Here We Go

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
Isaiah 43:19a ESV

As the month of May begins, this verse rings in my heart and mind. A new thing, do you not perceive it? The verses that proceed and follow verse 19 declares that God is Israel's savior, and that He will be the one to rescue and redeem. But this time, it's going to be different. New.

I love that God is into the NEW. He's not afraid to break from tradition and start fresh. We see Him do new things throughout the Old Testament. And we see Him doing new things in our lives.

Today marks the second month of my role with NNYM. So far it's been a lot of behind the scenes learning and preparation. Amy and I attended a support raising "bootcamp". Two days of learning how to organize and raise support for your ministry. It was incredibly helpful and encouraging.

But now it's time to get to it. It's time to begin our support raising. It's time to begin strategizing and planning how we want to reach the Appalachia area. It's time to start meeting youth leaders.

I am so excited to be on the NNYM team. While it's a "new" ministry job, there's a certain familiarity to what I will now do. In many ways I've already been doing networking, mentoring and coaching. But this is different. And there is so much of it that it really is NEW. While I don't know where all of this is going to lead, I do know that it's going to be an amazing adventure! Here we go!

​- jay