In The Wilderness Ministries to return...

After being licensed to preach at my church in DC, I started a ministry online. As a new minister, I wasn’t going to preach anytime soon in the church where I worshipped. Why not? I was ill equipped to lead a flock and the pastor that allows a young minister to preach in the church he or she has been given to shepherd is entrusting the young person with a big responsibility. It could be like giving a new driver the steering wheel of a eighteen wheeler the day after they got their drivers license for a car. Knowing this I sought to help where I could and that took me onto the internet where I answered questions, prayed for friends and learned a lot about myself. I learned that I am not the Bible answer guy. I am not a theological scholar. I have learned that having a heart for God is more important than having knowledge of Him.

“…the devils also believe, and tremble.”-James 2:19

To me, the internet is wild and wooly. And I like it like that. It had good and bad people in it and the internet allows anonymity. Since I didn’t want to do anything but help my fellow human, it works for me. There are people looking to connect honestly with God and that is my job. Help.

The “In The Wilderness” ministry was created after I realized that God was close to people in the wilderness of their lives. What we take as being alone was really closer to God. Moses, the children of Israel, many prophets, and Jesus went to the wilderness. Sometimes this was by choice and sometimes because of disobedience.

I’m going to bring back this ministry to scratch a spiritual itch to do more for the people of God that I have met and could meet online through Facebook, Twitter and email, without reliance on boards, and votes of consensus. A few years back at the height of ITWM, I had a text message service and we even had a fundraiser trip to the western Caribbean on Carnival Cruise lines that was excellent. I got the opportunity to officiate a wedding onboard.

If you want me to pray with you or for you, I will be creating a members only board on this new site eventually. It will start off public but after I get 100 people, it will become private and may cost a few dollars to increase bandwidth and stuff. This will be a nondenominational virtual “church” where I plan to podcast daily with prayer, Scripture to meditate on, and somehow add Biblical study on a weekly basis.

And now even though I pastor a church, there is a burden on my heart for the one that would come if they could make it to northeast DC on a Sunday to be a part of my congregation. This will fix that. And if you don’t belong to a church for some reason or another, you can join this one. You will no longer be alone or outside of the ark of safety. If I have to go to the gates of Hell to get you, I will. Pray for me and for the success of this ministry.