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Camps and Retreats Video
Like I mentioned in the previous post, I taught a Camps and Retreats class in October. This video is a little about what we did during the event.
read moreCamps and Retreats October 2011
In October I had the chance to teach the Camps and Retreats class for our Certificate program at the Seminary. It's a less formal level youth ministry training program that we have on Saturday mornings. For the last week of class, I had the students organize a...
read moreYouth Ministry Grads in Mexico
Here's a quick map of where our youth ministry graduates are serving around Mexico. I'm going to update it, hopefully, with another layer of where our current Seminary students are from.
read moreYouth Ministry training in Cuba
We got an email from one of the graduates in Cuba who is now directing a Center for Youth Ministry in the central region of the country. He said, Beloved Brothers, These are some pictures of the certificate groups that we have started in Santa Clara and Cienfuegos....
read moreExceedingly Abundantly Above
When we moved into our new house, Nathan was so excited because he had a friend to play with at the Seminary. But when we returned to Mexico this past summer, we found out that his friend's family was moving. So we prayed (and asked some of our friends to pray) that...
read more10 Things about Jesus
I recently started reading the "Essential Jesus", a Bible reading plan I found at Youversion.com. One of the first readings is Colossians 1:15-20. I had read this passage many times before, but for some reason, I must have spent more time meditating on it or...
read moreGlobal Youth Ministry – A Review
Terry Linhart, professor of youth ministry at Bethel College in Indiana, asked me to review his book Global Youth Ministry (affiliate link) on Amazon. I had been reading the book along with the rest of the Youth Ministry International trainers all over the world, so...
read moreLeaving the Ministry
No. I'm not leaving the ministry. No. We're not leaving Mexico. "Leaving the ministry" was simply the title of a sermon I heard last week during chapel at the Seminary. One of the Missions professors preached about the process of how those in ministry end up dropping...
read moreFrom Ordinary to Extraordinary
Earlier this week Janell posted about these lighting fixtures on Savingyoudinero.com, and I couldn't stop thinking about how insane it is that these old plastic containers have been re-purposed into art. The insane thing is that they are being sold for more than $100...
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