Chapter 4

In which September comes and goes

September is a month of change, a transition from one season to the next. 
This has been doubly true in the Crandall household.

Josiah started the new month a year older.

The Crandalls celebrated the launch of Sycamore Church.

Renewal's podcast officially began and includes interviews with an artist, a missionary, even a hummingbird! You should go check it out if you haven't.

Books were purchased and cataloged.  

And the search began for a space to hold the Renewal Library.

(The Crandalls need a place to keep all the new books after all.) 

Every day was a new adventure, but more than that it was a celebration of God at work. 

In one of the interviews Josiah conducted, he was reminded of the beginning of Psalm 121, which says:  

Unless the Lord builds the house,

    those who build it labor in vain.

Renewal is not something that the Crandalls are building, it’s something God is building. And they are grateful for those who have joined with them in God’s calling.