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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…
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Sunday Recap | April 26
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for April 26th, 2026! We played a trivia game I’m working on, Fact or Fake Round Three – basically, it’s a true/false game, but we were able to play it with the whole room, giving the person with the most right the prize! For our teaching time, we…
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Sunday Recap | April 19
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for April 19th, 2026! Jacob Anderson opened the hour with a super fun game based on an online viral trend. He was a hit! For our teaching time, we continued our series from Coleader called Relationship Goals. We had a few announcements/reminders: We continued our three week series called Relationship Goals. This…
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Sunday Recap | April 12
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for April 12th, 2026! Melissa opened the hour with a fun ice breaker called Partnered Prompts. It’s a great resource for getting kids talking to each other. For our teaching time, we kicked off a series from Coleader called Relationship Goals. We had a few announcements/reminders: We kicked off a three…
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Twenty Five Years
This month makes it official … I’ve been a youth pastor for 25 years. Literally half my life. Which is kind of weird to type. The first time I ‘did’ youth ministry I was actually twelve. My youth pastor at the time let me teach the younger kids. All through high school, Bible school, and…
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Renew Student Conference Recap
It’s been a couple weeks since our eighth annual Renew Student Conference … I’m so happy with how it all came together! It is my favorite event of the year; I’m already thinking and dreaming about next year. This was our biggest year yet with right around 500 people participating total … one of the…