This is an expression in scripture I have heard a lot but I never realized how true it was until this past week. We six team members are here to build a foundation of youth ministry at Saint Thomas More. Six sounds pretty good for one parish right?
The problem being that the six of us aren't able to respond to all of the different opportunities that arise to evangelize. For example we have two high schools and two middle schools that we visit on a weekly basis. That’s hundreds of students, many of whom we simply don't have time to speak to. That’s many sports events and school celebrations we can’t go to, that’s 4 different sets of classroom presentations the six of us have to focus on in addition to already doing (this Sunday to Sunday) 5 different nights (Cornerstone, Leadership training, Conquest and Challenge, Compass, Cornerstone). We devote a full year
of our lives to do this and we still don't have enough time!
I keep getting getting into the mindset I had long before NET that makes it so easy to say ‘someone else will do it’ someone else will take up the call, someone else will evangelize this person. But I keep realizing that is completely the wrong attitude! We have so many opportunities to Love; to bear Christ’s light to the souls of so many of Edmonton’s youth. It is not a burden or a humdrum task, it is life itself!
Josh Hickman
iNFUSE2
Edmonton Alberta
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