The past few months have gone quickly.  We look back over them and see that God is working in us and through us in a slow but good way.  We have built relationships, engaged the neighborhood and have made a house a home and a base of ministry.  Relationships take time, energy, and intentionality.  Engaging the neighbors takes persistence, love, flexibility, energy and time.  Establishing a home takes time, energy, and love.  Adapting a home to a basis of ministry calls for intentionality, flexibility, and love.

Do you see the tensions and themes that we have immersed ourselves in over the past few weeks?  Time, energy, intentionality, persistence, flexibility, and love are all necessary and needed things in our life as we seek to live missionally and point others to Jesus.  So if you were to ask me how things are going?  I would sum it all up by saying slow, but good.