Well, not much. My roommates' internet isn't working so i have to use other computers now...it isn't too much fun...so I probably won't be blogging a lot this week.
I had a great weekend up at Boss and Shirl's house...i also helped cook at the retreat they had at BaYouCa this past weekend.
New things that are going on..ministry wise. It seems as though it is time for me to leave the ministry that i have a Dimock Baptist Church. This has not been an easy conclusion to come to considering the fact that i have ministered there for the past 2 and 1/2 years. The last semester with all of its craziness brought along with it a great deal of thought about ministry and where i see myself headed in ministry. Dimock has a great children's ministry developing there but i am more compelled to work with teens and particularily teenage girls...Dimock has only 1 teenage girl who doesn't attend and 6 teenage boys who do. That is why last semester i recruited a BBC guy who could come in and step into leadership with the male teens. This past weekend while i was visiting the Warners i attended faith, (i have been there on several other occassions) and the youth ministry leaders approached me and asked if i would be interested in working with the teen girls and so forth. I was already planning on attending Faith more frequently this semester because of the fact that i will be moving to NY after graduation. I of course told them that i would pray about it and that i had to also talk to the people that i am currently in ministry with.
I think that Faith is a wonderful growth opportunity for me, at the same time part of me wonders if i should stay and finish my last semester at Dimock...I love these people and they love me and they have done so much for me but i really do think that God has been leading me in a different direction even since the summer got over...
Another thing that i've been thinking about a lot...is what direction in life God would have me go after graduation..as far as what he really wants me to do in life for him...
It has been interesting..because i came to school with one mindset thinking that i was supposed to be pursing missions and now i am finding that i am not just set on one particular field of ministry. I have learned a lot about what missions really is, what ministry really is and the truth be told i am willing to do whatever, and go wherever God would want me. I am not and can not say as some can "This ministry....is it." Because i've realised that my reality is that a lot of what my ministry or what i do for the LOrd in life will depend a lot on who i marry. This i say at risk of sounding like i'm after my MRS. degree when the truth is that really isn't the case.
The point i'm trying to make is if i married a missionary...i would be complete and satisfied in serving God in that compacity..if i marry a Pastor, or Youth Pastor..i would be complete and satisfied in serving God in that compacity...and if i just end up marrying some farm boy or regular joe...i would be complete and satisfied serving God in that compacity ...
So you say, well what if you don't get married? IF i don't get married i have long term goals that i will pursue as a single woman in christ...and i trust and believe that God will make me be complete and satisfied in serving him in whatever compacity he brings my way.
I"m just learning that i don't want to limit what type of ministry i could be involved in. that i want to learn how to be effectiviely used by God in whatever area of life he may bring my way.
Right now, my ministry for at least another year will be working and serving at a camp, and serving in a local church ministrying to teenagers who can be very hard to love at times. To be perfectly honest..i could be complete and satisfied serving God in that compacity for the rest of my life.
3 comments:
i've thought a lot about the whole "what are your plans for your life" thing. i will always have dreams to pursue. but what i'm realizing is that i don't have to know how i'll be serving God in ten years...or even in one. God didn't tell Abraham what he would do in the future. He just told him what He wanted him to do NOW. It takes a lot of pressure off, doesn't it!
Really well stated, Hon. I don't think you should feel guilty about leaving Dimock. Just talk with them and let them know that you are getting ready to be involved someplace else. Especially in light of them asking you. You need to be able to observe that ministry a bit and see if you want to and fit into it. Who's their youth guy? Wow it's such a small world...I can't believe our Sara is going to be at Allan & Em's old church and Mickae is getting married...what a summer that was....I feel OLD!
(BTW, what's the skinny on her fiance? Mars and I were talking about that and neither of us knows anything about him...do you?)
Well, his name...is Corey and I believe he is a pastoral or youth pastoral major...he's a really great guy and i think that they are good for each other..
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