The last few weeks I got to spend time with my Vancouver youth group on a mission trip to Canada. It was one of the most memorable trips I have ever been on...not necessarily for events that happened but for the life change I got to see. The last few weeks were a God-send because I was reminded again just how much ministry is important and why God has called me to be doing what I am doing. This last week I got to see my students grow in so many ways...I saw the boys become men and the girls became ladies who love the Lord so much. I felt like a proud mom and was reminded again why I do what I do. As I reflected back, I remembered nights when I doubted my investment in the teenagers, I wondered if anything I said ever actually got through. I got to spend my last day traveling with my small group girls and our driver, Tyler, and we all talked. I thanked them for the memories I had and noted how I saw God working in each of them. When we were giving our final tear-filled goodbyes, I realized just how much those 'little' things meant. Sometimes in ministry we get wrapped up in the details, the events, the trips, the retreats and we so quickly forget the little things that make the life change. Sunday I leave for a week at junior high camp, in a cabin with a group of middle school girls. As I head in to this week, I think of all that will happen and I am so excited to see what God is going to do!
