He was facing his worst fear – or perhaps worse, had his back to it. He wanted only to give up, to find and accept any reason which would excuse him from the fall. 

When Toby arrived at the gravesite, his grandpa handed him a lightbulb and said, “You know what to do with this.”

The next day, when the team was working at a school, one of the kids approached me saying, “Hey, Miss! I shared the Gospel with my friend doing the tearing cross!”

Pure joy and celebration shot through everyone at that training. I could hear the girls in their room as they got ready for bed afterward chatting and laughing. None of us could stop smiling as we celebrated with Hope what she had overcome.

But, Danielle faced her fears head on, agreeing to lead a devotion at her church’s winter retreat. “I didn’t cry!” she typed in an email to her team leader.