Did you know coffee was a means of grace?
Over the past three weeks, I started having “coffee hours” at Muddy’s with students. I send out a Facebook announcement the day before and wait to see who will show up. Without fail, at least one person shows up and some of the most amazing conversations take [...]
October 4, 2008
Coffee Hours @ Muddy’s
October 4, 2008
Seeking Jesus
Seeking Jesus Prayer Guide
This semester, we are working our way through the seven miracles and seven “I AM” statements of Jesus in the Gospel of John. I turned back to these passages when we came up with our initial mission statment for the Yellow Door:
Yellow Door is a community of young adults seeking to live out [...]
October 4, 2008
Devoted
Acts 2:42-47
42They DEVOTED themselves to the APOSTLES’ TEACHING (STUDY) and FELLOWSHIP, to the BREAKING OF BREAD (WORSHIP) and the PRAYERS. 43 Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles (HEALING). 44All who believed were together and had all things in common (UNITY); 45they would sell their possessions and [...]
October 4, 2008
First Big Hire
One of my friends and mentors, Jim Legget, onced shared with me about his most important two hires for the church he started in Houston, Tx – a worship leader and children’s minister. He believes that no other decisions had a bigger impact on Grace Fellowship than they did. Those words stuck with me – [...]
October 4, 2008
Feeding Bodies & Souls
If you were to search United Methodist campus ministry websites, you will probably find one common strategy for most Wesley Foundatins or local church ministries – food. Food brings in students and there are enough mom-types at most UM churches who need someone to cook for – it’s a great combination.
One program that had been [...]
October 4, 2008
There is no other tool for connecting to college students and young adults like Facebook (Wikipedia entry & Guardian article) – I don’t fight it, I just work with it. Gone are the days of paper directories. Gone are the days of list-serves. Gone are the days of one person or office gatering up everyone’s [...]
