Alex Chiu

I joined Kairos at the end of last year around December because I hate children and Craig bribed me with QQ Noodle before asking me to get involved as a counselor. All kidding aside, I joined because my own journey of faith had its tumultuous start in middle school and high school. I was new'ish to LGCC although I'd grown up at the church and I wasn't really serving in any other capacity. A while back, I was told that I may have a gift to teach and so I thought it'd be good to get a chance to exercise that gift again. I told Craig that I really wanted to teach high school, so of course he gave me middle school instead, which I'd been dreading. Having been that age and having been an absolute turd at that age, I just knew that God would have His laugh at me and inflict me with children who are as bad or worse than I was. It hasn't been easy, but I see the need to start training kids in godliness at an earlier age.

In this day and age, kids have so much information available and a lot of it flies in the face of the gospel. We need to meet this challenge head on, taking on hard topics and relating to them in a way that goes beyond, "It's truth because the bible says so". The answer isn't to hide kids away from the world or ignore what they're being taught, but to help build their faith to be stronger underneath the challenges they face today. As for the counselors, I couldn't ask for a better, more dedicated and loving group of adults (who still sometimes act like children) and it's clear that this is an ongoing need. I will be blunt: much of Ohana is already involved in other ministries, but not all of us are. A goodly number of us aren't serving in any capacity that I can see, so if I'm describing you, fulfill your christian duty and serve. AND HEY, now you are aware of a need in the church so you really don't have an excuse.