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Category Archives: Ministry
God Still Knows How to Make Lemonade
The metaphor about “making lemonade out of lemons” is a common way of saying that there are times when you need to make something good out of something that’s not-so-good. That’s more or less how I am feeling about this … Continue reading
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Tagged Legacy Grandparenting Summit
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Post-Conference Recovery
It has been one week today since we put a wrap on this year’s Legacy Grandparenting Summit conferencei in Fullerton, which went very well. By all accounts, this was the best conference of the three that we (The Legacy Coalition) … Continue reading
Posted in Legacy Coalition, Personal, The Legacy Coalition
Tagged grandparenting, Legacy Coalition, Legacy Grandparenting Summit, Recovery
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The 2019 Legacy Grandparenting Summit – Getting Close!
For the past four years, I have been working as a volunteer with the Legacy Coalition as their Director of Conferencing, which means that I have been the chief planner of the organization’s national conference on grandparenting, The Legacy Grandparenting … Continue reading
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Tagged intergenerational, Legacy Coalition, Legacy Grandparenting Summit
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The Big Bang of Youth Specialties
It was the summer of 1968 when Mike Yaconelli and I resigned from our jobs with San Diego Youth For Christ and became youth directors at two local churches. I won’t go into the reasons we left YFC, but we … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry
Tagged Ideas Books, National Youth Workers Convention, YFC, Youth for Christ, youth ministry, Youth Specialties
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MexiGO 2017
So, when you only post one blog per year, I guess you have no right to call yourself a blogger. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write about. I do … but I just don’t have the time, … Continue reading
Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry, Personal
Tagged CABC, Ensenada, Ensenada mission trip, intergenerational, Mexico, MexiGO, YUGO Ministries
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Another Great Week in Mexico
Last week I led a group from College Avenue Baptist Church to Ensenada, B.C. Mexico to build a house for a family living in poverty and to conduct a VBS (Vacation Bible School) program for neighborhood children. There were 36 … Continue reading
Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry, Personal
Tagged College Avenue Baptist Church, Ensenada, intergenerational, Mexico, Ministry, Mission Trips, YUGO
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Legacy Grandparenting Summit
I’ve been working pretty much full-time with the Legacy Coalition for the past six months or so planning and now promoting the first-ever national grandparenting conference. The word is getting out and we think it’s going to be awesome. Click … Continue reading
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Tagged grandparenting, Legacy Coalition
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The Legacy Coalition
When I resigned my position as Pastor to Generations at College Avenue Baptist Church last year, I had to keep telling myself (and everybody else as well) that I was NOT retiring. I was simply taking time off from ministry … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, Our Grandchildren, Personal, The Legacy Coalition
Tagged grandparenting, The Legacy Coalition
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On the Renovation (or Not!) of Old Hymns
A few years ago College Avenue Baptist Church did the unthinkable by pulling the plug on its two Sunday morning worship services. These services, one held in the gymnasium, the other held in the sanctuary, divided the congregation according to … Continue reading
Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry
Tagged chris tomlin, College Avenue Baptist Church, hymns, intergenerational, worship, worship music
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Lost and Found Keys in Mexico
I just returned from another incredible week of ministry in Mexico. For the past six years, I’ve led a family (intergenerational) mission trip designed to give families and individuals an immersion experience in serving the poor and living in community … Continue reading
Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry, Personal
Tagged College Avenue Baptist Church, Ensenada, Family, Mexico, Ministry, YUGO
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