In 1988, in a small, struggling church in Argentina, gospel singer Damaris Carbaugh saw something she wanted. She was accompanying Brooklyn Tabernacle pastor Jim Cymbala to a pastor's conference in the South American country, and as she stood with the believers in worship and prayer, the contrast to the condition of her own heart was striking.

Everyone was wearing coats because it was cold in the church; the cement floor was hard. Although these people were extremely poor in material things she could see that they were rich in Christ. Far richer than she. It made her cry.

"I don't know if it was leaving New York and being in a place so remote that my eyes and heart were able to focus, or if it was just the devotion these people had that was so incredible." Damaris, now 45, remembers as if it were yesterday. "All I know is that it hit me like a ton of bricks. I wanted what they had."

Her empty heart made her feel like an outsider. Damaris recalled Jesus' words as he looked over Jerusalem, how he longed to gather its people as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. That's what she saw happening with these Argentine Christians.

"I said, 'Okay, Lord, I don't love you like they do, and I know that.'"