Tim Weston

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend Youth Specialties‘ The Core 2008: Generation Change with my pastor and two of my fellow youth volunteers at Camp Hill UMC.
Overall, the event was pretty decent, though I didn’t think it was as good as the previous week’s conference at Messiah College or a training held by [...]

Last Sunday was Christ UMC’s annual Youth Sunday, the one Sunday of the year where the youth have complete (or at least almost complete) control over our worship services.
This year, the youth and leaders decided on a theme of “Jesus is our hope.” The idea primarily came from a popular YouTube video that shows [...]

I’ve finally had an opportunity to compile my notes from last week’s 3rd Annual Messiah College Youth Workers Conference, so I’m ready to post a wrap-up of the event.
The highlight of my day was most definitely the keynote speech (broken up into two parts) by Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor and the director of the [...]