This month we have been meeting as a ministry team and let me tell you God has given us such a momentum, I am so excited to do youth ministry this year like never before. This past sunday night we were discussing ways to impart and disciple into our next generation and to fuel their faith for Jesus. One thing I believe is that we have such a great team, I know our young people are blessed. One of my goals is to envision our leaders to be their best for God and to challenge themselves to excel in their ministry. Next week as a team we are dedicating a night of prayer to pray for our youth and the city. I’m beleiveing God for the unexpected in our youth ministry and I believe he will do something phenominal. Here are some things I will be sharing on Sunday with our team and interns.

Five  Essentials that I will be sharing 

1. The team must embrace the vision-

• God gave a burden to rebuild the walls of jerusalem. After he seen the walls destroyed, he began to pray and fast to the Lord as he interceded for the people. The Lord gave him a vision. 
• As a team we must embrace the vision and look beyond the appearance , God has called the G.A.N.G. to reach hurting young people and many times we fall into the danger of how are we going to build this rather than build the people. The team must embrace the vision and mission of God’s Anointed Now Generation. 

2. Every Person on the Team must know their role. 

• Each person has value and should be in their power-spot. If its evangelism then it needs to be evangelism, if its junior high then jr high. How many times as youth leaders do we put people in a place of ministry and find out that its not their passion or gifting to be there. 
• We must evaluate the passion of our youth leaders and direct them to where God can raise them up to be the best they can be. 
• Remember ” When One Wins, We all Win” 

3. The Team Must have Chemistry-

• This is vitally important because if anyone on the team don’t like each other or like working with each other then the results can be negative. This is what I call a lot of dropped balls and there will be no rhythm on how ministry can get done.
• That is why its important that team building is emphasis, some ideas are to hang out once a month and fellowship with one another. Or maybe have dinner together and share laughs. 
• As the team builds in this then you will begin to each team player want to give their best at any cost, trust their life with one another, share blessings and victories. 

4. The team must value communication-

• How many times have heard or even said ‘ I didnt know about it” That could be one frustration that can setback a powerful team.
  

There are three things to strive for in communication with the team and they are

1.   Consistency – There must be consistency in coomunicating the vision and plans for ministry 
   
2. Clarity- There must be clear direction and understanding of the vision, this is the part where WE MUST SLOW DOWN and be clear..
   
3.  Courtesy- We must be kind to one another and not abuse any position we may have on the team. 

5. The team must know how to gracefully resolve any CONFLICTS ( hello) 

Some steps to settle some unresolved conflicts are 

1. Speak the truth in love ( You will need to speak because you care and not that you are trying to jam the person) 
2.  Seek to understand the others point of view. 
3.  Seek to understand common ground. 
4.  Make expectations clear. 
5. NO THIRD PARTY HE said , She Said. LOL Thats a faithful one

Remember we can not build the G.A.N.G. all by our selves we will need a powerful team to explode our youth ministry and God has blessed the G.A.N.G. with people that can make a difference. Just Nehemiah , he could not do it on his own but God raised up a team.

Every friday night, our youth ministry God’s Anointed Now Generation gets together for a powerful youth service here in San Diego. Just recently we moved our services from Wednesday to Friday nights, let me tell you it has been phenominal! I love it when I see young people come and get challenged in their faith for God. Tonight we are in store for yet another exciting service the message the Lord has placed in my heart is on the subject of “Writing your destiny: Its a second part to last weeks message “When God writes your story”

The goal tonight is to envision our young people to write their goals and dreams down and create the plan to acheive them. In the book of Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 2 the passage reads  Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who read it, For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie Though it tarries, wait for it;  Because it will surely come,  It will not tarry

Its plain and clear that God wants us to have goals and acheive them. There are some big plans in store for our lives, but in order for us to acheive greatness we must identify with a God given plan by meeting simple goals to see the vision fulfilled. Also we will need a strong support of family and friends. T-mobile came out with a feature a few years ago called my fave five, which allowed you to program in your top five people that you call all the time. When it comes to fulfilling your God given destiny not only are we going to need the plan from God, but we will need people in our lives that will truly be a support in what want to accomplish. Find the ones that will support  and encourage you  in your walk of faith and you likewise will be a blessing to them.

Take a minute and look at some goals you may have in the next few months or even years. Begin to pray and ask the Lord for the steps you need to accomplish what you want to do for him…..