Going to First Congregational

Today in the mail I received the official job offer of Director of Youth Ministry at First Congregational Church of Ramona, the church in which I was raised and to which I feel most connected. I have been looking forward to officializing this thing, as I have been anticipating working there for quite a while now. I guess I always had a feeling I would end up going back to our little church and I am extremely excited to actually begin teaching and building relationships with the students and giving myself to this church. As of August 1st, I will be the Youth Director. This is an important transition in my life as well as in the life of our church. This is a year of new beginnings for me and my church, as our Pastor who has been there all my life is leaving and I am entering in. It is truly bitter-sweet, I'm sure, for all of us and through this we will grow closer together we will share in the bitter-sweetness together.

It's bitter-sweet indeed--saying goodbye to one place to which I have grown so attached (see the previous post) and saying hello to another place about which I am very excited. I suppose I will feel this more and more in the coming weeks as I try to cope with the reality of being graduated and moving on to another phase of life. I can do nothing if I cannot hope that, in all this, God is near and God is breathing.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Congrats! Keep us up to speed on how things develop.
nate said…
Awesome! Congratulations Wes! It is encouraging to hear that some kids are going to be hearing some truth deeper than, "Jesus good....Cigarettes bad."

i'm def happy for you!
Anonymous said…
Oh yeah, pastor Wes! glad they didn't talk to me about you!

Seriously, I'm proud of you!

Loves,
Robin