One thing led to another, and we just started having more and more life together.

God's story? Your life.

Unfolding short stories.

In scripture, being grafted in means being welcomed into the family of God. Like a wild olive branch

joined to a cultivated tree. It's a picture of God's grace that transcends culture, class, and

background, uniting us through faith in Jesus. For pastor and author David Sundy and his family,

this is a good picture of what his ministry

in life became through unexpected friendship with a Burmese immigrant community.

I pastored for 20 years, and I never felt like I needed to be a senior pastor or even a church

planter. But yet I found myself organizing a small community of people.

I felt called to figure out a way to make disciples who are capable of making disciples.

We weren't looking to acquire buildings or build anything as much as we were trying to mobilize people across some

social divides. And we had this young lady who was not a Christian, but she taught ESL with one

of our other members. And they had this kind of whole group of immigrants. and she brought a bunch of them to this party,

and she said, oh, David, you should meet Jonathan. Jonathan's from Myanmar, and he was a pastor there.

Well, that struck up a friendship. That week, we got lunch together. I found the only Burmese restaurant in all of Austin, Texas, and took him there.

He was living on the apartment floor of some other Burmese with his two children, and I began to hear his story.

I said, help me understand how people in Burma become Christian.

You've got military rule meets Buddhism. And he talked about

his grandfather, who was part of the hill country, and they fled the army. And while in

southern India, he found Christ. Upon returning, he led the entire village to Christ.

They all decided they were going to cut their hair because they wanted to be known and look different now.

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