Joe,
Prayed for your wife today; glad things went well. I'm rather standing in those shoes myself.

Pilgrim, what do you mean by "fallow times"? I know what the word 'fallow' means, but do you mean that for some reason God has not seen fit to give growth and harvest in the West? If so, I agree--it's a notion I've had for some time now, but never vocalised because it seems...well, sort of faithless to think such things. We have good churches and good preachers and good seminaries, but even if we need more of them it seems that even where there are good sound institutions there seems to be little growth--like the seed that falls on hard ground and cannot get root. Too many of these good churches are timy ones that no one seems interested in joining, and too many of these seminaries are struggling financially. It's a discouraging thought, but the comfort is always that God does know what He is doing.

I pray that the fallow season will soon end.

Stand Fast, Craigellachie!