Ramblings On. . .

I know what you are thinking, how could any meeting = awesomeness.  Well I will tell you.  First of all the acutal meeting was brief.  Which is key to awesome meetings.  Second, we allowed for people to hangout and have fun together.
I’m going to be really honest right now, I have not felt that way [...]

this is from rick lawrence in this months Group Magazine
“I challenge parents to pay more attention to who their kids are becoming than to what they’re acheiving. Kids’ achievements may or may not impact the world for good, but who they’re becoming certainly will.”

I wasn’t personally hurt by Chap Clark.  Chap Clark wrote a book called Hurt.

Anyway.
I am prepping for next weeks sermon.  We are doing a Parenting Series at creekside, which is pretty cool and you can find our videos for the past few weeks at vimeo.com/creeksidechurch.
In my prep work I started perusing my copy of Hurt [...]

This picture is more than just a bunch of random post-its.  Everyone of these post-it’s represent a person a soul that our students are praying for.  I took this picture with my iPhone and it was only a portion of the whole wall that was covered with Names.
On Sunday evening all of Creekside gathered to [...]

I Love These Videos!!!

Great post from Tim Schmoyer today. Read the Whole thing.
“. . . our fundamental approach to giving students ownership must change nevertheless. Otherwise, we die and pass on a church system that is incredibly broken, disconnected and outdated.”
I love youth worship, I love youth group, but in the end, I think we too often [...]

So it took me awhile to get this edited and then I forgot to post it.  But here it is.

Well it’s Monday, my weekend was very busy, and today so far has been nice and not stressful.
Let’s re-cap, our beyond::afterhours event went well. It was spring break for some of our students so they didn’t have the same level of contact with their friends, so we didn’t have as many students come [...]

I’ve come across an interesting new voice in the youth ministry blog-i-verse.
Once A Youth Pastor.
This guy was a youth pastor, and now that he’s not he’s asking a lot of questions about youth ministry effectiveness, essentials, etc.
Pretty interesting. Somethings I agree with, others I don’t. But he raises a lot of good questions. [...]

Found this Article at churchrelevance.com
1 in 4 teen girls has an STD
That is not acceptable.  That is heart breaking.  And as a church, as a pastor, as a Christian we need to do something about it.  There is a love vacuum in our culture and we need to Fill that vacuum with Jesus.