LMHS Class of 2014
Last Wednesday we had our last campaigners with the class of 2014 students. It was heartbreaking for me, but also one of the most joyful nights of my life. We gave each of the graduated seniors a chance to take a few minutes to express any lessons they've learned or things that they wished they knew or advice to the underclassmen.
After hearing each of them speak, I realized that they get it. Oh my gosh, they get it. They get that they are horrible, sinful people and there's nothing they can do to change that, but they are fiercely loved by a wonderful God. They get the cross and that it demands a response. They get that this world, and especially high school, is temporary and that only what's done to further the kingdom will last. For some of them, it's taken the entirety of four long, hard years, but they finally get it. I felt like a proud mama duck watching her babies waddle around.
I started leading in 2011, when these guys were freshmen. It's been so fun growing up with them. When they were freshmen and the noobs in high school, I was a freshmen and a noob to college. When they were graduating high school, I was graduating college. I can't believe I've been with them for their entire high school career. It's been so hard. There's been so many times that I wanted to give up on them and so many times that they should have given up on me. They were the ones who taught me how to lead.
To close our time at campaigners I prayed Philippians 1:3-11 over them. And, of course, I cried the whole time. It says "I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me. God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God."
And it's true. I joyfully thank God every time I think of them. I am so confident that the Lord will continue to work in their lives and that this is only the beginning for them. And I pray that they love better, gain knowledge and have fruitful lives. Every dang day.
Ministry at Lloyd will be crazy different without them. But I'm excited to see what God has in store for Lloyd, for them and for me. He is good and He is faithful.
PS- Confession that I'm being a drama queen. I just love them so much!
After hearing each of them speak, I realized that they get it. Oh my gosh, they get it. They get that they are horrible, sinful people and there's nothing they can do to change that, but they are fiercely loved by a wonderful God. They get the cross and that it demands a response. They get that this world, and especially high school, is temporary and that only what's done to further the kingdom will last. For some of them, it's taken the entirety of four long, hard years, but they finally get it. I felt like a proud mama duck watching her babies waddle around.
I started leading in 2011, when these guys were freshmen. It's been so fun growing up with them. When they were freshmen and the noobs in high school, I was a freshmen and a noob to college. When they were graduating high school, I was graduating college. I can't believe I've been with them for their entire high school career. It's been so hard. There's been so many times that I wanted to give up on them and so many times that they should have given up on me. They were the ones who taught me how to lead.
To close our time at campaigners I prayed Philippians 1:3-11 over them. And, of course, I cried the whole time. It says "I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me. God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God."
And it's true. I joyfully thank God every time I think of them. I am so confident that the Lord will continue to work in their lives and that this is only the beginning for them. And I pray that they love better, gain knowledge and have fruitful lives. Every dang day.
Ministry at Lloyd will be crazy different without them. But I'm excited to see what God has in store for Lloyd, for them and for me. He is good and He is faithful.
PS- Confession that I'm being a drama queen. I just love them so much!
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