Red Letter Fam,

Before anything else, I want to personally invite you to gather with us again.

📖 Ephesians 1:15–23
🕡 Wednesday, January 14, 2026
⏰ 6:30 PM Eastern
📍 Zoom (link below)

This won’t be a lecture-heavy night. It will be a time of Scripture, prayer, and reflection—centered on seeing Christ clearly and being formed together as His people.

👉 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89461198727?pwd=aRLUqt1dUZp9lDgjCwPzptVJvo53c9.1

Meeting ID: 894 6119 8727
Passcode: 319542

Now, let me share why this passage—and this gathering—matters so much right now.

In the beginning, God…

But what happened before the beginning?

As I’ve been sitting with Ephesians these past weeks, I keep coming back to how Paul responds after laying out God’s eternal plan in Christ. After soaring theology. After deep truths. After reminding believers who they are in Christ.

He prays.

Not because the church failed.
Not because they lacked truth.
But because believers can know all the right things and still struggle to see clearly.

That’s where we are right now.

Paul doesn’t pray for clarity about the future.
He prays for revelation.

He asks the Father to open the eyes of their hearts—to help them see:

And then he reminds them that the risen, reigning Christ—the One seated above every authority—is given to the Church.

That truth has been anchoring me.

Before direction, God gives revelation.
Before movement, He deepens trust.
Before planting, He forms a people.

That’s been my prayer for us.

I want you to know how deeply grateful I am for each of you.

You stood with me.
You prayed with me.
You stayed faithful to the end.

Some of you stayed when it would have been easier to leave quietly.
Some of you prayed when words were hard to find.
Some of you carried us when the road felt heavy.

Like Paul, I thank God for the faith and love I have seen among you.

And like Paul, I’m praying—not for answers first—but for revelation.

Over the past months, I’ve been walking through interviews, conversations, and discernment about next ministry steps. Some doors have opened. Some are still uncertain. Others have closed gently. I will share more on the Zoom call.

What God keeps impressing on my heart is this:
I don’t need the whole map—I need clear revelation for today.

So this remains a season of listening, learning, praying, and walking faithfully. Ministry is still happening, it just is different, for all of us. Instead of sermons, I am writing, Nina is praying, and we still get our Wednesday night Bible studies. God is growing all of us.

I’ll continue to share updates as the Lord leads, but I wanted you to hear this first from me: we are okay, we are trusting the Lord, and we are deeply grateful for you. Your gathering around us in our home, celebrating our daughter, campfires and kickball, have revealed what true church is.

How can we pray for you?
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📎 Ephesians Week 2 — Ephesians 1:15–23
(Without the funny symbols this time)

If you’ve made it this far, thank you.

I’ve quietly launched a new website where I’ll be sharing devotionals, studies, resources, and updates as this season continues. Would love for you to subscribe to my blog on it. The Red Letter Updates will remain here, but I will be adding more material to both sites soon. I believe God is doing something bigger then just Red Letter, what if Red Letter is more than a church in a building???

🌐 https://www.dillonevans.org

Family, I hope you’ll join us Wednesday night at 6:30 PM Eastern.
It will be good to be together again—around the Word, in prayer, as family.

Also, I plan to write some more ask the pastor questions, so if you have some, please forward them on to me.

For His glory,
Dillon