We are entering into a brand new season here at our church. We have officially planted Elevation church by sending Pastor Kenny and about eighty adults and children to be a new congregation for the emerging city of Buckeye, AZ. The principle of planting is that we should be patient to reap a harvest. The harvest should be two fold. Elevation Church should grow and reach many souls, and we should see many new people replace those we sent out and reap an abundance of more. I see this is already happening. Some of you are being stirred by the Holy Spirit to reach out and get more involved in your local church. You are asking, “How do I start getting involved in ministry?” I am going to start answering this question in my message today. We will have our education buildings open April 22nd and our entire education ministry including the Skyway Internship will be started up once again. Many of the Skyway leadership and Staff you see today started through this in the past. We are also opening our Chaplain Ministry for the very first time. Both of these ministries are designed for people who are ready to get involved and make a difference in their world. The key to building a long lasting ministry is to have teams of people who know one another after the spirit and are excited to work together. We have found that the intern class is a great place for this to happen. The title, “Intern” or “Chaplain” might sound like a lot of work, but in reality it is where our future leaders of ministries will grow together in the Lord and see an exponential growth in spiritual maturity and excitement. Those who participate in this training are able to find others with like expressions of spiritual interests. We then link the people together to staff or start new ministries and our chaplains will assist in pastoral care of the congregation. We try to fill our ministry personnel needs from the excited individuals that are in these training classes. We do not set requirements of finishing internship before ministry begins, we believe that internship allows people to continually have spiritual encouragement while they do ministry. I turn to the interns to hear what the Holy Spirit is stirring in their hearts as we look at starting new ministries and I also share my ideas with this group to find volunteer leaders and ministry staff. We have found that this process gets ministry started off right and allows the ministry to continue for long periods of time, even when original leaders or members may seek a change of spiritual service in the future. All of this is about to begin as sign up is taking place in the breeze way between services. Pastor Sherry Holliday is our instructor for the Internship and Bob Singleton is the director of our Chaplain Ministry. For those of you who are looking to get involved, this is the right door to enter into a long and encouraging ministry environment that will not end with spiritual burn out. It is my hearts desire to see everyone operating in their spiritual gifts in a healthy atmosphere that allows spiritual growth and seasons of refreshing along the way. If this sounds like something you would be interested in hearing more about contact Pastor Sherry Holliday (pastorsherry@skywaychurch.com) or Bob Singleton to learn more about these important opportunities.