Reaching out…

June 1st, marked our sixth year in Port Townsend as Area Director of Young Life. It all started with Jessica and me attempting to listen to, and heed the call of God on our lives. Our choice to move here didn’t make sense to some of our family, friends and coworkers. Elijah turned 2, the [...]

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I woke up at 5:30 and 5 minutes later my phone started ringing with the first problem of the day. It was ringing while I was in taking a shower. I thought to myself, Here we go. Luckily the concern was a small one and I was able to field the call before there was [...]

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I have to say, doing youth ministry in this day and age is certainly different than when I began in the late 80′s.  In addition to spending time with kids at school, concerts, games, events and coaching, I find myself spending alot of time texting.  Last night, was no exception.   I have been coaching [...]

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When Jesus was taught us to pray, he said he said “Give us today our daily bread. I have been meditating on the concept of Daily bread for the last year of so. The Israelites in the wilderness were given their daily bread every day. If they tried to store it up, it would be [...]

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  Monday night around 10:00 p.m. I received a phone call from a student who wanted to have breakfast with me in the morning before I left for a short business trip. I agreed to the meeting and hung up the phone.   Earlier that night he came to club, our first of new season [...]

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We get the opportunity to share Jesus Christ with teenagers! and, that is the greatest job in the whole world! Wrinkles come in to my role with Young Life,  like wrinkles come into any job, church or volunteer opportunity. The cool thing is that when I wake up in the morning I get to say “I get to [...]

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Friends, Many of you are turning on the news and seeing the fine city of Port Townsend featured on the news because on of the students of Port Townsend High School has contracted a deadly form of a staff infection. The virus is called MRSA, short for “methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus”. The idea is that it [...]

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So, I had a funny moment this morning my way to pick up students for Campaigners. Campaigners is our weekly bible study. We meet at 6:30 in the morning before school once a week and I pick up the students on the way there. This morning one of the students was hiding in a hole [...]

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Hey all, I am finally getting around to writing the follow up to “Jefferson and Clallam County Wildhorse Canyon” Please don’t consider the delay about how camp went, a lack of appreciation for all of you and your prayers. Truly, the summer has been a whirlwind and my priorities keep falling on “loving my wife” [...]

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All, OK, so the subject of the message is even a little bit shocking, but I had an experience today that perplexed me, and I thought I would share it, as it seem relevant to our season in Young Life on the peninsula. I was at the hardware store picking up a couple of pieces [...]

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