Hello... Hello... (is this thing on?)... Hello. Well here goes!
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... Welcome to the first ever post in of my first ever blog! As you can probably tell I am new to blogging.I have never done this before, but have always wanted to try. Some new adult leaders who are part of a ministry council thought it would be a good idea, so here I am giving it a try.
I know the secret of the good blog is to keep it regularly updated so I'm planning on updating this blog every Wednesday. As you will come to find out, I'm a pastor in the United Methodist Church currently serving on the conference staff. For those of you who are not familiar with the United Methodist Church structure we are an international church connected by geographic boundaries called "conferences". Every conference is made up of approximately 800 to 1000 churches. Every pastor within that conference serves in a variety of ways, predominantly as a local church Pastor. We are assigned to our local church by a resident Bishop. For about 10 years I served as a local pastor in a local church, but now I am serving on the conference staff as the director of Young People's Ministry and Christian education.
In that position I get to consult with local churches and help them with their Christian education programs as well as their youth and young adult ministry. Hence why I am doing a blog. I want to share with pastors, youth, young adults and those people who work with youth and young adults about what I have learned about being in ministry with youth and young adults. I by no means have all the answers, however, I hope to point some people in the right direction who might be struggling with developing solid, healthy youth and young adult ministries.I would love followers to interact with my posts and challenge me on various ideas that I have. I believe that we can all learn how to be in ministry together, so I look forward to hearing from you. But for now, that's all.
