Yesterday was a fun and busy day. I spoke at all three of our school chapels. Jr High, 4th-6th grade, and K-3rd grade. My assigned topic was pretty cool - David’s Undignified Worship in 2 Samuel 6. I talked about cheering for the Angels and how we cheer for sports teams or music stars, but [...]

I was recently asked by Dale Hedges to be on the board of Project Hangout. It’s a pretty awesome ministry that Dale and Ryan Zeulner are leading. They originated with wanting to create a venue where teenagers can have a good time in a safe environment where they also have a chance to get connected [...]

Here’s the article I wrote based off my talk to Parents of Teens last week. Dear Parents of Teens, It has been a sacred privilege to serve as the Pastor of Student Ministries for the last six years here at Calvary Church. I have loved working with you and your students. I am now in the role [...]

Here is how today went:1. In both main services today, my new position was announced to the whole church. Now, it’s for real.2. I preached in the Elevation service today and it went pretty well. I was really pleased, especially with the tough preparation week. 3. Then we went looking at houses this afternoon. We [...]

Victor finally put this up on his site so I could grab it. This is a video that some of our college students made for our College Ministry Christmas Party that had a theme of The Office tv show. It’s a full 20 minute episode of The Office based on our Student Ministries at Calvary [...]

Today I started my move up to my new office. I need to take some pictures and post them on here. I’m up in the Worship Center of our church. My new office has a big window that looks down on the auditorium of the Worship Center. It’s pretty big and cool. I am getting [...]

We announced to our volunteer teams today that I am now the Executive Pastor of Ministry, that Josh Simpson is the new Jr High/Student Ministries Pastor, and that Matt Doan will soon not be the H.S. Pastor anymore. It was a pretty big day with those things. I got emotional when I talked to our [...]

Well, it’s official. We announced to our Calvary Church staff today that I am moving into a new position. Starting sort of now and officially in January, I am the Executive Pastor of Ministry at Calvary Church. Michael is the Executive Pastor of Administration. If you’re not in ministry, it’s like Michael is the CFO [...]

This January 1st will mark the date that I have been a youth pastor for 14 years. Wow! That’s a long time. Being a youth pastor is a wonderful thing. It’s crazy how much of my identity is in that role. It’s weird to know that I have been in youth ministry longer than some [...]

Last night a Jr High had a superhero theme and I was wearing a huge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle mask covering my whole head. It was fun to walk around and have nobody know who you are. I would walk up to people and not say anything and it would freak them out. They would [...]