Travel

Getting ready to travel this year. I always enjoy speaking into the lives of youth. After nine years of youth ministry we have started Awaken Community Church, but I will always enjoy speaking to youth. Excited to see how many students put their faith in Jesus this year.

"The Real Life"

I am a big dreamer. I dream of many people coming to Christ and walking by faith and loving each other. That is the heart of my job. As I serve in Student ministry, I want students to bow at the feet of Jesus. Although this is a great goal and sounds good, it is not always an instant reality.

Take for example a girl in my youth group. I think that she is loving Jesus and following hard after him and I find out that she struggles with cutting. Or another girl that has a different guy with her every other week. Or some guys that only come to church because they have to. In a real life and in a real world, ministry is not always neat and fun. Sometimes it is messy and sometimes it just sucks. But welcome to the real world where real depraved beings exist.

The hope is not to preach the next "best message", or plan a great trip, or have a rockin band, but the next step is to sit down one on one and hear the pains and hurts. The next step is to listen and care.I cant wait to see the world change, but it takes time.

Back in the swing of things... kinda

Well I started back to work yesterday. It felt good to get back into the swing of things...kinda. I t may take me a week to really get back into action. It feels weird getting off for a week.

I got a friend of mine Bryant coming to speak at the youth group tonight. I am pumped about that. I was obviously not able to study much last week with the baby.

Quick devo: "Go to God in time of need" I am continuing my study in Matthew and am in chapter 26. He is praying right before he is betrayed an he goes to God three different times to pray about the same thing. That is pretty cool to note, because sometimes we will cry out to God and then leave our prayer time and try to fix things ourselves, instead of going back to God over and over again.

Everyone has a story

In our youth group tonight, we had John Eldridge speak on a talk called "Epic". We were talking about our stories and our lives. The band played the song "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi. They rocked it out.

I am grateful to know that tomorrow does not have to be an ordinary day, but it can be an adventure in the life of my story. I can be a hero and participate in being a hero of changing someones life forever. Amazing!

We are having recording artist MONK and NEAGLE come and play tomorrow night. It should be a fun laid back night.