We have arrived safely in Honduras with no problems. =3B Praise God!&nb= sp=3B Customs did not open one of our bags and in fact all of the bags made= it here safely. =3B We have had an amazing morning so far and I will c= ome back and post more after our services tonight. =3B Please pass the = word that we are here safely! =3B
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I love you Christina=2C William=2C and Jackson!
In Christ=2C
Kenny

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Well. It is going to be a late night so we needed one last North American treat to help us make it.

For everyone following through the blog here is our first update. We successfully made it in with all of the bag checks for the trip. It has been very smooth so far and the group is excited about our mission.

To my two boys William and Jackson, I love you and be good for your Mom. I will write more soon.

We are one day out from our church's mission trip to Honduras. Stay tuned to this blog as we will try to update it frequently from the field. We will see you all very soon with stories of what God is doing around the world.

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"In the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message, one area begins with "Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation." One does not need to be a supporter of the Southern Baptist Convention to understand the reality that people do in fact matter to God. This is even so for those that would contend that "church's can become too large." So, if this student's math is correct then numbers are important because every person that we see is a person created in God's image that will spend eternity in one of two places. Therefore, numbers are important to God. Through the understanding given by the Holy Spirit, the apostle Paul identified this truth. This is one reason for his travels to the city of Corinth that we read about in Acts 18.

    Luke writes, "After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth." (Acts 18:1, ESV) In his commentary, Stott points out that, "It is true that some of the towns Paul visited were small and insignificant. This could not be said of Athens, Corinth and Ephesus, however." He also explains that "Corinth at its zenith had nearly three-quarters of a million" people. Corinth was positioned as a great commercial centre due to its great location while Athens was the center of philosophy and its schools of thought. What also made Corinth an incredible location was that it was located on a cape that allowed it to have two ports. So, in addition to allowing commercial trade by land it easily was a central location and holding area for goods between nations as well.

    Therefore, one can see that incredible amounts of cultural differences that made up this city and aided it in becoming such a metropolitan area. This type of situation faces us today as well for those that desire to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses."

So, why San Pedro Sula, Honduras? San Pedro Sula is a cultural epicenter in the northern region of Honduras. As you have read above, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, the apostle Paul was not random in his strategy in reaching the nations for the glory of God. In contrast, he was laser focused! Precise! Corinth was the crossroads of culture and commerce for that part of the world in those days and serves as a symbol for strategies in missions today. Corinth was an opportunity to reach more people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as serving as an intentional base for reaching the areas that it connected to. In the same way, San Pedro Sula is this type of city in Honduras. Pray that our team and Dan Moran ministries will do the same thing through the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Southern Baptist Convention, "The Baptist Faith and Message," Southern Baptist Convention, http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp (accessed April 2, 2008). This particular quote is under article III titled "Man.".

John R.W. Stott, "Acts 18:1 - 19:41," in The Message of Acts (Leicester, England and Downers Grove, Il: Varsity Press, Inter, 1990), 293.

Ibid.

Kenny Norris, "Exegesis Paper on Acts: The apostle Paul in Corinth," (April 2008).

Quoted from http://www.lifeway.com/studentstrategy/index.asp:

Know. Own. Known.

Known Powerpoint

For our student ministry leaders that would like to get ahead on studying the heart and Scriptural reasoning behind our new discipleship strategy, I invite you to view the PowePoint  about Known above.  If you have any questions, then please email me or give me a call.  Please be in prayer that God would send workers to join us in this journey. 

Quoted from http://www.lifeway.com/studentstrategy/index.asp:

Know. Own. Known.

Strategy: Online Presentation with Paul Turner

While we are in the process of discussing this new process, above is a link to an online presentation from Paul Turner of Lifeway Research about why there was a need to create this new strategy for discipleship in student ministry.  Watch it.  Take notes.  Get excited!  This goes directly with our philosophy of Thirteen Days for student ministry at FBC Sylacauga and for the everything we do has a purpose!

Quoted from http://www.lifeway.com/studentstrategy/:

Know. Own. Known.

For our student ministry team that reads my blog on a regular basis, the above is a link to what we will be implementing as our discipleship strategy.  Get ready!  It is going to be a joy to guide our students through this process. 

"Leadership is stewardship. It is temporary and you are accountable." This statement was made by Andy Stanley at the 2007 Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It is often easy to forget that we have all been given the opportunity and obligation by our Creator through His Son Jesus Christ a certain realm of influence. No matter what our position in society we have a certain amount of influence on somebody else. Webster's dictionary defines a steward as,

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So, as you go throughout this day that God has given you and this week, remember that you have been given this time to manage as a leader. How will you use it? Who is watching?