And then we began to dream.
I think, since that is so out of the range of our possibility, it occurred to us that this is a piece of cake for the God we serve. He specializes in the impossibilities, so why not? So we began to throw out some of our most laughable desires that in the natural, couldn't happen in NYC in so many ways.
We'd love to find a piece of land somewhere in mid-town Manhattan and develop that into a building that would not only serve as our offices and meeting space, but to allow other ministries to use it.
We want to establish a Campus House of Prayer there, a place where students, campus ministers, moms, dads - anyone who has a heart to see colleges campuses transformed - can come 24 hours a day, seven days a week to meet with others and pray in agreement.
We want to have meeting rooms and conference rooms to train, resources, and equip students and other ministries to go and do ministry where they are assigned in the best way possible.
We want to have cheap and reasonable housing for anyone coming to New York City to work in Campus Ministry. Housing is so expensive, that is often a deterrent for the workers called to be in this rich harvest field.
We want to establish a place, a beacon in the city, a light on a hill, if you will, that will serve as a training and sending place, that would change NYC from the inside out.
And so dreamed the 6 of us, a ragtag bunch of warriors in a city of more than 1.3 million college students, much like Gideon's army of 300 against the Midianites and Amalakites who were "without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore." (Judges 7:12).
Our God majors in the impossible things in life. I think we can, too.
