Discovering Community

Excerpt from Chapter 1:  Stand at the Cross Roads - The youth program's mission at my Houston church was to provide fellowship, build faith-forming relationships, learn to live life abundantly, and to worship passionately.  Although I'd always known intellectually that Jesus is there for us, I'd never realized that one way He accomplishes this feat is by working through His people.  In guiding me to volunteer with the youth program, He gave me the opportunity to learn.   I was learning what I taught as I taught it.  Yet as I coached these kids to be open, trusting, accepting, and to seek support and guidance from their Christian friends, I felt like a complete fraud.