The other day I saw a prickly pear cactus growing on the roof of a trailer home. That, my friends, is church planting in Arizona. Just when you think the ground is too hard, the sun is too hot, and the drought is too long, God puts a cactus on the roof. In 2008, you would have thought planting an Orthodox Presbyterian church in Tucson, Arizona, was impossible. There was no core group in Tucson, and in all of Arizona there were only two Orthodox Presbyterian pastors and a few ruling elders. This small group was stretched thin, overseeing four different bodies: Calvin Presbyterian Church in Phoenix and Prescott Presbyterian Church in Prescott, as well as two daughter mission works, Verde Valley Reformed Chapel in Cottonwood and Iglesia