As a staff, we read Acts 9 for staff devotions the other day. Buried in this chapter, we read about a few anonymous people who helped Saul escape from being killed. In this chapter Saul has just become a convert to Christianity, the believers still feared him, and his former bosses now hated him.

Yet a few of the believers felt led by God to help him. It took a few people, with nothing to gain, and a lot to lose to risk holding a rope for Saul and lowering him through an opening in the wall in the middle of the night.

We never do hear the names of these people. Yet, the guy they helped escape went on to write a majority of the new Testament and plant the church in many places. If only they knew.

Today, I ask you to be a rope holder for Unity. We will likely never get any accolades for our prayers, and it may seem like the response to our prayers will test our patience. But we also know that God is going to use our kids, in amazing and unlikely ways to build His Kingdom.

We need you to hold the rope four our students and our staff. Partner with us; pray with us and pray for us.

Will you hold the rope?



( credit and thank you goes to Kurt Collison – for teaching me about holding the rope – a message he gave at a retreat I attended in 2009)