Though our financial situation has improved a little in the last two months, ministry resources remain tight, and we are therefore under-staffed. We could really use a custodian, a children’s ministry leader, and a youth director. In particular, we have been struggling to keep our youth group going, and so we have been praying for God’s provision in this area (and others). Recently, I was asked to come to the local Ratio Christi school, which is a college preparatory program intended to help students prepare to defend their faith and be able to witness to their faith in life beyond high school. They were doing a unit on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the cost of discipleship, and I was, therefore, being asked to talk to them about the costs we paid for disaffiliation, such as the lawsuit and the loss of long-time friends. A few days later, the man who had asked me to do the presentation invited me to lunch, ostensibly to thank me. As we ate lunch, we discussed our faith journeys, and he told me that for the last few months, due to various circumstances, he was
