All For One

Do you remember the news story a few years about the nine coal miners who were trapped in a Pennsylvania mine and miraculously survived after 3 days?

I saw an interview with the 9 miners. I heard many amazing things that struck me, but the one in particular stood out...

It was HOW they survived.

They said they determined when they were down there that ALL of them would survive or NO ONE would survive. They had decided this so firmly in their minds that all 9 of these men TIED themselves to each other. It was all or nothing!

It was because they worked together and stayed together that all nine of these men made it through alive. (And by God's mercy and help!)

I don't in any way want to cheapen their story, because nothing about the trials of student ministry compares even slightly to surviving in a flooded mine shaft, but I do want you
to realize this...

If you want to succeed in student ministry you can’t do it alone. Jesus didn’t even try to do ministry alone! You have to build a team around yourself made up of students and adults. You have to find other friends who are leading other youth groups.

If you want really want to succeed in student ministry, then you need to find other friends that will "tie together" with you and decide to succeed together!