I thought we’d just slip into the back row unnoticed.⁣ ⁣ The week before, our doorbell rang and there stood a tall man who, in a great rush of words, invited us to a new mission start church named Hope. I had actually tried to find it months earlier, hoping to join a small church like the one I grew up in, but the sign on the land of the future church building had blown down, so I gave up trying to find Hope. ⁣ ⁣ Have you ever tried to get out of the door on time when you have a newborn and a toddler? ⁣ ⁣ Yep, we were always 5 minutes late to everything, including that Sunday in July 1993 when we pulled up to the door of the office building where the church was meeting. My hope of not being noticed was dashed when we snuck in – there were exactly 2 rows of chairs set up, so technically there was a back row. But not unnoticed. Our family of four increased the attendance 20% to a grand total of 24.⁣ ⁣ We settled in, were handed a hymnal by the smiling man we sat next to and joined in wit...