Month: November 2025

We had $2,100 in savings when we moved to plant Hope Chapel. Our weekly salary that first month? Fifteen dollars. For context, our rent was $225. Do the math—it doesn’t work. Ruby sold Avon cosmetics door-to-door. I delivered gospel literature on foot because we couldn’t afford postage. Someone gave us money to give away 20,000…

Jeff MacKay showed up at our Hermosa Beach church looking like the last guy you’d tap for leadership. Blond surfer hair falling in his face, wire-rimmed glasses sliding down his nose, mild dyslexia. We hired him to run our print shop. We fired him for sloppy work. Two weeks later, he asked if he could…