Category: YMX
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Happy Surfing again…
YMX has had some slow days recently. This was due to some unknown database issue. The site was working properly, but some of the areas were slow. The net result was that people didn’t hang on very long… about 40,000 hits less than normal yesterday. This was very disturbing and annoying to YMX users. Just…
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Connecting is Cool
Today I met up with fellow-Detroit metro youth guy Jason Raitz. He runs a cool new ministry called Project 3:11. He’s a really great guy and I liked connecting with him. I hope that since we have such similar aims in life we can partner up on some stuff. I want to take the virtual…
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Connecting
Today I’ll be spending a little extra time out of the office for lunch as I head down to Royal Oak to meet-up with a new YMXer. This is cool for me on 2 levels. First, I like to meet YMX folk. Making an offline connection enriches the online experience greatly. Secondly, I am not…
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YMX Article gets attention for controversial article
On January 3rd I published an article on YMX called Finding God on Brokeback Mountain. I knew in publishing a "pro-Brokeback" article that it would be both a wee controversial, but also good for the community to read. In fact, all of Andrew Seely’s stuff seems to be pretty provacative. But that’s OK, God’s big…
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connect, connecting, and connected
unConnected The reality is that for every person who feels connected to a church or to "people like them" there are 10 who aren’t connected. This isn’t the end of the world, but it isn’t all that great either. If you’re a student and you’r unConnected than you are a floater. You’ve got plenty of…
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At the Starbucks
I spent most of last night at the Starbucks on Hall Rd since there were a gaggle of high school females at my house. I ended up staying there for about 5 hours. During which time I watched a movie, Omagh, and mostly just chatted online with friends, worked on some stuff for YMX and…
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Open Source Youth Ministry
Paul Martin, in his blog called Like a Fire, described YMX as "source for people “in the trenches.” I like that a lot. That’s true. Take what you find at YMX and run with it. Make it better, tear it apart, put humpty dumptie back together again and share like mad. If all of us…
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good times for LF and YMX
It was a good day for both things that I am a part of and care about. Tonight’s LF was pretty solid. A bit weird since there were some middle schoolers missing with a meeting at the schools, and there was a smell of "winter duldroms" since students were well, down. Weird, but OK and…
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YMX logo finalists
When we launched YMX on December 2nd, we also decided to have a logo contest for members to submit a fresh looking logo for the new site. The deadline for entries was 12/31/2005 and we now have some finalists. We’re going to turn it into a vote by the membership and we’ll see which one…
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Looking forward and not backwards
This week is a big "looking back" week. It’s in my nature to be reflective on the past. I want to get hung up on what I’ve been up to, what God has done, and what could have gone better. In fact, I tend to worry about yesterday more than I consider right now or…