I made a commitment to my friend Robert Brown that if he would invest his life in Africa, I would hold the rope.  He asked me what I meant.  I told him that I had no idea, but God told me to say it.

This is what holding the rope with Robert Brown and Churches Together has come to mean to me and to the church I shepherd, Alice Drive, in Sumter, South Carolina:

• Robert and CT have fired us up to care about HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa.
• We’re now partnering with Open Baptist Church in Old Naledi, Botswana, to support their ministry in teaching and feeding HIV/AIDS orphans.
• People I couldn’t motivate to give to save their grandmother have given generously and sacrificially to help.
• People I would have never thought of as “missionaries” are going to Africa and are coming back – changed.
• And it’s reached into my own family.  My daughter has been working diligently to earn her money to go to Africa this summer with a group from ADBC.

Bottom line?  Robert Brown and Churches Together have lit a fire in our hearts to be part of God’s solution to the worst humanitarian crisis of our day.  In God’s amazing plan, we are being changed more than the people we go to serve.  It is a win all the way around.