Future > Past

September 2, 2000 - twenty years ago this week - Kelsey and I had an experience that charted the course for almost every major event of our lives since.

On that Saturday morning, we gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC to fast and pray with 450,000 people - mostly young adults - at an event billed as The Call DC.

I was 33 at the time.

Since then, so much has happened in our lives that I trace back to that day.

Our YES to whatever He called us to do was put before us over and over again. Our move to Kansas City, much of our writing and teaching, even our life in adoption has roots in The Call DC. Eventually, the Lord would even grant us the honor of helping coordinate The Call events across the nation - even back on the National Mall!

The Call DC in 2007

This morning I read this passage and was stirred to revisit that day in my mind. As I drove the kids to school, I thought to reach and listen to some of the music that came out of that movement. I knew it would encourage me and help me remember….but then almost as a warning, I had the thought “Don’t let this drift into nostalgia.”

To wage war with the prophecies of our youth is not to look back and pine for the days of old. It is to look forward and believe that there is more - more fulfillment, more presence, and more vision.

I tell you all this because this is a part of your story too.

The Bridge has roots in The Call.

Our hearts were stirred on that day twenty years ago, and I’m asking God to stir us all just as deeply once again for the next twenty years.

God is inviting us to put our hands and resources to building a community that will shape our families and prepare us for the days to come…that as we seek Him in a rhythm of prayer, worship and fasting, that He would write our story. This is an invitation before us and there is a yes in my heart as I believe there is in many of yours.

The future is forward. Let’s dream together.

much love -

Randy & Kelsey