To Take Risks or Raise Children?

I was fifteen when my dad took me out for a special date. As with many families in ministry, finances were tight, so these dates typically meant one of two things: It was my birthday, or we were moving. It wasn’t my birthday.My dad, a parachute church planter, explained that he and my mom felt the Holy Spirit stirring them to move. This time, we were moving from South Carolina to Texas. My five brothers and I each had a close circle of friends and community; I was entering my sophomore year of h