At 24, Amy was trying to be invisible. There were deep wounds from a recent divorce to heal, two children to feed, and rent to pay. She sat in the back during worship service, slipped out during the last song to teach in Calvary Kids, and escaped to the parking lot when everyone else was gone. She held on and held it together. Until she couldn’t anymore.
“There is a verse in 1 Timothy that says, ‘But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that,’ (6:8)” Raychaelle Horner says. “The experience of getting out of debt has helped us to be content with what God has given us.”
Six years ago Devin and Raychaelle Horner were typical American newlyweds – young, still in school, and already deeply in debt – when they decided living with debt long-term was not okay with them.
Isaac and Rahab Macharia, church planting pastors, talked with some of our church staff via Zoom from Kampala, Uganda, about the challenges and joys of planting a church and the unique ways they’re ministering during COVID-19 lockdown.
“In our heads, we’re still a young married couple,” Ryan Silver says. “But when someone in our Life Group asks for advice or perspective, we wonder, ‘How did we get to be the seasoned mentor couple?’”
Ryan and Sheila are Life Group leaders at Calvary, where they have combined their passion to give newly married couples the kind of solid relational start they had with Calvary’s commitment to teach people how to do life together in community.
