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Educational thoughts and Advice on leadership, playing in the outdoors, gear reviews, and faqs for Youth Pastors, Teachers, Parents, Camps, Youth Centers, and others involved in Youth Ministry.
Educational thoughts and Advice on leadership, playing in the outdoors, gear reviews, and faqs for Youth Pastors, Teachers, Parents, Camps, Youth Centers, and others involved in Youth Ministry.
I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds." Psalm 9:1 I don't know about you, but I am finding it hard to believe that Thanksgiving is only a few days away. My heart is filled with a warm happy feeling when I think of [...]
With the worst of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic now in the past, maybe you've started to notice that things are finally starting to open up again and feel more like normal. Maybe you even have summer plans this year that actually involve you leaving your house! Yay! As life begins to return to normal [...]
Imagine you’re standing at the top of a tall pole. It’s quite a bit higher off the ground than you are comfortable with. A few feet in front of you is a bar. Your task is to jump out off of the pole and grab the bar. If you miss the bar you’ll fall. It [...]
Dignity. What is it? It's something we all want. It's something we also want other people to have. We claim we have a right to it as if it's something we can buy. But have you ever really thought about what it really means to have dignity? Dignity Defined If you look it up in [...]
Last year we had a camp saying; “So 2020 it ain’t even funny”… Maybe one day we’ll be able to look back on 2020 and laugh, but it’s still isn’t that far in the past. I think it’s safe to say that 2020 was not anyone’s favorite year. It was a year full of so [...]
What do you do when you come to a crossroads in life and you have to make a decision? When it comes to discerning how to wisely make decisions, are we all on our own, or is there a tried and true formula to follow? The other day I came across something that shed a [...]
Did you know that spending a little time in nature can clear your head and soothe your stressed-out soul? Experiencing these benefits can be as simple as taking a walk in the park or in your neighborhood. I don’t know about you, but when I need time to distress and unwind I go outside and [...]
How big is your view of God? I read this quote from A.W. Tozer the other day and it has got me thinking: “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” ~ A.W. Tozer According to this quote, what matters the most in my life isn’t [...]
Come and sit with me for a moment and let me tell you something that's been on my mind a lot lately. Today I was spending some time at my favorite place in camp; the Indian grinding rock (if you've not been to our camp before, it's a big rock that overlooks the river). I [...]
God created us and saved us so we could be in a relationship with Him. You probably know from experience that communication is an important part of every relationship. Communication is also important for our relationship with God. But have you ever thought about how we communicate with God? Through prayer! Prayer is one of [...]