Tuesday, 28 August 2007

• I feel like I owe Xanga an apology for how long it has been since I posted anything...

  A lot has gone on in life since my last post.  We have been offered and have accepted the position of Youth Pastors at the church we have been attending for the past three years.  The youth pastor that was here for the past three years felt a moving in his heart into young adult ministry, so he moved into an associate pastor role at our church.  This left a gaping hole in the youth ministry.  We had several volunteer youth staff who pitched in for several months to try and make things still happen.  But there was no real leader, so we were a body without a head.

  Several months prior, I felt God stir in my heart at the Oregon Youth Ministry's Fine Arts/Master's Student Leadership Conference that we would soon be moving into a youth pastor position (God specifically said within six months). I took it to assume it meant we would be moving on from the church we have called home for the last three years.  God had other plans and started laying them on my heart.  Our pastor affirmed that God had been speaking much the same to him as well.  So, we stepped out in faith.

  I'm still working my full-time job at the local newspaper as the church isn't financially able to afford another pastor quite yet.  So, where God guides, God has to provide.  We're just volunteer at this point, but as things are looking now, they'll be able to give us a part-time salary within a month or two and then full-time within a year's time.  '

  Please be in prayer that God would lead and direct our hearts to effectively minister to the youth of Pendleton First. I'm so excited and feel like a bomb is going to go off inside me at the awesome things God is going to do in the youth of Pendleton First. 

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