Pretty wicked awesome title, eh? Yeah, overweight graying 28 year old youth pastors have brains too!
This is a powerful title for something that is awfully fun about student ministry. Long story short, when new students jump into your ministry it gives everyone a shot in the arm.
Recently we’ve had a couple of students “step up” and look to get seriously involved. That has been fantastic and scary at the same time. It’s fantastic because it means that God is working in and through our ministry and the student is responding. It is scary because it means we have another mouth to feed.
With the vast majority of my time being taken by the core of the group lately, it’s no wonder that those looking for some face time with PA have noticed that one way to do that is to grow up and step up. I am very excited about these two new prospective folks and I’m not quite to the point where I’m ready to invite them in to the core… But I can see that they are well on their way.
It’s cool to be the wise owl, isn’t it? I love being able to see from afar what God appears to be doing and learned to be patient enough to let things happen naturally. Those who come and go in ministry too quickly can never experience this. I just hope I am in Romeo long enough, well into my 40s, to see the cycle play out over and over again.
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