catch up
i have been in a tail spin since the national youth workers’ convention. i am finally getting caught up, but it has not been a pleasant experience. this week has been a big pile of elephant dung. it just hasn’t been a good week thus far. some of it i brought on myself, and other things are just discouraging bits of news that have made it to me.
there is nothing more discouraging in ministry than hearing that people are talking about issues they see in ministry and never come to the person who is responsible. what makes it even more discouraging is that i have practically begged for people to come talk to me and no one has. i have made myself available in numerous ways. i have offered to go to homes, lunch after church, meet at church, whatever is most convenient for our members. i have had one person tell me they wanted to get together and would get back to me. that’s the last i heard.
enough with the pity party.
on the positive front i have been recording a weekly podcast with my very good friends josh cook and sara liebross. this has been the one definite high light of my work week. it is published on josh’s blog youth hacks. check it out if that’s your sort of thing.
another exciting piece of news is a d-now weekend that i have been working on with several other youth workers. we now have 12 churches coming together in our area to worship and serve our community. i am looking forward to the big weekend at the end of february.
finally, i have teamed up with a guy who grew up in our church and is now a college graduate. in short, he took his double major from UGA and is working with kids at the local boys and girls club. he also decided to move into their neighborhood. very inspiring. a group of students and parents went over and helped him clean out the abandoned house he and a friend will live in and use for ministry purposes.
if you pray for me, please pray that God will help me to be patient and that i will wait on His timing.
February 12, 2009 at 2:06 pm
After reading your blog, I have to share a story.
Many years ago me and my room-mate at the time were a bit strapped for cash. We lived in the bottom half of an old 1800’s house. We were slow to get the heat turned on, and many mornings I woke up cold – in a bed with blankets on it. This one morning I grumbled as I tredged from my bed… got ready… and got in my car. I hopped on Marta and got off at the five points station. As I was walking the three blocks to the building I worked in, I passed a man waking from his bed… a stone slab at the stoop of a building. He methodically folded up the only thing he had to cover himself – a thin single sheet.
God and I had a long talk that day… and everyday since.
Not sure if this helps… but it helps me to put each day into perspective.