The last two weekends have involved taking teenagers to Camp Wesley Woods for retreats/sledding. First, it was the confirmation class. Then, it was a group of high schoolers. Here’s some of the lessons I learned while being around lots of teenagers, lots of snow and lots of laughter: It’s okay to buy a new sled [...]
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Lessons From Sledding
Posted in high school, junior high, Random Musings, tagged lessons, sledding on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of Wednesdays ago…
Posted in high school, junior high, teenagers, video, tagged video, Wednesday on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had the various small groups recreate movies using whatever props/costumes they could find. Go here to see them preparing. Skit One: Skit Two: Skit Three: Skit Four: Skit Five: Skit Six:
Missions Sunday
Posted in Events, high school, junior high, Random Musings, Sunday Lesson, tagged missions, service, sunday on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, the youth ministry of the church left the building to go out into the community and serve others. The topic of discussion for Sunday’s lesson was “Missions in the Church.” The chair of the mission team and I decided, “Instead of talking about serving others, let’s go do it instead.” So, we did. 38 [...]
Chaos
Posted in junior high, teenagers, tagged axis, chaos, dodgeball, wednesday night on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some pictures from last Wednesday and the game of Chaos (or “Romanian Dodgeball”):
Sunday Morning at Sweet & Aweful
Posted in Events, high school, junior high, Sunday Lesson, tagged missions, romania, Sweet and Aweful, Venezuela on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Students in grades 6-12 have the option of attending a service at 9:30 am on Sunday mornings that’s geared for students, partially led by students, and spontaneous like students. This Sunday, Elisha Kremer and Annie Keith are going to sit down and chat about life overseas and participating in mission work for Jesus. Elisha spent [...]
In defense of today's youth
Posted in junior high, Random Musings, religion, tagged adults, culture, religion, teenagers on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Begin Rant. We had a lengthy staff gathering yesterday to plan the summer sermon schedule. Somewhere in the midst of that, the discussion of how immature teenagers are today compared to 10, 20, or 30 years ago started up. The teenagers aren’t “growing up” and accept less responsibility and blame others faster than previous generations [...]
Happy Mother's Day!
Posted in high school, junior high, Random Musings, video on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We interrupt this 10:30 am worship service to sing this song for the Moms of the world.
Footwashing Service
Posted in junior high, Random Musings, religion, tagged communion, Easter, footwashing on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Subtitled: My Favorite Night of Wednesday Night Youth Group A few years ago we started holding a Foot Washing service during our Junior High Youth Group program on Wednesday night. This is the third year we’ve done it and it’s awesome. I can’t sum up in words what we do or what I hope the [...]
High Ropes Course @ Camp Wesley Woods
Posted in junior high, video on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A 4 minute video of the kids on the zip line on Sunday, May 3.
New Teaching Series
Posted in high school, junior high, Sunday Lesson, tagged job, sermon series on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At Grimes UMC, we are beginning a new series about the Book of Job called The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and are using the title as a blatant rip-off of the Clint Eastwood movie. We’ll be covering the following topics: When bad things happen to good people When God tests us When it [...]
