Many people ask this question of me. The music, the programs, the style, the marketing? The answer is SIMPLE. He is pictured above. Anyway. It really is SIMPLE in MY MIND…here we go:

1. God and the Holy Spirit’s leading. You can call that an over-spiritual answer, I call it the TRUTH according to SCRIPTURE here and in many other places.

2. Leadership. We have been gifted with some of the best leaders that a ministry could ask for from the ground up. Sure, we need a whole lot more, but who doesn’t?

3. The local BODY OF CHRIST called NEW HOPE. From day 1 our family @ NH has listened to the Holy Spirit speaking through the leadership and they get FIRED UP and FOLLOW HIS leading and are obedient when challenged with a task or a vision. Come on, again, it seems too easy, but I am speaking from my soul and the truth of SCRIPTURE.

4. Those who have gone before. To those who pour into NH and don’t even know it through leadership conferences, books, blogs, past and current experience, we say THANK YOU for leading the way and helping us to avoid critical mistakes (not that we are free from them) and to sort through to the GOOD FRUIT of ministry. Prayers of the saints who have gone before us in this territory have been another catalyst. They were praying for NH and didn’t even know it. The great cloud of witnesses we are surrounded by…

5. Saving one of the best for last…OUR STAFF and TEAM. Both paid and paid differently staff. We have assembled one of the best teams in the world I think (and try getting people to commit to LOUDONVILLE, OH…is so easy!) So I say that my staff could beat up your staff any day. Thanks guys for all you do to make NH what it is! I would not be in CHINA right now and we would never be at the level we are without you shedding your blood, sweat and tears! And to our VOLUNTEER STAFF…all of you who are MINISTERS at NH, but receive your pay in heavenly rewards. By the way, this is how the biggest majority are called and gifted, as servants who are paid not by a local church, but from on high. Did you know you were a MINISTER? Did you know you were on our TEAM? Don’t let where your pay check comes from determine how you serve the KINGDOM! I love all of you! Thanks for making NH not just TICK, but BURN WITH FIRE.

And last but not least…THIS WEEKEND is going to be one of the most passionate weekend’s ever as we shoot me back ON LOCATION from CHINA.

blessings and peace.