I’m excited to announce we have decided to go forward with Project Timothy – the Teen & Young Adult Leaders Bootcamp. The dates are August 8-15, and it will literally be a bootcamp. We’ll be camping to bring down the costs! I am planning on getting some really great speakers from around the region to [...]
Archive for April, 2009
One thing I’d like to introduce more into my youth group is the humanity of Jesus, a topic that I’ve been pondering in my heart a lot lately. Because if we (and our youth) do not fully understand or believe that Jesus was 100% human when he was here on the earth, what would any [...]
One thing I’ve been working on personally as a leader, is trying to plan ahead for events, and enlist youth to run as much each event as possible. I’m trying to learn to look at people’s gifts and match them with places of ministry and service where they can be fulfilled. This weekend we did [...]
The past three years have been the most challenging of my entire life. Grief, I have learned, brings you to your knees both figuratively and literally. Without getting into all that, I want to take a second to share something I have learned: I cannot stand alone. Walking through this Valley I have learned that [...]
Is sarcasm in written words dangerous? Me thinks very much so…
I’ve been slowly reading a book Phil Strout gave me called “Heroic Leadership” by Chris Lowney. It has some amazing insights on leadership and has been shaping some priorities of many of our regional and national leaders (notice the title of this year’s national conference?). Well, I thought I’d share a small section where he [...]
How many of you have ever seen the movie ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’? It’s a great movie with Jim Carey in a more serious down to earth role. The reason I bring it up is not as a movie review for the site but because God had brought it to my attention. There [...]
I read a few blogs daily and I wanted to share a post with you called The New Traditional Church that has captured my attention for about a month. It basically asks these questions: what are we doing as churches and why are we doing those things? I think it is so easy to get [...]