As a School of Youth Ministries student, this year I find that both my classes and ministry are far more practical and applicable. My ministry this year is the SYM Travel Team. I have learned so much about unity — working together as a team, with teens, from church goers to street kids. I’ve also learned a lot about myself. It’s a challenging and difficult ministry but as you’re stretched, you grow. In the fall quarter, we put on WOL activities such as “Operation Nightmares” and all night “Bowl-a-thons." The spring quarter we have organized “Basketball Marathons” and weekend “Youth Rallies.” You talk about exciting, this is it! We do all the work, from setting up, programming, and tearing down. But the lasting results in the teens’ lives is eternal. In I John 4:12 it says: “No one has ever seen Goa; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.” This verse is a characteristic that should be in our lives that we may say, Phil. 4:9, “Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me — put into practice.” — Stephanie Fowlkes
Above: We ’re having a Whopper of a time! (Travel team #2) Right: Inn Ministry: J. Oliff, L. Ellinger.
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