Tonight I attended the memorial/celebration service for a 12-year-old cancer victim named Jessie Rees. The word “victim”, however, hardly describes her. She was a warrior. Jessie saw so many other cancer patients who could use some joy in their lives so she created Joy Jars. Her goal was to deliver 1 Joy Jar to each [...]

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I was happy to see VolunteerYouthMinistry.com has made its way into 124 countries! My goal with this blog is to be a resource for other volunteers helping students make their way into adulthood as devoted followers of Christ.

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We had some special guests at today’s staff meeting. Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez came by to show their new film The Way. They stayed around afterward to take questions and pose for pictures. They were super cool and easy to talk to. They stayed around for a long time like they were neighbors from [...]

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One of the benefits of being on staff at Saddleback Church is getting some pretty cool opportunities. Last week an email went out to the church staff and interns about Pastor Rick speaking in San Diego that night. Anybody who wanted to go, could go. We loaded up on a bus and drove down. As [...]

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Steve Jobs passed away. You can read about it here. So what is this doing on a youth ministry website? I use Apple’s iPhone and iPad as ministry tools frequently. While I don’t know where Steve Jobs stood with God, I do appreciate all he and his company contributed to the world of youth ministry [...]

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I blog about youth ministry partly out of passion for the task, somewhat as an outlet for ideas, but mostly to somehow be a resource to other youth workers. It’s great to help others avoid some of my mistakes, alter a perspective now and then or pass along the occasional joy of something that went [...]

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I’ve been writing about youth ministry now for a few years. My friends at GenToGenYM.com and I would love to get together with some other volunteer youth workers in the Spring of 2012. This won’t be a youth ministry conference with all the bells and whistles. It’s just a time to come together and talk [...]

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UPDATE: The Landing shirts are now available! Click here for details We got this new T-shirt design today for The Landing. We’re taking orders soon. If you’re interested in having them for your church, let me know. I’ll have more information on how to order them posted here soon.

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Last week I posted some free resources on VolunteerYouthMinistry.com.

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Being such a fan of my iPad, I’m excited to use this new free application from Group Publishing when life groups start back up in a few weeks. If you use the Live curriculum and you have an iPad or iPhone, I highly recommend downloading this free app! Click here to go to the app. [...]

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