HOW FLY IS HE?


Drew Carey is gettin' played out by Nick Cannon's "Wild N' Out." It's like TheaterSports on crack, and lucky for me, I've been able to watch it for hours today as I've been sending out some resumes.

Friday night, Bob and I went to a dinner gathering of the coordinators for Perspectives, a college level missions course offered across the country. Robert was a coordinator for the area last year, right about the time that we were meeting. I've known about Perspectives since I was in college, as it was always touted as THE course to take as an primer to missions. It seemed that the crew from the Springs had all taken it already, as a matter of fact, or at least everyone from New Life! Anyway...it sets the foundation for learning outside of an actual college environment (I know that much and I haven't even taken the course yet).

I mostly sat back and listened to everyone talk during the night, because they were talking about people and networks that I mostly didn't know (though some of the names, I did somehow). The evening reminded me of SAGA - and yes, I know that there is only one person reading this who will understand that. It was an evening of talking about what each person had done in their respective courses, what they could do better, what they were dreaming of doing, what they COULD do TOGETHER, and then what GOD is doing across the world through the people who have taken the course, or what they WANT Him to do. It was a little surreal as I realized that Robert is one of those people, and that I'm a part of him now. BUT REALLY, I've been a part of this sort of thing even before Robert. I have to remind myself that I have been equipping people to go on the field for years, even if I haven't gone myself just yet to the place where I've known I'm supposed to go. I have more than a few students who are missionaries, and lots of students who have gone on mission trips through my ministry and the ministries I've been a part of. There are students who have been in my ministry who are full time youth pastors now, who will be equipping their OWN students to be missionaries one day. THIS is what I do - equip others for the work of the ministry; equipping them to DO that thing that God has gifted them to do, whatever it is. HOW I do that looks like a lot of different things, and I don't know what it's going to look like exactly as we launch into this next adventure...but it will work itself out somehow, because that's what I do. It might not look like the same thing these Perspectives coordinators have done, though honestly - what they've done sounds AMAZINGLY cool because in that particular environment, to hear these people talk about how their courses equipped themselves and others to GO - *sigh* I'm so excited to see what is coming up for me (and us). It couldn't come quickly enough.