Ice Breaking Time

Long ago God delivered me from drug addiction and a cult due to answered prayers. God put me in a loving Christian community for my drug rehab. There I learned about Jesus and the Bible. Thanks to many more answered prayers I was born again January 16, 1977. I was 23 years old then and that same year God called me to ministry.

During the past decades I have done my best to follow Jesus by faith daily.

I have made dozens of attempts to launch ministries. All of those ministries were Bible based, educational and used the latest medias. None of those attempts got the plans off the drawing table.

I have kept the best parts of all those visions and game plans. That is why the materials online are dozens of pages of text and hours of videos.

During the last 2 months God has answered many more prayers. By His grace many logistical and technical problems were solved. Many internal challenges were met. Some examples of those internal challenges include the following: Perfectionism, procrastination, fears of success, failure and rejection.

Last week I finally promoted the crowd funding platform to the public. It was a stretch to go beyond sending the link to friends. I sent the link to strangers. And I asked them to promote it to their social media contacts. That took some humility and courage to let people come see my less that fantastic presentation.

Zero money has been raised as of this minute. Yet the dashboard of the crowd funding site gives me this report: 92 is how many visits there were to the site and 16 is how many referrals were made using social media.

The fund raising goal is only 3 thousand dollars. That is 1 thousand for each of the following: 1. prepare a promotional DVD, 2. fund initial road trips and 3. my living expenses.

My living expenses include the following: housing, storage of my things, cell phone and personal care items.

I have been sleeping at a Christian homeless shelter for many weeks. For only 10 dollars a day I get a bed, hot shower and 3 meals a day. My plain Jane cell phone bill is only 31 dollars a month. The rent to store my things is 110 a month. Personal care items include bottled water, Gatorade, etc.

I named this message Ice Breaking Time because it is time for some support to appear on the crowd funding site. That will break the ice and make it easier for others to support too. It would take an act of faith in God and trust of me to give during these early stages. But I believe God will make a way.

God has brought me this far. He will not leave me or forsake me at this important time.

I am requesting extra special prayers for this. If you have been following my updates then you will know that God has provided lots of money right on time over and over again for the last few months. Here is a blog with the records of those provisions since late June http://guidemejesus.blogspot.com/

Recently as I have prayed about this my faith shifted. Most of the time yesterday I was believing God for 500 dollars to break the ice. Just before I fell asleep my faith peaked at 700 dollars. Then this morning while I was feeling groggy the best I could trust God for was 150 dollars. So I will request your prayers for God to provide 500 dollars very soon. He might do more than we ask and even go over 700 dollars.

Besides that specific short term prayer request to break the ice, I have published a list of general long term prayer requests on this blog. Please go here and pray over the items. You might want to print them out to take to your prayer closet.  http://oscintercessors.blogspot.com/

You are invited to go to the crowd funding platform to pray over it. You can use the social media sharing links there to share the vision and game plan for Our Stewardship Community. Your referrals might lead to more prayers and financial support.

Let us look to God that He will used us to bring together people, resources and opportunities. We will provide educational resources through Community Centered Libraries. Those will help to relieve poverty for subsistence farmers, orphans and rural pastors in developing countries.

Here is the link for you to go there and to share. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/road-trips-to-relieve-severe-poverty/x/8411792

Shalom