If you are thinking “wow it’s been awhile since I’ve gotten one of these updates!” you are right. But once again God has graced me with the opportunity to be back on the field and lead out a new squad. You can put my blog back on your “favorites” again and get ready for some good stuff.This last season since I got back from the race in late August I have been working in Gainesville, GA at the AIM Headquarters around some amazing people that helped me prepare for this new leadership position.
Before I left I was feeling pretty good about everything. One of my main priorities this year is to raise up the men on our squad to walk in the greatness God has for them, so we read a book together, I called them to check up, I even made a list of some things I felt God wanted us men to be known for. All in all I felt pretty good! The weird thing is that somthing happens once you get on the field. I’ll just call it the “I’m here now what?” Syndrome (IHNWS). It happened last year and I thought I would have been immune this year but I caught it again.
For the first few days on the field I was kind of in shock. It’s like I saw everything I wanted for the squad and everything I knew God was going to do but at the same time I had no idea how to get there. I pretty much realized that I had a great plan, but it only lasted till Launch. but now the rubber was hitting the road.
The transition from being a racer to being a Squad Leader is quite difficult, but it’s so rewarding. My ministry no longer exists with the day to day work given by the contacts, but with the well being of the leaders, squad and contacts so that they can enjoy day to day ministry with their contacts and be open for the work God wants to do in them. I’m on the other side and sometimes I feel like an “other” but God has been so gracious. My passion and love for the men on my squad has grown so much as has my gratefulness for my two co-leaders Lindsay and Hannah (to the right) who are amazing women of God and most importantly won’t let me act like an idiot!
My goal for this trip and my life is to be a platform to encourage an empower others to stand up and jump out into what God is doing.
This is also, however, the hardest part. I am around such amazing men and women of God I am not only trying to find ways to build this platform on all the gifts and wisdom God has given me, but also I’m learning I how to build this platform with faith on things that I haven’t experienced yet to get other people to places I haven’t been! Sound complicated? Well it’s super humbling and it forces me to rely on God.
We are now in El Salvador and have visited a few teams already and hope to vist the rest before the end of the month. To sum it up I have one of the best jobs in the world (and that’s not an exaggeration). To be given a position of authority to speak into the lives of people who will change the world and get to visit them and experience things while they are happening, I mean come on!!! God is sure setting the stage for some big things.
