A Cold Day in January

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the rants and ravings of a poor college graduate. With this being my initial post on this blog, I just wanna give a brief introduction to myself. So without further ado, allow myself to introduce.....myself.

If you are well versed in movie quotes you caught that last line being from Austin Powers. I am a big fan of movie quotes and putting them into conversation. It bugs people who aren't "movie" people. But those who are in the know usually appreciate an obscure reference.

As I said before I am a poor college graduate. I graduated in May of 08 from Trinity International University. I graduated with a BA in Biblical Studies, which when I tell people the next question is always "What are you gonna do with that?" My usual response, "be poor." Actually I plan on going to seminary and getting an Mdiv, I want to do full time pastoral ministry. I figured the Bib Studies degree would be the best route to take to get me where I need to be for the Mdiv. See, I plan ahead, I'm tryin to follow what i think God's plan is.

So now, the reason why I'm writing this blog. Over the last 7 or 8 years I have on and off again used blogs for an outlet. I'm sure there is at least one or two that i never shut down, and are still roaming the world wide internet. Anyway, this blog exists because I'm an intern.

After I graduated I knew I wanted to spend the year before I went back to seminary, in some type of ministry. Originally that was going to be New Orleans, but that's a story for a different day. Anyway, after looking around online for a youth pastor job, I realized that the kids I wanted teach, and pour into, the church I wanted to worship in, and serve, was home. I wanted to stay in the church that I've been in forever. Even though I want to eventually go into pastoral ministry, I saw and still see a place where I can be used in youth ministry at my church.

Here's my ultimate plan. The thing I want for these kids before the school year ends. I want them to feel what it's like to really be cared about by the body of Christ. I want them to feel loved, poured into, accepted by the church. I want these kids to know that no matter what they will find grace and love from a community of people who know that they find the exact same thing in each other and from those kids. I got great high school kids in this group. Some of them are really on fire for God. I want to help further that, I want to put them into a position to be able to hear from God what it is He wants of them. This youth group could completely change our church if they want to. I don't know what our next step is, but I'm tired of standing around, and I'm getting ready to take a next step with the kids, hope the church is ready.