On my high

Today, I'll not be wearing a hat. Youth, media, maintenance, hospital... it all seems to fall on Monday's. But I'm on such a high from last night, it doesn't matter. The youth group spent their Sunday evening out of the confines of the church building walls. We donated our time at the local homeless shelter. Met some amazing little children that are simply desperate for attention, and our kids were able to give it to them. I believe the impact on our youth was equal to, if not greater than, the impact we had on the children in the shelter. 

Praise God for opportunities like these!

When little shelter-girl Savannah was reading the Bible story of Samson to our youth, her mother was peaking around a corner, listening, tearing up, with a grin from ear to ear!

Facebook is flooded with our youth's testimonials of the impact that was made at the shelter!

Going to the homeless shelter tonight put a lot through my mind, we are truly blessed with the things that are givin to us or the things we have. If you ever feel that what you got isnt good enough or that its not the best thing you could have gotten just think, you could be living in a homeless shelter where you have pretty much nothing. This event really touched my life and I look at a lot of things differently now.

my ♥ is still smiling from our 1st "Mission Minded Outreach"!...those kids were such a joy tonight! and we were truly blessed!!

I've learned in the past year to put my primary focus on the youth ministry, when having to juggle between different ministoral duties. Jesse has done a great job of relieving many of my duties in the media and childrens ministry. It's a blessing to have a worker for the Lord with such a passion as his.

Funny how it sounds like Parkview has soooo many active ministries, and yet they are a congregation of only 150ish at the moment. Maybe it's our active ministries that will help this broken world establish relationships with Christ... I suppose we can only pray.

my prayer: praise God from whom all blessings flow