I have been in the process of reevaluating everything...and I mean everything ... I have ever believed for the past 24 years. This became necessary after leaving the church our young family helped establish with my husband’s sister, her husband who was pastor, and their young family. Paul and I had only been married a little over 4 1/2 years when we left our home in Houston and moved, site-unseen to Oklahoma to help start this church. There were eight of us altogether. Our two families--their two babies and our two babies--became the first and only members of the church we planted. We built the church together, lived next door to each other...eventually growing our families to our eight and their five children, all while navigating the difficulties of this convoluted alliance. On the surface, it seemed ideal. Often, it felt ideal. Sometimes it even WAS ideal. What could be more ideal? A church founded by two closely related families who...
My past, my present and my hope for the future