<---I'm just too emo for you! haha!
"God isn't into addition; He's into multiplication"
Amen to that. I can't wait for this coming school year, leading new freshman and being an example to my teamates and roomates. I know I'm where I'm supposed to be when I'm at school. I can't say much of the same anywhere else. I know I'm home for a reason and God has a purpose for every situation He puts us in...but i just don't feel like I belong here anymore. I haven't ever since I left for school 2 years ago. Granted, I didn't really feel like I belonged at school my first semester either, but that's mostly b/c I wasn't doing what God wanted or had planned for me, but He staightened me up and hooked me up with some awesome people at church and IV and now I know He's got me where He wants me (reminds me of the song Ken sings..."now that I've got you..." haha). And I'm talking about a physical location with physical relationships, I'm not saying I'm where I'm supposed to be in my walk with Him b/c I know that has to be growing every day until Jesus decides to bring me home...and then what? I want a legacy.
I loved Joel's prophecies over Pastor Mike last night at church. "You may want to take it easy b/c you think you're near the end, but you're not done" Joel pretty much just said that Pastor Mike will never leave b/c he's going to be sowing into a younger generation and leave his legacy of his faith and passion with those still here even after he is gone. I was actually thinking about that a few nights ago when I saw Mack up front at church. I'm not trying to make Kendra out to necessarily be anything special, but it just blows me away that instead of taking it easy her senior year of high school, she promised herself to make new friends and bring new people to church every week and Mack was one of those friends. Even after her being at school for a year, Mack is still there in part because she just took the time to invite him and made sure to sow into those younger than her. I was thinking about that and then last night when Joel was talking to Pastor Mike it hit me again.
It's something that Ron talked a bit about during a leadership meeting this past year too. "Have you been sowing into and encouraging new leaders for the coming years?" Honestly, no, I don't think I did or have. I believe it's only by God's grace that pretty much every guy in my Bible study this past year is now on the leadership team for this coming year. I don't think I had anything to do with that. I didn't sow into them individually, they just let Jesus work in them and I love all the leadership that is coming up for this year. It was exciting (and yet really sad for all the IV veterans) that by the last few months of the year, the Bible study I led and all the freshman were the ones doing work and reaching out to the campus. They all had such a great heart for this school they were at less than a year!
Now, I'm not saying noone else was doing anything, for all of you older kids who are maybe getting offended now. I'm just saying I saw all of the freshman step up and I'm so excited for their passion to reach the campus this coming year. All I know is that I want the freshman this year to have that same passion and I want to be able to bless and teach them as much as I know they will me, just like this past year. It was not merely a Bible study this past year, it was a group of friends haninging out and talking about Jesus. How much cooler could it get? I want more of that, Jesus!
~Cass | 
