Reaching out…

This is why we do Young Life.

These moments make up for every time we feel ineffective, for every time we are tired and wanting to be selfish, for every time we think we are too old for every time we are overwhelmed by the world telling us that we are no enough.

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Today is Good Friday, the day that Jesus was crucified. For Christians this is a special day. We remember the Cross, not out of guilt and shame for our list of wrongs ( sins ), but out of awe and mystery for what Jesus did on the cross.  For us Jesus dying on the cross [...]

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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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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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With cautious excitement, I ventured up to Port Townsend High School last week, and there was that rekindled joy that can only come from serving Jesus Christ.  I ventured onto the campus and met new kids, each passing moment trying to memorize the name and just pray for the kid that I just met.  It [...]

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It is with great sadness that I write this email. My friend Andy Palmer died fighting a forest fire in Northern California, getting hit by a falling tree.   http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/07/rookie-firefighter-olympic-national-park-killed-falling-tree-california   Andy is one first students that I met when I got to town. I wrote the following about Andy days after this event took [...]

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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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