Brandywine Valley Baptist
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Sunday Recap | January 4
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for January 4th, 2026! Jacob Anderson kicked off the hour with a game he led, Head Shoulders Knees Cup. Super fun! And he brought a $10 Chick-fil-A gift card which definitely had people motivated. We had one announcement: We continued our series, Keep it Simple. Kim Biasotto taught high…
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Sunday Recap | September 14
Time for the Student Quest Sunday recap for September 14th, 2025! We opened the hour with Over Under: Football, a game I made. It’s a fun trivia game full of NFL records; I chose it in honor of the Eagles / Chiefs rematch that happened later that day. Go Birds! We had a few announcements/reminders:…
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Zach and Noah’s 2025 Missions Reports
Watch the video above to hear Zach and Noah’s reports from their mission trip experiences! Zach traveled to Puerto Rico, while Noah and I traveled to Belize. Both trips were with Praying Pelican Missions; each our groups were partnered with a church. This was actually the second time our youth group had the privilege of…
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Christmas Party Game List
Over the last week, our student ministry has done both of our middle school and high school Christmas parties! For us, that means time to hang out, Christmas cookies, and a lot of group games! We decorate our gym with a lot of Christmas colored lights, Christmas music, and Christmas inflatables (giant Santas – stuff…
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Zach’s Insta Devo
Our student ministry has been posting short devos called “Insta Devos” to our Instagram and Facebook pages. It’s been a fun way to see students interact with scripture and share their insights with one another. This week, our youngest – Zach – who is moving up into the youth group in a few weeks, did…
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2019 Renew Student Conference highlights
Last March we launched the Renew Student Conference, a local discipleship event hosted at Brandywine Valley Baptist Church, with two goals; (1) to get young people from all over the region in the same space worshiping and learning together, and (2) to see it led by voices from leaders from a variety of churches and…
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Highs and Lows of Ministry
This photo was taken almost ten years ago on a service weekend in Philadelphia. I stumbled across it last week; it has a lot of emotions tied up in it. It was a fun moment. I love Rocky, I loved getting my picture at the statue, loved having fun with these students, loved seeing them…
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Ten Years at Brandywine Valley Baptist Church
Melissa and Zach pulled off a massive surprise for Heather and I at the fall retreat this year; we had no idea they had been collecting videos, notes and pictures from current and former students and leaders to put together a video (see above) and a memory book to honor our ten years at Brandywine…
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Apologetics Summer Series
The summer series on Apologetics is a wrap! I enjoyed putting together this adult class and am really happy with how it all turned out. Overall, I hope it was a great resource for people, and ultimately, helped those who attended have a greater understanding of the scriptures and their calling to be a part…
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Life, The Universe & Everything
We just concluded a series a couple weeks ago in our Sunday morning high school group that I had a lot of fun putting together. Over the course of three weeks we tackled the question of faith and science. For me, there was a basic, underlying purpose to the series as a whole; we know…