September 2024

Again, we are in a brief season of transition as we move up to Cottonwood, and it is great to see God working all around. We signed a lease for a house in Cottonwood and are excited to watch the Lord work. For a couple of days, or more accurately weeks, we have been reflecting on how amazingly blessed our family truly is. Over the years, we have been so very blessed to be a part of many church families and individual lives in all the places the Lord has taken us. Our time in Phoenix has been no different. The Lord continues to use people locally and all over the world to join, support, pray for, and equip us for the work that He has called us to.

In 1 Samual 2 and 3, we see a young Samual “ministering before the Lord.” At such a young age, this work is most likely what some would call inferior tasks, which must be done anyway. Each person is to “minister before the Lord” in whatever ministry the Lord has given them, big or small, seemingly essential or not. There will be both immense and minuscule tasks in Cottonwood as the Lord grows His church. My question is who is going to join us in “ministering before the Lord?