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Welcome! Thanks for stopping by! For those of you who don't know, my name is Mike Wall. Not too long ago, God brought me out of a ministry I had been working with for nine years. Though it was extremely tough to break away from something I put my heart and soul into for so long, the move will allow me to minister to a bigger community. I'm extremely excited to now currently be working with Climbing for Christ in SW Colorado. Though C4C is my primary ministry focus, this site also covers many of the other aspects of ministry Christ has brought me into. Feel free to look around the site for more info.
Please help support Climbing for Christ prayerfully...
As many probably know or can assume, the climbing community is not always a very friendly place to Christian climbers. It is not so much that climbers dislike Christians as it is that Christian climbers all too often get sucked into the lifestyle of the climbing community. In that lifestyle, it's easy to lose your focus and sight of Christ. Please partner together with C4C to pray that Christians within the climbing community will be able to be lights of Christ to the community, and that they not get distracted in their own walks with Christ.
Climbing for Christ:
Climbing For Christ has been called to take the Gospel to those unreached villages, to those villages just beyond the next mountain — and the mountains after that. We have been chosen to deliver the Good News to people who otherwise might not hear His Word and know the salvation that only Christ has to offer.
"To go where others cannot or will not go."
www.climbingforchrist.org
The purpose of C4C in the area is:
1. To minister to the local climbing/hiking community.
2. To encourage Christian climbers in their walks with the Lord within a climbing community that isn't always conducive to the spiritual growth of a Christian.
3. To plug in Christian climbers and hikers into missions where they can use their skills and talents for Christ.
You don't have to be a climber to join C4C, if you have a heart for the climbing community and missions, you are more than welcome! We can sure always use more prayer warriors!
If you are interested in joining C4C, please go to www.climbingforchrist.org and register as a member so that you can be notified about upcoming mission trips and prayer needs.
The Journey:
He grew up in the Midwest in a town called Lee's Summit, MO. He received Christ in high school after attending a before school Christian Club. After that, Mike attended another popular Christian group, Young Life. There is where he truly caught fire for Christ. It's been a long journey but even through that, he has never lost that flicker of fire.
After high school, Mike felt the calling out to Durango where he became a head leader at one of the high schools in Young Life. After years of that and leading a youth group at his local church during the same time, he eventually felt called to college ministry.
Throughout his time in Durango, he had been involved in TNF. It was the college ministry he began helping lead and plan for just months into moving into Durango. When he felt the calling to it, it was years later. It was a call to full-time ministry. For three years, he was on support from different churches. He came to a point where he felt he was comfortable financially so he began to focus his support raising efforts fully on his upcoming mission trip.
It then came to a total surprise and shock to him when the church he was working with told him they were letting him go because he had not raised enough money. It was sad because through raising support for the mission trip, he had doubled the amount of supporters which he had planned to bring into the college ministry support.
Though Mike thought a mistake had been made and felt let down and discouraged by people he thought he knew, that didn't deter him from seeking Christ. He never stopped trusting God. Mike knew God could turn this into a blessing...and He did. Where one door was shut, God opened another. Christ took him out of what, looking back, he could see was a bad situation and brought him into a good one. God brought him into an environment of encouragement and being refreshed with new ministry opportunities before him.
The Photographer:
Now, Mike is able to share his adventures with you. He created a site, lostjourney.redbubble.com, to share the pictures he has taken over the years. It is his hope that this will also bring in some extra income for ministry as the photography can be purchased to put on the walls of offices and households alike. Please do check out the site. If you like what you see, help out and take one home with you. They make great gifts. If price is an issue, let Mike know by email and he can try and work something out.
Mike does not just take photos of nature but would also be happy to do family photos, senior pictures, and weddings. If you are interested, please let him know.
The Writer:
For a person who was never a fan of reading, Mike sure has a passion for writing. He has been writing since his high school days. He started out with poetry and moved quickly into screen writing. Mike has four full-length scripts at the moment and is working on a series of children's books. Writing wise, that is just the tip of the iceberg as Mike has his hand in many more projects.
The Videographer:
After high school, Mike went on to pursue film and broadcasting crafting his degree around it. He appeared as an actor in many student films and directed, filmed, and edited many more by himself.
Currently, Mike is working on putting together a business that offers filming and editing for reasonable prices. He is open to any ideas or needs customers might have for filming or video editing.
Check out a video below for the college group he worked with that Mike put together.
Contact Info and Donations:
I am not currently raising any sort of financial support but check back periodically as mission trips for C4C happen year-round and if God calls me on one, financial support will be greatly appreciated and needed. Thanks!
I can be reached at:
Mike Wall
1206 Florida Rd. A102
Durango, CO 81301
816-225-3078
lostjourney.redbubble.com
mike.k.wall@gmail.com
The Missionary:
Truly, Mike never saw himself being a missionary overseas. It was always a calling for someone else. Though he loved what missionaries were doing overseas, he always saw the States as his mission field.
God, though, had different ideas. It started one night while playing the extreme contact sport known as softball. He went to tag someone out and ended up bending his thumb in ways it wasn't supposed to bend. A few torn tendons and ligaments later, he realized that he was done with his day job, raft guiding, for awhile.
He figured this was God telling him he needed to work on support raising for the college ministry he was working with at the time. Mike spent a whole month emailing and calling churches trying to raise prayer and financial support for his position with the ministry. To his surprise, no fruit ever came from all that work.
One day, though, while cleaning out his email of spam and junk mail, he came across an email. He was deleting just about everything in his email but this one email caught his eye. For some reason, he decided to open it. When he opened it, it said that there was an opportunity to serve in a closed country overseas.
Now, Mike had always had a connection with this country and thought it might be interesting to find out more info on the trip, not thinking that he would actually go on it. It was more so he could pray for the trip. So he emailed the trip leader and the trip leader immediately told him to fill out the trip application. Mike was a bit stunned but filled it out thinking he probably wouldn't get on the trip anyway. Mike thought that if God opened a door, he would walk through it. Within a week or so, he was accepted and invited to go on the mission trip.
Even with that, he still had to raise a whole lot of financial support for the trip. There were times where it looked like God was closing the door on the trip but when Mike didn't give up, God came through literally at the last minute when it came to deadlines money-wise.
With as much as God came through before the trip, He came through even more during it, granting the team protection and open doors pretty much everywhere they went. There was a lot of fruit that came from the mission trip which was encouraging for Mike being that it was his first mission trip. It certainly wasn't his last. Currently, there are a mission trips in the works that Mike is praying about going on...one of which would be returning to the closed country. Please be praying that God would give Mike discernment and provision wherever God might lead.
The Outdoor Industry Ministry:
Since Mike graduated from college, he always felt a strong pull and love for people in the outdoor industry. Though Mike didn't know it, God was preparing him for ministry in this area since he was a kid.
Mike grew up skiing whenever he could. Living in the Midwest, that wasn't easy but after yearly ski trips and joining a race team, he became a pretty good skier.
Mike wasn't only passionate about skiing growing up. He also loved being on the water. He grew up on the lakes and rivers around Missouri boating and canoeing. Eventually when he was old enough, he was able to try some whitewater on for size. Not surprisingly, he ended up loving it. Both rafting the whitewater and swimming it, he could never get enough of it.
After college, Mike was able to put both of those passions to use for God. Looking at those communities, he saw a need for Christ. He saw communities, though not always friendly to the Christian lifestyle, that were open to discussions about spirituality. After becoming a ski instructor and raft guide, Mike was amazed at some of the spiritual discussions that would arise on a ski lift or around a campfire after a day of rafting. God opened so many doors and all Mike had to do was put himself out there and love on people.
As Mike grows older gaining the responsibilities of providing for more than just himself, he prays that God will find a way to allow him to keep a presence within those communities. Unfortunately, those jobs don't pay enough to provide for things like a family. He hopes to one day though open up a school and classes for people interested in ministering to those communities by providing Biblical and job-specific training. The Lord knows it is a field that needs more Christian workers brought into it.
The Musician:
Mike got his start in music when he was young borrowing guitars from friends whenever he could until he broke strings on them. He didn't necessarily know how to play but he knew what sounded good. Eventually in high school, he was able to borrow a guitar from one of his Young Life leaders long term. The leader taught him the G chord and from there he was off to the races.
When Mike got to college, he did everything he could to expand his skills across the board from running sound boards to late nights at the church teaching himself piano and drums.
After awhile, Mike was asked to join the band at his church for their college ministry. The only problem was that they wanted him to play an instrument he didn't know how to play, the bass guitar. Within two weeks though, he was on stage playing bass guitar for the band.
Over the years, Mike has written and recorded many songs but has yet to release them to anyone outside of those close to him.
Mike playing bass for his old college ministry band:
The Speaker:
