I wanted to share some pictures from the first night of Orange ’09.

I also wanted to share a little bit of what Reggie Joiner from ReThink talked about as well.  He spoke on how as student ministers we must equip parents to “do” ministry with their kids.

His entire talk was great – but one fact that really stood out to me was this. We get to spend an average of 40 hours a year ministering to one student. That’s it. Each student will be around the ministry around 40 hours. However they will be with their parents around 3000 hours a year! What we have to do is find ways to equip parents to use that 3000 hours well!

Also  - there are no picture perfect families. (The Cosby show was scripted by the way – it was NOT a real family.) We need to let families know that there are no PERFECT family.  It’s OK to be NOT perfect.  God is not interested in PERFECT families – He is interested in life change. He is interested in His story. His story in the life of that family. This is huge!

Anyway, there is more to come – and that is just 1/100 of what Reggie shared, but think on that. How can we equip parents to “do” ministry “with” their student? Ideas? Thoughts? How are you doing this?

{and enjoy the pictures!}