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It is vacation time for the Payne family! This means that I am unplugging from the blog, twitter, and email until sometime in July. By the time some of you read this post, I will be driving down the road, eating the family traditional box of donuts, drinking a homemade […]

Year of Highlights


I am about to take a time out from the blog.  I have been known to do this over the past few years, usually during vacation or major deadlines.  This time it is for both. With the holiday season upon us, my family and I plan to be traveling and […]

Time Out


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We often fail to consider the work of our Father before we arrive on the scene. We wrongly think we are the first domino to fall in God’s plan when it comes to our church planting endeavors. We may be near the beginning, but we are not the starting point–even […]

Take Courage: You are not the First Domino



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Since the late 1970s, the United States has recognized May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants (May 1843) and the contributions of the Chinese to the transcontinental railroad (completed May 1869).  In recognition of this month, the U. S. Census bureau released […]

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month


I wanted to take a moment and say that I  hope your new year is off to a great start. Over the last week and a half, I have refrained from blogging and have only spent a few moments on Twitter.  While I have missed sharing with you, I can […]

Happy New Year!