The day before Monday...

I know that it's a little bit late in the week to be blogging about this past Sunday's events, but hey, better late than never.

As of this past Sunday we have officially started our new Sunday school schedule. For right now, we are having Sunday school during both services (9:30am and 11:15am). The way it works is if you go to service @ 9:30am then you are to go to Sunday school @ 11:15am. Likewise, if you go to service @ 11:15am then you would need to come to the early Sunday school @ 9:30am. It's really not as confusing as it sounds, I think. However, during the early Sunday school hour (9:30am) this past Sunday we only had 4 students in Sunday school. So, we are going to have it again this week, but if no more than 5 show up to attend we are going to move to only 1 Sunday school hour @ 11:15. This will allow us to focus our efforts and maximize our ministry endeavor.

Now that we've got all that logistical stuff out of the way, on to the fun!

We had a superb time this past Sunday. I taught the Middle School group and Dylan Kallioinen taught the High School group. For illustrations, he was using mouse traps and I had a cane (I know we're dangerous together). This made for a lively time of meeting and greeting new students, incoming families, old friends and fellow laborers. Big things are going to be happening in the Student Ministries, so keep an eye out.

In the Middle School class we talked about Knowing and Experiencing God from Psalm 107. We discussed how sometimes we see only 1 side of God; the big, cosmic, all-powerful side. Though this is not a wrong view, it needs to be balanced by the other side of God; the personal, interested, personal side. God loves us and cares for us, but not just in theory in practice as well. He longs to walk with us and be intimately involved in our every action, breath, thought and conversation.

Thus, we here in the Student Ministries are fervently praying for and expecting an out pouring of God's Spirit upon our students. We believe God is on the move and on the brink of doing some amazing things here in South Florida. For this reason, I told the Middle Schoolers this past Sunday that I want them to be drawing so near to God and experiencing Him in such real and vibrant ways that they are coming to Dylan and I with stories that we don't believe. I want to hear our students telling us about how God is moving in their bible study and devotions as well as how He is moving all around them.

We're all a part of God's story, I want us to be an exciting part of it.

For His Kingdom...