“… I don’t know how much paperwork Paul had to do for his first overseas journey, but in the nearly 2000 years since Paul began his ministry, it seems like most denominations and ministries have developed what they considered a Biblically-based bureaucracy. Our application process prodded along for months before we succeeded in jumping through all the hoops that finally brought Ruth and me to our final face-to-face interview with the administrative committee. …”~Nik Ripken