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this made me laugh out loud (especially the last 15 seconds). btw: i’m a youth ministry volunteer, and that’s my junior high pastor in the backseat, christina robertson. and her boss, brian berry (also my pastor, i suppose, as well as a close friend) in the front, next to tic (who is not my pastor).
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when youth specialties asks speakers to do a seminar at the national youth workers conventions, they ask for a handful of possible seminar titles. then tic long chooses the ones that fit the overall mix. i’ve been through this process for 20 years or so, including all the years i worked at ys. so it [...]
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adam mclane’s research is complete, and he posted his list of the top 20 youth ministry blogs on the ys blog earlier this week. i’m super pleased to see whyismarko somehow land at #2. to be honest, i’m rather surprised by this, as it seems like my traffic never fully recovered from the 6 month [...]
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surely, it will be wonderful and a little bit surreal for me to be at both of the ys national youth workers conventions this fall (in san diego and nashville). but not being there would be, well, horrible. at least i’ll have more time to just hang out than i’ve had there for a dozen [...]
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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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what i’m doing today, in guatemala city, for the instituto especialidades juveniles (youth specialties institute, that is):
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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 ago — [...]
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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 [...]
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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 days. [...]
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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, [...]
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