About three years ago David Douglas and I met on LinkedIn, and we created becoming accountability partners. We spoke Monday through Saturday every single morning at 6:30 AM CST (5:30 AM for David in Utah) for a half an hour to create our day. After about a year David asked, “Hey Les, how about adding a Bible verse to our morning calls I said sure (I know this is one of my three favorite words, BUT-TRY-SURE) …. lo and behold I actually enjoyed it. It became something that empowered me as a newer Christian!

A year later when I was scheduled to go out on a mission’s trip leaving the second week of February…. like the previous year in 2020 the mission’s trip was canceled on February 12, 2021, again. I had become a member in Clubhouse on January 31, and I looked at it and walked away going oh my gosh another social media app no thanks. Then on February 12th , I came back in because I was heartbroken that my mission had been canceled, we were supposed to leave the following week and I said OK I’m going to turn Clubhouse in to my mission field and I spent a tremendous amount of time, 60 to 80 hours a week, learning about Clubhouse and how I could contribute. Sometimes even falling asleep on the app as they did a lot of summits in March and April and I would support the Summits by being an overnight Moderator, and sometimes falling asleep in the rooms. All this time in those weeks I built an understanding of clubhouse and I saw what was possible!! I asked David my buddy, if we could move our morning call time, that way we could chat and then I could create the 24 hour Bible study and he said, “yeah, go ahead Les, you can do that”. I started it! Now he wasn’t there every day as it didn’t light him up quite as much as it lit me up and it became a place for me where I said, “I wanna make a difference in the world and create an online Bible study church where eventually we go 24 hours a day and share Bible verses. Then sister Gabby came in and said, “hey I think we might want to share a gratitude”……. and I was like that’s a great idea start off with a Bible verse and gratitude and then I added a praise to it.

Now, every day we share a bible verse, what we’re grateful for, and a praise if we have one. The next part of my dream was then to create rooms that would empower people; a financial room, a bring back the joy room, a brew with purpose room, a domestic violence room, a prayer room, a worship room…. all of these different rooms started to pop up!!! Very near the beginning Janette got handed the responsibility of the Evening Bible Study which she managed for 7 months…….then we started training others, Katherine Barnhart and Coach Jay joined us this year and we now have several rooms during the year to support Homeschooling, Families that Pray together and Stay together. The idea in this club is to find ways to support Christians in inviting people that are interested in getting to know the Bible. People that are interested in finding a place where they are welcomed without being told to get on your knees, do this, do that, up and down, spin around……. by the way there’s nothing wrong with any of that….. we here in the 24 Hour Bible Study Church are creating an open space for anybody and everybody to come in however they are and however they aren’t and be free to share, to be free to express themselves in a way that empowers them, not feel pressured, not feel coercion, not be frowned on by their neighbor. We’ve even started up a place where you can tithe/donate. I have to be nudged to remind people to tithe/donate, and thanks to sister Paula who brings it up (she’s our financial coach). Our goal is to really just give people access to whatever supports them in their journey to grow with God and I say to grow with God not just with Christ but to grow with God. If that is Christ as Christ the son of God or Christ as a prophet in the Jewish faith, or as one of the prophets in the Muslim faith…….. we are open to that……

We are fostering a place where we are side by side with all faiths!! In fact one of our board members is Jewish and we’re looking to bring in another board member who is Muslim and we have a latter-day Saint Mormon who is in here every day so the opportunity with the 24 hour bible study club is that with open arms, like Christ. We minister to all walks of life.

Christ could easily have come to this earth as a billionaire or as a king, the king of kings in wealth and stature, he could’ve come in as the next emperor of Rome, come as the next Genghis Khan as a ruler and he chose to be born in a stable as a carpenter and to go into tax payers homes and to speak to women at the well to make a difference and to support the humanity of the earth, as opposed to the wealth of humanity. Christ reached out to all faiths and all people inviting us to follow his footsteps!!

Here in the 24 Hour Bible Study with the people in our Board of Directors, we’re a growing club here in Clubhouse currently with 11000 people…. We are ministering to people with our hearts to bring them closer to Christ and follow the BIBLE.