This past week we had a very special service in our church, a first of it’s kind for us. As we mention often, our desire and prayer and focus is always on preparing people for the ministry and one of those men that the Lord has blessed us with is Isaac. He has been with us almost from the beginning and is close to finishing his studies. Our special service was focused on recognizing and explaining the call of God to the ministry. There are two aspects to that call, one internal and one external. The internal call is the overwhelming desire that the Lord gives us and the external, is the church recognizing the evidences of that call. In my message I explained that we are all responsible to reconcile the world to Christ but that there are some that the Lord calls into what some might call “full time Christian service”. Afterward we had a testimony from the man that won Isaac to the Lord and began discipling him. We presented Isaac with a certificate from the church recognizing his call to the ministry and had special prayer for him as a church. It was a special time for him especially having all of his family present. Our desire and prayer is that the Lord will continue to raise up men for His service.