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 [...]
Friday evening, I had the good fortunate of attending The Altar & The Door Tour at Hersheypark Arena featuring Casting Crowns, Leeland and John Waller.
The concert was over three hours long (including two brief intermissions), with John Waller performing for about 20 minutes and Leeland for about 45 minutes. That left two full hours [...]
Because the 30 Hour Famine was canceled, I had the opportunity to attend an event sponsored by the UMC’s Central Pennsylvania Conference called Creating Worship With Deep Soul. The six hour event was hosted at Christ Community United Methodist Church and led by Marcia McFee.
While the six members of my congregation who attended gleaned [...]
I was away all of last week, visiting my family in Roanoke, VA for Thanksgiving. This morning, while reading the school newspaper, I came across the University chaplain’s weekly writing, titled “The Chaplain’s Corner.” He wrote about a poem by George Herbert, a 17th century Welsh poet, and how most people know the [...]
Wow. It’s hard to believe, but a single word really can describe last night’s Switchfoot and Relient K concert.
All four bands (Cloverleaf, Ruth, Relient K and Switchfoot) were great, but Relient K and Switchfoot were amazing. The musical talent of Relient K’s members amazed me: the lead singer played both the guitar and [...]
Yesterday I purchased three tickets for Switchfoot and Relient K’s Appetite for Construction Tour stop at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center, held next Thursday, November 15. Christian rock band Ruth and a local band, Cloverleaf, are the opening acts.
The decision to travel to State College happened quite randomly at this week’s The Gap [...]
Last night from 6:00 until about 8:00, my church’s children’s ministry team hosted a Halloween event on our front lawn. Apparently, the street the church is on is quite busy on Halloween so the group decided to hold an outreach event for area children and their parents.
Throughout the evening, a small group of people [...]
