As many of you who follow my tweets are aware, I have a fairly interesting position. I work part-time for Celebrate Church as their network administrator and part-time for the Dakota District of the Wesleyan Church building and upgrading websites for the churches in the district.

As an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church – I realize that this is not the norm. Like the other ordained ministers, I believe that I’ve been ordained by God, confirmed by Man and called to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The difference is that while the vast majority of ordained ministers preach via the pulpit on Sunday morning, I was called to preach the gospel via the Internet.

To that extent, I’ve spent several years studying the culture of the Internet, learning the language of the Internet, and understanding how to reach out to others on the Internet. It hasn’t been easy learning these things, but it has developed inside of me a confidence to that this is what I’m called to do – even when I am comfronted with the knowledge that I have so very much to learn.

One of those learning opportunities happened this week and to be candid it encouraged me so much that I just want to share this. This week I had the opportunity to talk with one of the sysadmins from lifechurch.tv. Lifechurch.tv is in my opinion leading the way in church technology, for a prime example of this – check out Youversion.com – a revolutionary online Bible reader – Lifechurch.tv built this – pretty cool, huh?

During our conversation, my new friend introduced me to the Church IT Roundtable. Basically this a group dedicated to IT professionals who work in churches throughout the world. I can’t tell you how exciting and encouraging that it is to know that there are others who are as passionate about technology and the Kingdom as I am! What a gift – thanks God!

Within minutes of being connected with the site, I found some crucial answers to questions that I’ve been running into in reference to backing up Macintosh computers. As I listened and read the various suggestions and comments, it struck me that I’m not alone and that I don’t have to always figure things out on my own. I totally feel blessed that this group is here and that I have the ability to talk and learn from them things that will help Celebrate and the other churches that I work with grow. Totally stoked and can’t wait to learn from these men and women connected to the CITRT.