ob Leaders Meetings
This past weekend, the five "first time" 2009 Operation Barnabas leaders met in Winona Lake, Indiana to start the training process for leading high school ministry teams this summer. This is a bit of a change-- economics dictated it--but it worked out very very well. Rather than gathering all of the 2009 ob leaders for a weekend, we are extending the week of training in June and did all of the preliminary training with just the "Fab Five". We had one new leader who attended by Skype for CA, so we did not have to pay for a flight and saved 22 hours of her time that would need dedicated to travel. And meeting over a computer was free and very easy!
So why write about ob leaders meetings that were only with a handful?
Well, two reasons:
1. ob 2009 now has officially begun. We have been working for months and months on itineraries (being announced next week) and students have been accepted for the summer since December. But now is when we really start to focus on the summer where we get to train 90 teens in ministry as well as develop 12 adults to new levels of responsiblity and spiritual oversight. It is a privilege and a joy --big it is a responsibility we do not take lightly.
2. God always puts together the best ob leadership team. It looks differently than whatI imagined it would look like at the beginning of the year--but it is always BETTER than I had imagined. This time around, there are 5 new adults so we bring in fresh blood so we do not get stale. There are 7 adults who have 25 summers of ob ministry between them.. Now that is experience.
So ob 2009 is off and rolling. I'm excited about what God is going to do in and through this new group for the sake of His kingdom.
So why write about ob leaders meetings that were only with a handful?
Well, two reasons:
1. ob 2009 now has officially begun. We have been working for months and months on itineraries (being announced next week) and students have been accepted for the summer since December. But now is when we really start to focus on the summer where we get to train 90 teens in ministry as well as develop 12 adults to new levels of responsiblity and spiritual oversight. It is a privilege and a joy --big it is a responsibility we do not take lightly.
2. God always puts together the best ob leadership team. It looks differently than whatI imagined it would look like at the beginning of the year--but it is always BETTER than I had imagined. This time around, there are 5 new adults so we bring in fresh blood so we do not get stale. There are 7 adults who have 25 summers of ob ministry between them.. Now that is experience.
So ob 2009 is off and rolling. I'm excited about what God is going to do in and through this new group for the sake of His kingdom.
