Each week, we scour the web for great articles on youth ministry, social media, and blogging and offer the best of them to you. Here is what we have found to be good reads this week. If you find something you like, let us know what and leave them a comment on their blog.
Each week, we scour the web for great articles on youth ministry, social media, and blogging and offer the best of them to you. Here is what we have found to be good reads this week. If you find something you like, let us know what and leave them a comment on their blog.
Each week, we scour the web for great articles on youth ministry, social media, and blogging and offer the best of them to you. Here is what we have found to be good reads this week. If you find something you like, let us know what and leave them a comment on their blog.
The Colorado Springs fire is continuing on. In fact, the fire chief believes that this whole fire will not be put out until the end of the summer because of how big it is as well as how dry the trees are which burn so easily. On Tuesday, we were just three people within 33,000 people who had to evacuate their homes. Since then, a majority of people have been able to return with the understanding that they may have to leave at a moments notice again. Unfortunately, in Tuesday’s destruction, 386 homes have been lost and at least 2 people killed in the fire. This is the most devastating wildfire in Colorado history by 150 homes.
Please continue to pray for this community. Here are some more photos of the fire and its destruction:
[This is a post from my ministry blog. If you would like to take a look at what we are doing with youth ministry at the Air Force Academy, head on over there and leave us a comment on the blog.]
While our mission is to share the Gospel with every military teenager we see, it cannot be helped that we invest a little in their parents too. Seasons when the active duty soldier has to be away definitely impacts the whole family and so we make special events like paintballing or going to the movies always open for parent participation as well.
If you have not seen some of the YouTube videos of soldiers coming home to their families, they are amazingly touching and you will shed a tear or two.
With our now three month old son, we have been truly blessed by everything that he does. Every time that we get a smile out of him, we end up looking like fools to do the same thing over and over to get that precious little giggle or smirk. It is amazing to see him beam.
The video below is an amazing result of a deaf son receiving an cochlear implant and getting to hear his mother for the first time. This amazing result is truly touching. And let me say for all you ministers, there is a great sermon here, but the first couple of times, watch it with just a loving heart and then introduce it into your lessons. It’s so beautiful.
Social justice has become an essential in youth ministry and for good reason. I myself am part of this Millennial generation and find the deep need to enact my faith out as much as I am learning and reading for ministry. That outpouring goes towards evangelism, discipleship, and service projects. The reason that social justice is so strong for us is that we are being Jesus to these people. It does not take a doctorate in theology to understand Christ through service and compassion.
