I am finding more and more that church people think that to do youth ministry does not cost anything. Once you hire the minister then that is all that is going to cost them. I am currently in a church were I need to raise my own operating cost for the ministry. I wish that I could post what students do in a typical year and what that cost. I think people would be surprised by the cost factor. I am learning day to day how I need to rely on God for this funding. Being new to this church is fun in a lot of ways but not having money to rent a van when we need to take a trip is starting to drive me crazy. We just finished a fundraiser called Change for Change. The hope is to raise awareness and money for the operating cost for the youth ministry this year. This next Sunday we are going to count all the change that was given to us over the corse of the last month. Trusting God is tough. But I must do it. Its His ministry not mine.
