Last night we finally got around to having our senior dinner. A new school year has already started but it was time to celebrate with our seniors from last year. It was a great opportunity to sit around with old students and leaders and enjoy a meal together. Since I am their youth pastor, someRead more
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Most of the students in our high school ministry go back to school today. Now that I’m a youth pastor the first day of school is one of my favorite days of the year. It now symbolizes the end of a long ministry summer and the beginning of a little break before we kick thingsRead more
The Dark Knight Rises releases this week. Because of a busy schedule on Friday and Saturday, I’m not sure when I’ll be able to see it. This wouldn’t have been a problem in my younger days; I would have been ready to go for a midnight showing. Not so much anymore.Read more
Last night we had our final night of youth group for the school year. It’s always a bittersweet night, saying goodbye to the seniors but knowing that I have a few Tuesday offs in the future. Working with students I’ve never had to get out of the rhythm of summer vacation. We push hard fromRead more
I love my niece, Naomi. She’s not even 18-months-old yet, but she’s already really good at so many things. She’s amazing at drinking through a straw. She’s really good at pushing the buttons on the DVD player even when she’s not supposed to. She’s great at eating her food and getting it all over theRead more
Every spring we do a big competition series for our youth group. We pick a theme and plan all of our games, teams, images and talks around that theme. This year it was a no-brainer for us to use The Hunger Games as our theme. It had been fun to create a lot of artworkRead more