Somthing New

April has been a month for starting new things. It has always been this way with me. I have no idea why it just happens to be that way. Maybe it’s because so many life changing events have happened around this time or it’s a desire for newness needs to be answered. Maybe it’s by God’s design that as nature wakes up so are we. Regardless this April has been no different. My wife and I had started a new business venture together. It’s a small home based business. It is not anything elaborate just a little something to supplement our income and ease our burdens down the line.

 The other thing I started this month is a new ministry opportunity. I was listening to K-Love sometime in March and I heard a radio ad for Groundwire. I heard these ads before they are fast paced youth oriented outreach and Gospel presentations geared toward the lost and hurting. This ad was different. For March Groundwire was K-Loves ministry of the month and they were looking for people to join their ministry as spiritual coaches.  I held this in my heart for a little while and then a couple weeks later checked out their website Groundwire.net to see what this is all about. I read all about their beliefs and their mission. They are a media based ministry whose goal is to interrupt young people’s lives with the Gospel. I thought that was interesting. They have placed adds all over mainstream and Christian radio and now they were placing ads on MTV, VH1, BET and the Cartoon Network. They use a chat format to communicate with people who log on looking for help.  Groundwire is the creation of Mr. Sean Dunn. He worked in youth ministry in his church and once a year they would go all out and do a youth rally. The kids would come and kids would be saved but he realized for the same expense he could bring the Gospel to the masses through technology and media. This was the start of Groundwire. It began with radio ads and e-mails and has grown to radio and television with real time chat replacing e-mail as the primary mode of communication.

This ministry is powerful. I have had more ministry opportunities in my first week than I had in any two months prior. I only put in around 5 hour of my time. In my first week I have worked with people who are really hurting, people who are lonely, depressed, struggling with questions about forgiveness and salvation, and one person who has had thoughts of suicide.  I believe God is really reaching people for his Kingdom here on Groundwire. I am very blessed to be a part of this ministry. I get to see firsthand God working with people that by any other means may be unreachable. I have learned so much from their resources and from reading chats of more experienced coaches.  Right now I am not going to give the prayer ministry or the youth ministry at my church because I think right now God has given me a nice balance. If things get hectic and become more than I can handle I would probably give up the administration part of the prayer ministry but not the ministry itself. But, right now all is well and God is doing great things.

So what do I take away from this? Well, God has shown me how much more I can accomplish when I keep the TV off. He also showed me he will make a way for his will to be done even in people who are hard to reach.

What can you do? Pray!  I would like to be a full time minister but that is just not an option right now so there is a lot going on. Pray for God to keep me his will and in balance.

Check it out www.groundwire.net