Epic Walk - A ReFocus

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My blog Epic Walk will be taking a more personal focus now. In order to provide updates and ministry relevant entries a new blog for DLM has been created of which can be read by going to http://www.desiredlife.org/blog

My blog Epic walk will of course still have items and things pertaining to Desired Life Ministries, but will include personal entries and non ministry announcements, developments, etc. This way those wanting to follow DLM and not get non ministry blog entries can do so by following the ministry blog and not Epic Walk.

On another note today the DLM Social Network was also launched. Which is pretty cool, be sure to check it out and become a part of the online community from which travel groups will later be formed.
international_travel_globe.jpgFor the past few months I have been talking with a friend on the idea of organizing a travel group. I have long had a love of traveling as do many people. While initially I was thinking of this from a travel aspect only today I began to think of this as a way to also minister to people and encourage them. Being a man of strategy and seeing how this could be used to serve many purposes and plugging the concept into the ministry as well I have really began to brain storm on this today.

Earlier this week I made a change in the ministry's plan of structure for the vision of DLM in shifting from a local base approach here in Kansas City to a multi city approach. As I have been thinking of how to best start these fellowship groups in other cities and today thinking about the travel group idea it dawned on me that bringing them both together may be just the answer I was looking for.

Traveling for even a short period of time with new people is a great way to start to build a friendship with new people. If these travel groups had focuses on a city each time and brought multiple people together for a trip of like mind and heart they may very well foster an environment for them to establish a friendship. Starting a fellowship in a city with multiple groups of friends may be the best way to get them started.

These travel groups would offer multiple benefits such as:

  1. Initially appealing to people wanting to travel
  2. Creating a environment in which people would be encouraged and grow in their faith while traveling with the group
  3. Changing people's normal vacation time into a spiritual growth trip
  4. Fostering an environment in which people would form new friendships that may be pivotal in helping them grow when returning from the trip (who we hang around we often become more like - connecting spiritually seeking people with others of same mind in their cities can be a very beneficial thing).
  5. Helping people not plugged in a church in that city meet others who are and being invited to that church upon returning home this would also benefit local churches
  6. Helping establish a city fellowship of people interested in the vision of DLM
These are just the initial benefits I have thus far thought of regarding this idea. I initially was thinking of this solely from a travel idea and forming a business on the side, but the more I think about the possibilities to use this to help others grow in their relationship with God and possibly come to faith in Christ to know him personally I am very excited about this idea.

What would you like to see offered with travel groups? What places would you like to see groups organized to go? What cities would you first like to see focused on for a travel group?
globe2.gifFor the last five years a plan of action has been developed on how to bring about the vision of Desired Life Ministries to the world.

The one aspect of that plan of action that has not worked is keeping the initial focus on starting a local ministry base in Kansas City to work from.

The vision of DLM is unique and finding a large base of people with the distinct and mature gifts, talents and abilities needed for that vision in the Kansas City metro area has proven more difficult than initially expected.

The timing has not been right, people have moved, people have been supportive but not interested in being in ministry, etc. 

There are plenty of people around the world with the skills, abilities and talents needed for the vision of DLM who with this new plan of action can now plug into the vision of DLM.

Up until this point the focus has been on developing the following in the Kansas City Metro area to develop a ministry base using the following action step plan:

1) Kansas City House Groups

2) A Weekly Gathering

3) Quarterly Retreats

4) Conferences

5) Mission and Purpose Trips

6) Annual Vision Dinner

7) Establishing the Kingdom Manor

The plan is being shifted to look like this:

1) Multi City Fellowships (Our follower base is from all over the world so it only makes since to seek to support the establishment of a fellowship in your city of which you can connect with other believers to journey with in the life map process.)

2) A Weekly TV Show (How this would work and on what level is not yet known. Creating a tv show that could be streamed live on the internet is the idea at this point. Something to bring all city fellowships together in some form weekly from around the world to watch and learn from the show that week.)

3) Quarterly Retreats (Rotating regions)

4) Conferences (Rotating regions)

5) Mission and Purpose Trips

6) Annual Vision Dinner (Rotating regions)

7) Establishing the Kingdom Manor (In 5-10 years in the city with the largest base, best resources, best location and or most support from all ministry partners, etc.)

As you can see these changes offer significant advantages for the DLM vision and offer more benefits to all our ministry partners.

If you are interested in helping with these plans, your location will not matter nearly as much now. Please send a email to staff AT desiredlife.org with how you would like to help and your areas of interests in helping with these changes. Please use the subject NEW MINISTRY PLAN IDEAS when sending your email.

People we will need are:

1) Leaders for city fellowship groups (if your passionate about helping people find restoration of the heart in Jesus Christ, renewal of the mind and helping people find empowerment of vision to impact the world for Jesus Christ your a ideal applicant).

2) Actors/TV Hosts (If you are comfortable being on camera and passionate about the 3 aspects of DLM, heart, mind and vision your ideal for this).

3) Ministry Teachers (Are you gifted and passionate in teaching in our 3 areas of focus on heart, mind and vision? Your an ideal applicant).

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