Youth Ministry

Three Things Driving taught me about ministry

I'm robbing Alyssa. Her blog is fantastic, and she is much more creative than I. She has a section that she calls "Three Things Thursday", where she creatively shares three things. I can barely post once a month, so I feel like having something like this would be useless until I can get better at that. With that said: I decided to steal Alyssa's idea of Three Things Thursday for a post this week. This is my three things thursday that I have thought about this week.

Power

Last weekend we were at Blizzard 2012. It was quite possibly the best Blizzard we had ever gone to. I had a great time connecting with the youth, the speaker was fantastic, the worship was fantastic, and we all had a good laugh over Zumba.

I wouldn't say I had one of those "climactic moments" that youth pastors often try to build into retreats to "help" youth a long their spiritual journey, but I God and I definitly had some good chats while on this retreat.

CByouth and AYN

Luke 10:1-20

This is the passage where Jesus sends out the seventy disciples (or 72 depending on whether your Bible is translated from the Septuigint or not). It is an awesome passage that I think has many lessons for us to learn about Jesus, missions and ministry, and about how we look at the Christian life.

I spent last week at Acadia Divinity College with the CByouth meetings. CByouth is a network of denominational youth directors from the 4 areas of Canadian Baptists, and I was able to attend representing CBOQ. We spent two days in meetings discussing the many different ways that we can partner together across the country to do youth ministry.

Vacation

So youth group is about to start, and I have stuff to do, but I'm distracted. These past few weeks I have been feeling awesome about youth ministry. I kind of dropped off the face of the earth when it came to AYN, but I'm back now at 100%, working out the budget for 2012, and planning the ministry for the fall.

I've decided I have figured what has given me all of my enthusiasm and encouragement: Vacation. It feels awkward writing a post about the importance of vacation when I'm a guy who worked 11 hours a day for 4 months straight without taking a single day off... yes for

More than a nice idea

So this might be a bit ranty, but I've been doing a lot of thinking. It seems very difficult to get things off the ground. Ministry is hard work and takes a lot of time. Motives, lazyness, or just poor leadership often get in the way. All this to say that I have had some thoughts about the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

You see, Acts 2 has the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentacost, and long story short, we hear some interesting preaching. This is a very important aspect of Holy Spirit. When we as Christians "testify", our words are the word of God. That is an awesome idea, and I love it.

Youth Ministry

Three Things Driving taught me about ministry

Power

CByouth and AYN

Vacation

More than a nice idea

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