Do you feel like young people are just impossible to connect with these days? Maybe you are a parent or a teacher who just feels like teenagers wont listen to you. Maybe you are involved with young … [Read more...]
Should Youth Workers Micromanage Content for their Students?
February 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It’s a classic scenario every youth worker who has been doing youth ministry any amount of time has experienced. You take your youth group to some event where there are a lot of other people … [Read more...]
Project Transformation Tennessee
July 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
After our Summer Missions Trip in June the youth committed to being present at 61st Avenue UMC for Project Transformation every Monday. This is the first Monday since that commitment that there has … [Read more...]
Book-signing in Grand Rapids, MI
June 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Just a note about my book-signing this Friday, June 8–which happens to be the same date as my husband’s ordination as an elder (pastor) in the United Methodist Church. The events are part … [Read more...]
You Don’t get the General Conference Varsity Letters Just Yet
May 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Mark Miller stands with friends in prayer at General Conference. Photo by United Methodist News Service I don’t know if you have been watching General Conference at all. I have been watching … [Read more...]
Holy Conferencing – UMC Ministers Speaking on Holding Ourselves to a High Standard as Christians in Debate
April 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The United Methodist Church is gathering in Tampa, Florida (which is done once every four years in different locations) to talk about the issues that challenge or encourage the church. Below is a … [Read more...]
Methodist Vigor and Inspiration – Early Thoughts In Methodist History Class
March 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I have been taking a Methodist History class online through Asbury Theological Seminary. As I read about the Wesley’s, Whitfield, the Oxford Club, and the people of the movement within … [Read more...]
Considering Ordination? What you need to know first.
March 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been in the process of becoming Ordained on the United Methodist Church for about 9 years now. I still find myself answering questions on a regular basis about the process and the titles and … [Read more...]
Draft Day
February 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
One of my childhood dreams were like many of boys: to be a professional athlete. I’m sad to admit how much sports consumes my life. I love it. I’m obsessed with it. I get too emotionally … [Read more...]
the beginnings of the Methodist Mission in America?
September 20, 2011 by
A number of years ago when the Episcopal church has elected Bishop Gene Robinson and had gone through the turmoil of theological, ethical, and cultural debates of gay clergy and affirming those … [Read more...]