Top 10 Youth Ministry Books
April 5, 2008
An Episcopal friend of mine recently received a call to a position that included doing some youth ministry, something that he’s never done before. He wrote asking for a recommendation of some youth ministry books that a more progressive person might be able enjoy reading and find fruitful. Some of these I’ve read, and some [...]
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Random Moment of the Day
April 22, 2007
So, I’ve been blogging for long enough that I’m pretty used to being stopped at Emergent events/conventions with some version of, “Hey - aren’t you Adam? Your blog is pomomusings, right?” I’m used to that. It was a little weird for Sarah at first when people would come up and know everything about her. But [...]
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Standing in the Doorway, Scanning the Cafeteria
February 12, 2007
Today I read “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson for my Youth & Young Adult Ministry course. I’m not sure if anyone has read it, but it is basically the account of a girl who had been raped the summer before her freshman year of high school. It is about the depression she goes through and [...]
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Asking questions…
July 29, 2004
I’m at a family reunion in northern Illinois the rest of this week, and then I get to spend a few days with my buddy Tony. We’ll do some blogging while we’re hanging out, so be sure and check it out. Anyway, I got a wonderful email from the girl at camp who had been [...]
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Niners Camp: What the Kids said…
July 24, 2004
Just enjoying what some of the campers have been emailing us about camp…I love getting emails from kids whose lives were touched and deepened from a week at church camp:
“Camp was great. I have been there four years and this year was my very favorite! You and Andy were such great deans. What I liked [...]
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Niners Camp: Recap
July 12, 2004
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I love these kids. I’ve been able, for the last 5 years, to have a connection with the students in Idaho. I first worked at Camp Sawtooth the summer of ‘99. Then again in the summer of ‘00. In the fall of ‘00, I was able to lead worship and help [...]
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Niners Camp: 3rd Night
July 7, 2004
So I totally flopped. The kids were antsy…I had too many points in my notes…I was trying too hard to get across my point (which…now that I think about it…what the hell WAS my point?)…oh well. We talked some more about fellowship…about Christ’s hope for the Church - we actually had some discussion out at [...]
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Niners Camp: 2nd Night
July 6, 2004
Camp is continuing to go well. I gave a talk on God’s Creation yesterday; focusing on how we can listen for God and experience/encounter God through God’s Creation. Andy followed up last night with the ultimate creation of humanity, and God’s love and design that God put into us. We laughed a lot last night, [...]
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Praying for a wife…
May 31, 2004
Today one of our youth was praying for me after the potluck, in front of everyone. She’s also one of my pastor’s daughters and when she was ending her prayer, she said, “And God, we just pray that Adam would be able to find a wife…please guide him…” and I thought - “now THAT is [...]
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Night of God
May 27, 2004
Spent a few hours tonight at Wendell’s graduation. Anyone have any fun highschool graduation stories? At any rate, as I watched this graduation, I was struck by two conflicting thoughts running through my head: 1) “Graduation…big deal. Yay….” and 2) “This IS in fact a huge deal for many of these kids - for some [...]
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