This year we are really trying to get students in leadership roles that can carry those roles out well. One of those positions this year is our ‘hospitality team.’ One of our girls, who is a junior this year, volunteered to take it on. We have her greeting students as they come in and have them fill out our guest [...]
I have been researching some different resources for our student ministry this past week. I’m trying to streamline some things….specifically tracking attendance of students in our ministry. Yesterday I posted a few questions on twitter to see what people use in their ministry. I was hoping for a bunch of responses with options…unfortunately I only got a few responses. This [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjYWrpNoCs] Such a great song.
Carl (a buddy of mine) and myself have been working on writing a song (‘Take All Of Me’) for a little over a week now. We have the lyrics and the structure of the song done. Over the past few days they lyrics have been running through my head like crazy. It’s a prayer from someone who is struggling with [...]
This past Friday I had the privilege of going to the final court hearing of my nieces adoption. On the way back from Burlington on Saturday we (myself, Jordan, Abe and Carl) played disc golf and did some site seeing on the way back to Newell. It was a long day. We set out at 10am and got home a [...]
This past Thursday I traveled (with 3 guys from church) down to my parents in Burlington to go to my nieces final adoption hearing on Friday. Everything went really well and the judge was a great guy. After the hearing on Friday we had a BBQ that night to celebrate Kaylei being part of the family now….legally. Kaylei has been [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1etoiSH9q68] A few of my students towards the beginning of summer made this video. One of their cousins came into town and so they shot the video. It’s pretty good.
Music has always been a huge part of who I am and it will continue to be. I started journaling when I was a freshman in college. I went through several notebooks during my college years and after. Really the entries were prayers of my heart. After college I started playing guitar and often times I would “sing” my prayers [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPI2xYtso-s] There’s a lot of truth in this video. So well done. So true.
I found a new musical group the other day. They were recommended to me by a friend. He told me they did 80′s style love songs with rapping in them. So I thought, “Hey sounds interesting.” He was right! These guys nail the sound well. Check them out by clicking this link.
