This week is a celebration of thanksgiving.

We have been doing this Belonging House adventure

for nineteen years.

There are some amazing things about this story,

and how so many of the things that I did in the beginning

became part of our DNA

and part of our life together.

We began praying in tongues together for fifteen minutes

in my living room in Akron, Ohio.

We celebrated holy communion together daily.

We sat and listened to God together.

We ate together.

And all of this happened before we "formed"

an organization.