As Logan Meek prepares to speak at camps this summer, including two Student Life Kids camps at Shocco Springs Conference Center in Talladega, he desires to help children connect with the gospel in fun and memorable ways.
Meek enjoys using visual illustrations to coordinate with Bible lessons — like adding a few extra ingredients to a birthday cake to show how sin “messed everything up.”
Suddenly the cake isn’t as appealing with toppings like ketchup, mustard and salad dressing, Meek said, adding he uses it as an opportunity to explain that, just like the cake was ruined, so is the ugliness of sin.
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In addition to his speaking ministry, Meek also is young adults and college pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Meek said he hopes audiences of all ages connect with the gospel on a personal level as he speaks at camps, retreats and ministry events around the country.
‘Community and purpose’
For Meek, the opportunity to minister full-time at his home church has brought him “full circle.”
“I definitely see the value of kids and youth ministry, and I’m grateful for the impact it had in my life,” Meek said. “When I got out of college I moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to teach in a public school with a program called ‘Teach For America.’ God used that time in my life to really help me own my faith for myself. I got connected with a great church that helped me find community and purpose — that’s one of the reasons I’m so passionate about college and young adult ministry.
“I was teaching in a sixth grade classroom in Tulsa Public Schools, and I was very involved in my church,” Meek recalled. “I remember having a moment where I realized in myself that my favorite part of my week was serving at church, and I began to pray, ‘God if You would allow me to use my job to serve You, I would say yes.’”
At the end of summer 2014 Meek joined Student Life’s full-time ministry team.
“God has been teaching me more and more to speak, act and live without being concerned about what other people might think,” Meek said. “We have no reason to be ashamed, because God has adopted us as His children through Christ.
“I am always looking for new ideas; it’s such a blessing to be able to learn from others.”
God at work
While speaking at events across the country, Meek enjoys spending time off stage connecting with ministry leaders.
“I love to watch when leaders from a church have breakthrough moments with the students or kids from their church,” Meek said. “It’s an honor to be part of what God is doing in those moments. It’s also really a wonderful thing to be part of the rich heritage of many camps, conference centers or churches.
“While I was serving as a camp pastor last summer, one of the church groups invited me to join them for their morning quiet time. Starting with the leaders, they went around the circle and talked about how they all were learning what it looks like to have hope in difficult situations. I was so encouraged to hear that even in the middle of these difficult things, they were all choosing to seek God and trust Him more.
“I’ve seen over and over how God uses camp in our lives to help us reconnect to Him. I am always reminded that it is God working in our lives that really matters.”
Today, as Meek travels around the country speaking in a variety of settings, he realizes the desperation, hurt and pain many students are struggling with and desires to pour into them with the gospel message.
“I enjoy the opportunity to share the gospel with people of all ages,” he said. “Students today are desperate for something real, and we have a calling that is urgent. I think about Romans 10:14, and it inspires me to just do my best to do something. God can use anyone to share the gospel, and He can use anyone to impact the life of a teenager or a kid.
“I think it’s too often that people can falsely believe that a certain ‘cool factor’ is needed to be a difference-maker for a student. That’s just not true. I see students responding to the truth of the gospel.”
So many are searching for solutions to anxiety and loneliness, Meek acknowledged.
“The answer to all of these things at every stage of our lives is found in the truth of the Good News of Jesus. Romans 1:16 reminds us that the gospel is the power of God for the salvation of all who would believe. I love to find creative and fresh ways to share that truth with anyone who will listen.”
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