A new beginning On Monday morning, August 6, 2007, my wife Kortney and I, along with our two boys, loaded up a U-Haul truck and prepared for the long drive across I-90 from Mansfield, OH to Quincy, MA. After serving on staff at a small independent Baptist church for seven years, we believed God had given us a vision for planting churches in the Boston area. We moved to a city where we knew no one and downsized from a 3,000-square-foot house to an 800-square-foot apartment for triple the price.