Well I have been away for quite some time. To be honest I have not felt like writing lately.
I hope you all have had a great Holiday, and by that I mean Christmas and New Years. I am not afraid to still say Christmas. It is God that directs my life and I have given him complete control.
Let me share some things with you. I have fought a call to the ministry for many many years. But if you know anything about God at all, you know he always wins out. He is control weather we want to believe it or not.
Right before my defeat in the first primary for the State senate I learned that a church in Columbia was without a youth pastor. That church is East Columbia Baptist Church, where my good friend and now my mentor Tim Morrison is the Pastor. I had served Bethel Baptist here in Monticello for right at a year as the acting youth pastor. That was before we called Brother Zack Kilpatrick to the position. During that time I began to feel Gods call once again.
It's funny how Satan will work to convince you that you are unworthy to work for God. When that is what God wants from all of us. He says go to the ends of the earth, he does not say to stay or sit still. But Satan will do all he can to keep you from going. And in one way he is right when he says you are unworthy to work for God, that is unless you know Jesus as your personal saviour. It is through Jesus that we are worthy, it is through the power of his blood that we can overcome the lies of Satan.
Well I talked with Brother Tim and offered to help him until they found a new youth pastor. I had no way of knowing that this was the way God would get my attention and obey his call. I never planned on this being something permanat. However God had something else in mind.
The position at east Columbia is bi-vocational. If you are not familiar with that phrase it means it's part time, you have another full time job. Well after meeting with the Personnel Committee at east Columbia they asked me to serve in that position. I guess all my work at Bethel for those 10 months had something to do with it, as well as my involvement in various other youth programs throughout my adult life. They were calling me to actually fill the position, not as an interim. Well after much prayer and talks with my family, I finally accepted what I had been fighting for years.
So long story short I drive to Columbia on Wednesdays nights and Sunday Morning's ( I stay in Columbia most Sundays and come home Sunday night) where I serve as their Youth Pastor. I have been blessed that Bethel Baptist licensed me and East Columbia later ordained me.
East Columbia is a great little church and God is doing big things there. It is a joy and privilege to serve alongside Brother Tim. It is even more of a blessing to watch God at work in his church. I hope that you will keep us both in your prayers.
But most important I pray that you are listening to Gods will for your life.
