Baptism: Shane from HSM on Vimeo. This video is of one of my students, Shane, getting baptized. He surprised all of us by doing it that night. He graduated from high school just a few days later. Few things get me more excited than seeing my boys take spiritual steps in life. So great!

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Summer Camp from HSM on Vimeo. I saw this video for the first time when they played it during a service. I had no idea what was in it. At the 1 minute and 21 second mark, one of my small group students being interviewed gives me a shout out as a reason for why [...]

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Last Saturday I had the honor of being a groomsman for a former student. He was a sophomore when he started dating the girl he married. She was in a small group that met in the same house as ours, but they got to know each other through school. They both graduated college recently and [...]

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This August I’ll be part of the Celebrate Recovery Summit. My specific role will be helping teach the breakout session about The Landing (recovery from life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups for students). This program has been a big help to students at Saddleback Church. If there’s any way you can make it to this year’s [...]

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Last weekend I was in a pretty serious conversation with another leader. This conversation ended abruptly and prematurely by an interrupting student who wouldn’t quit saying my name until I turned from the conversation and gave him my undivided attention. His interruption was to ask if I would notarize a form for him this week. [...]

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Today our staff at Saddleback Church was asked to drop everything and come to be the studio audience for a taping of a new video curriculum Rick Warren is taping today. It’s a curriculum to help our small groups learn about and deal with temptation. What a great opportunity! Serving on staff at Saddleback Church [...]

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I am very excited to see this movie when it comes out! The book was amazing.

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A friend of mine said her church in the Ft Worth area is looking for a youth pastor. If you’re interested, click here to check out their website and get the contact information. I don’t know anything about the church, but she did say the youth ministry runs about 100 students and the church has [...]

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We ended our small groups for the summer this week. We also had a few other endings… the home we use for small groups is up for sale, so we won’t be meeting there again, one of our leaders is moving to Sacramento so she won’t be back, and many of our students are graduating. [...]

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