Personal Narrative: My Interview With A Pastor

The person I choice to interview this week just like last week is also someone I turn to when I am faced with questions and concerns regarding all of my biblical classes and sometimes just personal spiritual questions. That person is my pastor and my father in law who has been a southern Baptist preacher for over thirty years. Of those thirty years he has only been pastor of two churches both, which have been very successful while he was and is presently the pastor. When we talk about anything and everything overall we have a great relationship. I choose to interview him this week because I knew he would be able to show me the more experienced side of his ministry because of his years of serving the lord.

I started of the conversation by asking him before you where a pastor what did you want to do? He responded and said a vocational agriculture teacher which is what I tried to do when I ran away from the lord however he showed me that his plan was much greater for my life and it was at that point that I decided to surrender to the Lord and become a pastor.

Prior to that had you ever done any type of ministry work, which made you
His response was at my previous church at first I was very involved with our youth because we didn't have anyone to lead them nor the money to pay myself let alone a youth director. So there where many years that I worked with them and took them to events and church camps until the church began to develop and grow. However even now with the since of our church and the successfulness I still try to be involved in Awana and youth because they need to know who I am and that I care for them and if they need anything I'm always their to help guide them in the right direction. I love them and want them to know the lord loves them and died for them so they could one day except him and go to heaven when they