After the Carnival cruise that ITWMinistries had (our first and only to date) I was feeling pretty good about the ministry. I was serving God without the confines of walls, church politics and crazy people. That didn’t last long though. I was called to pastor a challenge.
My heart has always been to those like me. Men and women that have been through some things but somehow didn’t have the urge to join the traditional church for many reasons.
A couple of years ago, I had the grand idea to raise money via my podcast to get a church van for the elders that no longer could drive or shouldn’t drive. We raised $2500 for it and the church absorbed it. I was disappointed in the process and the people. First, they bawked at the idea, and gave me reasons why it was too expensive to do, too much of a liability. Secondly, they didn’t want to be picked up (then). Next I had to find a driver who wanted a salary. Today, we don’t have a church van. I am no longer going to ask for donations for our church until a few more hearts are changed. The church is improving but they are pretty parsimonious.
The success of my podcasts has introduced me to several brothers that inspire me to continue what I had started.
A couple of years ago, I was on an RV owned by Blackhawk! and got the idea that it would be great to do the same thing as a mobile office for my type of ministry. I always have brothers coming into the Washington, DC area that I have only met online and it would be safer, to meet them in my mobile office than bring them home.
Then the ideas kept rolling in as they do when God is involved and I figured out I could get a choir to accompany me, and my friend the caterer and we could have something close to tent revivals where ever. I would travel to gun shows, fishing holes, hunting lodges, where ever my peeps were or in the city and stake out a place and fellowship.
So that is the plan. Working on incorporating as a nonprofit after I get the funds to do that then purchase a not so beat up RV that I can use. Here’s one I found so far http://www.saffordrv.com/rv/winnebago/classagas/1525/Winnebago_Vectra_Grand_Tour_Diesel_M-35WQ
Pray for our success.
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