I have come to the piont in my life that im not a kid anymore but im not yet an adult. i think you might know what i'm talking about. so where dose that leave me? where dose that leave you? are there things we can do for God? YES!!!! God dose not set out a law that says you cant do my work untill you have reached an age that someone who dosent even know you has set. if you me or Bob has a gift then you beter believe God wants you to use it right now! why else would He give it top you? dont wait for an "adult" to tell you when your ready, cuz i hate to say it they dont know. i dont care who they are...they can not tell you when you are ready to do the work God has set befor you. wether you Mom, Dad, teatcher, or even your minister. if you think your ready to start something for God get out there and do it.

now im not saying to disobey your parents, im saying dont wait for them to say its time, but at the same time if you feel your ready and they dont, sit down with them and see why they dont want you to, and let them know why you feel you are ready.

so let me tell you when i had to do this. last year (when i was 17) i got the opertunity to go one a mistion trip to the Phillipains. now i wasnt to be going with a group, i would have been going there by myself, i would fly there with no one else (i had never flone befor) then i was to get in a van with a driver for 6 hours to the house of the people i would kidof be staying with. after geting seteld i went up to a small village with out them, i would be with the people for the church there but i didnt know any of them. i'd stay there for 2 1/1 weeks and spend the rest of the mounth with the first famly i knew. needless to say my parents did not want me to go. and i was fureus... i got in many fights with bolth my mom and dad, but i knew God wanted me to go. so i got my mom on the same page as me and then 1 1/2 mounths befor i was to go, my dad said yes. so i had to rais $1800 in 1 1/2 mounths... i got $2500.

if God is going to use you, and someone tells you no, He will show you a way to get you where you need to be so you can do what He has put in frunt of you. Just make sure you go about geting there in a way that God will like and aprove of.