraordinary i noticed you had to drop your voice a little bit though josh uh to sing happy birthday but happy birthday matt it's a shame you had to celebrate it you know in isolation uh but we were definitely with you in spirit so uh three cheers for matt indeed i hope it was a good one did you see zoe's uh slippers that she was woodworking in yes that was not made up that was not um that was not camera trickery that was genuine real life zoe was doing uh making a carving in wood for a narnia sign for her school in unicorn slippers that is how she rolls oh yes and josh i love that you got a flashing light it's good to see that you know the money is being well spent for your university education that's all i'm saying i don't know what to say about that and um i loved eden's boots i think her mum was more excited about those boots than eden was just seemed that way to me a.g that you were a little bit more excited um so if you are uh part of the frontline city slash crowd church community um and you or even 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picking up on our mark series so we're working our way through mark's gospel and john harding is next week the week after is actually also going to be jack mariner so we've got some awesome speakers coming up as we're going to get into this jack actually and i talked uh yesterday the day before about what he's gonna be talking about oh he's getting into politics big style uh religion and politics the two things that you should never talk about all that is coming up so you're definitely not gonna want to miss that if you want to check out any of the back uh live streams that we've done just head on over to youtube or you can connect with us uh through the website frontline city you can see underneath my name oh that's the right side it's always weird because it's always back to front on the camera but you can just go to that website and come up and all the previous messages will come up and you can check those out to your heart's content so thank you so much for watching thank you for joining in what i'm going to do now the way i'm going to end this remembrance day service actually is i'm going to play uh the last post and then we're going to play the rouge and so i know the rouge what's it called uh the rails sorry the rouge i don't know why i think anyway the the royals so we're going to play that uh feel free to stay connected this broadcast will probably run another five or six minutes or so but this is it from me for this week thank you so much for watching thank you for being connected with us god bless you have a fantastic week wherever you are and uh thanks for your comments thanks for connecting and we'll see you again very soon oh wow my
