Wednesday evening is Mosaic Student Ministries around here.  For those new to my blog, Mosaic as we know it has been going now for about 18 months.  Mosaic is the student ministries portion of Preston Wesleyan Church.  We have a wonderful volunteer staff of seven adults.  Many thanks go to Vicky, Rhonda, Gayle, Dreama, Connie, Mary, and Pam.  I am the lone male influence and not only do I serve as pastor of Preston Wesleyan, but I also serve as the student ministries pastor for now. 

Mosaic is a “bringing in” ministry.  Most of our students are picked up by our staff and brought to church and then we take them home.  I’ve mentioned this before, but bus ministry still exists in small towns like Martinsville.  Several of Martinsville’s big churches have multi-bus fleets that go around picking up students.  So, Preston Wesleyan and Mosaic has a van ministry.  Instead of guessing who to pick up, we ask our students to call us if they are coming to church.  For the most part this works well, occasionally we will have a glitch.  By the amount of calls that came in this afternoon, I thought we were going to have a small crowd, but by the time we gathered for worship, we had 16 students along with 7 staff for a total of 22.  This is small compared to earlier in the year, but larger than two years ago. 

Pam had a great class of high school girls and the high school boys that I taught weren’t too bad either.  Gayle deserves the patient servant award tonight for teaching the middle school class (7 girls and 2 boys) and the two boys talk as much as the girls. 

So what does a typical night of Mosaic look like?  We gather all the students for a time of musical worship for about 15 minutes.  Then we split up for 30 minutes by ages.  At the end of the evening, several of our ladies have been cooking up a delicious snack.  Tonight it was sloppy joes and potato chips. 

From what I can tell, we had a great night of ministry.  Thank you for your prayers.  God bless you and have a great week.