MINISTRY ACTIVITIES
This i spent 6 hours towards my practicum. This week was very similar to last week in that i spoke. I actually am speaking the next two weeks as well. I spent another hour speaking again. I spent less time in my preperation because i did not have much time to prepare because of outside circumstances that i will discuss later. I spent an hour helping in sunday school and sunday morning services. I spent an hour getting a youth group event put together, that will be happening next Saturday. I spent 30 mins in a small group discussion/accountability session. The remaining time was time that i spent simply hanging out with students and continuing to build relationships and trying to connect with students that i feel distant from.
REFLECTION ON MINISTRY
This week in ministry has been especially difficult for me. I have discovered some things in my life that i need to deal with. It all started when a friend of mine who going to be speaking to this youth group, which meets on Sunday evenings, called me Sunday during church and cancelled due to "illness" and bad weather circumstances. However, the day before he was playing basketball and hanging out with friends, so illness seemed like a stretch to me. Well he cancelled and that put me and the youth pastor in a tough spot and now i am having a difficult time being able to forgive him of bailing out on me when i put my neck on the line for him so that he could have a possibility to speak. So i just need help in this area!
SPIRITUAL REFLECTION
This week has been much better in my own personal spiritual growth. I have continued reading my bible (mark) and have further continued to spend more time in prayer and meditation. I am also back on a regular schedule of mentoring my mentor, which is always a good thing. I don't know if the break from school got me out of a routine, but i feel as i am getting back into it. I feel as if God is going to be teaching a lot about forgiveness and how to work with other people through all of things i have been reading and experiencing in real life.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Week 1
MINISTRY ACTIVITIES
This week in ministry i spent a total of 5 hours doing ministry towards my practicum hours. I spent more time than this, but that time was preparation time because i was speaking. Speaking was probably the highlight of ministry this week, i spend an hour (i know an hour speaking) speaking, but they were with me the whole time. I spent another hour helping in sunday school and sunday morning service. I did a number of different things throughout that time. The rest of my time this week was spent just simply hanging out with students and building relationships with them. One thing that i did that was very imporatant was small group leading. Leading this group probably took about 30 mins.
REFLECTION ON MINISTRY
I have been with this group of students for about 6 months now so i have already established relationships with them. However, at this time i have found that they are finally starting to trust me and are finaly beginning to open up to me. It really helps you as a leader feel more comforatable when you know that the students are connecting with you and are interested in and value your opinion on things. I am finding it to be hard to connect with some of the students becasue we are simply very different. Some of the students in the ministry are very musical and theatre inclined, and well i am not. I am more athleticly inclined, which is ok, i just need to begin to try to connect with them, somehow!
SPIRITUAL REFLECTION
The past month was horrible for me spiritually speaking. This week as i was preparing to speak i realized that i did not feel worthy of speaking to these students, because i felt as if i was lying to them. I did not feel like i could talk to them because i had not been in the word of God or in prayer or worship or really any of the spiritual disciplines. However, this week i have begun to start reading and praying and practicing more of these disciplines because that feeling was something that i do not want to be acquatinted with on a regular basis.
This week in ministry i spent a total of 5 hours doing ministry towards my practicum hours. I spent more time than this, but that time was preparation time because i was speaking. Speaking was probably the highlight of ministry this week, i spend an hour (i know an hour speaking) speaking, but they were with me the whole time. I spent another hour helping in sunday school and sunday morning service. I did a number of different things throughout that time. The rest of my time this week was spent just simply hanging out with students and building relationships with them. One thing that i did that was very imporatant was small group leading. Leading this group probably took about 30 mins.
REFLECTION ON MINISTRY
I have been with this group of students for about 6 months now so i have already established relationships with them. However, at this time i have found that they are finally starting to trust me and are finaly beginning to open up to me. It really helps you as a leader feel more comforatable when you know that the students are connecting with you and are interested in and value your opinion on things. I am finding it to be hard to connect with some of the students becasue we are simply very different. Some of the students in the ministry are very musical and theatre inclined, and well i am not. I am more athleticly inclined, which is ok, i just need to begin to try to connect with them, somehow!
SPIRITUAL REFLECTION
The past month was horrible for me spiritually speaking. This week as i was preparing to speak i realized that i did not feel worthy of speaking to these students, because i felt as if i was lying to them. I did not feel like i could talk to them because i had not been in the word of God or in prayer or worship or really any of the spiritual disciplines. However, this week i have begun to start reading and praying and practicing more of these disciplines because that feeling was something that i do not want to be acquatinted with on a regular basis.
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