Archive for August 2008

As an Eagle Scout, I have always tried to follow the Boy Scout motto: Be Prepared.  This mantra is applicable in all aspects of life, especially ministry.  Yesterday afternoon I found out that today’s scheduled speaker at the Tabernacle is sick, leaving us without a speaker for one of the busiest weekends of the summer.  [...]

Announced this week is an exciting new mentoring program headed by Tim at Life in Student Ministry.  Sponsored by YouthBytes.com, this program gives 10 youth ministry rookies the opportunity to get some 1 on 1 mentoring with youth ministry vets (my buddy Rob Kashow is one of them, as well as Mike from Reflections).  Mentoring [...]

I have not posted in over one week mainly because I have been working nonstop for one week.  The Tabernacle Youth Center has been finished for one week and we have had 3 groups and events in the building.  The first group was a youth ministry from Pennsylvania doing ministry and evangelism on the OC [...]

As I said in a previous post, Mark Batterson’s new book “Wild Goose Chase,” just came out today. Here is the intro paragraph from the book:
Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit–An Geadh-Glas, or ‘the Wild Goose.’ The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be [...]

As I said in an earlier post, I have been reading In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, written by Mark Batterson.  I finished the book this weekend, and really enjoyed it.  Using a rarely quoted text of the Bible (2 Samuel 23:21-21), Batterson recounts the story of Benaiah, the mighty warrior [...]

In the mail today I received two copies of Wild Goose Chase, the latest book by Mark Batterson, lead pastor at National Community Church in Washington, DC.  I am currently finishing up another one of Mark’s book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day.  Great book so far; will review after I [...]

So I changed the blog design this evening.  Still working on it (I don’t know about the swirly graphic in the upper right hand corner), so please bear with me.

After the post on Pens, I thought we should talk about how useful paper is in a youth ministry. While the eco-friendly movement has been promoting paperless alternatives for shopping bags, books, and notebooks, paper is still going strong in ministry.  Here are three different types of paper, and how you can use them in [...]

Dennis over at YMIMexico.org just made a list of 10 Free Ebooks for Youth Pastors.  Some I had read before (130 Youth Ministry Tips and Ideas), while others were new to me (25 Free Marketing Tools).  All are great to look over and glean some knowledge from.  Thanks Dennis!

I am sitting in the living room watching the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Olympics.  About 2 hours of Chinese culture and theatrics, with over 10,000 people performing.  All in all, pretty impressive stuff.  But it made me think of the country of China, with over 1.3 billion people.  That is 1/5 of the world’s [...]