The Singles

Yeah, yeah, yeah only one post a day. I am watching the Longhorns destroy Kansas and emotionally can't do seminary work so here comes the third post of the day.

I am wanting to give you a picture of the different areas of my life. Does anyone really care?

I have been serving at First Baptist Church of Denton in the Singles Ministry for almost three years. I grew up at FBCD, walked away from it, then came back to it and have had three great years there. I am truly blessed to have a great church home. I am going to to do a post on "Why I am Baptist" soon to address the Baptist issue that many have.

Denton, Texas is a great community and FBCD is a wonderful church. It is made up of imperfect people just like me, yet people who really love each other. I have a critical mind when it comes to church therefore I can thrown stones at ole FBCD, but in reality it is a wonderful place. I have kind of knee jerked against the immature criticisms that some people throw at churches.

The Singles Ministry has truly been a blessing to me. I never thought I would be serving in a singles ministry but God clearly led me here and it has been great. This group has lovingly let me develop as a young man and a minister. The ministry has experienced growth since we arrived and we have seen some lives changed.

I love getting to have friendships with ladies in their 80's, baptizing the children of our single parents, and getting to hang out with people my age. It has also been a special blessing to Kristen and me to get to marry so many of our singles. We have a number of couples who met and married in our group. Kristen has a true gift in counseling and we really enjoy doing marriage counseling with them together.

I have also been blessed by the relationship that I have with our Singles Pastor Mike Green. Mike has protected my relationship with Kristen and my seminary education. He has also mentored me through many different ministry situations as well as life situations. We really have a great working relationship that has truly blessed me.

I received a comment from a fellow pastor in the area. If there are other young pastors reading, consider ministering in the area of single adults if you feel called to pastor. It is truly a great experience and I think better prepares a young man for pastoring a church than youth or college ministries.

I know that some of the singles will read this; to them I want to publicly say that I love each of you and am forever grateful for my years with you. Thank you for your love and support of Kristen and me. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.

In His Grace
Micah

P.S. If you would like to know more about FBCD or our Singles Ministry you can visit www.fbcd.net

P.S.S. Posted is a picture of Kristen and I at one of our Singles events