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Sunday Recap | June 7
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for June 7th, 2026! We played Googly Moogly: Feeling Lucky, a game I created that plays with Google’s search function’s predictive text. For our teaching time, we had a special Sunday with eight of our students teaching the separate middle school and high school groups! Sam, Kenzie, Ezra and…
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May Reading Recap
This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read five books in May. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: Reimagining Church as Family by Rich Griffith and JJ Jones. I really…
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Sunday Recap | May 31
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for May 31st, 2026! We played Mind Reader: Choose Adventure, a game I created that involves the whole room trying to figure out what one student is answering up front. For our teaching time, we continued with our second of three weeks in the book of Ezekiel. We had…
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Sunday Recap | May 24
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for May 24th, 2026! We played Useless Trivia Home Run, a baseball themed trivia game I created. For our teaching time, we kicked off three weeks in the book of Ezekiel. We had a few announcements/reminders: This week I kicked off a three-week series in the book of Ezekiel.…
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Sunday Recap | May 17
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for May 17th, 2026! We played One to Stay One to Go Away Summer Edition, which was a fun ice breaker. For our teaching time, we finished a two week series from Coleader called Influencer. We had a few announcements/reminders: Our two-week series called Influencer will help students discover that authentic leadership begins…
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Reimagining Church as Family [book review]
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I just finished reading Reimagining Church as Family by Rich Griffith and JJ Jones, with contributions from Shelly Melia, Larry Fowler, and Kevin Jones. It’s an incredibly thoughtful and important book on ministering to and with families of all shapes and arrangements in our current culture. The authors point out that while most churches focus…
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Sunday Recap | May 10
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for May 10th, 2026! No games this week; we had a bunch of announcements and we took some time to celebrate Matt Spanakos’ graduation from Kansas Christian College! For our teaching time, we kicked off a two week series from Coleader called Influencer. We had a few announcements/reminders: Our two-week series…
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Creating a Student Ministry App
The last couple weeks I released into the wild an app for our student ministry. You can find it on the Apple app store here, and Google Play here. It took a LOT of hours to put together but I’m really excited about it and the potential for it to really improve our communication with…
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April Reading Recap
This year I’ve decided to be more intentional with tracking my reading … which means I’ve started logging everything on Goodreads. I read eight books in April. Here’s the list in order of when I finished them and my quick thoughts on each one: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. This is…
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Sunday Recap | May 3
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for May 3rd, 2026! It was a little different than usual; we did a combined worship time but then split into two groups: a packing list meeting for students going on summer mission trips (and their parents) and a teaching time for the students not going on mission…