"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" - Jeremiah 23:1
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There are always some articles floating around that question the value of a short term mission trip. I don't get it. Unless you've decided to have your youth group donate ice to Eskimos, and assuming there's solid spiritual and logistical planning, short term mission trips work. How do I know this...
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Their passion was both challenging and contagious. I began to wonder what my youth ministry would be like if I were more passionate about life-change. Passion forces one to think, act, and treat others differently.
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Anonymous
Monday, October 1, 2007
Imagine being able to offer multiple choices to youth every summer. Not only a choice in the type of service they’ll provide, but, as they say in real estate, location, location, location. You can try home repair in the desert southwest or community service in Upstate New York.
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Anonymous
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
When I walked out of Twilight this past Sunday night, I felt like I could identify with its male lead, vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen. And it wasn't because I'm pale and like to climb trees. It was because I had experienced exactly what it was like to be completely unlike everyone else all...
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When I was in college, I was enrolled in a course called Philosophical Foundations for Youth Ministry. In this class, students were required to formulate their philosophy for youth ministry into words. I remember at the top of my list of priorities was “relationships.” In fact, for most in ministry...
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It’s a pretty fascinating concept – this thing we term ‘the call.’ We get lots of calls – with the advent of smart phones, Skype, and Google Voice – most of us truly are ‘just a call away’ from anyone who might need us at any given moment.
But the call we receive from God for youth...
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Anonymous
Monday, August 11, 2008
A chord would be struck and masses of people would immediately strike the picturesque ‘worship pose’. (You know the one – legs shoulder length apart, eyes closed, arms raised at least above your waist, and a painful look of agony on your face.) This thing that I had been so deeply moved by, this...
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Anonymous
Monday, May 24, 2010
I’m hopeful that doing things more simply will actually lead to greater change in the life of these kids.
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