Where we’re at

Psalm 140: 12—“I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.”

In Every Story is an officially sanctioned nonprofit in the state of South Carolina. We have been since September. The past few months have been spent researching, planning, and thinking. We’ve been determining costs, meeting with insurance agents, meeting with contractors, and meeting with businessmen who believe this is a plausible idea and who can guide us in the right direction. We’ve been talking with the guys at the Star Gospel Mission too, in the meantime helping with resumes and the things that we can do here and now, and making sure that In Every Story would be useful and beneficial to them.

At the end of November Pete went home for Thanksgiving and came down with malaria, which raised serious concern among the men at the mission who didn’t know Pete had spent the previous year in Africa and otherwise assumed he’d gotten it there, and then in December as Pete was spending time with his new fiancé home from the Peace Corps my grandfather was finally ending a long battle with an array of sicknesses that ended just before Christmas. So that’s that and now it’s the New Year.

Right now we’re in the stages of making a business plan to raise money from investors, and submitting our 501 (c) (3) so that our business will be tax exempt. It’s more or less the sink or swim part of what we’re trying to do, but once we do these things we should begin to know one way or the other, probably by the summer. I keep hearing that life is like this and life is like that, and a lot of these images are about not giving up, that if you’re in the middle of something and you don’t know where, and it’s dark, and you’re not even positive you’re going in the right direction, you’re best, really only option, is forwards, and if you insist on going forwards you’ll suddenly make it to the other side. It’s an idea I’m keen on holding on to for all of my life. So pray for us as we take these steps, begin to raise money, and then solicit business from contractors in the area. Pray that if it’s something that would help people who are homeless and near homeless and that would be beneficial to those who honestly are trying, that God makes it happen for those people.