Guest Post: Too Good to Be True…
This guest post is from Kevin Patterson. Kevin is the Youth Pastor at FBC Dawson Springs, Kentucky. He blogs at Life in The Youth Ministry Fishbowl I hate horses. I know, sounds weird from a person…
Guest Post: Patience..
This guest post is from Kevin Patterson. Kevin is the Youth Pastor at FBC Dawson Springs, Kentucky. He blogs at Life in The Youth Ministry Fishbowl When I was around 12 years old, I was out…
Disney ideas for youth ministry: Planning a Pace
As we walked into the Magic Kingdom, the first thing we did was find Cinderella. For weeks, my daughter talked about wanting to hug Cinderella at Disney World. It’s the one thing she wanted to…
Devotion to a False God
Last week, at Disney World, I went to retrieve our stroller from the stroller parking section. As I searched among the hundred or so strollers, I finally found mine and started to move it. As I…
Guest Post: You Might Be in Rural Ministry If…From Kevin…
This guest post is from Kevin Patterson. Kevin is the Youth Pastor at FBC Dawson Springs, Kentucky. He blogs at Life in The Youth Ministry Fishbowl Guest When I ran into Brent at SYMC…
Christian Leadership
Mission Ashley 2013….
Next week I will be on mission with a team of 19 other people from my church to Ashley, Illinois. Ashley is…
Lessons from the Bible found on the farm #3: Looking for beauty…
to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give…
Lessons From the Farm #2: Isolation is Deadly.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion,…
Ministry
10 things at Disney you won’t see at the fair
Well, vacation is over. After not taking one in so long, I’m so glad my family and I got away from church,…
Ministry Tech
Redneck Tech Tip – Warm Laptop Edition…
Have a Laptop that gets too warm on a countertop? Use a pair of 2-Liter Bottle caps to elevate it slightly for…
5 Thoughts about Windows 8 in ministry….
The last couple weeks I have been working on upgrading machines…
Rural Ministry
Flat tires and flexible schedules
It’s 6:30 in the morning and my cell phone is ringing. As a youth pastor, that’s usually not a good sign. “Hello,”…
Student Ministry
Lessons about the Bible, found on the farm: #1 – Animals are Dumb and So are we…
Growing up on a farm can bring some insight to the lessons that Jesus teaches us in the Bible. This lesson comes…
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Contextualizing Tragedy
This post may just be cathartic. I’m a writer. When I’m upset, aggravated, frustrated or out of answers, I write. It’s what I do. It’s how I best communicate with the world and with Jesus. So these words may just be a therapeutic discussion among…
Things Heard in the Car on the way back from CIY Believe…
In Rural Ministry, it’s not often that you get a chance to take a weekend and focus on “just” middle school or high school students. However, CIY Believe is one of those weekends. I get to take a group of 6th-8th Grade students to a…
A Day at DOFO with Michael Brown
When we get groups to come and visit our home one of the questions they always ask is what does an average day at DOFO look like? So here is my attempt… The day starts at 5:00 am as all the kids are waking up…