Giving our Project a Name

To have a logo, you've got to have a name. It honestly didn't take long before the concept of what we are trying to accomplish transformed into concept. What is this all about? 

It's about spreading the Gospel, training disciples, and building families through the Biblically-approved method of planting churches and from those churches sending out more people to do the same. That's where the concept of the lilypad came in. Each of us need a place to serve God and a place that will support us when we strive to obey God. Sometimes that church needs to be a launch pad for exploration into regions that have never had the Gospel or very little exposure to it. That's where this concept comes in. 

I have a special burden for missions. God gave it to me after I prayerfully considered the needs of missionaries on foreign fields. After becoming sensitive to the burden God gave, God used it in my call to Russia. But Russia is not alone in its need for the Gospel - neither is Eastern Europe, but one thing at a time right? In an effort to reach through a once "godless" region with the Gospel, we are going to build a support line of churches that will assist Gospel-preaching missionaries right through the whole area - a network of "lilypads," if you will, to propel the Good News into the regions beyond.

Therefore, we are going to call it the Gospel Lilypad Project.