One of my life goals is to disciple my kids. If you read the Bible, you’ll understand that it is the responsibility of the parents to share God’s message with their children.
Since Nathan is going to a Christian school for Kindergarten, we bought him a new Bible for class. Today I found him reading it in the chair where I read mine. One of my greatest desires is that he will get into a habit of reading his Bible and know the Author of the book in a personal way.
There are incredible things happening all over the world! That is my feeling after spending a week in France with Youth Ministry International’s worldwide leadership. I had such a sense of being part of something much bigger than myself as I sat in a room with other trainers from all over the world and listened to their stories of how God is working in their regions. It is exciting to be a part of God’s agenda.
Here is the email newsletter I just wrote on the subject: Incredible Things are Happening All over the world
Nathan has been really wanting to go to Build a Bear since we got back from Mexico. He’s been good, and Janell got a coupon (go figure), so she took him today. He made a doggy, named him Buzz, and got him a Buzz Lightyear outfit. He loves him so much already.
From July 23 to 31, Dennis will be traveling to the Youth Ministry International Summit in France. The YMI Summit takes place every other year in a different region of the world where YMI has a ministry. Our entire worldwide team meets to report on what God is doing in each region as well as talk about strategy for effective ministry.
We’d like to ask you to pray specifically for this trip. Pray that all of us involved with Youth Ministry International’s work of training youth workers across the world will be encouraged, and that we will have a good planning and strategizing time while together. Pray that the ministry will be more fruitful in the future because we have come together as a team to pray and share with each other.
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Edgar, Karyna, Areli, and Chaire will graduate tomorrow with their degree in youth ministry from the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary. This is our largest graduating class, and it has been a pleasure to be their professor. I know that God has great things for each one of them, and I am excited to see how He uses them to impact young people all over Latin America.
