I’m taking a group of college students to Pearlington, MS, this week. We’ll be partnering with the Pearlington Recovery Center and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Louisiana to do some rebuilding work in one of the many communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. To see all that remains undone in those areas is unnerving to [...]
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Pearlington or Bust
Posted in Making a Difference, tagged mission trip, pearlington on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Teen Girls and STDs
Posted in Culture, Youth Ministry, tagged Culture, human sexuality, STDs, teenage girls on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Almost every student ministry blog I read has made reference to the Associated Press article that appeared last week claiming that one out of every four teenage girls (over 3 million girls) has a sexually transmitted disease. I think more than anything, we’re in a collective state of disbelief wondering where our sex ed programs [...]
Youth Sunday Goeth
Posted in Church, Reflections, tagged Youth Sunday on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Youth Sunday 2008 is in the books. I was extremely proud of our student participants. We also had two adults give testimonies about their experiences as youth growing up in our church. My first “sermon” was brief and ended up going a different direction that I had originally planned, but I guess that’s part of [...]
Youth Sunday Cometh
Posted in Church, Youth Ministry on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This Sunday our church will be observing Youth Sunday for the first time in several years. The church’s youth leadership has been in a period of transition for a couple of years, so most of our students haven’t participated in this type of service before. They’re a little anxious about what to expect, but I [...]
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