Week of...

Well this marks the beginning of ALL that has been planned. This Thursday morning at 9a we embark on year one of the official eSOM. We have had over a year run at having 6-8 interns who have been HUGELY successful. I look back over the last year and see so much that they have been responsible for. They have allowed me to concentrate on ministry in a very focused effort.

I am currently finalizing all the material for the class I am teaching, Evangelism. I have assembled about 150-200 pages of information for sharing your faith. I also am finishing up the last few details to the course syllabus that will be both challenging as well as rewarding for the students. In order for any reward to truly be worth it, I believe that one must be challenged first.

I am excited to say that we will have 10 students from the start. This includes all but one of our interns and then we have added one adult form our church and had a couple additions including my cousin who moved from the west valley to Mesa to join us for the eSOM.

I will begin building eSOM as a full package that can be relocated and planted in different regions of the state and country. It is the vision and providence of God that eSOM begins to be mobile and meet people where they are and join in churches that are willing to team up with Western Bible College and eSOM as well as RMCC. This is exciting as well as provides it's own challenges.

Evangelism and Evangelism Internship

I will be teaching Evangelism the first semester in the morning session for eSOM as an adjunct instructor of WBC. I am very excited. I have come to accept that as an eikon of God one of my purposes that God has given me and one of the few that ALL Christians share is that I must be evangelistic in life. The main textbook is "The Art of Personal Evangelism" and the second book is by Bill Hybels, "Just Walk Across The Room". I have heard that Bill Hybels book leaves out some important aspects of evangelism. I think

Another class that is complete parallel to this one is the Evangelism Internship that is 3 credits. This will be a great resource as a requirement for eSOM. We will be using our Causes as the main substructure. Currently 6 of our 7 Causes are already intern lead. The only one that isn't lead by an intern is our Special Needs Cause and that is lead by an amazing leader, Alice. Each Cause is evangelistic in it's approach through loving in action selflessly. Each of the leaders organize events for each of the Cause and meet with students at the events. I will be meeting with them in the first session of their Evangelism class to discuss what the internship will consist of and how to build their portfolio that will be required. I will help them figure out how to plan over the year to be building the portfolio. It will be a great semester as an opener.