The Best of Both Worlds

Well, Ghana was amazing....one of the best weeks of my life. I've never felt so in tune to what God was doing in his kingdom. There is a song that constantly played in the radio in my head...and one line kept repeating itself until I drove myself crazy...."though we are many, we form one body, the body of Christ." It was amazing to meet the young people at the AACO/XLP school and to see the hope that they had for their own futures and for their nation because they had an opportunity to get an education and because people believed in them....They were young Ghanaian revolutionaries...
Ghana made me realized that my own future isn't set in stone. I promised Jesus that I would go anywhere he sent me and He is placing new things in my heart and new passions. I discovered that my passion isn't in truth the higher education world but, it is in fact the training up of young revolutionaries to shake up our own western world. The two biggest passions in my life still make my world go round, Education and Youth. Im just praying that somehow I can get them to fit together.
But I do know that Im interested in living in both worlds. In the youth worker world and in the higher education world. Maybe my calling is to educate youth workers? Ive seen alot of bad youth leaders and youth ministers in my day, both injure themselves and the young people they work with. If these youth workers would have had better training none of this would have happened.
So anyways, I have the oppertuinity to try my hand at this by staying here in London for another year to be a second year student on the Southwark team. Not only to I get to work with the same awesome young people, I get to help guide the new XLP students on my team, helping them to be better youth workers. And I'll be like a second in command to our fearless leader Chris. But don't worry I'll be back to good old Kentucky for the summer....I miss the wheat too much...Jokes, I miss you all something fearce.
After my second year, who knows? Maybe I'll end up at Asbury Seminary after all, doing a youth work degree, or continue on and get a masters in education and teach high school history. Or maybe even move back to Ghana and serve the people there. Im open for what Jesus has for me. Im living in the best of all worlds..