At times, God's giving comes as a surprise. I remember when Sarah and I were preparing to move to Brooklyn to work at Bethel Baptist, our car broke down somewhere in NC. As I leaned over an open hood staring at a dead engine, a man pulled up in his pickup truck and looked down at the dead car with me. "Looks like it might be the battery." We agreed. He took me to a spot nearby and I bought a battery. But after we put it in, we realized it still wasn't getting juice. This was going to be a big ticket repair. He was a local and had a friend who had a car dealership, so he offered to get us in line there. "Ok." I didn't realize that dealerships charge top dollar for their repairs. (So many things to learn young Tim!) We went and, sure enough, we needed extensive work done... more than just a battery. I had already purchased a battery. Still to come -- the rest of the drive back and forth to NYC, trying to find an apartment and move... and now a large car-re
