College Ministry: We began the year with a mid-week Bible study to 12-15 baseball players at Armstrong State University. This study was taught by both Paul Rodgers and our intern, Kyle Brent. We were able to retain Kyle through the summer to continue to teach our own collegians through a mid-week Bible study. Summer and December holiday Sunday School classes were taught by Paul Rodgers. Volunteers continued to serve our collegians through creating and sending care packages to each of them in the fall.
Careers: Your twenties can be a transient time of life, and we have had many come in and out of our fellowship, but the Lord has provided several godly lay leaders in that group for whom we are grateful. We still average between 30 and 40 on Thursday nights, but these leaders have helped to establish several other important aspects of the ministry. For one, there is more organic social interaction; not set up by Tim Shaw. But there are events that are organized that spin off of and out of our group. For another, we have a Tuesday Night Men’ s Small Group that studies the book of Isaiah and discusses life. Several of our young women have made it a priority to attend and bring others to the Women’ s Circle that meets in the evenings once a month at Anne Portell’ s house. Besides this, others have gotten involved with Urban Hope and have been a helpful conduit to getting us more connected there. This has all been going on along side our planned monthly events( serving Urban Hope dinners, going to a Bananas’ game, paddling the Ebenezer, etc.).
But not only has this been happening among the single Twenties, but there has been good lay leadership among the Twenties young couples as well. They have organically made an effort to get together to watch football games and have meals. The New Covenant Sunday School Class was re-launched in an effort to get these young couples more involved, and overall it has been a success. We now average around 25-35 in the New Covenant Sunday School class.
Besides teaching and organizing this demographic( 20’ s), Tim Shaw’ s regular duties include hospital visitation, preaching on Wednesdays and Sundays, speaking in chapel at Veritas Academy and Savannah Christian School, and teaching the Drug Court Bible Study a couple times a month.
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