Bees, Flowers and Emerging Leaders- Announcing Infinity 2024!
By Jarrett Meek, Founder/Pastor/Executive Director
Over the past year, I’ve had an exciting convergence of new hobbies: beekeeping and flower gardening. If we’ve spent any time together, you’ve probably had to listen to me spouting off fascinating bee facts and sharing stories about catching swarms, marking queens or harvesting honey. My gardening interests have been shaped by my beekeeping as I’ve torn up a section of our grass to plant native pollinator flowers. I’ve even started letting the white dutch clover grow unchecked in my backyard!
Part of beekeeping is managing bee reproduction. Did you know that a queen bee can lay 2000 eggs each day during the peak season! I estimate that my first hive had around 70,000 bees by mid-summer last year. And, when a hive outgrows its space, it sends out a swarm, nearly half of the colony, to find a new home. In this way, not only do the bees reproduce on an individual basis, but the entire colony reproduces itself. The process has a hint of infinity as the cycle perpetuates itself under the care of a Creator whose perfect designs are worthy of study and awe. My great satisfaction as a beekeeper and gardener is in the cooperation with our Creator in stewarding such a fascinating part of His creative work.
Each summer at Mission Adelante we celebrate the perpetual work and infinite impact of God’s creative work in developing young leaders from our community. And much like beekeeping or gardening, we are delighted to cooperate with our Creator in stewarding and caring for the lives of young people who will one day be disciples who make disciples and leaders who develop leaders.
Mission Adelante invests in emerging leaders from our neighborhood starting at a young age, and we have a lot of programs designed for this purpose. But, one of our most exciting leadership development initiatives is our summer youth internship. This summer we have an amazing group of youth- six to be exact- most of whom have been in and around Mission Adelante since before the age of five. For some, we’ve had the privilege of being a part of their lives from birth! Can you grasp the joy of collaborating with God in their formation and now seeing them shine as they serve others and grow as leaders!
It is in this spirit that we launch our summer campaign, “Infinity 2024”, to raise funds to support our leadership development initiatives. The programs funded by this campaign are “Leadership Training Project” for youth, “Youth Summer Internship” for youth, and “Ministry Apprenticeships” for young adults. Our goal this summer is to raise $30,000 to help fund these programs. Would you consider investing with us in making an impact that ripples forward to eternity? To donate, please visit www.missionadelante.org/infinity2024 or click the donate button below.
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