Shamoo's Splash

Amazing! That is what I have to stay about my summer internship in Derby, Kansas. I love the kids in the youth group so much. It really hurts knowing that I won't be able to see them every week, and to be able to talk and laugh with them. I was so blessed to be able to learn under the youth minister, Nick Pannone, and the rest of the staff at First Christian.

While we were at CIY, I went back to my room one night and began to write what I was feeling. This blog is basically what I wrote that night.

Today was a great day! It was draining, yet a day of great celebration. This is the third day at the MOVE conference in Cleveland, Tennessee, and the Holy Spirit was moving in the Derby youth group. I say it was a draining day in that I had conversations with multiple people that just suck the lift out of you, but it was also a day to celebrate in that I was able to talk one-on-one with a student about baptism!

This internship has been one of the best things that has happened to me. I am so thankful to God for placing me in Derby, Kansas at First Christian Church on the corner of Market and Debry Street! The relationships I've built with students have been incredible, and the many ministry lessons I've learned are very valuable. Youth ministry is something that has become very important in my life. I see students who are slaves to sin and they don't even see it! Students' morals don't even come close to lining up with Scripture. And many kids think Acts is just a verb. They have no clue that it is a book in the New Testament. Its just a culmination of all these things that fuel the fire in my heart to lead students to Christ.

Tonight Jim Johnson spoke about how the Israelites were stuck beetween an army (the Egyptians) and a Sea. The Israelites were cornered and were hopeless with no way out. So what does Moses tell the Israelites to do? Be still and know that God will deliver them like he always does. Somewhere in the middle of his sermon, Jim was talking about how the cornerstone of everything God does is to show his Glory. He went on to explain that we often get in the mindset that God cares most about us and not himself or his Glory. But if he did care and love us more than Himself, that would be Idolatry on God's part and therefore making us God...not Him. Everything God does is to show his glory. Then Jim said this amazing quote,

"God is like Shamoo. He is playign and dancing in the universe,
and we have the joy of getting splashed."

Basically, God is doing all of this amazing stuff displaying how Great He is, and he graciously allows us to partner with him in showing his glory....we get splashed!


I can't thank God enough for blessing me with this internship and allowing me to parnter with him in sharing his glory to students in Derby! I can't wait to see how God splashes me next!