From the category archives:
adventures in missions has launched a new blog for youth workers. particularly, the blog (with posts from various aim staff, as well as a handful of youth workers), focuses on discipleship, and how short-term missions can play a role in that. good stuff. i encourage you to check it out. i’ve added it to my [...]
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with the great start of the san diego cohort for the youth ministry coaching program, and a good deal of interest from youth workers on the eastern half of the united states (for whom san diego is a bit far to travel 6x in a year), i’m launching the application process for a new cohort [...]
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three more bits that i wanted to post, but hadn’t gotten around to… ———— adam mclane, my good friend and former ys co-worker, went along with my on our late february trip to haiti (the youth ministry advance team: haiti). adam was so deeply moved that even before we flew home, he was saying, “i [...]
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here’s a weird little collection of things i’ve thought about posting, but haven’t gotten around to… ———— a new friend of mine, jeff goins, who i met through my work with adventures in missions, has written a fantastic manifesto published on the provocative website, change this. my understanding is that the first week jeff posted [...]
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with the wide variety of stuff i’m doing these days (speaking, writing, consulting, coaching), i knew it would be helpful to have a website to point people to. there have just been too many times in the last few months where i didn’t have a communication tool other than my blog or email, in order [...]
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adam mclane stirred some interesting discussion with his blog post on the ys blog the other day, called “is adolescence a myth?” he highlights the perspective of robert epstein, who has been, for a few years, making the case that adolescence is not real (or, at least it wasn’t, until we created it). a bit [...]
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here’s my updated speaking schedule for the rest of 2010 (this doesn’t include consulting travel, ymcp stuff, or personal travel, so there are many other dates i’m not available). as you can see, i’m pretty full through may, but still have a shockingly empty summer, and plenty of space in the fall also. if you [...]
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an odd thing (or at least surprising to me) is happening on my calendar as i continue to book speaking engagements for this year and next. i’m getting a good deal of stuff in the short term (through may), and i’m getting a couple things per month for the fall (though i certainly still have [...]
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if the theme i sensed yesterday was hope, then the theme today was joy. while suffering leads to perseverance, perseverance to character, and character to hope, i think there must be a sense where hope leads to joy. in the midst of such devastating heartache and desperate need, i witnessed joy break out multiple times [...]
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today, a few of us were in one of the hundreds of tent communities that have sprung up in and around port-au-prince. we met with a group of about 40 people (though thousands live in the community and the one next to it), listened to their stories, hopes and needs. even in the midst of [...]
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