Finding Your Mission Statement

September 8, 2011

The beginning of a new school year has always seemed like a good time to get a fresh perspective on life. It’s a time to create a vision and dream of what the next year might look like in my life and ministry. A few weeks ago when our worship services started up I began [...]

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Racing to Save Lives

August 4, 2011
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This week I have started training for the PF Changs 2012 Phoenix half marathon. This will be my second half marathon and while it is a great way to get in shape I am also doing it to raise money for cancer research. Back in 2009 my wife, Melissa, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and [...]

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Does the UMC Have a God Complex?

July 18, 2011

A few days ago the official “Vital Congregations” website was launched and will serve as the home base for resources, links, stories, and videos that, in theory, will help United Methodist congregations achieve the signs of vitality. Not long after the site was launched I came across the above TED video called “Trial, Error and [...]

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“LEAD” Conference To Inspire Renewal In Ministry With Young Adults In The United Methodist Church

July 1, 2011
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I have been working on a little project with some other friends and young adult leaders in the UMC. It’s called “LEAD” and we are ready to go public with it. LEAD will be a four day conversation focused on converging, innovating, and transforming young adult ministry in the church. LEAD will be a gathering [...]

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Elected to Jurisdictional Conference

June 29, 2011

At this year’s Desert Southwest Annual Conference session I was elected by my colleagues to be a delegate to the Western Jurisdictional Conference being held in San Diego, July 18-21, 2012. For a while it looked like I was also going to be elected as the alternate to General Conference, ultimately, however, I lost that [...]

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The Most Interesting United Methodist In The World

June 22, 2011

Yesterday, Brian McLaren posted about who he thought were some of the best, exciting, and most interesting leaders in the UMC today. McLaren, however, made a potentially fatal error. He left off the most important United Methodist in modern day history: The Most Interesting United Methodist in the World. Never heard of her, you say? [...]

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