'Til The Wheels Fall Off: Christopher Preston's Facebook Ministry to the Un-Churched

Christopher Preston travels the highways of America in his Mac truck.  It is a job he has been doing for the last 15 years.

He admits that driving long distances, for hours on end, can at times be lonely. But Preston, also an ordained minister, takes his faith along for the ride.
  
Talking and Riding With God

He told CBN News, "There are times my radio doesn't come on until 1 or 2 o'clock in the day because I spend that time just talking to God."

"I'm not going to focus on anything else, I'm not going to answer my phone, I'm not going to do anything but talk to God and you might be surprised at how often God would come in the truck with me and sit down beside me and minister to me," said Preston.

Sharing God's Message
 
Today, God's messages to Preston are going far beyond the cab of his truck, something that started after he posted a video on his Facebook page about a stranded motorist. 

"I see a young lady bought some antifreeze and she started to put it in her car and when she opened the hood I saw her but after I noticed it was smoking pulled in front of her car to say ma'am I'll do that for you, you shouldn't open that hot," Preston explained in the video.

He went on to comment, "She says, 'oh no I got it' and so I said 'ma'am it's already smoking. You don't know how much force it's going to have when it comes out.' And she starts look real nervous and says 'oh no I got it, really, I got it,' and so I saw she was looking nervous and I couldn't understand why, I said 'ok just be careful when you open it because it may spew out on you.'"

Preston explained further, "I looked around her hood and her boyfriend or significant other and his friend is in the back seat. They're sitting there watching this lady open this hood and put this antifreeze in this hot vehicle."
 
He went on to chastise the men in the car with the woman and other men who don't step up to protect and help women.
 
More than six million people from around the world viewed Preston's video and many men and women offered strong reactions.

"SMH (shaking my head) – it happens all the time! They just don't know their worth," wrote Carletta Hullum Love.

Kelvin Watts responded, "Her fault – she allows it – she doesn't demand respect!"

And Ashley Wright said, "I'd rather just stay single 100!"

Preston's Practical Perspective
 
CBN News recently visited Preston at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he told reporter Charlene Aaron why he posted the now viral video. 

"In that moment I began to see something that really disturbed me," said Preston.

"The fact that she was so accustomed to doing everything herself and not asking the guy that she was with to do anything, that she saw nothing wrong with that behavior. She had no problem with that. That bothered me," Preston commented .
 
 A burning desire to share life-changing truth compelled Preston to produce more messages on his newly created Facebook page called, "Preston's Practical Perspectives."

He said, "The response I've gotten since then from people saying they've been personally helped since then, has moved me, and kept a fire under me, and now I'm to a place if I wanted to quit and do something different, I can't."

"I'm compelled to go farther. There are too many people who are counting on and relying on a reasonable voice, to give some voice to their problems."

Reaching the 'Un-Churched'
 
Christopher Preston is also reaching millions of people with the gospel; many who have never attended a church.
 
"There are some people who don't feel at home in your traditional church. Well, just because they don't feel at home in these places, that does not let me off the hook as a Christian whose job it is to go and seek these people," Preston said.

"I don't want God to come back and I say I didn't reach them because they didn't come to where I was. I can't be so hung up on my traditional way of reaching people. At some point as a minister of the Gospel, I'm going to have to care more about reaching them than I care about doing it my way."
 
While Preston said he is surprised by all of the attention his videos are getting, he said that being an internet sensation takes a back seat to helping people struggling with the issues of life.

"I love when people 'inbox' me and say I felt horrible until I read your post, he said.

"I love it when a young boy says, 'I was just about to go and relapse on drugs until I read your post.' I love it when a woman inboxes me and says 'hey your video was the first step toward my getting out of a really bad and abusive situation and I want to tell you thank you today. I want to tell you thank you today because you addressed something that needed to be addressed.' And so that's what makes me feel good. Being popular means absolutely nothing to me."
 
And as the wheels of Preston's truck keeps rolling, so will his passion to serve those searching for answers.