I have been a full time youth minister for a little over a month. I can say that I have enjoyed most of it. I love ministry, but there are something that come with ministry that doesn't always bring me joy.That's OK though because I work through it. With being here a month I got the opportunity to lead my first youth group trip to a C.I.Y. Move conference. I knew going into the trip that this was my first time so I was OK if everything I tried didn't work out. If something didn't work I would remember not to do it again next year. Fortunately I didn't have much of those moments. This trip was the best youth group trip I have every been apart of. I truly saw God work in the lives of my students. I had 9 students make the commitment to be baptized. That is awesome. A part of me wants to say I did a great job. I had 9 kids make the commitment to get baptized. It wasn't me it was God. It was all the people praying for those kids by name. All I did was get them there and let God do the rest. I'm proud to say that I let God be in control of my ministry and let him use me the way he wants too. God is awesome and it was great to watch him work. The excitement I felt for those kids was like no other feeling I have had before. I have a passion of teens and it is an indescribable feeling to see them make the commitment to follow Jesus. I was once told I could feel that great about ministry and I thought they were dumb for saying that. I can now say I was wrong and I now have felt that way about ministry. I hope to continue to feel this way for a long time to come.
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You are doing a great job Aaron. Thank you for baptizing me years ago. You helped me out a lot more than you know, brother. Keep up the good work.
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