Youth Ministry, a never ending saga…

After re-reading yesterday’s post, I felt it was a bit negative. That wasn’t my intention. It’s an observation I have made for quite a few years now. I think the way we do church, or for some of us, the way we play church on Sunday’s needs to be re-thought out. Why are we meeting, [...]

The saddest place in the church…

I don’t know what it is, but Sunday’s frustrate me. Now, before any one jumps on the “Jason’s a hertic” bandwagon, at least let me say this…I am tired of seeing people come to church hurting, burdens weighing them down, and weary from the pounding they have taken the week before, and leave the worship [...]

Mountain tops to mothers

This morning I got the oppotunity to send off 16 of our teens and chaperones. They are headed for Wilderness Trek. This morning I talked about mountain top transformations, and how they were about to embark on an adventure and see sights that a very few of our population has ever seen.
I wish I [...]

Won By One

I want to give a special thanks to the a capella group from Pepperdine Universtiy, Won by One who put on a live show for us last night at Fuqua park. Thier harmony, and lyrics were moving, and we had a decent turn out. About 140 plus came out last evening, to hear some great [...]

Of Note…

I can’t help but ramble on about camp. Twice during the day, first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, the campers and the staff would gather around the flag pole out in front of camp, and we would sing, and listen to some great thoughts by some of the godliest men [...]

Camp Memories

I have to be honest, I was a tad bit apprehensive about going to camp for two weeks. I have never been to camp, and had no idea what to expect. My experience during the last two weeks of camp exceeded any expectations that I did have.
week one:
This year out at camp Lu-Jo, a [...]

an amazing two weeks

Camp was an amazing two weeks. More on camp later! It’s good to be back.

Okay so, that wasn’t the last blog for two weeks…

I just couldn’t leave the office today without blogging one more time. I don’t know what has come over me, it’s like I am addicted to blogging or something. Do any of you know of a blog-a-holics meeting I can begin attending. “Hi, may name is Jason, and I am addicted to blogging.” Hmm, anyone [...]

The last blog for a couple of weeks

Today will be the last blog for a while. Saturday I am heading to camp for two weeks, and I won’t have access to a computer.
So pray for me.
Pray that all the bug stories aren’t true, or at least not as true as my teens have made them sound.
Pray that God would move in [...]

Good Things…

Yesterday I had one of those conversations with one of my teens at church that youth ministers long for. The teen told me he needed to talk about something serious. He began his story with what I assumed would turn into a crisis of faith, but I was surprised by what happened next. He told [...]