Step of Faith

This week marks a milestone in our family. As of this week, Brett is a full-time pastor. Yay! After five years of him pastoring and holding a full-time outside job ("bi-vocational" he calls it), Victory has come to the point where it is now beginning to support its own. No more days of will it-or-won't-it make it questioning.

If you don't know, Victory was started in '01 with just our family of (then) four in a hotel conference room. No visitors for the first two weeks. On the third Sunday, the door opened and in walked the first visitors. A year and half later, we were blessed to get a permanent building- an ugly green former restaurant/bar with no windows. . . and the bar still in it. Yes folks, for the first several months of services you had to walk past the bar to get to the meeting room. Not too many Baptist churches can claim that in their history.

We had major renovations in '03 (no more bars, Miller lite signs, or red backlit mirrors with mermaids etched on them -I'm not making this up) which resulted in something that actually resembled a church. God has been good and we are now running around 45-50. The people here are absolutely wonderful- they have a real heart for the Word of God and ministry.

So now, Brett can fully devote his time to his calling. He'll get to spend more time with the kids during the day, free up days to write sermons and lessons, and not have to worry whether he's being unfair to either pastoring or a secular job. It's been a blessing to help minister to this area, and I'm thankful for the faithfulness of God.