Today I reached out to a new believer in in Ghana, later in the morning I had the chance to minister to a real life prodigal son from Egyp who had just come back to the Lord after decades of wandering. Before noon I had also ministered to a lonely guy from Dallas and a struggling Christian who lives in a heavily Islamic area of the world, Saudi Arabia. I did all this through a mouse. Not the furry little vermin but my computer mouse. Of course Dell didn't build my computer with this capability. I have partnered with an organization called Global Media Outreach. GMO uses over 90 websites to "troll" the internet for people who are searching for meaning, for answers, and ultimately for God. Using mostly online videos rather than text the gospel is shared. Nothing fancy, or overly dramatic simple truth presented by real people, But with traffic of over a million hits a day it only takes a small percentage of visitors respond to an invitation to either accept Jesus Christ as Savior or rededicate their lives to Christ to create huge numbers (all of which represent a person loved and redeemed by Christ. After responding GMO doesn't claim victory and leave the vulnerable new believers to get by on their own. They connct them with the churh. Not a church - THE church the people of God. .
That's where I and over 2000 other "online missionaries" come into play. We share with, answer questions, pray for, and open up our lives to people. Many you never hear from again and we trust that God continues to work on their hearts. But some (in my case about 15-20 percent) write back with more questions, issues, needs and relationships begin to develop. It's not the idea of "mission work" that I grew up with with. But it works. How do I know. Because it's changed me.
Through daily interactions with new believers through GMO I have been changed. It changes the way I pray. It changes the way I watch the news. Many times I am watching the news and hear about riots in the Sudan or suspected election fraud in Thailand now instead of "tuning out" I begin to pray for those countries - why? Because I have family there.
So drag out the old mouse and click your way to www.gmojoinus.com and check it out. GMO has easy training videos and a well thought through portal that allows you to track your emails, Set up templates to help you respond to common posts and even to set times when you will be away and unable to respond to emails request, and connects you with a community leader that is there to help you along the way. The numbers are phenomnal over 9 million decisions for Christ. Now I'm pretty skeptical about those numbers but if only 1 in 100 is an actual converstion that still means that 90 thousand people have been touched by Christ and His church through this ministry - all without ever leaving home .... not bad.
