"Viral"

A man made a "Youtube" video talking about drawing personalized cartoon, stick figure cats. He has had thousands of hits and orders....yes, people are paying him to draw stick figure cats. Then, just last week, an Ohio homeless man's voice received national attention because of his internet video. It is amazing how the smallest ideas can now go viral because of present technological conveniences.

But what if something could go viral that is about more than silly attention-getters and self-promotion. What if something of meaning could be made to go viral? We are seeing that happen with www.30dayshomeless.TV. We along with the other Synergy Network Churches are a part of this viral phenomena.

Pastor Ryan Riddell's 30 days homeless to raise awareness for homelessness in Dayton and in particular those children who age out of foster care and become homeless over 25%) has gone viral. Last night channel 7 highlighted his mission(see http://www.whiotv.com/video/26458088/index.html), this Friday K-Love will air an interview with him every hour nationwide and we will see what comes of the interview he had today with ABC.com. All of this started with one simple web site and 9 churches coming togther to spread the word. Thank you for being a part of it!

Going viral is great imagery for the Church. We, the followers of Christ, ought to make Jesus' justice and righteousness go viral. Our lives are to tell his story to our world. Is my life telling the story of Christ to others? Is yours? By God's grace make God use you to make his love go viral in our world!