Friends and Family,
Tommorow will mark my 15th month with Teen Mania Ministries in Garden Valley, Texas. My only regret in the last 15 months is the failure to keep an updated account of what God's been doing in my life since coming here. He's done so much!
I can still vividly remember the thoughts and feelings I had before departing Pendleton, Indiana back in August 2007. My biggest desire was to know God, and to know his purpose for my life. I figured that coming to the Honor Academy would put me on track for working in Christian Media, something I really desired at the time.
Before coming to the Honor Academy, I thought of myself as...well...holy. I compared myself to the people around me, whether it was at school, church, or anywhere really. My relationship and understanding of God was oviously better...or so I thought. Whether that's true or not, it doesn't matter. I can confidently say that I've learned more in the last 15 months then all of my life combined.
It's impossible to sum up the entire experience thus far, so I'll skip to what my life looks like now. And trust me, the entire experience has been humbling.
I'm now a Graduate Intern at Teen Mania's Honor Academy. This means that I graduated from the Undergrad program which lasted 12 months, and I'm now in a place of leadership in this ministry as a Management Associate, which is one of several Graduate Intern tracks.
I'm currently working as the Regional Manager of a BattleCry youth conferance that will take place in Greensboro, North Carolina on March 13-14. I'm also the Assistant Regional Manager for the BattleCry event coming to Indianapolis on April 4th. I'm the direct manager for 16 Undergrad Interns. My job is to network with churches in/around North Carolina and get them and their church to the Greensboro BattleCry. We do this mainly by phone and e-mail. A lot of my time is spent developing my Undergrads so they can make better calls, connect with youth pastors better, etc. You can check out my my work blog and what I'm doing with my Greensboro event at http://greensboro.acquirethefire.com
I'm also apart of a "Family Core." Family Cores are basically the people you hang out with most. At the beginning of the year, you're assigned into a Family Core at random, and you get the oppurtunity of taking the next 12 months to get to know them and grow together. Every core get's a Core Advisor (which is another Graduate Intern track) to advise the core. Core Advisor's are the leaders of the Core. If a Core Advisor chooses, they can adopt other Graduate Interns in to the core for more leadership. I've been adopted in to Nick Glaro's core. (Because he's a Core Advisor now) Nick and I were roomates as undergrads.
Last but not least, I'm the President of Terra Nova, which is a Creative Ministry on campus that serves through Prayer and Outreach events. This is probably my most difficult part of leadership at Teen Mania, because as President, I'm the main decision maker of this Creative Ministry. I have about 23 Undergrad Interns that are apart of the Terra Nova team with me, as well as 3 Lead Team members. Terra Nova is a College Credited ministry, so basically, me and my Lead Team are the Professors for a College class!! We're currently teaching evangelism to the Terra Nova team, and we're in the process of putting together our first outreach event for December.
Well, that's all for now. I plan to be more diligent with updates of what's going on in my life. Thank you for all of your support, and for my Indiana friends, I'll see you this Christmas!
in Christ alone,
-josh
1 comment:
Well, I pretty much knew all that, but it was still cool to read. God is doing so much cool stuff through you already its crazy. Keep up the awesomeness!
Danny `,)
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