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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    It’s official, we are growing. Jefferson County Young Life is now Olympic Peninsula Young Life ( http://www.jcyl.org is now http://www.opyl.org ).  This is an exciting step for the ministry of Young Life here. About 2.5 years ago, we started a club in Port Angeles, slowly but surely.  We did a lot of praying [...]

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I have been listening to the Song “Till Kingdom Come” by Coldplay, lately and when I say “listening” I mean the Obsessive Compulsive nature that I both love and hate kicks in and the result is that our two year old is getting to know the words to the song. I first heard the song [...]

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Monday night as a fun night at Young Life, I spent four hours on an bacon and egg costume for a four minute bit about green eggs and ham.  I have attached the picture to this message… The backstory on the egg costume. I had this idea that it would be pretty fun to make [...]

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So I have had a bit of a Renaissance as of late, much to the credit of the willingness of Ky Griffin, our regional director to call me out on things he saw in me that needed a change. I will couch much of this in a pre-Renaissance and a post Renaissance story. OK, so [...]

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It has been a hectic club season for us. Club is our weekly outreach tool. It usually ends up being a room too small for the number of stinky socks and armpits.  It is the most visible aspect of Young Life, because it is what students understand Young Life to be and what parents drop [...]

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