{"id":7287,"date":"2011-02-08T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-89-youth-ministry-books-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"Day 89 – Youth Ministry Books (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been sorting through stacks of books lately.\u00a0 I have found several from my youth ministry days and have offered them to the youth pastor at our church over Facebook.\u00a0 Hopefully he’ll be willing to take them off my hands. It’s funny now that I think about it.\u00a0 I left youth ministry for two main reasons. 1)\u00a0 The average youth pastor serves a church for 18 months before moving on … or being moved on.\u00a0 Melissa and I had a couple of toddlers and I wanted to give my kids a more stable life.\u00a0 That’s funny because now we’re getting ready to uproot our kids and take them to a foreign country.\u00a0 So much for stability! 2)\u00a0 I only got to spend Sunday mornings and one evening a week with most of the teens – with the occasional weekend retreat and week-long mission trip thrown in.\u00a0 I was jealous of the teachers who got to see the kids on a daily basis week in and week out.\u00a0 Of course I quickly learned that a teacher is pretty limited in what he can speak of with students in a public school.\u00a0 Still, I have found opportunities to share Christ in more covert ways. In Haiti, we’ll be able to openly teach about Christ because it will be a missionary school.\u00a0 I might even get the chance to teach at the Emmaus Bible Seminary that is part of the OMS mission there. Speaking of the Emmaus Bible Seminary, Stacey Ayars (who serves alongside her husband at EBS) posted a fascinating story on her blog today about one of their students, Junior, and where his enthusiasm for evangelism took him.\u00a0 It involves “deadly trees”!\u00a0 Take an extra three minutes and read it here<\/a>. One last thing … if you are of the spirit to pray, please pray for one of my students.\u00a0 She is an incredibly talented young lady with a huge personality who has endured a rather troubled home life.\u00a0 But specifically, here’s what she said that calls for your prayers and mine:\u00a0 “I’m pretty sure God hates me.”\u00a0 If that breaks your heart like it does mine,\u00a0offer up\u00a0a little prayer for her to the God who is running toward her with His arms wide open.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been sorting through stacks of books lately.\u00a0 I have found several from my youth ministry days and have offered them to the youth pastor at our church over Facebook.\u00a0 Hopefully he’ll be willing to take them off my hands. It’s funny now that I think about it.\u00a0 I left youth ministry for two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7288,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/7288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}