Here’s a little clip from our Summer Camp at UCYC. I can’t believe how much I love this crew already. I’m so used to Hume Lake, which is an amazing camp… but the much smaller UCYC was good for us. There wasn’t a whole lot to do, or many places to go, so we saw [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 30, 2009
song selection
Dear Worship Pastors, Directors, Leaders, and micro-managing lead pastors who tell their worship leaders what songs they can and cannot play, This may be obvious, but here goes anyways: the same guy who wrote “Facedown” and “Nothing But the Blood” also wrote “Dancing Generation“. Why do I make this obvious point? Because I see sooooo [...]
July 26, 2009
Unbelievable
I just can’t stop talking about how good things are going at Mission. I’m so floored at how good God has been to the High School Ministry so far. When I got here we had something like 8 adult volunteers, and now we’ve got over 30. And I’ve been PICKY PICKY PICKY. They just keep [...]
July 18, 2009
summer camp
Heading to UCYC for our high school summer camp tomorrow. It’s a couple hours up the road in Prescott. There are 81 of us hopping on the buses tomorrow. That means I need to learn about 65 names! I’m praying that God will do something remarkable this week. My life was transformed at a camp [...]
July 17, 2009
what just happened?
It’s been a great first month of ministry at Mission. We had 12 volunteers in High School when I got here, and now we have 31. God pretty much opened the floodgates! There are a couple of things that I love about the students who are coming. First, they’ve been kicking butt for years. They’re [...]
July 5, 2009
freedom
I am taking a couple of weeks to talk about freedom with my students. Today seemed like a good day to kick that sort of conversation off. It’s kind of a hot topic this week, ya know. Galatians 5:1 says that, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” It sounds redundant… Freedom [...]
July 2, 2009
Pray for Kate
Kate McRae is a 5-year-old from Phoenix who has a malignant brain tumor. She is headed into surgery tomorrow morning (Friday) at 9am. I found out about this because her dad Aaron is one of the pastors at Cornerstone Church in Chandler (where I worked for 7 years). Please watch the video, and consider raising [...]
