Part-time Job

Last Saturday, I accepted the offer to work part-time as a pastoral intern at a local church here in Toronto. The church is a branch of the main church where I used to pastor back home in the Philippines. One of the things that I told the lead pastor here in Toronto was that I didn't want to work at the youth ministry. It was quite an odd request since I was a youth pastor for 2 years and the youth ministry will always have a special place in my heart. I just felt that I needed to be exposed to other areas of church ministry to broaden my experience. Besides, they already had a youth worker who's doing very well and I didn't want to take his job away from him. The church gave me the task of developing the small groups, training leaders, and overseeing the young adults ministry. I find the task quite overwhelming and challenging but certainly exciting. I'm open to God teaching me different things in the months or even years that I'll be working at this church. The only thing I don't like about it so far is the title "pastoral intern." I've already had that title for 2 years. I guess that's just trivial matters anyway. ;)