It’s a shame I haven’t kept this blog updated. I have kept the events of the last few months in this part of my life quiet for a reason. However, I might have at least posted some thoughts…

We have been released from our official position of youth ministers at our former church.  In the employment sense of the word, we were asked to resign. In the truest sense of the word, we are now free. Perhaps that seems as if we were under bondage in our former position. And, frankly, perhaps we were. It wasn’t until we were let go that we realized how binding the position had become. I will not go into details here. As I said, I have kept quiet for a reason. But you will understand when I say that the truth was certainly that we had grown incompatible with our church leadership. And I had always maintained that we would stay there in that position until our dream became too big for them. Honestly, it’s okay that leadership weren’t able to understand us or our dream. I will never be upset with the choices they make, because it is their prerogative, and because it will never affect our decision to stay true to our dreams. So yes, a lot has changed. We live in a different home, we go to a different church, our circle of influence is different. But many things about our ministry remain the same. I still get text messages about how to deal with this girl or that boy from my girls. I’m planning a girls sleepover at our new home soon. I am still, after all, a youth minister’s wife, because that position is not just a job title. It is a calling.

2010 will mark the beginning of A New Thing. After a period of rejuvenation and refocusing, we are ready to begin ministering in a new way offering a fun time of worship and teaching in an undetermined location and time at the moment. But it is not over. Keep checking back for more from the realm of the American youth.

Released,
Christie