Why I Like Senior Adults

I’m preaching a Senior Adult Revival this week. Guess I can throw away my Youth Revival sermons. As one who spent a few years serving on university campuses in collegiate ministry and now find myself doing a few senior adult ministry things, I can understand the conclusions drawn by another former student minister who is now a senior adult minister. He said there were four reasons why he enjoyed senior adult ministry more than student ministry: (1) with senior adults you don’t get phone calls after 10:00 p.m.; (2) with senior adults you never have to deal with angry parents; (3) with senior adults you never have to counsel with an unwanted pregnancy and (4) with senior adults, they’re supposed to be on drugs. Whatever your age group, I hope you can laugh at yourself this week. In the Bible you can only arrive at the seventeenth chapter of Genesis before reading, “Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed” (Gen. 17:17, NKJV). And the Psalmist proclaimed, “He who sits in the heavens shall laugh” (Ps. 2:4, NKJV).

I’m praying for the following global concerns this week and invite you to join me. By the way, I do get reports of answers to some of these requests since most come from acquaintances of mine. If you ever want a report, e-mail me at discipleallnations@pobox.com and I’ll try to provide it.
• A missionary friend reports, “a fundamentalist group is going from village to village destroying churches, burning houses, attacking and killing Christians. It is reported that thousands of extremists have been brought from Gujarat and Chhattisgarh to perpetrate this violence which has spread to all the districts of Orissa. Their agenda is to wipe out Christians and Christianity from India starting from Orissa.” Having been in Orissa a few years ago on a prayer journey, I am concerned.
• Another missionary friend wrote: “Things are becoming uncertain in Thailand due to the political climate and we need your prayers.”
• Pray for the Texas Baptist Men volunteers who are conducting a feeding operation for refugees in the Black Sea country of Georgia.
• Pray for missionary kids who are beginning school this month after their summer break.