Announcing...

To my stakeholders...

First, let me say thank you.  Thank you for reading these posts, for praying for resonate and all it's needs.  And thank you as well, to those that gave and continue to give to see life-change in college students.  It's been a great ministry for the past year, and will continue to be quite a wild ride for the next season of ministry.  

I wanted to write to you today to let you know of an important change that is coming in next few weeks!  Up to this point my family has been raising support for the college ministry at Bethany.  Starting the first of March, in addition to the college ministry at Bethany, I will also be leading all adult groups at Bethany.  To start with, this includes all adult Sunday School classes and community groups.  The church will also be raising the level of their support for me!  This means that there will be a change in the level of financial support that I will need!  Praise the Lord!

In the coming weeks (after I preach next week) I will be sending out an updated letter to all financial supporters letting them know the exactly what the changes are.

It's really exciting to use the college group as a rough draft for the new community groups that will be starting in the coming years!  It's also great to be able to help sunday school!  

Once again, thank you!  Keep on praying that God would work in the forgotten generation in Pierce County, Washington!

For His Glory,

Ian

Annual Report(s)

This past month I've had the opportunity to write up an annual for what I do here at Bethany.  It was a great time of reflection and reminiscing.  I've had an amazingly busy year!  I won't share the whole thing with you, but here are the highlights:

• Moved from Interim Jr. High and Sr. High Ministry Director, to College Director, joining 2 other new youth guys.  
• Went on 2 camps in January, leading worship at one, and speaking at another.
• Went on a staff prayer retreat in central Washington - it was amazing!
• Began a plan to implement a change in culture for Bethany Student Ministries
• Took several months to read about and study college ministry
• Launched new college ministry, Parched, over the summer
• Spent countless hours as a family having college students over to the house every week
• Built a fire pit in the backyard to accommodate the people!  Spent weeks going to the Chiropractor to recover!
• Started on the college campuses in the fall, being on campus 5-6 days a week
• Had a ton of spiritual conversations with my new friends
• Met and walked with my friend.
• Helped the church by doing parking duty for VBS, leading worship for church, leading worship for the youth, preaching, teaching small groups, etc.
• Added Interim Director of Whitewater Kids to my things to do in August!
• Moved resonate from the house to the church (we were out of room)
• Prayed, pleaded, and plodded along with God

As you can see, it's been a busy year!  And there is also a very important announcement coming in the next month as well!  Thanks for journeying alongside my family as we seek to see the grace of Christ in the lives of college students in the south sound!  

Thanks

Worship Leading

I led worship at High School camp two weeks back.  This is the first event that I've been at for the second time.  It was great to see the changes from last year (with just me running the entire department) to now, with three of us and lots of volunteers!

There were many things that went well, but here are a few that I appreciated the most:

• Godly leadership (the difference this makes can't be underestimated.  And thanks!)
• A full band (last year was me and a drummer)
• College leaders stepping up (One college student will be leading Jr. High's worship every week)
• Prayerful and intentional worship (things don't go well on accident very often!)

It was a great weekend, one full of life change and recommitment!  I'll share about the Jr. High camp that I spoke at later!

Ian