When our intern for the summer of 2011 arrived in early June, she was immediately thrown into the fire of ministry to military students.  In these couple of articles I have asked her to write what she would like to share.  Here are her thoughts

     Never having been around a full-blown military community before, I came into this summer not fully knowing what to expect.  I had been onto the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland: rode around in humvees, seen a tank ride up a 60-degree incline, walked around in bulletproof gear.  I had seen the rough and tumble, the cool stuff, about Army life.  I had also seen military brats get to be kids at Operation Purple Camp, where they got to experience sailing, ropes courses and muck wars.  But, before I came here to Garmisch, I had never gotten to see the military family life, the true heart of it all.  Read more...

In a place that you are supposed to find people is the place I have sometimes become lost.  Six and a half years ago in the fall of 2004 I was introduced to something that both intrigued me and surprised me.  I had been blogging for a little over a year about random stuff and had learned to manipulate enough CSS and HTML code to get what I wanted out of a “website” or blog as I attempted to take my writing to the world. 

The thing that surprised me was when one of the high school students came up to me after a meeting one evening and said, “you have to get a MySpace and be my friend,  so you can see what I’m talking about.”  To which I replied something like, Read more...

Last night I was watching an old video with my wife and 2 oldest kids.  It was a classic of the Feature Films for Families series.  In the movie one of the characters had a paper route that he delivered papers for his local town.  I don't know if it was the flashback to early nineties style clothes or the fancy haircut but something about seeing that boy deliver papers brought up a memory which I somewhat forgot.  I think it only lasted a little while but I had a bike and I needed money so I remember delivering papers and helping some of my friends with their paper routes. 

I made the comment to my family, "I think every teenage boy needs to have

Postmodernism infiltrates our culture everywhere. From the virtual reality of the SIMS to the streets of GTA(Grand theft Auto.)

This kind of thinking is dangerous because it says that nothing is real until I “FEEL” it. That’s one of the reasons 17 teens in one U.K town have taken their lives within a couple of months. (see story HERE) What you feel is not and should not be THE determining factor in understanding truth. Two movies that come to mind related to this subject are