From the category archives:
we youth workers do some pretty crazy things from time to time, right? call it “the lengths we’re willing to go to for teenagers” or “occupational risk” or just the collective risk-taking nature of our tribe, but man-alive, have i heard some stories. and, it was shockingly easy for me to pull together this list [...]
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a couple weeks ago, while on vacation in park city, utah, my family spent the day at the olympic park. it’s the place where all the jumping events (the massive nordic jumps and the smaller flip-7-times-while-cooking-an-omelet kind), as well as the tracks for bobsled, luge and skeleton. these days, it’s both a working training center [...]
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this morning, i leave on a 10 day trip. i’m speaking 12 times at 7 events. it’s nuts. i’ve never done anything like this — it’s just the way these things ended lining up. my kids and i have been jokingly referring to it as my “east coast tour”; but, of course, east coast peeps [...]
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the other day i was thinking about my lay off from youth specialties (really, from zondervan, in reality), which i don’t do as often these days. i happened to be looking at my calendar at the time, and thought about how it was october 19 when the shoe dropped. and, i was struck by the [...]
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i’ve noticed something internal recently; something at times strange, and at other times beautiful. it has felt like a spiritual softening, or a spiritual awakening. the best words i can come up with to describe it are: i think jesus is slow-brewing a mini-revival in me. it’s not that i’d lost my faith. not at [...]
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yesterday, our team in haiti did some initial contact and assessment work in two tent villages that are side by side (late addition: when we crossed the border into haiti, one of the first stories we heard was from a mother who talked of her twin boys dying in her arms during the quake; tonite, [...]
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this morning, we left santo domingo at 5:30am, and began our trek to haiti, with a handful of stops along the way. our team is getting along great — such a cool mix of people. our first ministry stop was on the dominican side of the haiti border, where a complete hospital had been set [...]
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my life has been a bit of a blur in the last couple weeks, with two junior high winter retreats at forest home, a youth ministry event for the salvation army, and a couple days of consulting with the 30-hour famine team at world vision. yesterday, i spent the day in orange county at my [...]
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well, a middle school kid broke my glasses a few months back. they were internally cracked somehow, and, while still functional, not quite right. i tried to use some ‘gorilla glue‘ to fix them, but forgot that it foams up and expands while hardening. so i ended up with this big crusty brown goiter on [...]
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