growing pains, everyone in the congregation
had their own interpretation of what a pastor
should do.
"You should be leading a sewing group," Stacy
recalls being told.
"You've got to take the microphone,"
someone else said. "The church won't grow
unless you preach, too."
After preaching a sermon exposing the spirit
of fear, DaVon had someone tell him he was
wrong—that fear was good.
"Everybody seemed to have their own idea
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about what pastors did and taught," Stacy
recalls. "DaVon and I prayed about it. The Lord
directed us to be true to who He created us to
be. Would I have led a sewing group or taken the
microphone before I became a pastor? If not,
unless the Lord told me otherwise, I didn't need
to do it now.
"Likewise with DaVon. Being called to
pastor didn't mean he had to change himself.
A pastor was who God created him to be.
We refused to let anyone take away our
individuality or our identity. We'd never
"In three
years I went from
working at a bakery
and making minimum
wage to becoming a
corporate fi nancial
relationship counselor
and earning
$120,000."
