Starting a new journey in ministry - 1 Year Ago

I started this blog quite a few years ago. I've been great at times, and not so great most times at keeping up with this. My last post was over a year ago. During that time, there was an incredibly difficult thing going on in my heart... I was talking with a new church about an open youth ministry position. It was a long process that started with a Facebook conversation in September, and ended with a move in late December. I was open with my...

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Some of my recent graphic design work

Alright.... Here's the deal. I am horrible at posting regularly... But what I'm not horrible at, because its part of what I do in my job, is Church Graphic Design. For a while, most of my posts may just be graphic design related... we'll see: Our church is kicking off a new family-ministry initiative called "Faith At Home." It is a re-branding of Lifepointe church's Home Pointe Center. Here's two newer themed logos for our youth group: Creatively...

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Youth Band :: Vol. 3 - LIVE!

I'm pretty proud of our youth band and what we've accomplished in the past year.  Its crazy to believe that they started playing together only a year ago.  I looked back, our first tryout date was February 2011.  This is what we looked like then: They were actually quite good.  2 things helped then...We were playing a strictly G-C-D-C song, and my brother in law, Tim, was on the acoustic keeping them all together.  There was also not much pressure. They didn't know I was recording and there was nobody else in the...

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Lonnie Potis Truck Driver of Fun - Rules Video

I really like making videos (obviously).  Sunday night one of our awesome Youth Volunteers, Tyler Riley, came up with a great idea for a video.  He had a character called Lonnie Potts that he uses at camps and such.  We decided that we would make a rules video together.  In the middle of the video, we decided to change it to Lonnie Potis (pronounced Potee).  I thought I'd share it :) ...

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I Have the Best Wife in the World

Thats right...I said it. I have been married to the most amazing woman I've ever known for almost 8 years. Its hard to believe! Here we are at our rehearsal dinner, almost 8 years ago... Look at all that hair I had...  If you would have told me that marrying this girl was going to be the best decision that I ever made, I would have probably believed you.  I wouldn't have thought that it was going to be extremely hard though.  We've...

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Camp :: One Week Relationships

Ok, I know what you were probably thinking.  During camps, teenagers from all over the state or country get together.  Being teenagers, hormones rage and love and happiness fill the air...until friday...Well, that's not what this post is about. A few weeks ago I was reading about building relationships.  A great point was made: "A unique one-week event is worth 6 months of relationship building for leaders and students." What...

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ReFuel Spring/Summer Calendar

Today I released our ReFuel tentative calendar for the Spring and Summer.  Of course, it is subject to change, but I had to get something out about summer dates. I've learned over the past few years that if I don't communicate far enough in advance, any event will suffer...especially in the summer.  I took this calendar and posted it all over facebook.  On my wall, on our ReFuel page and on our church's wall, as well as our church...

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