Youth Mission Trips – Knowing the Why, Not Just Where?
Are you taking time to ask WHY, not just WHERE? I believe the biggest mistake a youth worker can make when planning a mission trip for their students is by NOT asking WHY. As youth worker’s, we’ve all received in the mail brochures and postcards from short-term mission organizations asking us to bring our teens to their mission trip. You may have even received something from me promoting TIMS. And for many of you, you’re still looking for ideas as to where you’ll take your students this year. As the Director of

Youth Ministry & Camp Ministry – A GREAT Combination!
After a little more than a year of joining the CRC team as the new TIMS Director I’m in awe as to what God has done with TIMS, the youth leaders & teens that have attended, the speakers & worship leaders, our neighbor we serve, and my own personal & ministry life. I took a look back and come across the post below that I wrote shortly after accepting joining CRC. I’m discovering that Youth Ministry and Camp Ministry is a GREAT combination. A New Direction in Youth Ministry (My job is changing but not my mission) - originally posted on 9/15/2008 Some of you have been pondering, curious and even asking me what in the

TIMS2010 Promo Video
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My 2009 Veteran’s Day Thoughts
Melvin E. Ford – Rate / Rank, BM2; Service Branch, USNR; Service Dates, 4/1942 -10/1945. Today is Veteran’s Day and I have to admit I don’t always remember to thank our men and women for their service and sacrifice unless I’m reminded via a holiday; Veteran’s Day, Memorial Day, or July 4th. But when each of those holidays roles around I not only thank God and the men/ women who serve, but I think of my grandfathers. Both served and fought in WWII. They sacrificed years to se

Do Not Open Until Married
“Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which belongs to Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! And don’t you know that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” But the person who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Run away from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Or don’t you know that y