Bill Johnson

“Hello World!” That’s what I said on November 22, 1977 from Northside Hospital in Dublin, GA. That was a heck of day for me. It was a crazy day for all of us! My mother gave birth, her father had a stroke, and there was a solar flare increase of cosmic ray intensity…what can I say? My 5 lbs, 16 oz body has gained 165 since and as I like to say, "I’m now I'm in the best days of my life”.

All things considered, what a life I have experienced already by the Creator’s grace. My eyes have laid witness to the effects of peace and the effects of war, of love and hate, forgiveness and condemenation, freedom and oppression. My feet having been stained by the world (the bushes of Africa, moutains and jungles of Asia, heights and plains of South America, cobblestones of Europe, and dirt floors of Central America) shall forever roam towards our fellow man until I’ve by the grace of God I’ve become all things to all men and testified of his love for them all.

I've had mud stains, oil stains, coffee stains, ketchup stains, sin stains, crimson stains - I've had them all and what grief most have caused. But a blood stain has washed them clean and love stains are all that remain. As we look upon eachother and the lives we've so far endured all of us are marked by stains. Some from our past, some from our present, some from hatred, war, and hunger. But what stains should we hope to mark upon others but the one Christ has marked upon us, a love stain. So at the end let us have said that our hearts are stained by the blood of Christ and our hands stained from loving Christ and loving others.

Now, I'm pursuing a Kaleidoscopic Call towards a kingdom of many colors and cultures, but only one king: Jesus! I shepherd a flock many nations at Reach the Nations Community Church along with two other godly men who are pursuing the same call. I believe it's possible and I believe its heavenly!