Leonard Dober wondered if Jesus had thought the cross too much; then he remembered Jesus prayer in the garden ended, Not my will, but yours, Father. Leonards task seemed impossible, but he was pursuing Gods will and not his own. Leonard Dober determined that Gods call to him was to reach slaves in the Virgin Islands. He planned to reach these men and women by selling himself as a slave and working alongside others each day while sharing Jesus love with them. The thought of being a slave frightened and sickened him. He dreaded the treatment he would receive. But Christ was willing to die on the cross for me, he thought. No price is too high to serve him. It wasnt the slave masters who were Dobers harshest persecutors, but rather fellow Christians. They questioned his call to minister to slaves and ridiculed him as a fool for his plan. But Dober would not be dissuaded. He arrived in the Virgin Islands late in the 1730s. When he became a servant in the governors house, he feared that this position was too far removed from the slaves to whom he had come to minister. So he left and moved from the governors house to a mud hut where he could work one-on-one with slaves. In just three years, Dobers ministry included more than thirteen thousand new converts.[i]Jesus freaks. Thats what the world calls those whose faith seems a bit radical. Odd. Extreme. Dober was an eighteenth century Jesus freaka free man who chose to live as a slave in order to win them to Jesus. He was willing to do whatever it took to squeeze the last ounce of devotion from his heart in service to Christ. For Dober, that meant a specific plan that made sense to no one but him. Have you been written off because of your freakish refusal to go along with the majority rule? If God has called you to do something radical for him in your family, church, or community, you must obey. Let others call you crazy, but may Jesus find you committed.[/i]