Dear Hope Family, Last week Nehemiah 3 presented us with a list of people who left the stability, security, and provision of their exile in the Persian empire to enter into the devastation of the city of Jerusalem. They pooled their collective gifts and abilities to work towards the restoration of their purpose and calling as God’s people. The chapter tends towards being tedious and dry on the surface because it is a list of distant, hard-to-pronounce names and unfamiliar, foreign places. Yet [read more] about Pastor’s Corner: October 12th, 2018