WE are having our first ever costume part tomorrow night for our student ministries.  This will be a night of fun and games and prizes.  First place prize is SUPER SWEET too.  I’m excited about it.  We’ve passed out 400 fliers.  I’m making home made rootbeer.  It’s going to be a night of FREE food, FREE candy, FREE sweet prizes.  [...]

We are going through the book Love This! by Andy Braner on Thursday nights with our Life Hurts group.  This book is awesome.   You can check out Andy’s blog here.  It is something that every youth leader and every leader of a recovery ministry should read.   Even pastors and elders boards.  AS we go through and tear this book apart [...]

Last night was our first ever parents night. Well our first ever parents function of any sort really. Honestly I was pretty disappointed with the turnout from the parents. We had the parents of 6 or 7 students show up. There could be lots of reasons for this. Still it was a little disappointing to see it the way it [...]

I read a great post on Greg Stier’s blog just a few minutes ago. He has some sobering things to say about the topic of hell that should spur us on to better evangelism. It is a great post. Here is a clip; I have a confession to make that may surprise you. I have a serious problem with the [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTiYA1WiY8] I think we all can learn some lessons about life from this.

I have come to really like the ASBO Jesus blog. Some of the cartoons there are stinking hilarious. This is one of my favorites.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZ9fsusMGc] This guy is amazing.

We have decided this year to go after parents and do something different. We are hosting our first ever parents night this coming Wednesday. The student’s parents will be sitting in on the games, worship and the video series we are watching. As the students break off and go into their discussion groups the parents will be meeting with me [...]

I bet you thought this thread was going to be directed at parents didn’t you?  Nope.  I’m just letting everyone know that my parents will be here this week.  I am looking forward to spending some time with them.  As of lately I have been really thinking of my family for a lot of reasons. their pastor just resigned from [...]

It was some time ago when I came across Tim Schmoyer’s blog.  I now check up on it daily.  Tim is a few years younger than me but has a lot of great insight into different things.  One of the things that impresses me about Tim is his humbleness.  Tim is always willing to talk about things, think things through [...]