Cratered Into Christ

Cratered Into Christ

Grace and Peace, Bethesda! I pray your summer has been safe, relaxing and filled with blessings from God. I love the opportunity to go out of town with Bethesda youth, families and friends. It’s such a gift to break routines in order to fill our ordinary days with...
Where Are The Kids?

Where Are The Kids?

The kids are here, if you want to know them. Our database has 88 children, youth and recent graduates. 25 people have tried the new family Sunday school. Youth group is rebuilding from COVID. We had 25-30 youth between Wednesday and Thursday nights pre-COVID. Over the...
No Grown Ups

No Grown Ups

“We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.”...
3 Big Questions that Change Every Teenager (and You?)

3 Big Questions that Change Every Teenager (and You?)

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” -Ephesians 2:10 Twenty years in, I’ve found ministry among young people to be, Always the same Never the same Youth ministry is never the same, year to...
City Mission Trips

City Mission Trips

This summer both middle and high school students have the opportunity to serve in urban missions – Seattle for middle schoolers and Los Angeles for high schoolers. We will again be working with Center for Student Missions in Los Angeles. (I missed our last L.A....
Help Needed for Vacation Bible School 2019

Help Needed for Vacation Bible School 2019

A Big Ask…. Greetings, my favorite people. I’m not going to beat around the bush…I NEED YOUR HELP! VBS is in less than two months and the to-do list is getting longer, not shorter. Here are the number of ways you could serve the littlest of our community over the next...