By the way I'm sad to see so few comments on this ...
23 Jan 2008 9:10pm GMT By the way I'm sad to see so few comments on this post. It only supports that as a fellowship we really don't know what to do with the 'single' issue.
Amen. Somehow calling, gifting and anointing beca...
23 Jan 2008 9:06pm GMT Amen. Somehow calling, gifting and anointing became synonymous with the term married. We became more spiritually aware once married verse single, or that single is second best. Whether an unmarried single a divorced single or a widowed single – we are here and we are becoming the lions share of the demographics of the fellowship. Isn’t about time we also figure out how do to Single’s Ministry better!?
Brad, I've been reading futureag for some time now...
23 Jan 2008 4:32am GMT Brad, I've been reading futureag for some time now, I love your points of view. Blessings on your marriage, glad to hear that you were successful "despit" your singleness. By the way, this is Aaron Jackson, from Bethany! I'm a Foursquare Worship & Student Ministries Pastor at Lifebridge Church in Fort Wayne. Look me up sometime, buddy! Aaron
I've been single for 6 1/2 years now, purposefully...
11 Jan 2008 4:03am GMT I've been single for 6 1/2 years now, purposefully single for about 5 1/2 of that. The only life as a minister I know is as a single guy. My last girlfriend was in high school in 2001, started leading a cell in 2003, and started planting the Chi Alpha ministry in 2006 which I still run. God blessed me with a female friend who was already at the school who understood the Chi Alpha structure as well as leadership, so I didn't have to raise her up.At one point in the ministry, she was the only...
I so appreciated your post and can identify with i...
8 Jan 2008 2:42pm GMT I so appreciated your post and can identify with it as a single missionary.True story: I attended a church for 2 yrs, sat in the same area every week... A male friend came with me one Sunday, immediately people that sat all around me every week began to talk to me as if I was suddenly visible (asking if we were new!). The following week I was invisible again. I later moved and thankfully the new church "saw" me from the very beginning. I am a part of many families in that congregation and they...