Friday is for friends here at the WildOx Blog, and so today we turn the spot light on Pastor Carl Thomas, of Revival Blog fame. Yesterday we managed to connect via Skype and we spoke for over 45 minutes!! We just clicked immediately in that, "It feels like I've known you for years" way. Carl recently planted The Mission, a Spirit-filled, multi-cultural church in Delray Beach, Florida, and is going for it!  We managed to share a little on what God is doing through our respective ministries:

• We shared a little on our personal histories and it is funny how we seem to be at the same place insofar as this is concerned.
• There are big differences in the respective cultures where we are working, and therefore our approaches to church planting may be different.
• We discussed the value of Networking and discussed how we can help each other in this regard
• We shared on Revival-related stuff - that stuff just lights my FIRE! ....as it does Carl's I can tell you that much!
• We then prayed for each other and it was really cool - here we were, connecting via the miracle that is Skype, and praying and speaking words of life over each other!!!! Is that cool or what?
• Carl is going to start a Revival Podcast soon (C'mon!!!!) so stay tuned to this spot!

I came away amazed at the fact that we are both in very similar places ministry-wise, despite being thousands of miles away and working in very different settings. We agreed to keep in touch this way - Skype really offers an awesome opportunity to network, share with and learn from gifted and talented leaders and church planters. If you are a Pastor or ministry leader, you should be doing this too.