Our pastor at Bowling Green, Kentucky, First Church of the Nazarene, Gary Curry, has been preaching for over three years about relationships and how we need each other. It has slowly been impacting me. What can I do to reach out to others? Do I really know my neighbors?

My wife, Gwen, and I have been part of a small group prayer time at our church every Monday for over two years. We share prayer requests and spend time in prayer, but it has also become a time of opening up to, and encouraging, one another. It has become obvious that we really do need each other.

"Would you like to come to an Amish Inn in Ohio for a prayer retreat?" The caller was Beth Coppedge, whom I had met at a retreat in Ohio a couple years earlier. About all I knew about Beth was that she led Titus Women's Ministries and her father was Dennis Kinlaw who has served as Asbury College's president. Little did I know what God had planned.