Archive for August, 2008

Do You Love Your Work?

Posted on 29. Aug, 2008 by .

0

Part of maintaining long term employment is loving what you do. In ministry it can be challenging. The average pastor remains at a given church between 3-5 years and while I was doing a Small Group Workshop in New Jersey last week I heard that the average Youth Pastor only sticks around for 19 months! [...]

Continue Reading

Friendships, Future Ministry, and God’s Plan

Posted on 26. Aug, 2008 by .

0

I got to catch up with some old friends this past Sunday. Harry and Dee Riggs came to visit CCV after dropping their daughter off to college this weekend. It was great to see them again and I took the time as an opportunity to catch up. I thoroughly enjoyed having their family attend our [...]

Continue Reading

Bill Maher – Religulous

Posted on 21. Aug, 2008 by .

4

It seems it wasn’t hard for Bill Maher to find some crazy Christians for his mockumentary on religion. Click below to view the trailer: Any thoughts about the video you just saw?

Continue Reading

Best Wishes to Gene Appel

Posted on 20. Aug, 2008 by .

3

I have a great amount of respect for Gene Appel. After his short visit here a couple of months ago, I look forward to seeing how God uses his leadership gifts in the future. Recently Gene accepted a position at Eastside Christian Church in Fullerton, California. At a dinner meeting with him, here at CCV, [...]

Continue Reading

Major Discount For Group Life Conference!!!

Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by .

2

I just got an email today from Dave Treat over at the Willow Creek Association. They are allowing my readers to register for the Group Life Conference at a DISCOUNTED RATE!!! Regular price is $365 for WCA members and $385 for non-members. However if you call in, or register online, and use this priority code [...]

Continue Reading

Healthy Awareness

Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by .

0

My friend Andy is a missionary in Muldova and recently wrote a post that made me think about living with a greater sense of awareness. I need to be more aware of my family, my coworkers, our volunteers, and people in our community that we are called to serve. Here is what Andy recently wrote: [...]

Continue Reading

Fun With Family

Posted on 13. Aug, 2008 by .

0

We have had a nice visit so far with Shelli’s family up here in Montana. Michael has a blast goofing off and wrestling with his Auntie Lori. It is nice to get away and relax with family and be yourself. They all love the kids and the boys are having a great time being the [...]

Continue Reading

Group Life Conference On Its Way

Posted on 12. Aug, 2008 by .

0

Time is flying by and I can’t believe the Group Life Conference is just a couple of months away. I am looking forward to participating in the forum on social media and group life. Below is the video promo for the conference. Click here to take a look.

Continue Reading

Congrats – John and Donna Dawsey

Posted on 11. Aug, 2008 by .

2

I had the privilege of doing the wedding for my Father-in-law John Dawsey and his new wife Donna. It was an honor to perform the wedding for a family member and thrilled to be able to get out this way to do it for them. As you can tell from their photo on the left, [...]

Continue Reading

Older Entries »


Warning: Unknown: open(/var/chroot/home/content/t/o/o/toocazz/tmp/sess_54b9ad65df336e2c8ef2e3909fa523cd, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0