Hello!
I hope you are about to enjoy some amazing food today. My overeating started last Sunday with my small group. We also had some friends over last night for a great night!
I know your wondering what are some things I am thankful for, well I’m glad you asked.
My beautiful amazing wife. Some how I got […]
I am working on a project right now that has me really excited. Part of this project requires me to put together some baptism video’s from this past year. To be honest I just got done crying my eyes out. I pray that God will never allow me to forget why we do what we […]
The month of December is now officially Intern Do Ya Thang Month at FBC Smyrna Student Ministry. Our heart is to raise leaders, and this is what this month is all about. During the month of December our series that we are doing is called “Remedy”. We sat down as a team today and Canaan […]
I’m sure if you walked into my house right now you would ask me the question, “Who cleaned your carpet?” They look great after we had them cleaned this morning. Thanks to Jim Claro for coming out and cleaning them today. I have always been a person who said I will not hire someone just […]
Two years ago now we sat down and began to talk as a student ministry class what it would look like to intentionally develop student leaders. How would we identify them? Would these be for leaders or for ministry kids etc. We landed on a process and have been in it now for a year […]
Tonight was intense. Spoke three times tonight. God did some good stuff. Here are a few thoughts from tonight.
-I told students that I believe that their life would be far less complicated when they submit to their parents authority.
-I believe students after tonight made some decision that will affect their life for ever.
-Student’s have to […]
This year we brought twelve high school students to our middle school retreat as co-counselors. We as a church put a high priority on raising up future leaders and our student ministry staff saw this as a great opportunity to raise up these leaders. These high school students serve every Sunday in our middle school […]
Why do I get to do this? Why does my job have to be so stinkin cool? Why do I get the opportunity to create environments for students to engage God?
This weekend was amazing! We had close to 100 middle school students at The Plunge. Everything I saw and heard would make me make the […]
We value team at our church. Pat says when we hire someone we look for three things; character, competence, and chemistry. Someone can have impeccable character, can know what they are doing better than anyone, but if they don’t have the chemistry to fit with our team here it’s just not the right fit for […]