“The family streamed down the center aisle in a long procession, some bent and gray, some in middle age, many in the prime of life. Wriggling infants, fidgety schoolchildren , teenagers self-conscious in their formal attire. They kept coming and coming, filling in one pew after another, well over a hundred family members in all. I later joked that it was as if a 13th tribe of Israel had somehow materialized in the American South. Of all the ways Joel Belz touched this world, that family legacy is to me the most marvelous. It will almost certainly be the most lasting: a family that takes seriously God’s command to be fruitful. A family that shows up for its own. A family that, though imperfect, is brimming with saints. I have never seen anything like it—and can’t imagine I ever will again.” – Lynn Vincent
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