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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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it clearly didn’t make sense for me to re-fire up this blog under the name ysmarko. so, welcome to the “new” whyismarko.com! yeah, there’s a little play on words (or sounds) there; but the new name is also reflective of the stuff i’ve been wrestling with for the past year.
really, as i look [...]
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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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man, so cool of this guy (john) to facebook me with this message — it so greatly encouraged me!
I met you almost 10 years ago, when you came to speak at the YFC UK national conference. You were awesome, and along with Mike Yaconelli who visited later the following year, you challenged me to accept [...]
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