Lamp Lit Learnings

I love my job. This afternoon as I ate lunch with my children I told them of one of our supporters who has a very painful and terminal type of cancer.  It's heart breaking. However as I was able to tell my kids about our job, our privilege, our joy in praying for her I was reminded of how much I love this "job". What greater task than supporting and loving a man who is dedicated to the Kingdom of God? What greater joy than to teach and train our children in loving and serving our Great God?  What greater task than to be prayer warriors for our brothers and sisters in Christ & to share His love with those around us? It's not a job with pay, or benefits, or any written contracts and expectations. It's a job I unknowingly accepted at the tender age of 13 when I was baptized into Christ. It's a job that many look at an shun for it's seemingly lowly position, or perceived naivety. However it is the hardest most difficult job anyone will undertake. The ete...

In February of 2013 my husband and I attended a conference on fund raising. Now you might be thinking, "Ugh! The dreaded fundraising". And to be honest, that was one of my initial thoughts too. We'd heard through a network of church planting friends that this was different.  That this so called, boot camp, was to change the way we thought about fund raising. We started off by reading the text book. I read it cover to cover. My husband and I did the extensive Bible study associated with the book and the upcoming seminar. I took the suggestion of the book and began praying for the people that would be on our "financial support team".  We kissed the kids goodbye and flew to our old stomping grounds near Portland, OR for a whirl-wind weekend  on fund raising! Little did I know that the time spent with Steve Shadrach would change our perspective as well as our lives. You see, it's almost one year since I heard him say that living on support would grow my fa...