Elijah Revolution Internship

In our newsletters, I often tell you to watch this blog for more frequent updates, so here you go! Right now, I'm working with a small team of leaders at the International House of Prayer to develop a summer internship called the "Elijah Revolution Internship." Broken down, the Elijah Revolution is title of our church-planting movement for the schools of America, and this is the internship.

This internship is being designed to grow. Right now there are regional "Elijah Revolution" conferences being developed, launching this May in Las Angeles, and this internship will be a training program for student missionaries from all over the nation! This summer, however, we're starting small. Our first internship is local, and we're keeping it very limited because of its developmental state.

Today we met to review the curriculum for each week, and I think it is looking very good. Students are getting solid teaching on prayer, worship, discipleship, missions, and loads of practicals for building an effective ministry within a school. I'm very excited for this first run through and for the coming years as we broaden the scope of this internship to a national scale!

I'll continue posting more about this week by week as we walk through it. June 18th is the first day!

Fine Art Photography

Well, as many of you know, Molly allowed me the purchase of a nice camera to document the growth of our family, especially now that Samuel is only months away! Already having a bit of a creative bug in me and a background in graphic design, I began learning about photography and light (... you know... so I could take pictures of the baby). Needless to say, an artistic itch was scratched! I am by no means a master, but with a handful of my best photos and a solid understanding, I am attempting to launch a line of fine-art photos to be released at certain donation levels.

You probably know that Molly and I raise our own financial support to pay for our living expenses as missionaries at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. My idea is that these fine art photos might be a sort of fun way to fund our ministry! That way our supporters know they are giving to a great cause (namely, us!) while receiving a top-notch product.

How top-notch, you may ask? I have been researching some of the best printers both locally and nationally, and I found a local printer who creates high quality giclée prints for fine art photographers. These prints are gallery and museum quality works of art that last for centuries. Needless to say, I was blown away these prints.

This line of photographs would be comprised of less than 1% of my photos, the best of the best, hand selected for their quality and released in limited edition runs. They arrive inspected, numbered, signed, framed (unless otherwise noted) and ready to hang. There are also a few "open edition" photographs available, also ready to hang.

So, this is my most recent idea. I've met with some printers, picked out my favorite, and I think we're just about ready to launch. I'll keep you posted! Thank you for your prayers!

New www.loganbloom.com

I just launched a redesign of www.loganbloom.com! This version takes some design tips from the simplified look. I've always been a big fan of graphic interfaces, although I don't use flash, and text based pages can be clean when designed well. I had noticed that the web site became cluttered after I had added a few new areas. So I consolidated some of those into new menu options and for the most part it won't need changing. I also updated some of the old out-dated info.

I suppose the next phase will be to get it off of a windows server, move it linux, put php on it and do some programming. I am a big fan of dynamic content driven web sites, which my web site certainly is not right now. I haven't had the time to really get back into my programing days but maybe I'll take a little time to brush up on my old skills and break my website a few times.

I am much better in ColdFusion, but php is free, so while I could do a little cfm work, I imagine php would dominate in the long run. mySQL, anyone?

Missionary News

Here is an interesting bit of news buzzing around the House of Prayer right now. YWAM and other major missionary ministries have been working hard to calculate the status of the global missions movement over the last several years. A few years ago YWAM announced that we with the help of modern technology and a recent thrust in the missions movement, we would not only see every people group reached in our lifetime, but we would see it happen within the next decade. This does not mean that every people group will be saved or that they will all be evangelized completely, but every people group will have been accessed by the gospel at least in an introductory way within the next decade.

So very soon, we are going to see the end of the term "unreached people" into the term "least-reached people." Not only that, but there will also need to be the re-evangelization of several groups, namely Europe and America, and the final death grip against Christian missions will come down to the Middle East. It is very amazing to think that we will soon be able to reach every people on the earth, and now we need missionaries to go and effectively spread the gospel through those people groups to evangelize and save as many as we can!

That is why IHOPU is launching a program called the A.C.T.S. School (Antioch Center for Training and Sending). In the Bible, the church at Antioch was the birthplace of the missions movement to the Gentiles and was Paul's sending place. IHOPU is taking graduates and establishing teams that will go into the remaining hostile nations and plant churches and save the lost.

Most interesting of all is the promise of the House of Prayer at the end of the age. There are several chapters of scripture and even more passages dedicated to the importance of the worship movement of Jesus at the end of the age. Therefore, IHOPU is sending musicians to fuel a global worship movement around the world to "sing back the King!" As the end of the age draws nearer, and Biblically as the missions movement comes to a close, the Bible shows us a massive global worship and prayer movement established in the nations that immediately precedes the return of Jesus.

Therefore, YWAM and many other missions organizations are also planning on establishing houses of prayer in the people groups the are reaching to fulfill this portion of Scripture, and they are in great need of IHOPU graduates who are rooted in prayer and worship to lead the charge and help establish these houses of prayer and worship. We're talking about tens of thousands of houses of prayer, I think the number was 50,000 just in Africa alone. Of course all of these vary greatly in size, but size is not what counts, it is about the existence of worship across the earth.

So the global missions movement and the prayer and worship movement are converging like never before in history (save for maybe the first century church). Right now the missions movement is in a large thrust (which is actually mentioned in scripture as a sign of the times) and as we shift from "unreached" to "least-reached" people groups, and as the Bible translators nearly finish the job of translating the Bible into every major language, the movement is shifting into a global worship movement to establish houses of prayer all over the earth.

We are living in an extremely exciting time, perhaps the most exciting time in history (certainly). It is very compelling to consider the days that we live in and the task at hand, and our small yet powerful part we play in the big story of Jesus' return.