Trinity Christian Ministry Report

Before we are even born God already has a plan for us. Even though he has a plan for us it is part of our jobs to try and figure out what path God wants us to go down. There are different events and people that shape who we are and where we head in our lives. We are trying to further our lives and follow God’s plan and that plan is to go into ministry. We need to see how we even got to the point of where we are now. By doing this we need to know who helped form us, what society or environment we are in, and even what classes we take in college. How did we get where we are today? Well first we need to look at the people who helped form us. This would include people such as family, friends, colleagues and even ones church. For me the family …show more content…
I need to put this much effort in if I want to satisfy the Lord and to further his kingdom. To be able to do this I need to learn how to even go about teaching in a ministry and the classes I have taken so far here at Trinity have definitely influenced me. I am currently in two Church and Ministry classes and they have been such a huge impact on me. The first class being CHML 202 which is a focus on youth ministry. This class is slowly helping me learn what it takes to have a successful youth ministry if that is the desired field of ones’ choice. This class has helped open my eyes to one small section of ministry and realize how much work it takes to do ministry even if it is youth ministry which seems like the easiest of ministries. The other Church and Ministry class that has influenced me while being at Trinity is CHML 101. This class has encouraged us to think deeply and about ideas that we have never really thought about before. We have been reading books that help us get a better perspective on what ministry could look like and one of those books that has been a good insight is The Pastor by Eugene Peterson. I have considered being a pastor later on in my life and reading this book has been an interesting and great insight. We have been writing haiku’s for this book and one of the haiku’s that I wrote was this, “Vocation or Job? Pastor a secular job? In us God worships.” When I read this about being a pastor, I realize that so many people treat being a pastor as a job and that is the wrong way to approach that. It is so easy to get burnt out in doing this but as Cyneatha and also Matt said when they both guest spoke in our class that we need to be involved with other duties outside of the church and further God’s kingdom that way. We need to