Everything I do – teaching math to people who think they can’t make sense of the subject, supporting school leaders to serve every learner well, talking about the Bible to anyone who with the least curiosity about what it says, and encouraging people (especially young people of African descent) to be all God intended them to be – all of my interests converge in faith that God can and will do what may seem impossible.

  Rainmaking is a reference to what the Old Testament prophet Elijah was engaged in, to coax God into sending rain so that a famine-starved nation could survive.  He lived under a character-challenged ruler named Ahab and a first lady named Jezebel.  The culture worshipped a symbol of a bull – and was fixated on money, sex and power.  But, Elijah asked God to make it rain, and put everything on the line, so people would know that it was The Lord, not the bull, who is God.

I hope that visitors to this blog, for whatever reasons you originally come,  will leave with a broader picture of who God is.  And, not just cognitively get it, but emotionally and spiritually respond to what you experience here.  I hope that when you leave, you will, in turn, help cause rain to fall in the places you were made to serve …

You will find here:

•  links to stories and books that inspire me
•  what I’m learning about schools
• what I’m learning about mathematics
•  anything I think can help young people of the African diaspora
• anything I think can help anyone understand that The Lord is God.

I am thankful for Alvin Slaughter, Michael W. Smith, and Bishop Paul Morton, for their songs below, and the videos that others have put together. Kindred spirits out there, pointing us to the Rainmaker.

My church (Bronx Bethany) has as part of its mission statement that we strive “to be a redemptive influence in the Bronx and in the world, to the glory of God.”   I think that rainmaking is another way to describe being a redemptive influence.  We are reclaiming our community from the deadening effects of poverty, drug abuse, gangs, inadequate schools, family breakdown, corruption, of being targeted to sustain the prison industry, of being targeted as consumers rather than as potential contributors.  Not unlinke the rural church in this photo, we too pray for rain.  Just a different kind.