A HUGE SUNDAY

Reaching Children must be a most important priority for any church. This past weekend we reached a numerical milestone. We broke the 200 barrier! Last Sunday our amazing Lifesaver's Team ministered to 207 children between our two services! What makes this powerful is it correlates to the outreach we did on Oct 31st where we saw 388 kids.

First off, I want to give a shout out to Roger and Shanna Habich who have given their lives and hearts to Lifesaver's (TRC's Children Ministry)! You both deserve huge props for your leadership, vision and direction. One thing I believe that makes you such an asset is your willingness to give ministry opportunities away. There are few young leaders, like yourself, who possess the ability to give the moment that matters away. Thanks for empowering our volunteers.

In my opinion, these are four characteristics that make good volunteers in Lifesavers. They must have these components:

1. A genuine passion for God.
Jesus taught us to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Let your passion to love God with everything dominate your words, actions and deeds.

2. A true compassion for kids.
Consider the challenging world our kids grow up, and there is nothing more important than people who will listen, love, forgive, heal, mend, play, grow, laugh and impact. Our kids need more than friendliness, they have friends, they need leaders who will show them compassion.

3. Flexible structure.
Is that an oxy-moron? Perhaps, but I believe the best children teams are teams who flourish in flexible structure. Good team members got to be able to think on their feet, deviate from the plan if necessary, but still accomplish the vision.

4. Teachability.
If we do not adapt our methods to the changing culture around us we will render ourselves obsolete. These are the words that must guide our ministry to young people. The competitive curve for our kids attention is radical. We must do everything in our power--work, learn, study, conference, pray--if we are going to reach the next generation. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing off limits (with the exception of sin) that we must do to reach our kids.

With 200+ children coming to Sunday services at The Rock Church there must be a need for great volunteers. If that's you, yes, I am recruiting, make yourself available at the Kiosk in the foyer this weekend.