My Epic Journey

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!!!!

Starting the past Monday, April 4th, we at EPIC have been blessed to have an intern working with us.  Josh Dixon will be interning in the student ministry for the next 1o weeks.

Josh is one of EPIC’s former students and was a member of the student leadership team while here.  He started his college career at Wright State University in Dayton, OH but felt God calling him into a vocational ministry.  He is now waiting for fall classes to start at Cedarville University in Cedarville, OH where he will be pursuing a youth ministry and business degree.

During Josh’s intern he will have the opportunity and responsibility of helping with programming, creativity and even planning and executing events, teachings and more.

I am very excited to have him aboard and look forward to seeing what God will do not only in Josh’s life but in our ministry as well.

We played this impacting missions video this week at EPIC as we finished up our final week in the series Outflow.