Jun 13th, 2009
My friend Jeffrey D Woodard is on a mission to penetrate the darkness that he has seen in Sub-Saharan Africa with the light of love and hope and faith. Jeff is on a mission with a love for the people of Africa. Jeff has personally seen and experienced the injustice of hunger, violence, disease, brokenness, death, [...]
May 25th, 2009
Have you read this article from WorldNetDaily about a San Diego pastor and his wife who were informed by their county that they are required to stop hosting a Bible Study in their home? (The letter that they received said that they must… “cease/stop religious assembly on parcel or obtain a major use permit.”) Wowza. [...]
May 24th, 2009
You need to take a five minute break to watch this “Did You Know 3.0″ for 2008… This is phenomenal information… even a little disconcerting. My how “the times they are a changin”. (Props to Dan Kimball… who showed this clip when he lead the day-conference in Columbia, MD on the 12th of May) ——————– [...]
May 11th, 2009
While shopping at Ollie’s a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a pair of books by Dan Kimball entitled They Like Jesus but Not the Church. I had read a couple of reviews on the book, so when I saw it at Ollie’s for $5.99… I grabbed both copies without hesitation. Why BOTH copies? Because [...]
May 9th, 2009
I stumbled upon these statistics from July of 2006 for church planting in North America from Dave Earley at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary’s Center for Church Planting. Convicting stuff… Check it out… HERE are the STATS (by the way… if you come across any fresh statistics or links to stats for Church Planting, please shoot [...]
Mar 24th, 2009
Have you seen this video from the band Carolina Liar? It just debuted on the VH1′s Top 20 Countdown. Reminds me of Jeremiah 29:13 and u2′s “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”… Here are the lyrics… wait, i’m wrong should’ve done better than this please, i’ll be strong i’m finding it hard to resist [...]
Mar 8th, 2009
I love to hear about new technologies and trends that others are using… especially if it makes my life better (and easier). Just thought I would let you know about a FREE tool that I’ve been using for a few months now… GRAVATAR. On the Gravatar site they define their useful tool as… A gravatar, [...]
Mar 6th, 2009
We had a great Connect event this evening with our students… KARAOKE NITE! This idea has been in the works since last October at our Halloween Dance when Pat Pinette (one of my friends and uber-volunteers in AM/SM) said… “Ya know what might work? Allowing our students to sing on the mics along with the [...]
Jan 24th, 2009
The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding (CYPU.org) is a pretty stinkin’ amazing website that tracks all kinds of cool stuff (like some intensely compiled TOP TEN LISTS and new movie releases and new album releases and new quotes that are shaping our students and news/trends in youth culture). I check in on CPYU on a very [...]
Group Magazine just released the results from a survey that they call “The State of Youth Ministry”. In this survey, they accepted responses from 639 youth ministry leaders and youth pastors. Among those who responded, 29.1% were between the ages of 21 and 30, and 48% have served in student ministry for 6-15 years. If [...]