Monthly Archive: November 2006

Family Friendly Services 0

Family Friendly Services

While we were at the beach over Thanksgiving, we had the opportunity to visit Seacoast Church down in Mt. Pleasant, right outside of Charleston, South Carolina. It is probably about the 4th or 5th...

Salsa, Contacts, and Pain 0

Salsa, Contacts, and Pain

I had a unique experience Sunday night. We were on our way home from the beach when we stopped to eat at our local Mexican restaurant, Tlaquepaque. The food was fast and great as...

Thanksgiving At The Beach 0

Thanksgiving At The Beach

We just got back from a long Thanksgiving weekend at the beach. We stayed at a beach house near Charleston, South Carolina with some good friends and their children. Overall with our 3 kids...

10 is the new 15 1

10 is the new 15

Interesting article on MSNBC this morning. It immediately brought up two questions in my mind. Are kids really growing up faster? What can we do about it as parents and Youth Ministers? I think...

Cannonball !! 0

Cannonball !!

I saw this on America’s Funniest Home Video a few weeks ago. I have a feeling that this kid was in a little trouble after the service. Hilarious.

Number 100!! 0

Number 100!!

I reached a blogging milestone today. This is post #100. When I started, I didn’t know how long I would keep doing it. But I have found that it is almost like a journal...

New Options for FaithEngineer 0

New Options for FaithEngineer

Just a quick entry to let you know that you can now subscribe via email to my blog. You will get an email with all my ramblings every time I add a post. I...

What Happens After Youth Group & College – Part 2 3

What Happens After Youth Group & College – Part 2

A while back, I blogged about a problem that is all too common in youth ministry. I talked about youth being disconnected from the larger church and only being connected to the youth ministry....

I Snagged an Elmo T.M.X. 0

I Snagged an Elmo T.M.X.

The power of tv amazes me. We are pretty strict about letting our kids watch tv, but we allow them around 30 minutes per day. Mostly foodtv or PBS. Drew, my two-year old, saw...

Resources for the Average Youth Ministry 1

Resources for the Average Youth Ministry

Do you ever get the feeling that most major Christian publishing companies are out of touch with the average youth ministry? I was looking through some catalogs online this weekend and I am surprised...

What is a church website for? 0

What is a church website for?

I read this today over at Church Communications. This guy is right on with the purpose of a website. Good stuff. As disciple-makers, we are called not to minister AT the church, but to...