by Julie Longwood | Jan 9, 2014 | Ministry Stories
I’ve been thinking all week about what to write—pulling the laptop out, staring at it, closing it, putting it away, and waiting. All week only one thing kept coming to mind when I sat to write, but honestly I wasn’t too sure I wanted to write about it....
by Rick Olmstead | Jan 22, 2013 | Re-Think
Reach: valuing, welcoming and reaching children, giving them an opportunity to come into relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus had an amazingly high value that he placed on children. Once he said, “Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom...
by Rick Olmstead | Jan 11, 2013 | Justice
There is a generation under siege today. Recent events only bring to the surface what is occurring all over our world every day. Our young people are growing up in the most violent, abusive, impoverished, neglected, enslaved, exploited, and fatherless world in...
by Joel Brickner | Oct 31, 2012 | Ministry Stories
On July 30 through August 3, at the Southeast Regional Pastors’ Conference in Asheville, NC at the Ridgecrest Conference Center in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, something incredible happened. Seventy-one teenagers, mostly pastors’ kids, banded together to pray,...
by Mike Safford | May 24, 2012 | YM How To
Are Outreach and Discipleship Mutually Exclusive? We can be tempted to view outreach (the “Mission” of the Church) and discipleship (the formation of the individual follower of Jesus) as two distinct things. Outreach, or evangelism, can be seen as a project or...
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