Tim Weston

While at Creation Festival this summer, I picked up Bob Lenz’s book Grace: For Those Who Think They Don’t Measure Up, and, after catching up with other books ahead of it in my reading queue, I finally got around to reading it.
At 227 pages, Grace is a fairly quick read, but it contains lots of [...]

At a youth workers conference earlier this year, I picked up a number of books that were on sale for only a few dollars. I recently finished one of those books, Matthew Paul Turner’s Provocative Faith.
The book is a fairly quick read (less than 200 pages) and turned out to be pretty decent.  As [...]

Today, my church’s youth group was scheduled to volunteer at a local soup kitchen called Elijah’s Bowl.  Earlier this week, I called the kids (and received lots of answering machine recordings) asking them to let me know if they were planning on attending.  I didn’t receive any responses, so I called the woman who organizes [...]

This past week I spent my evenings at my church’s annual Vacation Bible School.  In previous years we used Group’s VBS curriculum, but this year we opted for Cokesbury’s VBS Beach Party curriculum.
Like last year, I was a crew leader for a group of six to eight children (depending on the night), all but one [...]

Last week I attended Creation Festival with 100,000 of my closest friends. Well, maybe not my closest friends, but that’s how many people were in attendance during the four-day festival.
I went with five members of my church’s youth group, a friend of one of the members and another leader. We had a group [...]