Ministry Interviews

Right now I'm trying to figure out who to interview for my ministry interviews.  For the time being I'm planning on interviewing Casey Worsham.  Last semester he led my corefa small group and I got to spend sometime with him hearing about his ministry.  I would like to learn what challenges he has faced as he has started leading the CCCC ministry.  I would also like to interview my senior pastor from my church back home.  He has been in ministry for a long time and he has a lot of good insight and wisdom.  I'm also thinking about interviewing Joe.  He is on the leader team and leads the international student ministry.  As an new grad student, I would like to learn how he balances school and ministry and what he has learned from doing ministry to international students.  The final person I would like to interview is a lady in my home church name sister Rachel.  She spent a fair amount of time overseas as a missionary.  I would like to learn about the differences of ministry outside of America.  

Services Projects

It definitely took a lot of prayer and evaluating to come up with a Linkfa project.  This last semester Matt and I really tried to motivate our core into getting involved in our investigative group but found our group was really not ready for that commitment.  During our last Focus meeting, one of our core members mentioned that he really wanted to see Focus involved in more service projects.  This was something in the past that our ministry has been more consistent in, but with expanding into new areas of ministry by adding the Linkfas which would focus on outreach, it seems this was something we were not able to coordinate.  Last year Ricky and I tried to take our core on a couple service projects and we were always blessed and brought closer together in these experiences.  Nothing better than a couple of guys lifting heavy objects on a Saturday morning, and especially knowing we were helping great organizations such as Shoes for Orphans Souls helped motivate us to work hard.  After recalling these experiences, it really seemed like this was what our core really needed.

Matt G. and I both came to the conclusion that service is what our group and ministry really needed.  I felt this was a great idea for getting our core more active and would help create community.  Matt has coordinated service projects in the past, so he is definitely passionate about them and has been looking for an opportunity to get our ministry more involved with service.  After discussing our goals for service for both our core and the entire ministry, we have identified two areas we would like to lead the ministry in service.  The first is through biweekly service project which would be on Saturday mornings and would be open to the entire ministry.  We would like to get our core involved in coordinating these projects and participating as well as getting more people to participate.  Our goal is to get more people involved in service, thinking about what service means and how Christ served us in so many ways and asks us to do the same for others.

The second area of service we would like to get the ministry involved in is through spring break service projects.  We would like to take the lead in creating our own service projects that would involve more work and allow a great number of people to help in coordinating the projects.  As before, we will have a project each day of the break, but instead of going to volunteer service to find work, we would find places of need ourselves and oversee the completion of the project.  This will allow us to incorporate more people in the planning and execution of a project since we are not going through a third party agency which would do all the project management itself.