It has been said that ‘timing is everything, but it’s not the only thing’. Remember that as you continue to follow God and walk into this new school year. As the year starts, there will be moments filled with pressure to speed through to an ‘end’. Whether your end is to launch three new clubs, get your Initiation Team together, or get through the Vision Casting so you can get on with the rest, take your time and remember your goal: the Hope of Christ in Every Student.
Your goal is not to start a club; students have lots of options for those already. Your goal is not to network youth ministers; there already is a ‘National Network of Youth Ministry’ that gathers them together because they are youth ministers. Business Leaders definitely do not need another nonprofit knocking on their door. But students do need eternal Hope. The only way to reach them all is with a united church effort in your community. Is anybody organizing them? That is why you are where God has placed you. He has given you a burden; not for another thing to do, but to work this plan. Your end?
Uniting the Local Body of Christ
With a Plan of Action
To Influence the School
With the Gospel.
That’s it. Period. You do not start clubs. Sure, you may be actively involved in one, even Nehemiah worked on his part of the wall. But Nehemiah’s success wasn’t in his ability to lay bricks, it was his vision for the big picture and willingness to be used by God to bring his people together for a common purpose. If not you, then who?
