there's less Son here than you think

there's less Son here than you think

We wanted to share with you a little about this town that God chose to send us to. The more we learn about it, the more it seems like no random chance or coincidence at all. We live on the boundaries of a small tight-knit and exclusive city whose foundations seem rooted in darkness. A brief history of the town is this:

A few decades ago several communities were developed around a high class, very wealthy, ritzy country club which lay on a nice golf course. Over time the area developed more communities, most of which centralized around this country club and golf course. Sometime in the 70's this small area managed to become recognized as an official city. A very small city, but nonetheless... a city. It's new, more expensive to live in, and from what we've heard, carries a little bit of the "snooty" attitude, and the people here are extremely liberal and quite anti-God.

The interesting thing about this city is that they have intentionally written in their constitution that there are no churches allowed. None. From what we've been explained, they were quite clever in how they went about this, and covered their tracks perfectly. With the exception of a very few select churches that were sort of "grandfathered" in to the city (that is, they were there before the area became an official city, and therefore they can't do anything about them), you cannot have any church here, nor use a building for the sake of large bible study gatherings. This is just a glimpse of how dark this place is. It isn't just physically dark here.... but quite spiritually dark as well. There's no sun and no Son. This impression gives us just a little understanding to why this state is the most unchurched area in the country.


May the Lord break the rulers of darkness in this world, the spiritual wickedness in high places. May he set at liberty the captive with his unconquerable light.

Romans 13:12
"The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."