Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module (SM) upon which the Command Module depended. In the movie made to retell the story of the Apollo 13 mission, the mission commander calls all of the department heads into a room and says “I want you all to forget the flight plan, from this point on we are improvising a new mission.” Of course, they had no precedent for how to operate in the situation in which they found themselves, so they were forced to make it up as they went along. This included making an important adaption to the carbon dioxide removal system. They were forced to trust their training and their knowledge of their equipment. Sometimes in life and ministry, we have to make it up as we go. There is no “flight plan” for the problems we face or the struggles we endure. In these moments we are forced to trust our training and knowledge of God to get us through.