I’m excited. Yeah…if
you know me, you know that it doesn’t actually take a whole lot for me to be
excited! I tend to run pretty optimistic
about things, but today my excitement is warranted, I’m sure of it! J I am in Saint Louis preparing for Exploration2011, an event that the General Board for Higher Education and Ministry directs
for young people to explore a call to ministry, specifically ordained ministry,
in the United Methodist Church. The
Design Team has reassembled for the event, after starting work on it a year and
a half ago, and as we met tonight and shared our prayer requests and
expectations for the weekend, I was awash with excitement about all that God has
done, is doing, and will do in the lives of the people who will be here and
those whom they will serve. We talk so
frequently about the challenges in the church and in the world and hypothesize
on how we are going to see our way forward.
I’m convinced that what we will see this weekend is a glimpse of the way
forward. We have young people who are
gifted, called, and have a passion to serve in the world. Hundreds of them have committed to being
available to God this weekend to spend time in intentional discernment. I’m praying, and asking for the prayers of
anyone who reads this, that God will continue to draw them deeper into
relationship and that out of the overflow of that vital relationship would
result a passion to serve God in making disciples for the transformation of the
world.
So forgive me if I’m pretty excited! I don’t think that it gets better than this!
PS You can follow the Twitter feed of #Explo11 here.
