 As the new associate director of the Center for Mission or Outreach, I just see that God is using 1 plus 1 in a way that allows us to enter into schools for the power of discipleship and for the power of being in relationship in our communities and so every opportunity to serve, every opportunity to be in partnership with our communities lies in a public school. Children love quality attention and they love when you care, like I have kids and everything we watch on TV is about caring and being a team and being friends and so many children grow up in the world and they do not know caring, do not know sharing, do not know friends, they know neglect, they know being underserved, they know what it is to be overlooked and so when you see these children engaging these adults so many questions as to whether or not you should have a partnership, get answered and just watching them interact because so many things that we think are important or are needed for the child it is really not that deep at all, it is pretty simple, I just need someone here. You know the message of the church is to be involved in the world and what is more worldly than a public school, what is more important than a public school. There are great challenges to public schools and public education not just in Dallas, not just in Texas but in our country so churches need to be in public schools because public schools have huge challenges that volunteers from churches can help me. At the end of the day I am really impatient and I am always trying to push our congregation to see themselves as I see them. I see this congregation and many of our congregations in the North Texas Conference as a group of people who are called and compelled to share the good news and all they have to do is step outside of their church and do so. Church school partnerships helps us to move in a new and dramatic way to be who God is calling us to be. Yes for our church but more so for the kids around us.