Nov 10, 2020
It was around 4 am a few nights ago and I heard my phone vibrate. Being unable to sleep, I figured I’d read the message. Turns out a friend of mine with small children was awake because one of their children had a nightmare. The dream woke them, they came to get...
Nov 3, 2020
When I was five years old, I didn’t particularly care for Kindergarten. It wasn’t that I hated school. Other than nap time, I enjoyed it all. But what I did hate was leaving home, I missed my mama. The previous years were largely just she and me. My dad worked 12-hour...
Oct 21, 2020
Do you remember in the Field of Dreams movie, “If you build it, they will come?” What if we changed that up a bit and instead thought, “If we vision it, we can get there.” It’s so easy to go through life and “go with the flow.” Often the flow is challenging. It takes...
Sep 22, 2020
Last week an electric transformer in Troutman blew and parts of Troutman were out of power for 8 hours. It was right as the workday was set to begin so that greatly hindered some pretty important situations for people. The impact of that blow out was huge because the...
Sep 21, 2020
But when we rely on the power of God within us, we can accomplish everything. If you go to the book of Judges in Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and read the story of Gideon, you will see that he used the word “I” a lot. Gideon was a farmer by trade. He...
Sep 15, 2020
I asked several members of the original launch team of West if there was a time they remembered our struggle to trust God or a time when we did trust God in a difficult opportunity and as God always does, God led the way through it and provided. There are several...
