Friday is for friends here at wildoxgib.com. This is a new feature here. Every Friday I hope to give a shout-out to a friend, or a cool blog etc. Let's see how it goes. Today, I want to give a huge shout-out to my friend, mentor, hero, and all-round super-amazing minister-hot-shot Pastor Steve Doerter. This guy has been a HUGE influence in my life, and continues to be an inspiration. Whilst he doesn't travel much these days (ahem, ahem, pssst, pssst, Steve........when are you flying over the big pond?) he used to visit Spain yearly and has really sown into a good bunch of young people over the years. I was one of them. For some years now he has been pastoring Grace Community Church in Cashiers, a small mountain community in North Carolina. There is a huge transformation going on within their church that is impacting their community. This is really exciting for me, not least because I long to see "smallish" and "unknown" churches being used mightily and having impact. I suspect that Grace Community Church will not remain a "small" church for much longer - rumour has it that God is on the move there....and they have the testimonies to back this statement up. Incidentally, Pastor Steve just celebrated his birthday but don't tell him that I said so OK? Just keep this between you and me. Anyway, these guys have just had their website redesigned (awesome job Steve!) and as part of that deal they now have a Podcast!!!!! Now we are talking baby!!!! So, if you want some AWESOME iPod fuel.....load this baby onto it! Alternatively, open iTunes go to the store and search for "Steve Doerter" and then click "subscribe". You will thank me for it.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="143" caption="Blogging"] [/caption] This post is only going to appeal to hardcore nerds out there so feel free to skip is if your concept of keeping up with the times is to have a cellphone. After having sported the minimalistic "all white" theme for my blog for some time now, I have redesigned the blog using a wordpress theme called Revolution. I am slowly learning how to edit all the different sections of the site so please be patient with me. This theme actually gives me a whole lot of lattitude to play with so I can start to plan stuff that I have been holding-off on this site for lack of "umph". I really want to start exploring with the use of audio and video, maybe having a video podcast and audio interviews etc. It's the digital generation we should be pursuing, stupid! Anyways just bear with me and you should be seeing some interesting stuff appear shortly on the blog.