I look forward to the blob all year long. Because I make teens fly. Anyway, here’s the music video/highlights video from our 2015 Student Ministry Retreat! It was a blast!

The 2015 Student Ministry Retreat is a wrap! What a weekend! We had a great turnout, amazing weather, and an exciting kick off to the new school year. Our theme for the weekend was #Hashtag; essentially, we took popular hashtags from social media and used them as launching points for our three talks and two…

Sometimes it’s the little things that make you feel most appreciated. This photo is from the VBS party/cookout our team through for the residents in Stockholm and New Sweden during our mission trip to Maine. There were a handful of kids who came with drawings thanking us for the VBS!

Taking 22 middle school students on a mission trip to Northern Maine means about 16 hours of driving in each direction … and we don’t allow them to bring ANY devices on the trip! So we spend the time talking, playing games, getting to know each other, and making lip sync videos! The funny thing…

All three of our student missions trips are back home! Yesterday in church we took over both of the worship services to allow the students and leaders to share what God had done through them, and showed them through the trips to Maine, Boston, and Guatemala. It’s the first time we’ve done the reports during…

I am particularly excited about this year’s student missions report! In the past, we’ve had several different, smaller reports, which have always been great – but only a small part of the church is actually able to make them. This year? We’re taking over both worship services on June 28th so the whole church can…

We have a team of 17 students and 4 adults on a short term mission trip in Guatemala right now – their leader, Matt O, posted this music video this morning! Fun to see them all enjoying the country. At the same time, they’ve already been tackling some tough challenges. Last night they hit the…

The other week we had our annual short term mission trip report Sunday where people from all the different mission trips our church sends out each year shared what God had done in them and through them during the mission trips. Over the course of the three worship services, Anna, Kristina, Lauren, Jessica, JD and…

This is a video we showed this past Sunday in church highlighting our four student ministry summer mission trips from last June! I love doing these kinds of videos because we typically only have time to hear from a few students on a Sunday morning … which drives me nuts! There are sooooo many more…