time, he began to meet with the second one, at the time a church planter. He did so to encourage this second pastor in his fledgling work. The old-timer and the newcomer prayed for Jesus to reach the city. Through the newcomer, people came to know Jesus, believers gathered, and a community of Jesus followers was born. Ten years later, the one who had come first serves as pastor of an “ordinary” church. Its two hundred–plus members demonstrate the love of Jesus in ways that did not exist there ten