My Project Role!

For those of you who don't know, during each year at Ocean City Summer Project the staff who are leading it leave halfway through the summer and hand the reins over to the students. The students take over every single position that the staff had and have complete control over what direction we take the summer. This is a really exciting opportunity, but at the same time really sad that we have to say goodbye to the staff so early.

With that being said, this is the staff's last week here and they assigned us our jobs this past week. My role for the summer will be Project Director of the Servant Team. I am on the Student Leadership team with 3 other men and 4 women. Now to many of you, these titles mean absolutely nothing, so I will do my best to describe the role. The Student Leadership team is composed of the students who will be planning the entirety of the rest of project. We are in the process right now of planning the last five weeks of project in only a week. As PD of the Servant Team, my role is to oversee a lot of the different committee directors (other students) and to serve them and lead them to the best of my ability. Thankfully, there is a female counterpart to my role who is one of my good friends from Northwestern, Priscilla Liu. I'm really excited to be working with her.

I need a lot of prayer. I am feeling really overwhelmed right now with the responsibility placed on me in trying to lead so many people when I don't even see myself as more mature spiritually. Specifically for this week, I am overwhelmed with how much we have to get done in planning the rest of project. I'm feeling more and more inadequate as I learn more about what I do. I am even experiencing a good amount of worry and anxiety knowing that the decisions we make will have an immense impact on how project finishes. On top of that, I'm struggling with the fact that some people are upset with their roles and some people may be upset I was chosen for the leadership team. Please pray that I would find my sufficiency in Christ and that I would boast in my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me. Please pray for creativity and vision as the Student Leadership Team plans the rest of summer. Please pray that all the students on project would remain united in Christ and not be divided by our roles. Pray that I will not worry or have anxiety, that I would rest in the peace and comfort of Christ. Pray that my desires would not be to satisfy the perishable needs of man but to serve the Creator of the Universe.

Thanks so much. I really appreciate your prayers.