It was a cold December morning. It was the day I was traveling to my monthly youth ministry cohort gathering. A five-hour drive. I was...

I wish I could pinpoint when things actually started to go bad. I think when anyone looks back on something bad in their life, they wish...

I still look back on that first year at the Midwest church with great fondness. So many cool things happened in that time,...

Something I said more than a few times in my youth ministry career was that if all that the job entailed was actively ministering to and...

After I was fired from my college town church, I was deeply depressed and well…lost. I began questioning many things including if I...

What is a pastor? I think any pastor would tell you it goes way beyond the person who preaches a sermon on Sunday mornings. A pastor is...

What is the point of a youth group mission trip? That’s a great question with a lot of different answers. To be honest I don’t think...

I didn’t take the job at the church in my college town JUST because I wanted to get out of the church I was the “interim” at. It was a...

Being the “interim” of anything is kind of a weird thing. You have all the duties of “the thing,” and all the responsibilities…just none...

I came to work thinking it would be a normal day. It started out that way. I entered the youth office and found Clay working at his...

As I came into my second year interning at my home church…I had made the decision to start applying for full time ministry jobs. I...

For a lot of people that know me…I know that I am directly associated with playing the drums. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love that....

There are few things in this world that I love more than Florida State University football. If you’ve known me for any length of time...

I had spent two great summers as a camp counselor and was gearing up for a third. The time had come to begin the application process...

After my summer internship I went back to school at a Christian university in my hometown. School has never been something I was “good”...

My third summer at camp was easily my best as a counselor. I was coming into my own not just as a counselor but as a person. My workshop...

It had been a while since I had done anything ministry related, yet alone youth ministry related. My third summer at camp was my last, a...

That first summer as a camp counselor was fantastic…it was everything I dreamed it would be and more. As great as it was…the reality...

My youth ministry journey started the same way all the best ones do….almost by accident. I had grown up going to church. It wasn’t just...

It was a relatively normal Sunday. I went to the church, arrived early before the main contemporary service and waited for families to...