Lamp Lit Learnings

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...