Rodney Pastor Rodney, after you offered our family the scholarships on Fourth of July weekend, the Lord told me to step out of the boat, not look at the waves, not to listen to the thunder, not to fear the lightening, to keep my eyes, mind and heart wholly focused on Him and to just RUN, that he would open the windows of heaven.

My wife and I were both working at Shands Hospital fulltime, the first time in our 17 ½ year marriage that we had a two person, full-time income, making the most money annually that we had ever made since being married.  Previously, one of us had either been in school furthering our education and my wife had been a stay at home mom with our two children.  The day we gave our resignations, we received a phone call from newly acquired friends that live in Ruskin, offering us the opportunity to rent a house of theirs for only $300 a month, the cost of the insurance.  We arrived at the house the weekend before school started.  Since coming to  RBI we have grown so much and even though we had to put our children into Florida Virtual School because of the atmosphere of the public schools they are zoned for here, we know and believe that this will be a wonderful year and that the Lord will continue to bless them and us.