Tammie, thank you so much for the encouragement... needed it! I will hold on to Hope!!! :agree I've been struggling with discouragement just recently. I don't know how many years I've been a lurker here at Ritan, but at least as far back as 2013... Hi Tammie, I will be praying for you and your husband as you navigate these hard decisions with your church! May the Lord richly provide for you both.... I'm sure that, given enough time, the arch will re-create itself. B-) Hi Tammie! I'm a pastor too and have been bi-vocational lots of times over the last 20 years! I know what it's like. Glad you guys are faithfully serv... We do love our outdoors. There is actually an exodus going on right now: many of our friends are leaving. We've never seen anything like it. And their... Here in Oregon, there are lots of petitions like this one, lol. We kinda have a radar for the ones that will gain any trackage, and this isn't one of ... Hi! Something about your prayer request really got to my heart. I am praying for Alec! We went through something very similar with our son (then 12 ye... I loved this description!!! Even though turning the knob can be frustrated, I find myself doing so again and again, just to make sure I don't miss my ...