Youth Missions 2014

Erin, the youth ministries director at our church, has created a blog to track the adventures of our two sets of youth missions this summer.  Be sure to follow Never Too Young, where she's going to chronicle the kids' adventures at Jeremiah Project near Winchester, VA (including Sarah's adventures there), and then at Strong Missions in Costa Rica (for which David leaves Sunday morning).  The kids are doing great things as Christ's hands and feet, it's heartwarming to see them in action!

And The Church Said…Mreh.

Over the weekend of June 21-22, the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church met in Richmond, which meant the pastors were out of town--and they had to go deep in the bullpen and call me up to preach.  After some computer troubles, they've posted the link to it on the church website.

It's a little bit of a challenge: I'm exploring why it is, if we have this tremendous gift of new life in Christ, that so many Christians go through life absolutely indistinguishable from anyone else--where's the joy, where's the fire, where's the excitement?

Take a listen and let me know what you think!