"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." —Mark 12:30 & 31 (NIV)
Many years ago in Hawaii on a Sunday night in January, Hope Chapel Waikiki was born. We met in the small chapel at the Community Center and had about 12 people (including Pastor Jack and Maree Nordgren and their family), sitting in a circle on folding chairs. But, I am getting ahead of myself here.