Bible Study Discoveries Ministry Start-up

Hi, I'm Doc, and it's time I begin doing what I was truly meant to do. In fact, I think that's what we all really want to do.

We've all been something, haven't we? Something we wanted, something we didn't, something that fell into our lap, something that we had no choice in. In my life, I was a Chiropractor and Pastor for nearly 40 years, moving all over the United States and going from surviving one day to just barely the next.

This, of course, all came after a career ending injury that closed my professional baseball career with the LA Angels right as it started in 67’. If that wasn’t hard enough, shortly after, there was the draft for the conflict going on over in Vietnam that same year, this too was barred over the injury. I ended up landing on Chiropractic over my want to help people heal after all I had been through. Odd how that worked out, huh? I went from being what I wanted, to being pulled into something else, then dropped into what I ended up being.

Somewhere in all of that, I landed right where I was supposed to be, in the arms of Jesus.

He found me after I opened my own Chiropractic clinic with my wife in the not-always-sunny Gig Harbor, Washington. Actually, Jesus found my wife first via her best friend, then after I saw how she unintentionally became a different (better) person, I thought I better get in on that too. Looking back, in this life of everchanging states of being… He’s the only thing that’s always remained the same in my life.

So, who is Reverend Doctor Gary “Doc’ Diel? Simple. I am who the Lord has called me to be. At the age of 77 in 2024, I’m (finally) ready to stop trying to be all the things that I’m not. I am not, a retail worker, a doctor, a baseball player, a warehouseman, a truck driver, or a billion-dollar CEO (YET- God willing). I am a shepherd called to tend His sheep because I love Him (John 21:15-17).

Now to what this is all about: Bible Study Discoveries. The Bible Study Discoveries (BSD for short) vision is to present Bible Studies with the intention of discovering what the Bible says and means in our daily lives. Even though the Bible can be considered a history book, it is also very relevant to our current life’s challenges. Keeping the Bible Studies relevant is a foundational motivation behind each Bible Study. We will upload a podcast and then do a live stream once a week (one podcast, one Q&A stream, 2 different days) to start.

The Bible Studies will cover topics such as Health & Healing, Prayer, Prosperity, Authority, Natural Faith vs. Bible Faith, Why God Cannot Lie, and any other topic you can think of. In fact, if you have any questions about a verse or verses in the Bible, let me know. I’m making a list of Bible Studies to prepare based upon what you and others want to know about the Bible. “Bible Study Discoveries” is about keeping the Bible relevant to our daily lives and who better to keep it relevant than you adding your input to the process?!

We have a VERY heavy emphasis on finding the things God has gifted you with and growing them to use in your everyday life. We want to help train people to be who they really are, who God has called them to be, and flow in His true unconditional love. We have many plans beyond simple podcasts and live streams in the future, but this is how we plan to start.

The funding we get from this campaign will go towards launch costs and equipment first and foremost. I think it’s fair to say that many of us have fallen into hard times, especially in the past few years, and we are part of them. Currently, living paycheck to paycheck in a shoebox and barely meeting the poverty line in my late 70’s is not feasible to start a business.

For now, we are asking for enough to cover things like business licenses, cameras, microphones, green screen, desk, hard drives, a PC and a couple other things to be able to start with base level quality (and cover all the fees for GoFundMe). As we are currently having to use an old laptop with a webcam, record in the garage, and use all free basic services, it is not easy to craft the things we need out of what we have (which is not much).

God called me to switch to fulltime ministry in 2023 and we (me and my daughter, pictured below, who has been helping me with all the web-based things) have put all of our faith in Him to prepare the way and provide for us. We want to reach out and help people, train them up in the things they are gifted with, and move whenever the Lord moves. The first part of this mission was to put down our pride and ask for help. So here we are, asking that anyone who feels lead to help us in this journey, even if it’s just a dollar, does so. It’s a blessing having investment opportunities such as GoFundMe and we can’t wait to get started. May God bless you for even reading these words.

Always grateful,

Doc

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