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 […]
If you know anything about me you know three things I hope. 1. I love my Lord. 2. I am in love with my wife and married way over my head. 3. I believe in the way we do small groups for students.
I have posted time after time how I love small groups. I recieved […]
Getting excited about this weekend with our middle school students! This is the weekend we call The Plunge. Should be an exciting weekend to see middle school students get challenged to go all in for God. Please pray for our students and adults who are going on this trip. Pray that God will do something […]
I hate to pick back up blogging on this but I knew it was worthy of it. I’m going to miss Phil on the side line. Whether you think he should be fired or not you can tell the passion he has for the University of TN. Thanks Phil for some great years! Go Vols!
We are having another garage sale tomorrow! 321 Stewart Springs Drive Smyrna, TN.
Friday I was setting up all our stuff that people donated for this sale. As I was setting up I was just praying and asking God that he would provide once again during this sale. It was cool to see God work so […]
This morning David Cox said, “It would be different if we were dealing with robots and computers, but we are dealing with people.” Now let me explain. This morning was one of our big pushes in student ministry for students to be baptized. We had planned on baptizing 9 students this morning. If you work […]
I love this series of post I am doing about the next generation. This year has been so rewarding for me with our Max Impact students in Service U. First let me say this, these students have been successful because of incredible lead teachers we have this year, giving students the opportunity to lead out […]
I love when you see someone begin to hit their stride of where God has placed them in ministry. I have seen that the past couple weeks with one of our high school students named Jared. Jared is a student who has been around ministry all his life. His dad is an incredible minister and Jared […]