Reaching out…

A couple of stories. There is a kid that has been involved with Young Life all year, he is a freshman at Port Townsend High School. He is really funny and we connect through that. His dad has been living with cancer for the last 12 years.  When you figure that a freshman in High [...]

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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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There is a new Shriner in our world!!! and for the first time in our immediate Shriner family, this one is a little Girl! She was born March 16th and weighed 8lbs 4oz. As many of you know we struggled with a name and we eventually agreed upon Raffaella Jeanne’. The name means “God has [...]

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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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Jessica and I loaded up the car and began to drop our kids at the houses of friends of around Port Townsend, as we were trying to head over to Everett to be a part of the Leadership event for the Evergreen Region of Young Life. We were down to our last drop off, Eli, [...]

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We had a our discipleship weekend last weekend out in Ocean Shores, and it was Fantastic. It is really fun to see kids are broken come with us and have an incredible weekend. Our goal for this camp was this. Where ever the person is, we would like them to be a step closer to Jesus Christ.  There [...]

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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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  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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