Filed under: Jubilee Club at TA, Jubilee Conference, Ministry | Tags: Jubilee Conference
Hey Everyone, This is a big weekend coming up. The Jubilee Conference in Pittsburgh will take place with 2,000 college students. This conference gets better every year, so I am very excited. I am excited to learn more myself about our Christian world and life view, but more importantly, I am thrilled for my students to as well.
We are leaving tomorrow at 1pm from Temple Ambler to Downtown Pittsburgh. Pray for our safety and for great relationships between our students. Also pray that the Gospel will drive our students to see their lives as part of the God’s plan of redemption and people of peace. Thank you so much for all you have given to Hesed and I to do this work, and pray for the Spirit of God to work mightly.
The model we currently use
As we all know, our world is crazy about coffee. Someone just told me that if you vote on Tuesday, you get a free Starbucks coffee. While this is big news, what is also big news is how coffee is transforming our ministry.
This summer while we were at OCBP, my friend handed off an espresso machine that he had been using for a couple of years in his ministry. Since then, I have seen how coffee does bring people together. I currently have it set up in my office for use at the church. Often I used to go out to Starbucks or another type of coffee shop to meet with students and friends. Now I invite people into the office and make them something special. But the biggest difference has been the feel of inviting people there to serve them. Also, Hesed and I used the machine to serve students at Temple Ambler with free lattes for the first game of the World Series. (Phillies won by the way!) Students reactions were funny, asking me if Temple hired me for the night. “Nope, I am just part of this ministry here at Temple Ambler and we want to serve and love students.”
Hospitality is one of the forgotten aspects of ministry, but the Lord is teaching Hesed and I about real service with food and even coffee. When we serve with food, people are struck by that kindness and service. I truly believe that hospiality is the key to reaching the next generation. Coffee, in that key, brings people together. Good coffee, made through good beans and teaching people how good specialty coffee can be, communicates care, relationship, and even love.
Pray for this new addition to the ministry. To keep this machine for ministry in both the church and campus, we would have to purchase and pay a balance for it. As we go forward, pray also that the movement of hospitality would continue in our ministry.
(For excellent beans check out Chestnut Hill Coffee Company, where I get ones for the machine.)
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Greetings, Everyone!
Welcome to our new Blog! This will be a home base for us in terms of writing about our ministry at Temple Ambler through New Life Presbyterian Church.
Stay tuned for ministry updates and prayer requests!
