I am writing this To: You from Mongolia.
I will get to the Extremely challenging & Extremely exciting Territory, Holy Spirit is Breaking Ground in the next episode……
Only a few weeks before I Launched for Mongolia, I was asked to be a lead for a high school group doing a ministry camp in Los Angeles.
However, my 9th and 10th Graders I was mentoring, have a very different photo on life.
The camp we attended was catered to wealthy kids from suburbia. In my mind, I had no urgency to pour into them because they had church with Mommy and Daddy every Sunday. Also it wasn’t my job anyway.
Literally life and death, My students where in the hood living in section 8 or couch surfing. Their parents where abusive or gone on drugs. When we got back to Sacramento, it was very possible we may never see them again. That put are whole team on survival mode, Working 200%.
I noticed other campuses didn’t want to speak with us and kept looking at us sideways. Even some of my good friends leading didn’t understand the culture of our squad. They would reference stereotypes that where frustrating, but God lead me to see why they thought what they thought. I educated them to keep them from ignorance. I kinda liked doing it too. Out of love obviously….
Little did I know God was in the kitchen whipping up some freshy. One night they did a talent show. Even though I wasn’t a student, Everyone still asked me to sign up cause they knew I could flow. When the show started up, Word on the street spread that I was going to make an appearance. One kid asked me if he could be a hype man. I gave him the green light but after that, everyone else asked the same question. It would be one thing to just have me on stage but a whole other thing to have my whole campus rocking out.
I started to smell what God was cooking up. They called my name out when all 800 some kids rushed my stage screaming. With my whole campus backing me up, we got the crowd in a mosh pit and finished with a backflip.
The energy in house was savage and I felt no shame afterwards cause I knew God worked through us that night. I was honored that he used me to lead my campus to Unite with the rest of them. We represented who we were and were accepted. Ive learned to be humble, and reflect the praise up Jesus, the dude that really orchestrated that moment.
After the show, people where gassing me up, putting me on a pedestal, and that’s where I was tested the most. The thing about fame is once the music turns down, the thrill is gone. I know now why so many famous singers overdose or commit suicide. We were not designed to handle that kind of pressure.
Im not one of those guys that can’t take a compliment, but I did used to act super weird about it, always acting so spiritual and denying my talent, cause I was afraid to be seen as prideful. Now, every time someone gives me a thumbs up, I just thank them and thank God in secret for his blessing because he is probably using me to inspire them in a way.
I’ve been chasing that dream most of my life but could never catch up to it. Kinda funny when I started to chase God, I ran past that dream if you know what I’m saying.
Dream-Walking to be continued…….
P.S. A teaser of the Mongolian tent ministry ( just copy & paste ):
