About Through The Lens Of Worship

Through The Lens Of Worship was birthed in my heart during the summer of 2009. It started simply with me wanting to find a way to use this gift and passion God gave me as an act of worship. As I started focusing on this a couple of things happened:
1. I started noticing God in my surroundings more.
2. In my attempts to capture God's glory, my creativity and ability behind the camera started to grow.
3. I began to feel a nudging to share this with others.

As I prayed about it, I got this crazy idea to start a worship photo group with some girls from Epic that love photography as much as I do.
It wasn't going to be a typical photo group though, where a bunch of photographers go take some pictures together (although we would definitely do that), or learn from each other (although we would definitely do that too), or even grow as a community of people who share a passion for photography (I'm thinking that is going to happen too!) No, this photo group was going to be focused on worship. Or more precisely, it was going to focus on using our photography as an act of worship. So towards the end of summer I approached the girls (who were just as excited about the idea as I was.) We met over some yummy Panera. I shared my vision for the group. They shared things that made my vision grow, and so it began.

Over the past few months my vision has grown and it has spread to 2 of the girls I started the group with. We have spent many hours together praying about a name for our group and dreaming about how we could share it with you. (Meet Sarah, Diana, and me, Rhonda)

Here's how we thought it could work:

You start having an appointment with God, with your camera in hand, at least twice a month.

On the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month I will put up a Mr. Linky, where you can link to a post on your blog (or somewhere you can upload your picture to and share the link with us - like Flickr), displaying at least one of the images that you took during your quiet time and explaining how God met you. You might have a lot to share or maybe just a scripture. Then on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, I will highlight one of the posts that was linked the week before.

I'm sure as we start doing this together, God will meet us in some amazing ways. I anticipate this just being a starting point for what He wants to do. I envision one day being able to sell some of the images we capture and donating 100% of the profits for God's purposes.

This has been so very rewarding for us (we know it's going to be for you too) and we are so excited to read your posts about how God meets you and your camera.

Colossians 3:17 says:
"And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."

Let's build an online community that does photography in the name of the Lord Jesus!