The YD Experience

Posted by stuartdelony at 10th March, 2010

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If you’ve noticed… I haven’t been posting regularly for about 2 weeks. This is the season of spinning plates in my life. Between family and ministry, things have been pretty busy.

Our annual Youth Dynamics fundraising dinner kicks off tomorrow night. We have a goal to raise $17,000 and we believe that God can do this! There’s been tons of prep and lots of hours of work by staff and volunteers. But it’s also been a great season of watching the Lord work.

Pray for this event!

If you want to donate towards our efforts to reach out to at-risk youth with the hope of Christ…

Donate here

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Tweet O’Brien

Posted by stuartdelony at 3rd March, 2010

Screen shot 2010 03 02 at 8.04.52 AM Tweet OBrien

Well, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno is back on the air. And also Conan O’Brien started his own Twitter account (http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien).

Conan’s tweets are already funnier than anything that will happen in Leno’s second run on the Tonight Show… Stick with Conan’s Tweets, you don’t have to stay up as late at night and it

Sorry Jay.

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Happy Birthday James!

Posted by stuartdelony at 2nd March, 2010

IMG 8217 974x1024 Happy Birthday James!

James turns 8 today. That means we’ve been in the kid business for a while (8 years + 4 kiddos). It’s hard to believe.

Happy Birthday Buddy!

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Whats Your Six-Word Story?

Posted by stuartdelony at 18th February, 2010

your life in six bons mots Whats Your Six Word Story?

What’s your life… in a six word story?

Smith Magazine has “Six-Word Memoir” series and is asking:

“Everyone has a story. Can you tell yours in six words?”

Here’s mine:

I’m asking, seeking. knocking these days.

What’s your six-word story?

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Sick

Posted by stuartdelony at 12th February, 2010

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Sorry, I’ve been a no show on here for the past few days. We’ve had a sick household this week.

But finally, we’re back to the land of the living…

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Is “I Believe” Pointless?

Posted by stuartdelony at 4th February, 2010

Here’s a video response to Billy Graham Association’s “I Believe.com” campaign. It’s all over the net and Facebook (and being pushed by Christianity.com). They’re calling for us to “take a stand!”

Really? Do we need to take yet another stand?

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Is Youth Ministry Contributing to Stupidity of Teens?

Posted by stuartdelony at 3rd February, 2010

[HT: YS]

I think that Craig is on to something here.

Think of this. How much of your youth ministry is “fun and games” and how much of it is discipling teenagers in their faith? Are we just entertaining in the hopes of slipping the Gospel in? Is this the “bait and switch” Gospel? Or simply put… is your youth ministry contributing to the stupidity of teenagers?

I noticed this a few years back. We’d promo a trip by saying it was a snowboarding weekend, but fail to mention that our real [subversive] purpose was to share Christ. Once I realized how we were packaging our faith (90% fun and 10% Jesus) I repented and changed my ways. Do we still have fun? Absolutely. But am I clear about the focus of what we do? You bettcha.

Ministry for us has changed to something more about pursuing life change and less about events and entertainment. Is it an easy switch? No. Are we still refining the process with? Uh huh. Is it a necessary one? Yes it completely is.

What are your thoughts?

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