This service centers on the goodness of God over the past year and invites the church to place its whole story into his faithful hands. Rooted in worship and in the Emmaus passage from Luke 24, the message emphasizes that Jesus meets his people in the middle of their confusion, questions, and burdens and helps them understand how the story of God connects to the story of their own lives. The sermon holds salvation, healing, and freedom together as part of the church's shared testimony rather than as distant ideas. The hope of the message is that the Lord is still ordering the steps of his people and turning their year into a story marked by his faithful presence. Bring the burdens, needs, and unanswered questions of your own story before the Lord instead of carrying them alone. Let Scripture help you interpret your life in the light of Jesus rather than trying to make sense of everything by yourself. Trust that God is still writing a faithful story of salvation, healing, and freedom in and among his people. Lord, thank you for holding our lives and ordering our steps with faithfulness. Meet us in our questions and burdens, open the story of your Word to us, and continue to write salvation, healing, and freedom into our lives and community.