A Good Place To Be
I’ve been dreaming a lot lately. God is a GREAT God and has GREAT plans in store for Destiny Foursquare Church and the students of Elevate Student Ministries and I can’t wait to see where He takes us next! He doesn’t dream little dreams!
Most of you know by now that our family will more-than-likely be transitioning in the fall of 2010. Deanna is in her fourth year of her undergrad studies at the School of Mines here in Rapid City and we’ll be applying to several schools for acceptance into medical school next year. That’s hard to think about, in a sense. We’ve been here, growing relationships and sowing into this student ministry for eight-plus years now. But, all-in-all, I believe we’re in a good place at this juncture. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch this video-blog I published on the Youth Specialties site last month.
I truly believe that where we’re at right now is a “good place to be.” We’re in a place of seeking, knocking, and waiting on the Lord. When our dependence is on Him, it’s always a good place to be.
With this happening, I’m looking at the philosophy of ministry that has been structured at Elevate Student Ministries over the years and I’m putting a magnifying glass to it. How can we better “help the spiritually hungry experience God and discover their personal destiny?” I’m asking God to give me wisdom in preparing for the future. I have so much hope for the coming generation and we have amazing students at Destiny!
One of the small things that I’ve been working on before my departure is streamlining the student ministry web site – making it more functional and slick. Here’s a preview of what I hope to be releasing to the public within a few short weeks…
Another larger change is the scope of our discipleship ministry. I’m looking at the larger picture of what lessons / messages we’re teaching over the long haul and am developing a plan for taking students through an all-inclusive discipleship process throughout the next year. So excited to see how this develops in the late summer.
Of course, one big thing that we’re definitely thinking about right now is our first ever over-the-border outreach trip with students which starts in just one week! Twenty of us, six adults and fourteen students, will be traveling to Creel, Mexico as part of a missions adventure to the villages and an orphanage in that area. We’ll be partnering with our friends in Black Buffalo Global Ministries in our efforts. Please keep us lifted up in your prayers as we travel. We leave the morning of Friday, July 31st, and will be back on the evening of Saturday, August 8th.
So much more is in store for us than we even know! God’s plans for us are bigger and better than we can even think of or imagine. How cool is that?!
very cool.