School has started

Well, now that school has started, my phone is much quieter :)  What a great summer we had though.  There are many memories that were made that will never be forgotten.  The students were ready to head back to school though and it seems as if they are enjoying themselves with catching up with old friends, working on the new classes and training for their sports.  The past few weeks we have been discussing what evangelism means and how they can take that back to school with them.  You can always stand by the flag pole and scream "If you don't have Jesus, you will burn in Hell!!!" or you can have a more relational, (and quite possibly more effective ministry,) approach to reach the people you love.  We defined evangelism as "Caring about God and the people who don't know Him."  Evangelism doesn't have to be so outrageous.  We talked about three main principles when it comes to evangelism: being a good friend, having a good lifestyle, and being careful with your words.  In order to reach someone with a 'relational' aspect, you first must be a good friend to them.  We talked about what true friends look like.  Also, we talked about what does it mean to have good lifestyle and what integrity means in the Bible.  The third week is when I told them they have to be intentional in the words they use if they want to see their friends know Jesus the way that they do.  All this is to help train them for the first few weeks of school.  This wednesday, we will be tackling "Labels" and the labels we give the people when we see them for the first time.  My goal in this season is to give them some basic training when they are heading back to school.  Please pray for me to help them as they are finding out who they are in this world.