Well, as the title suggests, God has been doing some sweet things in the ministries I’m involved with. Starting last Thursday at our monthly leaders meeting, and continuing since then, especially at youth on Friday, and even church on Sunday.
We have a new pastor, Shane, and having Shane and Tammy working together is amazing. Shane has come in, observed and now, we are all working together to help make necessary changes. The leaders meeting 2 issues were raised, Modeling and intentional relationships. As a Kaleo group involved in youth, there were issues we saw sometimes, but just never had the nerve/timing to bring them up. Then, on the day we were finally gona say something, God chose to speak through Shane. It is a feeling that is hard to explain, the it really the presence of God, felt by all. The term “raising the bar” held a lot of power throughout the meeting. We left feeling challenged, and also required to in turn, challenge the youth.
Friday happened, Shane went up to speak, and followed Gods calling and did not say at all what he had planned. It lead to giving the youth the opportunity to stand up, saying they were wanting something more. We got to pray with a whole bunch of them and it was such an amazing experience. I was with about 10 guys, and they were uttering truly amazing confessions, pleas… they were crying out to God, knowing they need Him to do anything. There was also some amazing discussion later on afterwards too. Again, we all say God come in and move!
Then, on Sunday, it was again about raising the bar. The challenge to the youth/young adults, that from now on, there would be a higher lever of respect during the service, specially during the speaking parts. Again, it was a neat time of us as leaders putting ourselves “out there”, speaking to leaders-the youth. (we’re all leaders really). But yeah, we were really nervous about Sunday, cuz we brought everyone to the back and just talked it out. But as much as we did not know what was going ot happen, it was because we did not know what God would do, we simply knew what he had called us to do.
I normally look forward to going to church/youth, and am now looking forward to it even more so now, as every day is a new adventure, seeing what God will do. I am excited about what is happening and loving the Greatness and Goodness of God.
I ask that you would pray that God would show as all at church what he is calling us to next and this includes the youth, young adults, youth leaders, and both Tammy and Shane! Thank you for that, and I will try to keep you updated!
God Bless
steve
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