We’ve been back to work now for about two weeks and it feels like we continue to hit difficulty after difficulty. The main laptop we use for all of our slideshows for our church services crashed, our speaker system has stopped working reliably, the internet at the church (which we use constantly for communication, research, and resources) has been out unexplainably, the power goes out when we do have internet, and more seriously, staffer Julie Russell has been hospitalized for several days with kidney failure and other health concerns.

Aside from the hospitalization, all these things aren’t very out of the ordinary, but the fact that they have all been happening at once has been frustrating and discouraging. We don’t know if it’s an unfortunate coincidence or if it’s something more, but we ask that you would pray that despite difficulties, we would honor God and be successful and effective in our ministry.