With characteristic skill for bringing out the gifts of others, he invited Joe Child at the Daybreak Woodery to design and build the table—though he grew impatient because the Woodery made it slowly, fitting it in between their more pressing business contracts. When the beautiful cherrywood altar was finally completed, it exceeded the pastor's wildest hopes and he asked Joe to talk about the process of creating it from damaged wood that had been rejected and dumped in the corner of a timber yard.
