all our eggs in the basket

Bruce Eveleth is the real deal. He's one of our newest staff members at Calvary, and he's overseeing the missions/outreach at the church. Bruce comes to us with a background in college ministry (among other things) and has a heart for Rwanda. He has built a partnership with a group of people who live in Rwanda who run an orphanage/ministry.

Last June Bruce led a crew from State College/Calvary over to Rwanda to help at the orphanage, which led to Lois putting together a film about their experience, which was shown at the State Theater, which was cool.

Bruce and I had a great convo today about the need for quality men and women to shape the lives of younger followers of Jesus. Bruce's calendar is full with appointments to meet young men who are hungry for more depth, more direction, more spiritual life. He said what we've been hearing and seeing all over the place:

the church has taken the incredible life-giving/life-shaping process of learning to follow Jesus, named it discipleship, and turned it into a program. Come to these meetings, work through the study-book, and presto! you're a disciple. What we really need is mature followers of Jesus to make it a priority to speak into the lives of others.

I know what he means. We are in the same boat in our student ministry. We believe that life transformation happens best in small groups (community), led by quality leaders who will encourage the group grow, serve, share their faith, pray and worship together. That's the model that we are trying to follow. The key is finding those leaders. All our eggs are in that basket.