By this we will know

These are some confirmations that we confidently seek from God in this process, and prayers that Rebecca and I will continue to lift up until we receive or until He otherwise unburdens our hearts.

Adoption of the vision by the church.

• While the call to short-term missions is a personal one for both Rebecca and me, we hope to be sent by our unified home church. To realize this team, we would begin the praying and planning even now, but desire to submit the vision to church leadership in hopes that it would be a top-down initiative and the church's calling, not a divisive pursuit belonging to a subversive few.

Intergenerational interest and commitment.

• Implied.

The bearing of specific fruits from this faith.

• For a former believer in God to reopen to Him.
• For someone who has left LWEC due to generational or congregational conflict to return.
• For someone who has left LWEC to seek a more missional church to return.
• For a family to believe into Christ.
• For students to gather in prayer for their parents.
• For regular one-church prayer meetings.
• For a cross-cultural STM trip.
• For a missions team that would include:
• A student with non-Christian parents.
• Someone who has never participated in STM.
• Someone who has participated in STM.
• A student AND his/her parent
• An adult from the Chinese congregation who has had limited interaction with youth/ECHO.
• Someone who feels like they have never served in an "official" capacity.
• An engaged or married couple from both the English and Mandarin congregations.
• Someone from each decade of life between the ages of 10 and 70.
• Gender balance.
• Someone considering baptism.
• Someone who attended CCMC prior to the Naperville plant.