Going into deputation, I was really, really nervous. I'm sure you've heard the deputation horror stories like I have, and some of those scared me to death. You know, the nasty places you'll have to stay, the weird food people will feed you, how rude pastors can be, how you'll just barely scrape by with just enough gas to get to your next meeting. When we began deputation, I fully expected to have all kinds of terrible experiences, and I was going to just have to get through it and try to laugh … [Read more...] about Deputation: not really THAT scary