My Paw Paw was a Navy man. He served aboard the USS Saratoga during WWII. When men first got onboard the ship, they had a period of adjusting to the movement of the ship on the waves. They had to figure out how to move while the ground beneath their Read more…
Tonight was a milestone in the life of our youth group and youth ministry of our community. When I moved to town 15+ ago, there were a few youth pastors already getting together to pray, and once a month they’d gather their respective groups for a night of worship and Read more…
Have I told you that I’m the youth pastor again? I’m loving this, and even though we’re not where I want things to be in terms of how things are going, most days I go to sleep with a big goofy grin on my face. One of the key pieces Read more…
We had a full house tonight on a couple of different levels. Kim and I kicked off a new lifegroup a few weeks ago, just in time for the wrath of that chick from Frozen to land squarely on Happy Valley! We’ve been hit or miss with attendance, but tonight Read more…
I’m going to pretend that I’ve been blogging every day since Thanksgiving. I haven’t, of course, but I’m going to simply jump back in. We were all set to kick off a new series with our middle school and high school students tonight. Oh yeah, I’m the youth pastor at Read more…
Hi, I’m Stacy, and I’m the parent of a middle-schooler (or 3)… Have I mentioned that I’m the youth pastor at my church, again? One of the things that I want to do differently this time around is the way we partner with parents. After all, it’s the parents who Read more…
Some of you know that I moved back into the Youth Pastor’s role at Calvary toward the end of the summer. I get to work directly with middle school and high school students, and I lead the team of adults who work with them in various capacities. It’s been quite Read more…
Our middle school students are out of school tomorrow. That’s cause for celebration. So we extended our middle school ministry tonight, offering a pile of games from 8-10. We called it XStended XStream, and it was a hit. We had active competitive games, quiet games, sports games, mind games, games Read more…
Earlier in the semester Team Sublett signed up to have an international student from Penn State come over to eat supper with us. Our church is pretty active with international students, and seeing as our family is literally 1/3 international students, we figured this would be a good fit. Kim Read more…
I’m pretty sure it was about 6th grade. We had recently moved to Georgia, fleeing the floodwaters of New Orleans. My friend David sent me off with the following: I hope the devil doesn’t come back to GA, cause you can’t play the fiddle. I was fairly certain that there Read more…