Tag Archives: intergenerational

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

Posted in Legacy Coalition, Ministry, The Legacy Coalition | Tagged , , | Comments Off on The 2019 Legacy Grandparenting Summit – Getting Close!

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 , , , , , , | Comments Off on MexiGO 2017

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 , , , , , , | Comments Off on Another Great Week in Mexico

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 , , , , , | Comments Off on On the Renovation (or Not!) of Old Hymns

MexiGO! 2015

One of the things that I continue to do at College Avenue Baptist Church is to organize and lead a family mission trip to Mexico. Here is a video that describes the trip. Thanks to my buddy Ed Watts for … Continue reading

Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry, Personal | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on MexiGO! 2015

Speed Mentoring

This past weekend, our church held its third annual all-church retreat at a conference center in the mountains near San Diego. CABC@PineValley, as the retreat is known, is designed to bring all ages of the church together for a weekend … Continue reading

Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Speed Mentoring

A Christmas Party for All Ages

Over the past several years, my wife and I have been invited to attend many of the Christmas parties hosted each year by various groups at College Avenue Baptist Church. Word got around that I was good for some cheap … Continue reading

Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry | Tagged , , | Comments Off on A Christmas Party for All Ages

Sequoia Farming

A little over five years ago I accepted a staff position at College Avenue Baptist Church in San Diego with the title Pastor to Generations. I was not a member of CABC at the time, but I knew of it. … Continue reading

Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry, Personal | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Sequoia Farming

Cross-Generational Ministry

Last month our senior pastor Carlton Harris preached a vision-casting sermon based on Ephesians 2:14-22. This passage stresses how Christ created a new humanity out of two cultures (the Jews and the Gentiles) that were previously incompatible with each other. … Continue reading

Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry, Theology | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

MexiGO! 2014

I have been busy organizing another intergenerational mission trip to Ensenada BC Mexico for College Avenue Baptist Church this summer. We’re calling it MexiGO! 2014 and once again, we’ll be working with YUGO Ministries out of their Ensenada Outreach Center. … Continue reading

Posted in College Avenue Baptist Church, Ministry, Parenting | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on MexiGO! 2014