Brandywine Valley Baptist
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The United We Stand Tour recap
“Woah. Matthew. I need you to understand that this concert is on a whole different level.” Words from the tour manager on the phone with me the day before they arrived at my church … and he wasn’t kidding! I was downplaying something as not being a big deal based on the concert events I’ve…
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Getting Teens in the Worship Service
I took the above picture the other week during our third worship hour, one typically that sees so few teens I can generally count them on one hand. The picture isn’t all the teens in the room; there were actually many more – I was struck that four of them are filming/photographing Thomas while he…
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Student Missions Highlights Video
This is a short video I put together to use in our main church services as part of a report on our student mission trips. It’s also a way to have the congregation hear from a much larger number of students than they would have otherwise. I love making these videos; they are useful when…
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Nicaragua mission trip video
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to post this to my blog! This is a video/slideshow I put together on the flight back from Nicaragua. I actually used iMovie on an iPad mini, which was a first for me – but crazy easy. It was the first time I’ve led a mission trip…
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Student reports from summer missions!
I love it when students post their reflections on summer mission trips! If you want to hear the audio from the three mission trip reports, check out our podcast. Here are a few blog posts from a couple of the guys who were on the Nicaragua trip: Mission Trip Summary: Nicaragua 2013, by Zach Hayes…
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First graders blessing the high school
Last Sunday was a special morning in our student ministry hour; the first graders came to visit! As part of their lessons they have been studying missions and as a class raised enough money to donate towards the Nicaragua team to cover the costs of four Nicaraguan children coming to the camp we’ll be leading…
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Youth Ministry moment that made my day
My wife, Heather, told me I needed to get on Facebook the other day and see what one the students from our church had posted. I have to confess, I tensed up, logged on … and it absolutely made my day! I love being part of a team of amazing leaders that impact kids in…
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Small Group Leader = Pastor
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=471384936267220 Was totally caught off guard the other day in the best kind of way when one of the eighth graders in our church posted this video to his Facebook. I thought it was awesome – and I love that he blasted it out there for everyone he knows to see and hear about his…
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Student Videos from Planet Wisdom
We had a blast at Planet Wisdom, the conference for teens in Washington DC a few weeks ago. Here are a couple videos that some of the kids shot; the first one is by Tommy Neilson (I had no idea he was filming all this!), the other one was shot with Rachael’s phone in the…
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Jamaican me crazy!
A little music video from our mission trip to Jamaica last summer … that I finally finished putting together! It is no exaggeration to say that every where we went these guys started dancing around. Not only was it an amazing, exhausting, moving, spiritually challenging experience … there was also a lot of joy and fun! And…