End Of A Era
Well after almost (probably nine total months of breaks) 20 solid years a era ended yesterday (May 11th, Mothers Day, 2008), I am not longer teaching a weekly Sunday School, Discipleship Training, Youth Ministry, Small Group or Connection Time class. The last 20 years have been fun, and I can honestly say God taught me so much because I was leading the various classes, but my wife and I made this call for all the right reasons. The #1 reason being that God seems to be bringing some new ministry options / opportunities / means our way and #2 we need some freedom on weekends to pursue some things away from church as well.
That is not to say that we (meaning she and I) will not take a class on again or act as filling ins / temps when needed, but honestly as of now we/ I have no plans to take leadership of a weekly class anytime soon. God of course could change all of that tomorrow (and He has done that before when we stepped down from leadership), but we are trusting Him to work on that when He wants.
This decision took almost a year to make, and the base seeds of it were planted almost 2 years ago. It was one of those things where 10 to 15 small to medium, and a few large things, added up to showing us it was the right time to make the big move. Our students seemed to understand and were supportive overall, church leadership was supportive as well, but in the end we made the call and we were going to do regardless of the support because it was time.
For this blog / website this real world change should have no real impact as this operation / ministry has functioned separately from our weekly live teaching for over 4 years now. Hopefully it will actually help improve this blog / web site as we MAY (big MAY) have a bit more free time to devote to it now. I do desire to resume a more regular blogging pattern again soon, but that will be more dependent on my ongoing M -F work load. It is a very good possibility that there will be more and more posts from 6 to11 PM and less from 8 AM to 5 PM at least short term. Time will tell.
As always thanks for reading, thanks for your encouragement, thanks for visiting, thanks for commenting, and most of thanks for your prayers.
