Reaching the Next Generation

Last night, in a light drizzle, a couple of hundred people from various churches assembled for the Grayson Prayer Walk at Grayson High School. The purpose of this gathering was to unite in prayer and claim Grayson High School for Jesus Christ. We prayed that Jesus would be the center of the student's, teacher's and administrator's lives and that they would stand strong daily against the temptations of the evil one. It was encouraging for me to see so many who believe in the power of prayer and who are passionate about reaching the next generation for Jesus Christ.

I recently read a great post from Tony challenging our churches to reach the next generation. If we are going to DOMINATE our community for Christ, we have to be committed to reaching the kids and students for Christ. At Graystone, we have restructured our staff team to ramp up GSM (Graystone Student Ministry). Not only is Dustin now full-time, but Kyle and Heath are now focusing some of their time, talents and energy into the student ministry. Half of our full-time staff team are now working on helping students "know God and make God known".

If you have middle school or high school students, you need to be EXTREMELY excited about this new structure and do all that you can do to get your kids to GSM on Wednesday nights. If you have smaller kids, you need to be excited about this as well, because your kids will be in middle school before you know it. And the current middle school kids will be their role models.

Let's do all we can to reach our next generation for Jesus Christ. It is not about us. It is about God. Our mission is to know God and make God known. Let's continue to pray and work hard to DOMINATE our community for Jesus Christ! Wow! I'm starting to get pumped. This pumps me up more that debt free living pumps up Joe.

EGTFG...AGTFG!
Johnny

PS Joe Sangl has now received a "shout out" in 3 straight posts. You would think that he was paying for advertisement on Johnny's blog.