Almost to the top of a hill?

We're in an interesting place with The Loop right now.  For the past year, most of our connections have been with college students.  I've loved it!  But this is a very mobile population... and with September looming, many (perhaps even most) of our people are on the move.  Some of them will be attending schools in other locations.  The new graduates are looking for jobs... and their desired careers will probably lead them to other locations.  So... what's next?  Good question.  Perhaps God will use some of these people to take The Loop with them (our concept is very mobile, after all, and we are designing it so that this could happen).  I'm praying for this.  Time will tell.  Perhaps God will also bring us new people.  I'm also praying for this.  Some have asked me if I'm discouraged.  Nope.  I feel like God let me know when I started this journey with The Loop that this would be a different sort of journey... a slower one, an untraditional one.

I feel like I'm out on a hike in the woods, not speeding along a highway.  The pace is slow.  And just now... I'm hiking up a hill, almost to the top, but I don't yet know what the view is.  I'm praying that the new view reaches far and wide.  But whether the top of the hill holds a grand view, or simply a twist in the path that keeps leading up, I continue the hike, enjoying the scenery as well as the stops along the way.