Archive for January, 2009

Epic

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Tonight was an epic night in the student ministry of LifePoint Church.  I won’t lie I was worried about what might happen tonight since schools were canceled, but our adult team came through huge and was there with a great crowd of students.
We baptized three students tonight, in the auditorium and sent the video of it […]

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Come Prepared

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

I’m normally not one to be out my goals for everyone.  However, for this one I need your accountability and encouragement.  I started a couple weeks ago training to run a 5k at the end of February.  Things have been going decent I would say.  Anyway the last couple times I have gone to run […]

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Bring him home!

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

We have amazing friends!  Friends who love Dawn and I! Friends who already love our son even before any of us have meet him.  The Dover/White Small Group is throwing a Super Bowl Party for Dawn and me to benefit our adoption fund.  Here are the details below.  I would love for you all to […]

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Rethink

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

While I was away last week at school our staff sat down to reevaluate how we would be operating in our current economy.  During this meeting our senior leadership team lead us to a decision that we will be watching our dollars extra close during the first quarter of this year in order not to […]

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Names

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Dawn and I have been talking about names for our son for some time now.  Knowing the name you give your child can make or break him in school for his entire life is a lot of pressure.  We are getting closer and closer to deciding on one but we have decided we are not […]

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Significant Ministry

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

When I was twenty years old my first church First Baptist Alcoa gave me an opportunity to play student ministry for almost six months.  At the time I had been interning with Alcoa for several months when they needed someone to be their student minister and I had the opportunity to do that.  I will […]

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New Student Series

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

We begin a new series this Wednesday in our student ministry called Voices.  I am pretty excited about several things we are doing in this series.  So much of what we are talking about are things I have been struggling with all my life.  During this series our student ministry staff will be blogging a […]

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