Hello, my name is Roger Nelmes. I have been in church ministry for over 25 years, and if there is one thing I've noticed more than anything, it is the lack of spiritual discipline in the average believer's life. We usually know enough to attend church and fit in, but we lack the spiritual fortitude to walk out our faith. Because of this, we struggle to survive a rollercoaster life, missing out on the full life God created us for, and forfeiting our potential to influence the world while building the Kingdom of God.

“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My GoFund Me campaign is to publish my first book, The12: Building Spiritual Habits That Lead to Spiritual Maturity. This book is a type of inspirational journal and encouragement to establish five spiritual habits that you commit to performing 12 minutes daily, totaling one hour. More than five spiritual disciplines should accompany the fruit-producing believer's life, but this is a starting point. Twelve minutes may seem long at first, but our hunger for more will grow insatiable in time.

I have led several small groups of people through this material and process over the past few years. I am honored to have watched them grow from various stages of the Christian faith to maturity. Putting it in book form will allow others to grow as well.