The timing is what seemed odd. Four years ago, God told Josh and Beth Glymph to simultaneously do the two hardest things they’d ever done.  “Foster care and church planting,” says Beth. “I thought there was no way He’d ask us to do both at the same time.”

And yet, everything began to make sense after the Glymphs adopted three children, two out of foster care, while starting Refuge Church in the Jacksonville community of Ortega. Ortega had almost no evangelical witness, but it did have families who looked as eclectic as the Glymphs..