Intern Corner
You know, the water in Savannah is warm.
Compared to the cold rush of the Pacific in San Diego, it
is startlingly warm, calm, and good.
It reminds me of something one of my seminary
professors said to me as I considered entering into the
ministry. Jaimie and I, with Elizah Jane in tow, had
originally made the move across the country so that I
could study historical theology. I had hopes of going on
to doctoral studies and eventually the work of a college
professor. That was the plan anyways.
Many are the plans in the heart of man, but his steps are
the LORD’s.
Just two semesters into my studies I found myself standing
at the top of the stairway that led to the administrator’s
office to switch my major. No longer history, but ministry.
I was hesitant, unsure of the shift. Was this really where
God was leading? How had my steps led here? Maybe I
should just stick with the current plan?
I needed some counsel.
At that moment I remembered Dr. Dennis Johnson and
his perpetually open door. So down I went and turned
left at the foot of the stair instead of right. As usual he
was there sitting faithfully behind his desk with his usual
warm greeting. I did not sit down but jumped right into
the conversation.
“I need wisdom.”
He nodded expectantly.
“I am about to change the direction of my studies. I am
thinking about shifting from academics to the ministry;
do you have any advice?”
That is when he said it.
He smiled with a glint in his eye and with a welcoming
tone he said, “Come on in; the water is warm.”
And so far he is right. The water is warm.
What joy it has been to serve here in Savannah. What
a blessing to live in the lane and open our home to
the college students week after week. I am filled with
thankfulness as I consider the students, both SCAD and
covenant children, whom we have grown to love and
delight in, to pray for and see God at work in, and to
rejoice in the gifts He has given them. Truly the water
here has been warm.
I pray that this my joy would be infectious and that you all
would know, as I do, the pleasant warmth of the Savannah
water.
May God see fit to increase this joy by adding to the little
SCAD group (an official SCAD “dinner and conversation”
club is in the works) and blessing the college fellowship
this summer as we meet weekly to work through
First Timothy together.
—Evan Gear
I.P.C. College Summer Study
May 16 – July 25
Wednesdays ~ 8:00 p.m.
Whitaker Street Building
Summer Kickoff
~Studies in 1 Timothy~
BARBECUE
College Sunday School
May 23 ~ 7:00 p.m.
at the home of
Chuck & Kathy Moore
10 Shipyard Lane
MESSENGER
Administration Building
Room #72
“Let’s Study Leviticus”
(second floor classroom~overlooking Chippewa Square)
MAY 2018
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