Youth Pastor Resume | Bad Days Better

If you would like to see my resume just to see how it is constructed perhaps to write yours feel free to download it.  If you are interested in contacting me for a position in your church or to speak then download my resume at the link below and contact me.  God Bless.  

To download right click and select save as and save it to your hard drive.  Just remember where you saved it.     youth-pastor-resume

Bad Days Better | Bad Days Better

You have made my day Even in stormy weather I’m dancing in all the rain

Cause you make bad days… 

Great is the way When you come to mind I am smiling ear to ear Sweet thoughts of you I’m always in the mood To twirl around with you While it’s raining

Even if it’s a dream

Great is the way That I am unafraid When I see you

All my fear goes away

Bad days are coming Rainy days are always around But if I can see you One glance upon you

The sun comes out

I’m dancing in all the rain
Cause you make bad days better

Discouraged | Bad Days Better

Mar 31

Posted by Josh

I admit that I rarely allow discouragement to get the better of me.  I typically am the type of person that allows most things to roll off my back and then move on.  God has allowed me to go through alot of challenges in my life and in ministry but I can’t think of a time where I have been more discouraged.  I understand and realize that God is definitely in control of all things and I suppose sometimes that is where discouragement seems to set in.  Because in the reality of everything I am in control of nothing.  It seems that lately I have been continually reminded of this.  God has continued to teach me humility and sometimes that daily prayer that I say “God reveal in me those things that are not of You” just gets harder and harder.  There are days I don’t want to say it but I continually am confronted with those thing that are not of God that are in my life.

I am so thankful that God has given me the opportunity to intern at making and I am doing one of the things that I love most which is ministering with students.  I have had the opportunity to speak on Wednesdays and Sundays and it has been awesome sometimes to see the teens response the word of God.  I have had numerous teens come and counsel with me after a message and tell me what God has spoken to them.  In addition I have had adults do the same thing.  God has truly blessed.  However I know that God has called me to full time Christian Service and I guess that is where the discouragement comes in.

I t is so hard to know that God has called you to something and yet feel like you are not doing what God has called you to do.  For the first time in my life I have questioned what God has called me to do.  I know God has called me but I suppose it is hard when you sit back and you wait on Gods plan to unfold.  So often we want things to happen so fast.

I have given my life to christian service.  In the last 14 years I have served in two churches and have  seen numerous teens come to know Christ as savior.  I have seen numerous teens be baptized, and have seen numerous teens live out there faith.  I pray that I have effected lives in ways that I will never know and I pray that God has somehow used me to change peoples lives forever.  However I continue to find myself asking God “what about now God”  God amI done?  God are my days of full time ministry over?  Have I done all  that you wanted me to accomplish in full time ministry?  I feel  the answer comes back no that God has more for me.  Oh but it is so hard when you cannot see it.  This is just how I feel.

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Word Of Life | Bad Days Better

Apr 27

Posted by Josh

Yesterday (4-26) I had the awesome privilege of being a room host at our Regional Teens Involved.  If you are not familiar with Teens Involved it is a competition that is hosted by Word Of Life (if you are not familiar with them then that can be another blog) anyway at this competition teens can compete in 23 different categories.  Yesterday I hosted the instrumental room which was a riot for me because I know very little about music.  What I was so impressed with was the quality of teens that were in this competition. I had the wonderful opportunity to pray with every teen before they performed and to chat with them briefly and wow.  We hear so much bout our teens doing bad things and this and that but these teens wanted to be there.  These teens wanted to give what they had to the Lord.  Specifically I remember one young lady playing her violin and I was nearly moved to tears.  My heart was encouraged being with those teens.

My heart was also encouraged as I had the opportunity to hear two young men preach.  These young men are special to me as I have had the opportunity to be a part of their life and have even lead one of them to Christ.  It was so awesome to hear them clearly lay out the gospel and clearly give a plan of salvation.  It was neat to hear that they had taken my advice.  Though I am saddened to not be their Youth Pastor anymore do to my recent resignation (thats another blog), I am excited to see them live for the Lord.  Both these guys and many others hold a special place in my heart more so then they or anyone else will probably ever know.  Guys if you read this you did an awesome job and I am so proud of you,

Teens are the church of now and into the future and it is a joy to see them serve.  I would encourage you if you are involved in a church what are you passing on to those that are below you.  Look for someone to get involved with and pass the things of God on to them.

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Teaching | Bad Days Better

It has been along time since I have posted primarily because I have been so busy.  I know that is hard to believe that I have been busy without a job but I sure I have been.  Rather than update about Mike Erre’s book (I will do that later) I thought I would just give some things that have been going on in my life.

I’ll start with the crusade we recently had.  I meet with one of our Pastors pretty regularly and I really enjoy the time I get to spend with him.  Leading up to the crusade he asked me if I would like to help with train the counselors I of course jumped at the opportunity because this is the very thing I love to do.  So I spent a few nights getting things ready and going over the training and then we trained the counselors for two evenings, to be ready for the response we were expecting during the crusade.  The Impact Macon Crusade was February 22-25 and I was there every night.  We saw God move in a remarkable way during that week we saw over 100 decisions for Christ and over 90 0n one night.  I must say I was not ready for over 90 people to respond to the gospel that night but it was wonderful.  Hey they were all counseled to.

Secondly I was asked if I could teach a book of the Bible to the youth what book would it be.  I replied I would go through the book of James and the response was “why don’t you teach it” of course I jumped at that any time I get a chance to teach some teens I am going to do it.  So on Sunday nights I am taking our Student Overflow through James.  I pray and hope they are enjoying it.  I have already taught through James so I already have the messages done, but if you know me you know I spend a great deal of time with message prep even if I have already done it before and making sure I am saying what the Lord wants me to say.

Thirdly the first week in March I started taking over the Wednesday evening teaching to the Youth.  This has been going great once again I love teaching the teens.  On Wednesdays I typically play a game with them and then we go over prayer requests and then I teach.  I desire to see both these ministries grow tremendously and I have seen God definitely working on the hearts of some of the teens that come.

Fourthly I received a call from the principal here at Atlanta school and was asked if I could come in and teach Science while the current teacher is away on maternity leave.  I accepted the position.  Which if you are a teacher you know the work that gos into lessons and so forth.  So for the next few weeks I am now a Science teacher.  I must say that teaching in the public school is a lot different then teaching in Christian School, or teaching at church, however the kids seem to like me as a teacher and some even thanked me for teaching.

Finally all of this has been happening while still sending out resumes (required for state aid) and while going through an interview process with a church that is interested me.  So yeah I have been busy but hey I like being busy.  Please pray I will be directed to the church God wants me at and that I will know it and so will the church.

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