- RAM Camp with IWU and E and D class
- Sunday Night Youth Group - 3 hours
- Meeting with Youth Pastor and other leaders/volunteers - 3 hours
Total time = 6 hours
Personal Reflection
This week for ministry has been great. RAM Camp went over so well. I stepped up and actually led a team-ops group (breakout group) and it was so much fun, so challenging, and so rewarding. It was great to be in fellowship with all of my classmates as well as the students and youth pastors/volunteers who were there! It went over well!
Sunday night i went to youth group. My plan was to meet with Kyle at 5 (youth group starts at 6) and go over my midterm evaluation, but he had other plans. First he was asking my opinion about a person and then we talked about that situation a bit. Then I found out he actually asked all the leaders to meet him there and then we just met real quick and then spent some time in prayer over the nights session. I believe this is something we are going to do on a regular basis and I'm so excited about it. It's cool to see how God works, if only we go to Him in prayer in the beginning. Eventually students came and we had a blast just playing uno, euchre, and wii for about 45 minutes to an hour. After that we had a follow up discussion/talk about what we talked about last week. It was cool to hear some of the kids speak up about it. We were missing some students because of the swine flu and Monday night I found out one of the students there was confirmed with a case of H1N1 monday...this stuff is kind of aggravating (not the students, just the swine flu craziness). After youth group I talked with one of the girls Jeni about a situation she is going through...it was great getting to talk to her.
Monday we met as leaders with Kyle. This was a great time of fellowship...i hadn't laughed that hard in weeks! The other volunteers I'm working with are great. We covered a lot of topics and are in the process of planning retreats (a "you are special; you have value" retreat for guys and girls - we will just split them up for talks but go together and have meals and stuff) and activities and revamps for the rooms. Its an exciting time for our group and we are so excited to see where it takes us. I've been given the go ahead for small groups, i just need to wait for Kyle to get me a list of names of the students so I can reach just more than 3 girls in this small group. One of the leaders, Erin, will be helping me out and I'm so excited to get it rolling. I'm actually supposed to go to the church soon and help Kyle out with getting a list of names together.
Spiritual Reflection
As I have stated in previous weeks things are really difficult right now. I talked with Russ today for my midterm meeting and I realized just how spent I am. I am pouring out all i've got and all my emotions into a friend situation, school, work, and the ministry and I've poured myself out to a very thin lining. I'm so glad Fall Break is here so i can go home and hopefully recoop by collecting my thoughts and myself! I have struggled finding the time to spend in the Word myself, and I'm hoping that this weekend will help that get back on track. I have really been learning to look for God and i am seeing him in so many cool and amazing ways. I'm also learning the importance of prayer because with my emotions spent and all, prayer is just about all I can do. I'm really leaning on God for some directions on some issues and I can't wait to find out the answers and do the actions and get moving forward! I think this weekend for fall break will be a nice way for me to relax and regather myself.
Have a great break!
I know what you mean, it has been the same way for me, I have bee dry with runing very dry. I found that all htat can carry me is Christs enlove, I cant look at my actions and see if I am doing that right or wrong. When we strive to live out Christs' love there is nothing better that we can accomplish with our time
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you had such a good time at RAM camp, because I did as well, and I am sure most of the rest of the people involved did. You need to take more time for yourself. It is important that we get this alone time in order to grow in ourselves, but also to just get away from life for a while. I know you had an interesting drive home for break, and I am sure it is exactly what you needed right then. God can move and work in strange ways, we only need to trust Him.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week!!