Archive | July, 2008

31 July 2008 0 Comments

Denzel Washington on Faith and Spirituality

At the end of last year Denzel Washington was interviewed by Michael Kress about his faith and how it played a big role in his recent film The Great Debaters. Shelli has always enjoyed his work and I regularly make a point of seeing everything he is in when it makes it to DVD since [...]

30 July 2008 0 Comments

Purpose Filled Productivity

The longer I serve our church and our God the more I realize why I can keep going when I am feeling tired or empty. The answer is I have purpose in my actions. No matter how seemingly menial the task, or challenging the problem, my purpose is the same. As followers of Jesus our [...]

26 July 2008 0 Comments

Escape ’08 Video Highlights

Here is the highlight video from our high school retreat. Enjoy!

24 July 2008 0 Comments

Escape Day 3

Escape ended in a life changing way for our students. Even our bus thought we were a special group! New friendships formed, old ones were strengthened. The best part of the whole thing is how the trip officially ended. Yesterday at lunch time we arrived back at the building and one of our students decided [...]

22 July 2008 0 Comments

Escape Day 2

Day two has come and gone at Escape and here are the highlights of today. We kicked off our morning with breakfast at 8am and had our morning worship service shortly after that. Jeffery talked with our students about identity through the morning session. The main idea revolved around this – When we allow the [...]

22 July 2008 2 Comments

Escape ’08 Day 1

Escape has gotten off to a great start! As we were driving to the retreat center, Ben and I couldn’t help but notice we were beginning to leave civilization as we were passing by Amish buggys. We had more students show up then expected which is wonderful, not only did we fill our entire bus [...]

21 July 2008 0 Comments

Escape

This week is the home stretch for me. We leave today for our summer High School retreat called Escape! We will be heading to a retreat center with a lake, water slide, gymnasium, outdoor pool, bonfires and more. Jeffery Dean will be coming to speak at our retreat and I look forward to our High [...]

18 July 2008 4 Comments

Kids’ Camp Day 3

Kids’ Camp Big Top has come to an end. When I arrived to the building today we had a few minor challenges. We had a bit of a wind storm rip through our game field and destroy a couple of games. However, our game team was on the ball and did some quick creative thinking [...]

17 July 2008 0 Comments

Kids’ Camp Day 2

GAME TIME! Each year at Kids’ Camp one of the roles I have had is hosting our stage games. This year I got to do that with one of our interns, Brendon. We run up on the stage with the game music thumping and get the kids all psyched up to take on the game [...]

17 July 2008 0 Comments

Kids’ Camp Big Top!

Each year our church gets behind our kids ministry and works together to reach the kids and families in our community with a really cool 3 day camp. This year’s theme is a circus theme and our children’s staff has worked incredibly hard to organize a fun and exciting environment to teach the kids about [...]