Recently I was chatting with a couple of our partners and while the details of the conversations varied greatly, both boiled down to the same basic question... how long? That is a question I must confess, that we ourselves have recently struggled with on multiple levels.

* How long, oh Lord... before you have fully revealed your reasons for placing us in North Carolina?

* How long, oh Lord... before you provide the necessary funding that we need to support our ministry?

* How long, oh Lord... must our life feel like it is on hold?

* Lord... did we make a mistake? Somehow miss a turn signal that you left for us?

* One partner even honestly told me that they were asking... how long, oh Lord should we go on financially contributing to this ministry?

These are not easy questions and as only God knows the answers, I am confidant that they too are not easy. My initial feeling about these questions was guilt, they just seem so unfaithful. Then it occurred to me that these are not faithless questions, rather exactly the opposite, they all make the same basic assumptions:

1. God is real
2. God is listening
3. God has a plan that is larger then what we can see right now

So with that encouragement, I boldly step out and say that this ministry is the vision that God gave us two years ago, and it is the same vision that he has given us for today. It is on faith and faith alone that we trust that the Lord is going to answer the above questions according to his plan and in his timing. As there can be no better outcome then that, we rest in that knowledge.

We ask all of our existing partners and people considering a partnership, to step out in faith with us. To ask the tough questions and wrestle with God.

As far as our ministry goes, this is not simply the case of one person supporting another, rather this is all of us joining together, stepping out in faith, to reach the world with the good news of Jesus Christ.

God Bless.