Well my story goes… I was saved when I was 17 years old. I was arrested for drug possession and my dad and I weren’t getting along very well at that time. It was when I was arrested that I thought about how I really like my dad and would like to get to know him more and I prayed that God wouldn’t have my dad yell at me when he picked me up from jail, and that he wouldn’t die of a heart attack or anything. If God did those things I would go to church every sunday for the rest of my life. That was the promise. Well Dad didn’t yell at me, and that wasn’t because he died of heart attack. So I started going to church again and about a year later I started walking with Jesus. When this happened I decided that I wanted everyone to know about this loving Savior that I had and the ones I wanted to know this news more was the group that was least likely to hear it. At the time I thought this group was the punks and gothics that I used to hang out with. A couple years later I learned about unreached people groups and how without a Christian witness among them they will never have a chance to hear. My vision of my future changed forever.

It was like I approached a building that was on fire and instead of me picking up one pale of water and begin dosing out the fire, the only option I could think of to do that would be better was to go and arouse the sleeping firemen who are next door to put out the fire. Hence, I found Heart of God Ministries and begin working as a mobilizer, to encourage and challenge the Church to wake up and “save others, snatching them out of the fire” (Jude 23). As C.H. Spurgeon once said, “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” I have been mobilzing since 2001 and have enjoyed it since. My goal is eventually to become a missionary in Africa.

My plan? Well by 2011 I hope to have at least a BA in Global Studies (at most a MA), from Northwestern College. By 2016, my goal is to raise up 600 trained and sent out frontier pioneer church planters. Right now I am a little over 100. Along with this, my hope is that in the next ten years we will go from having 10,000 unreached people groups remaining to 8,000. “Jason are you saying that you think we can see 2,000 seperate people groups have self sustaining church planting movments?” You bet your bottom dollar I am saying that. In 1974, Ralph Winter gave a presentation at the Lusanne Committee for World Evangelisation. That this conference the terminology and strategy of reaching unreached peoples was birthed. At that time there was an estimated 12,000 unreached people by the US Center for World Mission. Today a little over 30 years later there are 10,000 unreached peoples. That is 2,000 peoples reached in 30 years!!! Because I believe God is the God of the impossible and because I believe that He answers prayer, my goal within the next 10 years is to “pray as if it all depends upon my prayers and work as if it all depends upon my work”, quote taken from William Booth founder of the Salvation Army.