Our Hope adventure began when we were transferred back to Des Moines and we wanted to try out a mission start we had heard about. It took us three weeks to find the church was meeting in an office building because the only address was a vacant corn field on Ashworth. The first Sunday we attended with our 3-year old daughter Kim, we found the friendliest group of about 12 people, a Mr. Coffee and a dozen cookies. Asking Kim if we should go to Hope or one of the established churches we had visited she immediately said “the small one.” So began our adventure seeing what God can do with a few faithful believers. The move to Living History Farms didn’t stop a steady growth of new visitors even during winter snow or the ice-cold Christmas Eve in “the barn.” When the first building was completed it seemed huge but was quickly full and cars filled the lot, around the log cabin and then also filled the front lawn. That Easter required a huge tent out front to hold the growing attendance with...