Tonight we had our first youth meeting for the year. We actually started off with small group (for various reasons I won’t go into here). This is a new thing for the youth at my church. Was a good night but I was reminded that the ‘real’ stuff is only just beginning. I’ve been doing a lot of stuff over the past few weeks, all of it simple. It is simple to put together forms, fliers, programs etc because that are all a+b=c. They are not always easy but if you have the time you can produce the end result in a pretty organised fashion.
Anyone who has been involved in youth ministry for more than 5 seconds will tell you that basically none of the ‘really’ important stuff fits the formula a+b=c and this is what I suppose I was reminded of tonight. What I am really here to do; that is bring young people into a relationship with Jesus and help them develop a strong, committed and lasting Christian walk, is only just beginning and is not something I can ‘control’ with the click of a mouse button. It will take time, it will take commitment but most of all it will take GOD! As such prayer is definitely a focus for me and I am going to increase my efforts in this area.
And so it begins…
