For a year we made plans to do a food box ministry, but we never imagined how God would transform our idea into His plan. A plan that was so much bigger than we could have imagined. And a plan from which other ministry would spring.

I recall in Ezra the story of the king of Persia whose spirit God stirred up. God stirred up his spirit in order to accomplish the task of re-building the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. Think about that comment, God stirred up his spirit! Just two years ago, my spirit and the spirit of the people of my congregation's spirits were stirred up. We were stirred like Cyrus the king of Persia to accomplish a task. Our task was to re-build ministry out of the house of the Lord in Crimora. So, we prayed and put together a group of persons who felt called to the "Future Casting Taskforce." Out of that taskforce came several areas of mission. One of those was to buy a couple of boxes from the Angel Food Ministries to give to those we found out were in need. This grew to opening a full fledged food pantry! But, that is another story all together. The story I want to tell here is