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VBS By The Numbers 2008-07-17 00:07:00 The week of June 30 through July 4 was one action packed week around Grace Point. The worship center was transformed into SonWorld Adventure Park and was brimming with excitement each day as 130 children filled the room eager to learn about Jesus and the choices in life that He desires to help us with. Our days were filled with lots of exciting music, puppets, games, Bible stories, missionary Read more:Numbers
Eberly for President 2008-07-15 21:43:00 In this crazy election season one never knows what is going to happen next. Must say, I sure wasn't expecting this!See more at News3Online. Read more:President
Vacation 2008-07-14 11:17:00 Today is my first day back in the office after a wonderful week of vacation. We spent all of last week in Sunriver soaking in the warm Central Oregon sunshine. It was a great time spent with family enjoying the beauty of God's creation.
God's principle of sabbath is so good and so important. It is amazing what a little time away will do. We feel refreshed and renewed.
Here is some of what we Read more:Vacation
On Mission 2008-08-04 09:06:00 "...Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit," (Matthew 28:19) is a truth that is central to what we are all about in 180 Student Ministries. It is our desire to live our lives on mission. To live lives that lead to others toward becoming disciples of Jesus Christ.Today I leave with 9 others from our middle school minist Read more:Mission
Prayer 2008-07-29 10:43:00 I never thought I would hear myself say this, but I was excited last night to only have to shell out $3.99 for a gallon of gas! I remember the challenge it was for me to pay the whopping $1.24 a gallon when I first began driving. Now I get excited when we only have to pay $4.00! Could it be because of prayer?Seems on the day prices started to fall, the prayers began to rise. I'm not sure prayi Read more:Prayer
Guy Time 2008-07-28 17:21:00 For the better part of 20 years I have been taking middle school boys camping at Indian Henry Campground on the North Clackamas River. We call it Grub Camp. A time to get away and just be guys. No girls, no showers, not really even any manners. Good times! I even did a Grub Camp Reunion a couple of years back with some guys I took some 15 years earlier. Read about that incredible weekend here.We
A Night To Remember 2008-07-24 10:33:00 Last night was an incredible night. In Psalm 133:1 God tells us how "good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity." I believe last night was a great picture of that very thing.Last night four youth ministries in our town came together for our second Burn. The Burn is a quarterly worship gathering of area youth groups led by the network of youth pastors I am a part of. Read abou Read more:Night
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Wild Waves 2008-07-22 19:03:00 Summer is definitely in full swing around 180 Student Ministries. Last week we took our Middle Schoolers up to Wild Waves
in Federal Way Washington, and had a great time at the park.Here's how our day looked.This weekend is our Middle School Guys Grub Camp. Next week our High School ministry heads off to Mexico and the week after that our Middle School ministry heads to Student Life's Mission Cam
Because of Compassion 2008-08-19 10:40:00 I have been involved with Compassion
International for over 20 years. I have had the privilege of sponsoring a number of children and have seen God bless both their lives as well as mine.Just today as I finished writing a letter to Jaciel Dominguez Hernandez the little boy we sponsor in Mexico, I came across the video that we were shown at the Student Life Camp I was just at. It speaks for itse
Soil of The Heart 2008-08-14 22:26:00 I have been giving a lot of thought to the Parable of the Sower that Jesus told in Matthew 13:3-8. In it He speaks of four types of people, and how they respond to the gospel. In short, it's a look into the condition of people's hearts.A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it Read more:Heart
Mission Camp 2008-08-11 10:53:00 Last week was an incredible week. Ten of us spent August 4-8 at George Fox University with the Student Life Mission
Camp. It was a great experience, one that far exceeded my expectations.The theme of the week was The Way. Each morning and evening we were challenged with compelling messages on following in The Way of Jesus. Todd Agnew spoke each morning and Anson McMahon spoke each evening. Bo
Found on YouTube 2008-08-09 17:51:00 So I was surfing around on YouTube
and much to my surprise, I came across a video featuring none other than my son and father-in-law. The video is espousing all the fun one can have with YouTube, and would actually make a great advertisement for them.All the clips used were just randomly selected YouTube clips. With over 83.4 million videos hosted on Youtube, kind of funny one of mine got chosen
Changed and Going 2008-09-10 09:34:00 Yet another video demonstrating the power of a transformed life. All people who allowed God to take their gifts, abilities, passions and fears, and move them to the front lines of making a big difference for His Kingdom.Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commande Read more:Going
Altar Boys 2008-09-05 12:06:00 This one gets filed in the "blast from the past" category. Back in about 1985 I worked as a roadie for one of Christian music's earliest punk bands, the Altar
Boys. They were a band influenced by the early Southern California punk rock scene, and were together from 1982 through the 90's.Here is where it gets fun. When they made their first music video in '85 I was invited to be a part of it.
The American Teen 2008-09-03 21:24:00 MSNBC has run an excerpt of "It's Complicated: The American
Teenager" an incredible photo essay of the American teen, in which photojournalist Robin Bowman spent four years driving across the US photographing and interviewing more than 400 American teens.It's an incredible, and artistic, look into the struggle that life is for many of today's teenagers.It's a reminder of why I do what I do.Click
Changing Times 2008-08-28 00:03:00 In the "Understanding & Parenting Your Teen" workshop I recently led I spoke of how culture is changing at a very fast pace and thus students today are much different than they were just a few short years ago. In the workshop I shared the Beloit College Mindset List, a list created by Ron Nief and Tom McBride of Beloit College. The list is designed to give faculty at the college an idea of t Read more:Changing
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Think On This 2008-09-27 17:48:00 "It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases."-Bono
Bash 'n Burn 2008-09-22 10:49:00 This last Wednesday night our students once again gathered with four other area youth groups for The Burn. The Burn is a quarterly gathering for the purpose of bringing the Church together in worship and fellowship. Read about a couple of our past Burns here and here.This time we added a fun twist. Along with a great BBQ we brought in two cars to smash! I mean really....how often do you get to
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