From the category archives:
a few weeks ago, i spoke at forest home’s middle school winter camps. the middle school director at forest home is my friend, nate rice, a fantastic middle school youth worker and a deeply good guy. but in a great quirk of life, nate is in a role that was once — decades [...]
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i am genuinely and overwhelmingly pleased.
the reason, which is talked about on the ys site (as well as in an awesome user-generated youth ministry tribe video pulled together by the amazing adam mclane), is tic long’s return to youth specialties.
the last year (really, the last 18 months) were a surreal and difficult period for ys. [...]
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my six days of silence in the desert was such a significant experience and turning point for me in my post-lay-off process that i haven’t been able to bring myself to blog about it until now. somehow, it felt like i would be commodifying it had i jumped right into a blog post within [...]
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now that the youthworks deal is public, i think i can tell the story and add my thoughts, as so many have been asking me to do.
let me start with a few preliminary thoughts:
- first, i’m really sorry i’ve had to be so silent this past month. the reasons for this are many, of [...]
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what a big sigh of relief for me, today, to hear that zondervan and youthworks were announcing the sale of ys on stage at the nywc in atlanta. and, from a very personal point of view, what perfect timing for me, as i’m just back from 6 days of silence and journaling and wrestling [...]
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this is a hard post to write, but an important one for me.
i’ve experienced some pretty significant a-ha’s in the past week or two, all around the sustainability of my lifestyle, my identity, and my most important relationships.
a month and a half ago, i started a leadership coaching process with john townsend. and i [...]
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a few months ago, a few of us from ys were in a meeting, thinking about ideas for our youth ministry publishing efforts. adam mclane was there. i don’t remember if it was adam’s idea or not (i think it was), but somewhere in the midst of that meeting, he got pretty stoked [...]
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great little essay on reproducible youth ministry models and youth ministry 3.0 on the small town youth pastor blog:
Having a highly reproducible Youth ministry model = healthy youth ministry. Right?
I argue that the best youth ministry models are the models that aren’t reproducible. I think a youth ministry doesn’t have to subscribe to [...]
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our time in korea last week was wonderful in so many ways. i’ll likely post more about the trip, but here are a few pictures:
tic and i with ralph and judy winter outside sarang church
the stage of the convention. this group was a trip! they were a wild combo of traditional korean music [...]
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the weekend that was: got home from korea around noon on friday and had a wonderful family weekend (with a little work thrown in). had a nice lunch with jeannie and friday, then picked the kids up from school. in the evening, we took off as a fam and got pedicures (yes, it’s [...]
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