Too much of a good thing?

Those who know me well, will understand that I have rarely ever had a strict focus on one project at a time. The one exception has been military training where I was able to do just one thing (and got very good scores as a result). 

The difficulty of course is knowing where the limits of effectiveness are. Right now I am doing military duty, subbing in the school district, ministering to a number of needy families, raising a family and all I the multiple levels of duties for a small church. It is plenty to keep me moving from dawn till dusk.

This week I was confronted by an opportunity. There is a community partnership developing around helping the youth of this community, linking several programs to the public school and providing resources for at risk teens. Our school runs over 50% on the free or reduced lunch program. 40% is sort if the bench mark for at risk schools, we have an abismal graduation rate, and an even lower college graduation rate.  

So I have been asked if our church can be a part if this cooperative, partnership, with the community providing help to the most at risk members of the community.

Here is the catch, I don't have enough people. I can't run another program. And yet I have been hoping and praying for this kind of opportunity to get to know and be known in the community, not as a place for the occasional handout, but as a place where the gospel motivates us to help people to genuine deep transformation.

If the grant proposal comes through, there would even be start up money that we could use to supply the after-school programs we have been dreaming about and potentially the parent and ESL programs as well, but it all takes man power. 

The oportunities as everywhere and that is a good thing, if I take them all without a significant distribution of the load, that will be too much of a good thing.  I need a few more people who want to do things with me, not for me, or for them but together for the glory of God an the good of his people.

As Jesus said, what is missing is workers.   

Right now the fields around us are white with snow, but also abundantly ready for harvest.  

Please pray The Lord of the harvest would send us laborers.