We had our first board meeting for Project 311 last night. Project 311 is a non-profit ministry whose desire is to simply love and support students and youth pastors. The Ministry is built around John 3:11: This is the message we have heard from the beginning... We should love one another. It's not about competing with youth ministries, but to support the local church, which we believe is the hope of hte world. We want to teach students how to love each other and especially how to love the unlovable. The ultimate vision is to ignite an urgency in students to love God passionatley and to love others selfllessly. We're going to accomplish all of this through the creation of events (conferences, concerts and camps), resources (books, magazines, web sites, video, music, etc) and reinforcement through communities, support and networks.

It's an amazing vision that has been mapped out in tremendous detail and vision and is moving at a very fast pace. It's built on a network of youth pastors in the metro-detroit area that extends to resources across the country. One of our first large events is coming up in early July called Blitzfest. It'll be a huge festival, held out here in the South Lyon/New Hudson area at a large park. It's geared as a positive event for kids in the area and a fun event for youth groups to come to and hang out. It's being down put on in conjuncion with the City of South Loon and should be huge.

The board that I'm a part of is a great one - very diverse in background - two youth pastors, an attorneys, an entrepeneur, a real estate broker, two finance guy, and me - 8 of us all together. There's this common thread of having worked in youth ministry roles in a significant way, with a common passion of junior high youth ministry - makes the group equally odd. This is really the first board I've been a part of, so I'm looking forward to learning how this works. My passions for seeing junior high kids reached and tought out to reach out to their friends along with Youth Pastors and their spouses connected and supported connect well with this ministry. I'm excited to begin this whole thing and see where it goes.