After Bible college, Pr. Bob went back to his home church and worked for 3.5 years as the youth leader. Though he had opportunities to be involved in other ministries, but he felt a calling to work in central PA. When he first started working with that youth group, there was a group of about 10 students. 3.5 years later, when he left, the youth group was running around 170 students!
When asked, "how do you know what the will of God is?" Pastor Bob responded that he seeks the peace of God. He also said, pay attention to those red flags that come up! That is the Holy Spirit directing us to go in another direction.
When it was time for him to leave that youth group, and he was thinking about direction about where to go. He knew that his time at that youth group was over, and felt such a peace about going from Lebanon to Christian Life Assembly. At the time he went over to the new church, that church was dealing with a split and the youth group had shrunk down a LOT.
He was at Christian Life for about five years as a youth pastor. After that, he was asked to be an executive pastor. As the executive pastor, he is the right-hand man for the senior pastor. The senior pastor and the executive pastor must work together very well! The two must be knit together in heart, and do ministry as a team.
They were at Christian Life for quite a while, then went out to California to work with a church out there. After being there in California for a while, he realized God wanted them back in PA.
One of his main callings is to be a spiritual coach. In the last 20 years, he has mentored many many people. He described it like this:
I look at where people are, then think about
where they COULD be, then figure out how to
get them there.
There are so many facets that go into mentorship. It was really cool hearing from him about HOW to mentor someone - it is clear that his method is all about exponential growth. I think this would be a really cool thing to do for any future leader to prepare for positions of leadership or to mentor someone.
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