I came across this link/page the other day. Cannot remember where I came across it, because I just left it up on my screen for a couple of days. Check this page out as it makes 5 Predictions about Youth Trends for 2007.

First paragraph reads: “Today’s generation of young students is causing concern among some youth leaders who see increasing fallout from the church and an increasingly secularized culture. Other leaders are just the opposite. They see a generation full of potential and passionately following Christ.”

I would fall in the camp of leaders who “see a generation FULL of potential to passionately follow Christ and make a difference in this generation!” (Italics and bold are my revisions).

It was an interesting read and thought provoking. Check out and let me know what you think.

Tony Morgan announced that he will be joining the team at NewSpring Church. Tony, welcome to the team! We look forward to having you join us on this awesome journey that God has put us on. I know that Granger Community Church will be sad to see him go, but we are grateful to have him serve with us.

Transitions are always difficult, as you leave a comfortable house, comfortable job, friends, family and much more, but God is ALWAYS faithful in those times. I will never forget how HARD the transition to NewSpring from Florence, SC, but God was AWESOME to us. We were blessed way more than we could ever imagine. Anyway, God calls us to follow and that is it. Sometimes we do not understand and we wonder why, but we must follow. When God calls…follow and enjoy the ride He has chosen you for!

Tony, thanks for following the call on yours and your family’s life. See you in South Carolina soon!

Last night was GREAT! Let me set it up. Yesterday was crazy in the office. Got out of the IGNITE Staff Meeting late, then had to meet with the High School Pastor, so I was late getting to Sam’s to get all the supplies for the Team Leader Dinner at our house. Then I had to run to Bi-Lo to get some “smaller” items. Well, I got home and realized that I did not have enough time to cook the lasagna, so my AWESOME wife said run to the store and grab some hamburger meat and we will have spaghetti. I do that and then run back to the church to grab the supplies for the meeting that I had to leave my staff finishing up. Got back home by 5:30PM, right before everyone else shows up.

Just to say, dinner was GREAT! Deanna did an awesome job pulling together a meal at literally the LAST minute. (SHE ROCKS and is COMPLETELY AMAZING!!!!) It was an awesome time of fellowship. I spent 45 minutes explaining what we want our Team Leaders to do and cast vision for the ministry. I love those opportunities to cast vision for the ministry and watch people grab a hold of it and get excited. In a nutshell, we want to provide our Leadership Team of Volunteers with T.L.C. and for our Team Leaders to funnel T.L.C. down to our small group leaders. T.L.C. is not the typical: Tender, Loving, Care. At IGNITE, T.L.C. means Training, Leadership, and Care. If we display this and empower them to give T.L.C. to our small group leaders, we will enable ourselves to grow, serve, encourage, and love more students, along with more leaders!

Needless to say, last night was great! Thank you to the great group of people to are committing to be Team Leaders, which is such a diverse group. They consist of a house mom, high school teacher, pharmacist, working mom, lawyer, financial aid counselor, nurse, handy-man, and many more. I LOVE THAT!! Go God!

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Last night,we started back to IGNITE and had a blast. Lots of fun elements to the night, especially a video showing some of leaders doing some “Office Christmas Caroling.” It was hysterical!!

The message was centered around the New Year. I discussed the difference between resolutions and covenants. Making the difference that resolutions are typically done in a private setting and kept private, but covenant is done publicly in a group between two or more people. I made some personal covenants in front of the students with come people.

I challenged the students to make a covenant with God, their small group leader, and small group peers on something that wanted to accomplish this year. We had them write themselves a letter which we will mail in a couple of months to them. Great response from the students and even the parents.

Overall a great night! Attendance was up! Energy was through the roof! Music was great! Video was awesome. Leaders were in tune and rocking it out!

I switched over to the new Blogger. Very easy to change the template and seems to be very functional. This year I hope to make more posts on a daily basis. We will see how that goes. Anyway, getting ready to head out to watch a little church league bball and then the BCS Championship Game.