This journal comes to you as a first installment from the TERLC: empowering, encouraging, and resourcing pastors and churches in Texas to discern and walk through various kinds of persecution in a biblical manner. The Bible is the church’s textbook for persecution readiness, but we can also learn from and be encouraged by the experiences of faithful pastors and churches who are enduring persecution concurrently and others who have endured persecution through the years. Its contributors are, to our day, as the children of Issachar were to theirs, who, “understood the times and knew what Israel should do” (1 Chronicles 12:32).