Tim Weston

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 [...]

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 beginning but [...]

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 piano [...]