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Warning for Conservative Christians

It’s easy as you learn more about God and the Bible to fall into certain ditches. Today on a podcast I listen to I heard these 12 things that are dangers in being a conservative Christian: 1. You neglect personal worship, prayer and Bible reading 2. Failure to evangelize 3. You find better things to do other than serve in local church 4

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David Gardner’s prayer letter

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, I hope you are all doing well back in the U.S. I hear there is a lot of snow going around and we are missing it all. I won’t lie to you, I don’t miss it. But my wife is definitely missing the cold weather. Growth continues to happen in every way

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Truly Help Chile

I will be spending the last week of April in Santiago, Chile at the ministry started by Jason Holt. My family prays for the Holt family on a daily basis and love them as fellow church members, friends, and co-workers. I have looked forward to this trip for sometime now. Here recently watching his churches

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A Fun-Filled Youth Ministry

source Is your youth ministry Bible-focused or fun-focused? It’s easy to focus more on making the youth group fun than on making it biblical. I’m all for having a good time with students in the right context, but we have a much higher calling. How easy it is to fall into the trap of spending more time planning [...]

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Why Married People Should Date

Why Married People Should Date?

I read the following on Clay Reed’s blog and thought every married couple should read it.  Teri and I went on a date last night, and I can verify that dating your mate is a great way to strengthen your marriage. The statistics are shocking regarding the problems of children who grow up in homes [...]

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Girl Takes a Stand at School

I was very blessed by this story from Alan Campbell about a young lady who took a real stand at her school.  I hope that teenagers and adults alike will be encouraged by her story: A young girl who comes to our Youth Club and Bible Study at Ford Mission has been having a difficult time at [...]

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Our Generation Leadership Camp – 14-8 June – Don’t Miss It!

Let’s be honest, traveling around the world is expensive. Airfare alone with all its hidden costs can easily break anyone’s budget. But what if you could see the world, without leaving the United States? The world itself has gotten smaller. It was once normal that in order to taste authentic Indian food, you would need [...]

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Titus likes Chocolate

The other day TItus was playing but it was really quiet. When there is a long period of silence it usually means that something is wrong. Well that is what happened with Titus and this is how we found him. The funny thing is that the look on his face says it all. He knew [...]

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Merry Christmas

From our family to yours we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. As one year comes to an end and another starts our prayer is that you would receive many more blessings this year than ever before and that Christ would remain the center of your lives not only during this Christmas [...]

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Christmas and eating Picana

This past Saturday we had our first ever Christmas Banquet at the church. It was truly a wonderful time of fellowship and fun. We had some games like two couples wrapping a gift using only one hand each but having to work together. They actually did better than me with two hands. Along with the [...]

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