This morning at our abbreviated staff meeting (so many of our team are on vacation) our Children’s Ministry director shared something that the Lord has been saying to her: Get back to the basics.
It’s so easy to make life and ministry complicated. There’s details and administrative stuff, meetings, plans and dreams, budgets and reports, more meetings and more reports…busy is the theme word that shows up with increasing frequency.
Jesus boiled the entire law and prophets down to a simple 2-piece: Love God, and love your neighbor like you love yourself.
We’ve been wrestling with this idea in terms of how it applies to student ministry for some time. Simplifying and streamlining is in order. We’ve stripped away so much of the things that weren’t hitting our purposes, making our team and students/families busy…
But I fear that the time that we’ve tried to give back to families is being replaced by other things. sighs…
It’s been good for my family, though. We cut out me coaching high school baseball, some of Kim’s Mary Kay stuff, and an extra weekly meeting for some of our team. The benefits to my family are noticeable.
What do you need to do to get back to the basics, to simplify?
3 Comments
Josh · August 6, 2008 at 9:27 am
Hey Stac, just wanted to thank you again for grabbing my butt at Erica & Craig’s wedding – I will cherish the memory forever.
Hey good thoughts on the blog, btw.
Kim · August 6, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Wow…I love, love, love this view!
Gorgeous panorama photo of Happy Valley!
kim
Randy S. · August 7, 2008 at 11:18 am
Great post! Busy is a big problem in student ministry. I think people want to be busy. I d not know why.