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When you dream and you dream big it takes a lot of courage.  

When we went to Discovery Lab (April 2010), and then to Strategy Lab (September 2011) with the Kairos Church Planting Network it was with two goals in mind.  First, my husband and I believe in Church planting and we want to be a part of supporting it in a big way.  Second, we want our home church to be a church planting church.  We dreamed big partly because we had the backing of a relationship built over 14 years of ministry with this church.  We thought that together we could do great things for God's Kingdom.  Not once in our years of dreaming did we ever picture heading out on this adventure of church planting without our home church.  So when the recent turn of events changed our foundation we were left with half of a dream and a lot of questions.  Primarily "Where do we go from here?"


Half of a dream is not much of a dream at all... or so it seems.

While on one hand it's emotionally exhausting and very frustrating, on the other hand it's very freeing.  We knew that there would be bumps along the way and that this journey to planting a new church would be difficult.  It gives us the freedom to look at our lives without the expectation of what anyone else thinks or feels and determine what is best for the Kingdom and what is best for our family.
In our ten years of marriage, we've never had to make a decision together this big before.  The chance to start with a clean slate, to dream big again but in a different way.  How do we view this half a dream?  The end of the road, or just the beginning?  I've always been a "glass full" kind of person, so while I've taken some time to emotionally grieve this change of circumstance, I think it's important to keep our perspective.  No one is paying me to make disciples.  No one but me determines my answer to God's call.  The relationships of 14 years are still there no matter whether they partner with us or not.  We have the love of our family and the security of serving a Great God.  I choose to see this half of a dream as the opportunity for growth. 


 I choose to look at the glass as being half full....
And the exciting news is, my God wants to fill it to overflowing!

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