Merry Christmas

I just wanted to take a moment to wish all our friends, supporters, and brothers and sisters in Christ a Very Merry Christmas.  

I know the incredible stress that everyone feels during this time of year.  I want to encourage each of you to slow down.  Take a breath.  Remember not just the reason for the season, but the fact that Christ represents ETERNAL salvation. 

Please remember to use this time of year for the tremendous time of outreach that it can be. More people will be open to the story of Christ during this week than they will be at any other time of the year. You owe it to your lost friends and family to reach out to them and tell them the Good News of Christ's birth, life, death and resurrection.

Some very exciting things to come for School of Fish in the new year - we will keep you posted.

We will turn a page, begin a new chapter or whatever other literary cliches you can think of...  but news is coming friends.  Stay tuned.

May God bless each and everyone of you.  Thank you for your support and dedication to His work.

--steve

A casual meeting with the Lord

As I was driving to work this morning, I began to reflect on the crazy day that I had yesterday and then started to mentally plan the new tasks I had to accomplish today. After accepting the fact that today could potentially be more hectic than yesterday, I had a thought come to mind that I dwelled on most of the day. The thought was.... If I knew that I was going to meet the Lord tonight, (not for eternity, but more of a casual conversation over dinner or coffee at Starbucks) what would I do differently today. Would I worry so much about meeting these deadlines? Would I let these tasks consume all of my energy? 

As I thought about these types of questions and dwelled on the answers, I realized that the Lord would probably not be concerned with the number of emails that I responded to, how much call volume I put up for the day, or even that a meeting with the boss went well. He would want to know how much time did I invest in others to glorify Him? What did I do to invest in His kingdom? 

If you knew that you were going to talk to the Lord tonight, would your conversation on breaks change? Would you be more prayerful throughout the day? Would you stop and talk to people about Jesus? This is the mindset that each of us (I am preaching to myself) should have continually. Busy is relative; we are all very busy, but take the time and remember the purpose of life.

Please continue to pray for School of Fish Ministries. God has opened some doors and we want to make sure that we are walking through the right ones.  We are on an amazing journey and we are looking forward to see what God has in-store for us.

Joey Neiman

The News.

It seems like it's been years. It has been years, actually. Several years. It's been a long, long time since we began the process of becoming an officially recognized 501(c)(3) organization.

It is with a tremendous sigh of relief that I pass on the following news: School of Fish Ministries, Inc. is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit, religious corporation as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We received our letter of recognition from the IRS. One more door opening for the mission: one that we're very very excited about.

Over the years since we first started down this path, a lot of people have encouraged us. A lot of people have supported us. Whether the support came in the form of prayer, encouragement or financially, we appreciate it. It means a lot when people believe in something just because you believe in it.

We quit good jobs - promising jobs. We picked up everything and came here because God whispered nashville in our ears.

We know that God has placed this mission before us and we know that we would not be being faithful if we ignored it.

Good things are coming. I just wanted to take the time to share the great news and to thank all of you who have helped us and believed in us.

Keep the prayers up please. Pray that He will continue to lead and that we continue to follow.

In Him,

steve

A new (temporary) home

Welcome to the new temporary home for the School of Fish blog. 

I'll save the rant for another time.  Suffice it to say that I'm not very happy with web.com right now.  I'll leave it at that.

Some really cool stuff is coming up.  I can't wait to spill the beans.  Stay tuned.