Category: Harbor Mid-City
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The Dogpile Effect
Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it…
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To the mountaintop
I’m a dreamer. I like to dream big dreams for myself. But I really like to dream big dreams for the students in our ministry. So when Kathy gave me the opportunity to paint a big picture and ask big questions as we start off this Fall in our high school ministry, I jumped at…
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3 Things I Love About My Community Group
When Stephen asked us to host a small group at our house, one week after attending Harbor Mid-City for the first time, we begrudgingly agreed. In fact, when he told us that Harbor was a church consisting of a few community groups… we were skeptical. My faith in small groups had been shaken. I was…
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Support Holistic Youth Ministry in San Diego
I’m a part of a team at my church trying to figure out how to create a holistic youth ministry right here in San Diego. What exactly is a holistic youth ministry? Well, we don’t know just yet! But our vision is to architect a ministry that is good news to the urban working poor…
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Why Did Jesus Come to Earth?
Here’s my notes from the youth group talk tonight. Feel free to use them however you’d like. Title: Why Did Jesus Come to Earth? Passage: John 1 [download id=”3″]
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The Hook-Up for Youth Group
I was so distracted by convention last week that I failed to really process/understand/comprehend an e-mail I got about our brand new youth ministry. It’s really cool to see people get on board with what we are trying to do. Background: About 6 weeks ago I had lunch with two pastors at Harbor Mid-City. Basically,…
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Inward, Outward, and Beyond
So you’ve noticed I’ve not blogged much this weekend. As you know, I’m running social media at NYWC this weekend and have literally not stopped moving. In a couple hours I’m co-leading a lab with Ian Robertson on social media and video. Pray for me during that time. I’m fried– and yet I am so…
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Back in the Saddle Again
This video expresses a lot of how it felt last night to get back in the youth ministry saddle again. Last night was a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to figuring out a whole new way of doing ministry. My biggest observation from last night: These students have a particularly sexualized lexicon. I wasn’t…
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Teaching from a position of exploration
Tonight starts our youth ministry [in a formal sense] at Mid-city. There are a lot of things our team is excited about. I wanted to share one that has captivated me. Traditionally, the teaching in youth ministry is from an authoritative perspective. Whether as a stated or implied goal we teach God’s Word with an…
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Towards Holistic Youth Ministry
I’ve been blogging the Harbor Mid-City journey as we head towards a launch of student ministry. Up until now in the life cycle of the church plant youth ministry has always been around– part of the DNA– but never emerged as a priority. That’s changing rapidly as the church has formed to the point where…