Since I’m not a youth pastor anymore, I’ve been “downloading” my habits, rituals and best practices and mentally shifting gears. Summer certainly reminds me of a lot of great memories in youth ministry, as well as some of the more stressful…
I have been out of youth ministry for 10 months, and there are a few things I miss. Relationships with leaders. Great weekend retreat experiences (although I don’t miss late nights and early mornings). The kids. There is something about…
‘This is not an argument in favor of orphanhood and deprivation,’ Brown writes, ‘but the existence of these eminent orphans does suggest that in certain circumstances a virtue can be made of necessity.’ [143] Instead of responding in a ‘let…
if I die young… And I’ll be wearing white when I come into your Kingdom… On a rainy night in July 2011, Amber passed away in a car accident. Seeing hundreds of people pack into the church the next week…
This blog post originally appeared back in 2010 on our youth ministry blog, archived at GaytonChurch.org. At that point in time, we were trying to make a lot of good come from disappointing situations, and it’s a lesson a lot…
When was the last time you uncovered a potentially groundbreaking new way to harvest solar energy? Oh, you haven’t? Me neither. But for Aidan Dwyer, he dreamt it and people are listening. I think solar energy is cool — I…