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Our Calling
We are people engaged in a desperate war of faith versus faithlessness, belief versus unbelief, trust versus no trust, and building on the Rock or on the sand. We consistently find ourselves searching for solutions to our struggles, fragile relationships, life’s storms, brokenness, failures, and hardships (i.e., substance use/abuse, violence, delinquency, broken marriages). How we resolve these life-impacting interruptions makes or breaks us. Tumbling Walls provides 21st-century tools (intergenerational resources for parents/teens, bible studies, and blog posts) for 21st-century disciples, equipping us to live healthy and fulfilling lives and enabling us to grow in our relationship with Christ.
Formed in 1990, Tumbling Walls has always been about helping people build stronger relationships with themselves, families, the church, community, and Jesus. It has never been about the ministry being seen or heard, but about Jesus being seen and heard. It is always about HIM. He gets the last word!
Tumbling Walls is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, faith-based organization that engages with people to offer hope and help. We want to come alongside people and help them work through the issues and obstacles that impact their relationship with each other and Christ.
Our mission
Tumbling Walls is on a mission to provide faith-based resources (intergenerational family sessions, bible studies, blogs, podcasts) that focus on helping people figure out how to live life with each other and with God. Since relationships are as fragile as the egos involved and can easily become damaged, we sometimes feel like we are up against a wall or it is about to crash in on us. We need each other – there is just no getting around it. When chaos emerges, we must confront it so the relationships that matter the most can mend and heal.
Let’s be honest…relationships are hard work, shouldn’t be taken for granted, and require our attention to the details. It isn’t just our relationships with others that we must protect; it’s our relationship with Christ. How is it between God and you? If there is room to grow and you want to wrestle with biblical truth that will impact your relationships with each other and with God, then join us on this journey of a disciple striving to live a life of faith and to be faithful.
Our beliefs
The Bible is God's written revelation to us, and it is verbally inspired, of supreme and final authority, and is without error in the original manuscript;
In one God, eternally existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit;
In the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, death on the cross to provide for our redemption, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father as our mediator and advocate, and is coming soon;
That all of us everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, and need to experience a saving personal relationship with Jesus Christ through His shed blood on the cross;
In the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit, He performs the miracle of the new birth in nonbelievers and lives in believers;
In holy Christian living, we must have concern for the hurts and social needs of others;
In using every modern means of communication available to us to help families experience the meaning and hope available through the Gospel of Christ.
About Wade...
Hi, I am Wade, the founder of Tumbling Walls. I am the chief cook and bottle washer (meaning I do whatever work gets done and can’t blame anybody else when it doesn’t). Tumbling Walls was supposed to be my career. It didn’t turn out that way. Strangely, I think my life is a “Mr. Holland’s Opus” rerun. While Mr. Holland's dream job had to take a backseat, he was able to pursue his interests in many other ways. After completing a B.S. in Christian Education and Bible at Ft. Wayne Bible College and M.A.C.E. at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, my career path didn’t go as I planned. However, looking back on it, I see it went God's way. I have been a youth pastor, director of Christian education, youth camp director, ministry director, concert promoter, producer of a Christian music show for CBS affiliate WDOH, vice-president of TCA Artist Representation (a Christian artist management and booking agency), adjunct college instructor, pastor, speaker, workshop leader, licensed social worker, program director for a juvenile court system, and director (superintendent) of a junior high/high school recovery school. Ministry, for me, came in all shapes and sizes. And it has been a blast! Now retired, I have returned to Tumbling Walls. Whatever happens now is up to God.
Wade Melton
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer