@jasonmitchener is someone that doesn’t fit neatly into my list of twitterers that I follow. He’s not a lead pastor or church planter, but he is one of the most encouraging people I have met on twitter. I don’t exactly remember how I came across Jason Mitchener‘s tweets, but so thankful that I did. You see, Jason is someone living the life many of us wish we could, only he’s confined to a wheelchair and breathes through the aid of a ventilator. While I find it very, very difficult to keep up with a little over 340 twitterers, Jason follows over 23,000 tweeple with about 24,000+ following his tweets. The crazy thing in all of this is that whenever I @reply Jason, he responds almost immediately…he’s never missed a beat!
Jason is a wonderful human being with a heart for all people. He is a living testimony to ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, coming to know Christ in his freshman year of college. If Jesus were walking the earth today gathering together disciples, Jason would probably be the first person he called to drop his net and become a fisher of men.
To me, twitter is about relationships and connectedness. Jason is the epitome of a great twitterer–he knows me and has a positive word for me even though he has over 24,000 other people following him daily. It just amazes me and leaves me in awe of his memory and awesome personality.
Rather than list some of the thousands of tweets he has posted as encouragement to others, just know that he is one of the few people on twitter where when you go to his profile page, 99% of his tweets are @replies of encouragement or communication with other tweeple. He doesn’t boast of his own work, nor does he have an agenda. Mr. Mitchener is definitely someone you should be following! He’s just a great guy sharing the love of Christ with others in a loving and non-threatening way. God is using what some may see his disability as a magnificent ability to testify to the love, grace, and wonder of God. As Jason quotes on his profile page, “I can’t walk, but I can soar.” Yes my friend, you can definitely soar! Thanks for making twitter (and the world) a better place :)
PS. Not only is Jason sharing light on twitter, but he is a gifted artist, musician, author and inspiration speaker. You can learn about Jason’s work and his testimony at his website: www.jasonmitchener.com.
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