A New School

This will be Kyle and I's fifth school year doing ministry for an organization that means so much to us, Young Life.  Our backgrounds in where we started leading are different and we have both loved kids from different schools over the years. My journey began at Sayre then Wyoming then Oaks Hills but Kyle has only been at Oak Hills {I'll share more details about our YL journey in another post}. For the past few months Kyle and I had been praying about Oak Hills & leading.  Oak Hills has been a hard school to lead at for many reasons and for the past year we have not really felt like we have been "leading". We have been praying at the school, going to football games, plays, swim meets, trying to build relationships with kids but they have not developed into anything or the kids have stopped responding. There was one girl {really the one kid coming around for the past year} that came around consistently but does not have a vision for her friends and did not want to make YL her ministry to reach out to others. Since Kyle has been leading at Oak Hills longer than I have he wanted to meet with YL staff this summer to ask there advice/get encouragement on what we should do because Oak Hills has been in this same situation for the past couple of years. After meeting with staff and discussing Oak Hills an option came up of us leading at Taylor {where we both graduated from}. We prayed for a month and after making the hard decision of leaving Oak Hills we knew Taylor was where we were suppose to be leading. We have felt like we are giving up on Oak Hills since there are only two leaders there now {Derek and Matt} and we both love the school but staff shared this verse Matthew 10:14 at our meeting and it has been our on our hearts every time we think about leading at Taylor. We feel like maybe as much we want to be at Oak Hills and see it succeed that God has other plans and that means leading at Taylor.

We are excited to lead at our alma mater Taylor and to lead with three great leaders {one of which was our YL leader}. We feel like we are still a part of the community{Kyle is a firefighter for the township, he coached youth BB, we live 15 mins away, our parents still live in the district, Kyle's sister is the cc coach and his brother graduated a couple of years ago so we know his friends, Kyle sometimes works at Skyline which is where everyone goes, I still talk to my cheerleading coaches and could probably help} even though we have been out of high school for five years. We are continuing to pray about what the future is for Oak Hills and for our new journey at Taylor. We have our first team meeting tonight and first campaigners Monday :)

Taylor High School