No Matter What

This week I am trying to get everything lined up for this upcoming school year in Third Race.  I have worked the stage set and it is almost finished, I am finishing preparing my lesson for next week and I am almost done planning out the next couple of months teaching schedule.  I think it is going to be a a great semester and I know the possibilities are endless for what God is going to do here in Cassville.

This fall's theme is going to be "borrowed" from CIY.  We are focusing on the idea that God can use us and wants to and to never give up on his grace and the influence we have around us.  Our theme is NO MATTER WHAT.

I'm very excited to see how God will use these students and challenge them to go the distance no matter what, and to claim Christ in their lives and not live in their past or in their man made religious ideas.  Our key verse throughout the semester is going to Philippians 3:13-14, which says "But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."  

Our goal is to get to the students to realize that God has forgiven them of the their past and that when we let go of it, then we can truly become the people that God created us to be.  We want to create students who will cling to Jesus and Jesus only.  We want to help the students rid their lives of the their pasts and their preconceived ideas of Christianity.