Emphasis Preaching Journal

I can remember back when I was serving a large suburban congregation as one of two associate pastors. One of my areas of responsibility was the youth ministry program. We had set up as a goal for the summer sharing in a service work project in the Tennessee area with Mountain Outreach Project of the United Methodist Church. This was a mission project with more than 400 youth coming together at various weeks during the summer to work in poverty-stricken areas of the south. I organized 35 youth and five adults to make the trip south to spend one week in mission with the Mountain T.O.P.