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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We have been back from Washington Family Ranch for the better part of a week and the ministry continues. The last day of camp was incredible. We had this incredible shared experience new friends, some from the Basque Country… and we were all heading home. A few snags along the way but for the most [...]

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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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    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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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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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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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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