Times, they are a changin...
As I stated in my last blog entry, I am changing my blog address, and host as well. My new blog address is ministerlane.wordpress.comPlease make the necessary changes in your links/community on blogs that link to mine. For everyone else, goodbye from the youth minister world, and welcome to my new life.

This Blog...
For a while now, I've been posting on this blog. The web address - www.youthministerlane.blogspot.com, is not quite relevant anymore. I no longer serve as a youth minister. In the next few days, I plan on re-working a new blog, that will be available from this blog, but in the next few days, youthministerlane.blogspot.com will no longer be updated, in theory.I have started a new site over at tumblr.com, which to me is more my style for now. Its sort of like "Twitter" on steroids. Everything I post there is immediately uploaded to my Facebook page, as well as my Twitter feed, and everything I post on my Twitter feed is immediately put on my Tumblr page.However, I

A Total Numbers Game: Membership in the Church of Christ
I've been involved with churches that were big, and involved with churches that were small. The first church I worked for averaged about 180 members on Sunday morning for their worship service. Compare that to the church I attended when I graduated from high school, and where my father currently ser

There's Always Someone...Questions on Worship
I am learning more and more in ministry that there is always someone who will be unhappy with what you do. In youth ministry, it was a constant struggle to please the kids and please the parents. The teens would want thing, the parents would want something else, and to top it off, there was always an Eldership who thought things should go a certain way as well.Now that I've made a transition into full time worship and associate ministry, the trend continues.I go to painstaking attempts to make our worship service as eclectic as possible to reach as many different people as I can. For example, we have many children, teens, college age, young professionals, young fa

A Moment to Brag
A few days ago I posted some before and after pictures. Yesterday, I went back to Lifetime Fitness to have my fitness re-evaluation. Here are the results:On May 4, my weight was at 254 pounds. Yesterday, on October 15, I weighed 265 pounds. I know, an 11 pound INCREASE. Stay tuned.My Cardiovascular measurements went from Very Poor to Poor. Doesn't sound all that good, but it really is better.My bicep strength went from middle of the average to middle of the good category. Good news.My flexibility is still horrendous. On the sit and reach, my score was 6 on the first test and 6 on yesterday's test.The good news: On May 4, m