stretching across six time zones. Kansas City had nearly 130 SBC churches in two counties. Going from an area that had an immense need for new churches to one having quite a few existing, but declining, churches meant I had to determine what God wanted to do with me in my new surroundings. It didn’t take long for the struggling churches that now surrounded me to haunt me. They seemed to be everywhere. Worse yet, many of them were crowded into what is called the inner-suburban ring, areas that boomed