Following in the positive wake of Peter’s defense, the church becomes surprisingly multiethnic in Antioch. Jerusalem sends an encouraging man by the name of Barnabas to help the ministry; as the ministry grows, Barnabas recruits his old friend Paul for further assistance. In a surprising twist, famine strikes the Jerusalem church, and it is Antioch which comes to the aid of Jerusalem. These surprises and hardship prove that the church moves forward as one with the same generosity it has had since the beginning.
