A Request For Support

Support RequestMany have wondered about the goal of Journey To Worship: The Blog or The Musical and now The Griffiths Family Show and how to support us.  So I’d like to take a brief moment to share with you a little bit of how we got here.

My wife and I have been sharing our musical gifts in similar ways for almost as long as we can remember. We have been musical evangelists (This summer I am the musical guest at Cheasapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Campmeeting, June 14-18, 2016 and Monique will be the musical evangelist at The Allegheny East Campmeeting, June 23-July 3, 2016) far and wide and are happy to have been used by God for his glory.

But we’ve both had dreams of taking our careers to another level.

Because we both have a heart for service we have often made the decision to go the road less traveled and helped out smaller churches (We are currently serving at a small church in Denton, Maryland helping with music, the youth, small groups, and fitness). However, they aren’t able to pay for all that they need. But we choose to help anyway.

But now we feel it’s time to be able to share to a broader audience.

So we’ve been blogging and thanks to a very generous donor we’ve started a Youtube channel where we reveal how our musical family tries to put faith, fitness and fun together without going crazy. The response to both the blog and the Youtube channel have been overwhelmingly positive.

In addition I was able to premiere a musical a few months ago based upon my experiences as a missionary in Korea. My mentor in theater, Glenn Alan, told me that was really more of a table reading and that as we are able to gather some more resources we would be able to fully stage and video tape it to bring my story to more people.

One more ministry that we’ve started is called “Prayer and Song.” We open our home on Monday evenings to invite any who are interested to come sing some songs of praise, share some testimonies and have a season of prayer. Most weeks Monique will cook for the folks too so it’s become a real intimate and friendly fellowship. We’ve received so many comments about how this ministry has been a blessing…one lady shared how she had been missing from church for 2 months and no one even called to check on her. The small group setting is one we believe in strongly.

We really could use your help. Over the past 14 years the number of people who have asked Monique when she was going to record another CD are too numerous to count. We simply are not able to afford it with all the ministry projects we are currently volunteering to do. Would you consider being a partner with our ministry?

Our next big projects are a CD for Monique and a Movie and full production of the musical, Journey To Worship. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated! Don’t forget to pray for us. We are only able to do what we’ve done so far because of your prayers and support. Below you’ll find a button to donate. You can give a monthly contribution or a one time gift. Every bit helps.




Thanks again for your support!

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Watch “The Griffiths Family Show Episode 3: The Korean Connection” on YouTube

https://youtu.be/ylhwE_sUsMI

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Watch “Uri Hananim The Griffiths Family Show” on YouTube

https://youtu.be/WTTduSHjQIA

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Today

Hug MeOn a blog where I spend lots of time considering the meaningful experience of deep spirituality I am halted by one word: TODAY!

While Jesus spoke about love and it’s centrality to his message and that it would be a characteristic of his true followers (By this shall all men know ye are my disciples….), he in action demonstrated as focal and powerful a truth as love’s preeminence.  He gave immediate invitations. He asked fisherman to come join Him and He promised to make them fishers of men.  He told the weak and weary, “Come unto me…and I will give you rest.”  He even asked his would be followers to take up their cross and follow Him. He gave his invitation on TODAY!

What’s so important about invitations?  Well, I recently concluded and shared in our Prayer And Song meeting this week at our home in Silver Spring, Maryland, that I may never get it all figured out.  I may never be spiritually or theologically fully right.  I may never have the most accurate understanding of the bible.  I may never have the correct exegesis of the text.  I may never overcome the bad habit I’ve been praying for victory over for 30 years.  But TODAY I can hug you and tell you I love.  Today I can text to check up on you.  Today I can call you and encourage you.  And today I can share with you what’s working for me and the reason for my faith.

Roman’s 13:12 tells us, 1″The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.”  Tomorrow is not promised!  Let’s take action on TODAY! 

Recently a world famous musician died unexpectedly.  Thousands of fans have been morning and playing and singing his songs.  They have worn his favorite color to work.  They’ve made him their profile picture.  Some have even taken his songs and changed the lyrics and made them into praise and worship songs.  His death caught everyone by surprise.  But you don’t have to be surprised again.  Choose to live each day knowing that “The night is far spent.”  Tomorrow isn’t promised.  Do what’s in your heart Today!  You won’t regret it.

The two people in the picture with this post are my son and my mother.  TODAY I will tell them again that I love them.  What will you do TODAY?

 

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Forgiveness

ForgivenessI’ve been struggling with the concept of forgiveness recently.  I have prided myself on my Christian values and virtues.  I have pursued perhaps to the extreme the concepts of grace and love.  Freely I have received love from God so freely I should give love and forgiveness to others.  But what is they don’t deserve it!

Well one could examine themselves and realize that we don’t deserve the love or the forgiveness of God.  So how can we use that metric as a reason not to love or forgive someone else?  But then what if the person not only doesn’t deserve it but they aren’t even apologizing?  This one really sits awkwardly within my soul.  I recently have been dealing with this situation.  Does God really expect me to forgive someone not only who doesn’t deserve it and hasn’t asked to be forgiven?

Well I thought I’d share a song and a video about forgiveness and see if it inspires you in any direction and I’d love to hear your thoughts about where forgiveness fits in on your journey to worship.  Please write your thoughts in the comment section below.

Here’s the song:

And here’s the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs_vnqs0CMw

Enjoy!

Love you and don’t give up your journey to worship and wellness!

David

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Thank you for making us number one

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Thank you for making us number one

 

I have been grateful to be making Gospel music for many many years now.  I enjoy ministering through both song and word.  But it’s a very special gift from you when you let us know how special what we do is to you.  Watch the video

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Don’t Miss Your Moment

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Don’t Miss Your Moment

I’m honest enough to publicly admit a major shortcoming in my character.  I’ve been waiting.  But I think I’ve been waiting a bit too long.

I like to be very thorough when I study a subject. And if I’m attempting a project,  I like to plan in detail so I am able to succeed.  But I don’t like to start until I feel confident that I’m prepared.  Spiritually I’ve been waiting for God to prepare me to do great things for Him.  But it seems as I’ve grown older that God has been waiting for me to take action.

There has always been the idea in my head that if you pray long and hard enough God will reveal His will to you.  Then, once you have your marching orders you are set.  Now you can go out into battle.  But what if you’ve been waiting 20 years and no marching orders have come?  Does that mean God isn’t ready yet?  Or does it mean God is waiting for us to take action?

Let’s consider this series of questions.  What if she hadn’t touched the hem of his garment?  What if his friends hadn’t lowered him down through a roof to see Jesus?  What if she hadn’t had the boldness to enter the throne room of the king uninvited waiting for the approval of his extended scepter?  Would her people have been saved?  Would he have been healed?  Would her bleeding have stopped?

It seems that God has some things that he will only give to us if we take an action first.  The action is our demonstration of faith.  Hebrews 11:6 tells us, ” But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”  Asking, seeking, knocking or even reaching can be our sign of faith that pleases God.  He in turn blesses our faith action with a favorable result.  But what if we never took that leap of faith?

I believe that the stories of the bible reveal consequences both of taking action and of refraining.  The 5 foolish virgins don’t get to go to the wedding.  The servant who hid his one talent gets it taken away from him.  There were two thieves at the cross with Jesus.  One reached for life and got it.  The other simply missed his moment.  Please don’t miss your moment!

 

 

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