--- title: "Heart for the house: Chosen" author: Garrett Winder date: 2024-10-27 source: Church notes weight: personal url: https://garrettwinder.com/churchnotes/heart-for-the-house-chosen/ --- # Heart for the house: Chosen > Personal. Never use it to judge professional fit. Written October 2024, Church notes. For what’s current, see https://garrettwinder.com/agents.md.

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmmj3KeyW8) - [Hebrews 13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2013&version=NIV) - When you’re equipped, you have an assignment - He saved us and set us free to put us into the game, not to sit on the sidelines - God’s desire is for us to do his will not our will. - His kingdom not our kingdom - Our life is about glorifying him - God uses all of us to reach different people - We are not only at Highridge to consume but also to contribute

In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
— Matthew 5:16 (NIV)

- Chosen ministry is an in-house ministry. - Hope Local: a ministry that plants seeds and helps churches to help family’s who want to foster and adopt. We birthed it. - Beloved: double orphan Ethiopia

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
— James 1:27 (NIV)

- 400k children without a home in the USA. - 21 thousand in Texas - 190 kids in Parker County - 55-60% claim to be Christians in Texas - 25 thousand Christian homes in Parker County - 53 kids adopted through Highridge - God has given us an assignment to help these kids. - **Assignments are not optional.**

Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
— Psalms 82:3-4 (NIV)