Family
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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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2025 McNutt Family Christmas Letter
Another Family Christmas Letter where no actual letters are being sent. It’s like I don’t even know how this is supposed to work. 2025 has been a big year for our family! Here’s the recap: Micah is 24 and graduated last May from the University of Delaware. It’s wild to think he’s finished already –…
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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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Noah’s Testimony and Baptism
My highlight from this past retreat was listening to my son Noah share his testimony and then being the one to baptize him. Sometimes being a youth pastor is extra special.
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Zach and Noah’s 2024 Missions Reports
Watch the video above to hear Zach and Noah’s reports from their mission trip experiences! Zach and I traveled to McAllen, TX, to serve with Border Perspective, a service learning ministry that provided opportunities to serve refugees and immigrants as well as hear from a variety of perspectives on the border. We had an amazing…
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2023 McNutt Family Christmas Letter
Can I call it a Family Christmas Letter if no actual letters are being sent? 2023 has been a wild ride that went by way too fast! Here’s the recap … Micah is 22 and in his junior year at UD. He’s majoring in history, minoring in computer science. He’s also a shift lead at…
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Noah and Zach’s 2023 Missions Reports
I always love hearing my sons share about their mission trips! This past June I was on a team with Noah that went to Bethel, Alaska, while Zach went on a mission trip to Billerica, MA. Heather also served as a leader on another team that we sent to Anchorage, Alaska! Anyway, this post is…
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Reflections on Youth Ministry and Dropping My Son Off at College
This blog post, by me, originally appeared on the Download Youth Ministry blog. A few weeks ago my wife Heather and I drove away from the university campus we had just left our second son at, tears on both our faces, making the long drive home. Weren’t we just changing his diapers? Our football lineman…
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2022 Student Missions Reports
Yesterday was our annual student missions report Sunday! This year we had 91 students and adults participate in our three trips. The highlight for Heather and I, though, was our three sons in the video above. Zach shared about his experience on the Niagara Falls trip (YouthWorks), Noah shared about his experience on the Blue…
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Twenty Years
Twenty years. It goes by fast. In March, 2001, I became a full time youth pastor. Heather and I had been married for a handful of months and had just found out we were expecting our first child. He would end up being two days old at our first anniversary – definitively NOT part of…