I work as a discipleship counselor and trainer full time at Grace Ministries. The job involves a great deal of personal interaction, which I love, but it can also be stressful because God leads the people who come to me to face the most broken and wounded places in their lives. If I had to carry the burden of all the emotional pain and struggle that I hear about even just from one week, it would be overwhelming. Thankfully, that's not how I see my job at all. My job is to be present to people, as a willing manifestation of the love and life of Jesus, and to let Him speak to them, minister to them, heal their pain, deal with their flesh and reveal their spiritual identity in Him.
One of the reasons I felt called to work at GMI was so that I could continue to learn and grow in my own relationship with Christ, and to continually come to discover new health through His Life in me. I experience Him most profoundly in the midst of serving and teaching the message of Life that He has given me to share. So, I am on my own journey. As part of that journey I began to meet with a mentor of my own this year, Clarence Ledford. Clarence has a lifetime of experience on the mission field around the world, but what really drew me to him was the obvious peace and authority that comes from an intimate relationship with Jesus. Clarence has generously opened his heart to spend time in listening prayer with me on a regular basis, and for that I am truly grateful, because the results in my own experience of intimacy with Jesus have been phenomenal. The results of learning how to listen patiently and closely to the Spirit are already having an effect on the way I minister to the people God brings my way at GMI.One of the roles I have been called to at GMI is to be the storyteller for the ministry, to get the message of Grace out to people through sharing the testimony of those who have come to an encounter with Jesus. I will be doing this through newsletters, and other means that God has only just begun to show me. I hope that you will follow along as I go on this journey of discovering how to capture what the Spirit is doing in people's lives.
Another role that I play here is to participate on two committees as part of what we are calling the Good to Great process. To see the book we read and the process we went through look here. The first group is designed to develop the roots of our organization, to assist the staff with support raising, and work through policies and procedure to create the most efficient and effective work environment. The second group, called the lighthouse, to begin in four months time, will be focused on developing new materials and nurturing creative endeavors among the staff of this ministry.
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