This past week we attended a conference at Melville Union Church with the student leaders. This conference was truly a blessing. I feel like the students were really encouraged to step out of their comfort zones and begin to walk by faith. One of the main themes of the conference was how God chooses to use weak sinners like me and you, to do impossible things for His glory. We all at times can feel crippled by our circumstances or our inadequacies. God has so many things he wants to use his children for, and often the weaker we are the better because it creates room for his power to be made perfect in us. Matt Ballard, a pastor from Atlanta, gave a wonderful talk on discipleship (2 Timothy 2:1-7). He reminded us that the gospel was meant to be passed on. How often do we keep this wonderful gift of God’s grace to ourselves and miss out on all of the goodness and riches he wants us to experience through living our lives for the sake of his kingdom and glory and dying to our selves? The students were all greatly encouraged by the preaching, comforting, and strengthening of God’s word, as were we. Pray that we would all realize how much this thing called life is not about us, and it is all about HIM.
Please keep praying for the leadership camp in Sun Valley this weekend. This will be the last time we get to deeply invest in the students.
About Me
- Jessica in S. Africa
- I am in South Africa because one thing i believe in more than most is the fact the Jesus' plan to redeem this lost and broken world to Himself was discipleship. Men were His method. He never wanted believers, he always called people to follow Him (be his disciple). He modeled for us what is looks like to die to self so that others might live, and he commanded us to Feed His sheep and make disciples. And to be a disciple just means to be madly, hopelessly, wrecklessly, uncontrollably IN LOVE with Jesus. So much so that the things that once mattered so much would all fade away. Three things remain: Faith, Hope, and Love.
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