WEEK 9 REPORT

Ministry Activities

5:00-6:00 hang out with staff and staff meeting
6:00-6:45 Monitor upper room
6:45-7:45 Main meeting with worship, games, and sermon
7:45-8:30 Monitor upper room
8:30-9:00 close up shop

Personal Reflection

Small groups are gone. Pastor Mike decided to nix them because we had too few staff people. I agree, but it is a shame because Jess had been having some success with her group opening up and talking. I hope that they are able to get them up and running next year because they were one of the most helpful parts of my youth group experience. The kids were less crazy this week. The sermon "the 411 on Hell" was pretty interesting. I think Pastor Mike is doing a really good job of letting the kids in on basic biblical truths. With this group he really does have to start at the beginning. He presents it in a real, practical, quick, manner. The kids generally listen to him when he preaches. I do not think that youth ministry is my field. It is hard for me to relate to middle schoolers. I still plan to go into ministry, but may be somewhere else.

Spiritual Life

I had an interesting experience this last week while preparing for unit devotionals. I had to present my persuasion speech to my unit on why we should be doing daily personal bible study. I was into the bible a lot this past week and I was also reading a bunch of different Christian authors. I found a lot of peace and satisfaction out of that study. It was another confirmation that I may be called to ministry. I have decided to declare a major in the ministry field, but I am not sure which. I hope the guys in my unit are connecting to God through our unit devos. It is really hard to tell during devos because they all carry pretty blank expressions. Some guys speak up, which is good, but I do not know about some of them.