My Epic Journey

After a summer of planning, praying and interviewing, we have put together what we believe is a Dream LEAD Team.  Our LEAD team consists of students who model the following characteristics:

• Faithful
• Available
• Teachable
• Discipling
• Non-Comfortable (meaning they are willing to step out their comfort zone)

These students aren’t perfect, but they are working to develop each of these five characteristics in their life.  They make up our 2009-2010 EPIC LEAD Team:

• Tanner Bleedorn
• Evan Coane
• Caleb Hammock
• Eva Hyder
• Anna Jamieson
• Elizabeth Martin

The PURPOSE of the LEAD Team is to team up with the youth pastor and adult leadership team, to encourage their peers to live a godly life, to accept all those who enter our ministry doors, and to model a godly life by patterning their life after 1Timothy 4:12.

Please remember these students in your prayers as they seek to glorify God by serving others.

We are having our students put together an ORIGINS journal for the series we are currently doing. 

My first entry is a poem about rain.  I will share that at another time.

My second entry is a a picture I took at the Columbus Clippers game last night.  During the 5th inning it started to rain.  It was heavy but quick. 

Out over center field, this is what we saw:

In the first picture, you can see a double rainbow.  It was really cool and just another reminder of how AMAZING God’s creation is.

I know it has been a while since I have written last. 

Family . . .

. . . ministry . . .

. . . school have kept me very busy. 

I will try to be more consistent.

But now I have a reason to write.

8 members of our EPIC Leadership Team just finished a day at our local YS One Day.

It was really good!!!  I really needed it!

The focus this year–back to the Bible.

Interestingly, tomorrow we kick off our Origins series.  It is a fresh look at Genesis (I will write more about this next week).

Many of the things we learned today I already had ready to implement tomorrow.  Either I am a head of the curve or I have been trained well by others (okay, it is the latter).

Our trainer for the day was Crystal Kirgiss.  Crystal has worked with teenagers for more than 20 years. She writes a monthly column for Youthwalk magazine and is the author of What’s Up With Boys?. She’s also the coauthor of Guys, Girls and Sex Has a Price Tag, and she teaches at Purdue University.  She was hilarious and poignant!

I would encourage any one who is a youth pastor, volunteer leader, small group leader, etc. to find a One Day training in your area in register.  For our team, it was well worth it.

Thanks to my leaders who gave up a Saturday for the sake of the student ministry at Grace Point!!!!