b'there with the gospel, and we areand they need us to keep strategizing learning how to be in the right posi- how to do it better. tion to catch that wave. We start byHere in our missions, we are acknowledging that it is our greatadjusting, and we are doing things God who sends those waves, and wecompletely differently. Weve made a are praying that we will be lookingkey decision to decentralize. Every for where the Holy Spirit is workingorganization that wants to grow at and will jump in with Him to seeWhat I am learningsome point makes a decision to Jesus proclaimed in even the mostcomes from my shareddecentralize. So we decided to go adventurous and elusive places.mobile, to go to more places, and to We are being bold, knowing thatexperiences in theserve alongside more people in their we have an adversary who will attackadventure. I amown communities, expanding what us, who wants to stop us before wewe did in one location for so many even get rolling. But we wont stoplearning from the greatyears into other towns and commu-and we wont give upbecausenities on the islands. people need us to keep pressing on.people I get to serveWe are analyzing everything, People need us to keep doing thealongside, I am learningincluding examining the question daily things we do to extend care,Is it best to feed people a meal every from others who have aday? And after our analysis, we heart for the poor, I amdecided it is not. Now I know for some of you this is how you best give learning from my timecare, and you have complemented daily meals with incredible ministry in the community, and Ion a very broad scale. But for us here am even learning fromin Hawaii, we want to be careful to not make life on the streets too com-the wide world offortable. We decided that if our goal was to feed people and care in that sports. way, then we would continue to pro-vide meals every day. But since our main focus and goal now was on transitioning people away from the streets, we knew we needed to keep people from getting too comfortable and keep them hungrier for the pos-sibility of change, and more so for spiritual nourishment than for physi-cal food, hungrier to see their lives move away from the devastation and decay of the streets. \x02 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022 WWW.CITYGATENETWORK.ORG 47'