I serve as the JH youth pastor here at SPCC. I spend a lot of time chasing, discipling, encouraging, and correcting JHers. When I am not doing that, you can find me loving on my wife, playing with my son Malachi, waiting for my daughter to be born, fly fishing, working over the Xbox 360, reading, or at the gym. I am also on a never ending quest to find out why yellow jackets exist. I intensely hate them, and if I was God I would eradicate them from the face of the earth. ... http://www.smokeypointcommunitychurch.org Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:00:40 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.smokeypointcommunitychurch.org/component/option,com_myblog/show,Simple-youth-ministry.html/Itemid,364/ So often youth pastors are hounded to have the next big event. We are told that students need and respond to glitz and glamor, that to reach them it must be new... Many youth groups clamor after events that are flashy and cost approximately the same as the gross national budget of a small european country. I must admit, I am not completely immune to this disease, and we do have many crazy and "unique" events here at SPCC. But I am always surprised when November comes around, and w [...] nathan@spcc-cma.org Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:00:00 +0100 Ministry General