College/Church planting

Yay, i’m at college…

From what I hear, this time of my life is meant to find one’s self; to explore the boundaries of one’s life and determine where you want to go… or even, at the most extreme cases… learn crap.
But for now, I cannot say that I have done any of this yet, nor will i for sure. But! I have done a lot of thinking… mostly of Connecticut, and Catalyst, and stuff related. And here is what i have been thinking…

So down here in Virginia things are a bit different than in Connecticut… Most everyone is nicer… More people are Christians…annnnd there are a billion more churches. Now all you hear down south for church planting is usually aimed from the state of Maryland and south of there…. and while i hear this all i cant stop thinking of how absolutely, ridiculously brave Mike is.. like seriously… Mike could have easily stayed down here, and either, one, stayed with TRBC with the youth group, two, gone off somewhere else down south staying in the youth ministry, or three, started his own church, getting a zillion more people to come to his church… duh, he’s mike….than up in Ct. This blows my mind. Mike could have taken the easy way out and gone to every other churched place and started another mega church, but no.. Mike knew that he needed to stay in Connecticut and start the most amazing church there… because we all know that Ct needs God’s Word.

So I was thinking all this and was sorta talking about it to some friends at this restaurant.. The next day, in Evangelism class, some guy talks about how not everyone needs to go into a paid ministry position; instead we need people going into all everyday jobs to spread their faith. Then my teacher goes on to talk about church planting and why older churches don’t grow very much, and while listening to this I felt very proud knowing that I was involved with the greatest church plant ever created in the, probably, most unchurched state ever.

This saturday before the launch was probably the most, while being at college, that i wanted to go home. So I could have been there, so i could have seen what is the beginning of something awesome. But I’m proud that I got to be a part of most of it at least.

Not that all places don’t need churches, or that the people who choose down south are any less.. But in my concern, People down here have it, at least i feel, a little bit easier. Go Catalyst!!!Mike, you’re awesome and I love you all, and I really wish I could be there!