Have you ever met someone that became like a brother(sister) yet also a mentor too.The kind of person you feel like you can talk about anything with, from the funniest to the deepest thing. The kind of person that believes in you so much it makes you believe in yourself that much more. I am so blessed to have that kind of person in my life. This person happens to also be my pastor at Revolution Church Shad Treadaway. I am so blessed.
Around 3 years ago I met Shad in his living room when the church was just a group of college to post college age. First night there I knew I wanted to be going where ever the Church and he was going. As the church began to have Sunday services he allowed me to be able to run the Host team at our church. In so doing allowing me to learn more about being a leader and more about service. Around late August of last year I sat down with him and told him I had accepted my call to preach( after running for more years than I would care to say). I feel he was just as excited for me as anyone else in my family. His belief in me and his words he spoke to me about what he thought I was capable of really poured into my life. After I discussion he lined me up to have my first opporunity to preach which was in that following month. I can say that experience of my first time preaching was truly a defining moment in my life. The trust he had in believing that God was calling me to this made everything else so much easier. It was the kind of peace I had never had on that stage. A few months he gave me the chance to speak again this time Jan 1. I got to bring in the new year!! I am blessed to get to share the stage with him one last time before I leave July 1.
I feel so blessed to have a brother, mentor, pastor that believes in his flock. The kind of person that trust in the gifts that God has giving them. The kind of person that doesn't not hold them back, but instead lends on God so he can help raise them up. What did I do to deserve his devotion? Praise God for the Jesus in him!! One thing they talk about at AIM is making your ceiling the floor of those that come behind you. My Pastor Shad sure did set the floor real high.
This blog is to say thank you for being their for me Shad Treadaway. Thank you for discipling me! I would not be ready for what I am about to encounter without your leadership. I gladly follow you into the trenches, into battle, into a new Revolution!
