Introduction

On November 9, 2008 I went before my local church making public that I had answered God’s call for my life to be in full-time Gospel Ministry. I was thirty-three years old. Immediately I began to throw myself full throttle into this journey, wanting to get started a quickly as I could. For some reason I completely lost all my patience. Understand, I am my worst critic and I immediately started to think I had to “catch-up”. I began to compare myself to others I know already in Ministry, many of whom had answered God’s call on their lives at a much earlier age. I was overcome with an urgency to make up for what I saw as wasted years.

I began an official internship in August 2009 at Chilhowee Hills Baptist Church. Within my urgency I was constantly analyzing every aspect of my time as an intern. I was trying to understand EXACTLY what God’s plan for me was, I had to know now so I wouldn't waste any more of my life. I jumped at every opportunity before me; looking for clues that would show me what I was suppose to do. I spent time working with Children, especially during VBS and I loved it! I also spent a lot of time with Young Adult Singles as their Bible Fellowship Teacher and I loved it! And in addition to these two areas I spent a lot of time experiencing ministry with Senior Adults. Oh yeah, and I loved that too! All this was going on at the same time, so understandably I was a little confused as to which path I was being led down. However as my internship was getting closer to the one year mark I get a phone call that cleared everything right up; well almost everything.

The phone call came from my Supervising Pastor at Chilhowee Hills. He called to ask me to come by his office so we could discuss the possibility of me taking the position of Children’s Pastor at Chilhowee Hills. All of a sudden it was like pieces of a puzzle began to fall into place. And here I am now; currently the Children’s Pastor at Chilhowee Hills Baptist Church and this is my blog. I will shed light as I go along as to what some of the “puzzle pieces” are and how God has developed and is developing some core values of my ministry. I still have feelings of urgency, just a different kind of urgency. I feel an urgency to address how the Gospel is presented to kids. I feel an urgency in how we disciple kids who have responded to the Gospel. So as God directs and leads I will share with you some of my journey in this blog, Kidz Move.

Kidz Move because it is ultimately the Kid’s move to make.