I had an interesting conversation with a young adult recently who talked about a sibling of theirs who was afraid to wear nice clothes or be fashionable because they were worried someone might think they were gay.  Wow.  Talk about a wake up call.  Because of my personal investment in the life of this sibling [...]

So, over the last couple of months our middle school program has just about doubled in size from the beginning of the year.  It’s something we’re excited about but also challenged by as our number of leaders is pushed to their limit and our standard of excellence suffers a little.  We’re hoping to address all [...]

“Systems change behaviours.” – Andy Stanley That simple quote has meant a lot over the last number of weeks as the post-Drive Conference energy continues.  Over the last number of weeks our team of leaders here has been working behind the scenes on many of the systems that make up how we do ministry.  It’s [...]

Well, I am fresh back from our first ultrasound for our first child and, yep, it’s a boy!  My excitement is in overdrive at this news.  So many thoughts and dreams and emotions all sort of bubbling up right now at the possibilities and future for this little guy.  The prayers have already been fierce [...]

So, this past week I got the chance to hang out in Alpharetta, GA at North Point Community Church for their annual ministry conference called Drive.  All I can say right now is that it was the most inspiring, practical and helpful conference I’ve been to.  Better than the Leadership Summit, better than Catalyst.  I [...]