I had a great meeting today with our youth staff as we worked through a lot of transitional issues. My goal has been to do my best to set up the youth ministry to not only succeed after I am gone, but also to grow and surpass anything we have seen so far. We have amazing staff who I believe are much more skilled at youth ministry than I am, so in terms of leadership we are in great shape. Our systems have improved, although there is a lot of room to improve there, so we examined a lot of that today and wrestled with some good strategic questions. I really believe that God is going to do crazy things in the lives of our students this fall and I want to make sure that we have everything in place so that we are doing our part to move them along in their next step of obediance in their relationship with Jesus.
This transition process has been really encouraging to me. Everyone in the church has been extremely supportive and genuinely excited about our move to Elevation. The staff has been amazing, also. This positive atmosphere is not always the case in many places, so I feel blessed. My prayer is that I have led well, helped to build a strong enough foundation and empowered people in ministry so that I won't even be missed. It would be such a poor testimony of leadership if things fell apart because one individual left. I have always wanted to finish well in anything that God has called me to, and lately I have been greatly encouraged and excited about the future of youth ministry at Mt. Horeb. Our staff is going to make some noise in Lexington.
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