God Expands the Ministry
People continued to call on Sundays and they kept the telephone number and called back during the week asking for help. Our main counseling telephone number was still Bethel College's main switchboard number. During the week the professors at Bethel College were asked to counsel on the phones, which they didn't have time to do.

As a result we installed a Bethel telephone extension in our home so we could answer the calls that came in during the week. Then, on Sundays we forwarded the calls to Bethel's main switchboard.

My wife, Diane, and I heard the many calls on our answering machine, getting our answering machine. I worked as a department manager at Sears and Diane was a school teacher. We didn't know what to do. We tried to ignore the hundreds of weekday calls because we were only committed to a weekend ministry. Beth Moore, one of our volunteers said that she wanted to handle the telephone calls at ur home and follow-up on the callers. She became our secretary and one of our bedrooms became the office. One day Beth, Diane, I, a counselor named Rodney Beystrom, and a friend named John Sewall, were praying at our house.

Beth had a vision of a building we were going to be in, a white, three story building with pillars on the outside, and windows two stories high. In her vision Rodney was remodeling the interior for Love Lines. She laughed as she saw the vision because Rodney didn't know how to hold a hammer. He worked at the Minnesota Highway Department. She even saw John Sewell involved in television.

That summer afternoon we all climbed into a car and went looking for the building. We found nothing, because it was not God's timing. The building was not available yet. The