Tim Weston

Thoughts and Learnings About Christianity and Youth Ministry

Entries for July, 2007

Summer Youth Ministry Event - Tubing

This afternoon, nine members and five leaders of my church’s youth group went tubing on the Susquehanna River. We were scheduled to go tubing on Penns Creek, but we haven’t had too much rain lately, so the creek is quite low. So low, in fact, that if we had gone tubing, we would [...]

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If I Had to be A…

I was reading Kurt Johnston’s blog today and saw that he’s playing an interesting game of tag. It’s been a slow week on my blog, so I decided to play along.
“IF YOU HAD TO BE A _____________ (who would you be and why)”
1. FAMOUS PERSON FROM HISTORY: One of Jesus’ disciples, as it would [...]

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A Long Week of VBS

Last week, I used some of my vacation days (I had accumulated just about 40 of them, way over my employer’s official limit) and spent several hours each day volunteering at church for our annual week of vacation bible school. As in years past, we used Group’s Vacation Bible School curriculum and this year’s [...]

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Summer Youth Ministry Event - Loyalsock Trail and Creek

Yesterday afternoon, four members and three leaders of my church’s youth group traveled to Laporte, PA to hike a portion of the Loyalsock Trail. If I recall correctly, I believe we started at a parking lot on Mead Road, a gravel road off of U.S. Route 220 (approximately 2 miles north of the US [...]

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End of the Age

Earlier tonight, I attended a Christian rock concert at Catawissa Avenue United Methodist Church in Sunbury. The band that performed was called End of the Age; their name comes from a phrase in Jesus’ Great Commission:
16Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they [...]

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