Man, my legs hurt. I’ve spent four hours in the evenings of the last four days at our city-wide Vacation Bible School (VBS). This year’s theme is sports. I’ve been playing flag football with 4th and 5th graders all week and my video-game-toned body is struggling to keep up. VBS is such a big deal… [Read more…]
June 17, 2011
by Derick Brown
This past Wednesday me, my wife and five of our volunteers took 33 students to a local theme park for an annual event we lovingly refer to as “Newbies’ Night”. Newbies’ Night is like initiation-night meets celebrating-living-through-the-school-year meets celebrating-the-graduates-who-are-getting-ready-to-move-on. Many of the “Newbies” won’t actually start attending youth until the end of the summer, but… [Read more…]
June 3, 2011
by Derick Brown
Last night as I was laying in bed waiting for my sleep aid to kick in, I couldn’t stop thinking about my to-do list for today. This is not an uncommon occurrence, thus the sleep aid. “Sleep Aid” = 1/2 .lb bacon cheeseburger with onion rings and guacamole… it’s an over-the-counter drug. Try it. My main… [Read more…]
May 31, 2011
by Shawn Michael
Great news for youth pastors attending this year’s Hills Alive music festival: as you can see above, youth pastors are being honored in a big way! We’ll be releasing a detailed schedule soon, but for now we’d like to see Black Hills area youth pastors take on two hour shifts at the tent. What’s involved?… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
by Derick Brown
…and the Rest of Us Last Saturday I had the great privilege and honor to be the keynote speaker for six of our town’s graduating home schoolers. I think that what God had me share with them is a good thing for us all to remember all of the time so I want to share three main points with you today.… [Read more…]
May 14, 2011
by Derick Brown
On the first day God said let there be light. On the second day separated the heaven and the earth. Now, fast forward to the time when Adam and Eve’s first child became a teenager. A bright light shown in the heavens, the clouds parted, the voice of God boomed from above and said, “Forevermore adults and children will… [Read more…]
May 6, 2011
by Derick Brown
Last Sunday night I got home from our PM service at Destiny, put the kids to bed and picked up my laptop. I immediately jumped on Facebook to share a message about how great my day was. It read something like this, “What a great day! Great services this morning, I played bass, got two blisters (well… [Read more…]
April 26, 2011
by YPClayConry
Here is a video I put together using the aforementioned Lightworks video editing software. (one note about that… if you are going to use Lightworks you should visit this page AND obey the note to download the Matrox codec THEN freshly install quicktime. Trust me this will save you some serious headaches.) OK now to… [Read more…]
April 22, 2011
by Derick Brown
I have been neck deep for the past couple of weeks in our youth-led Good Friday Service preparations. Dramas, human videos, communion, mini-sermons, finding out student’s Easter plans (to see if the will be available for the service). Then finding out that students who thought they would be here won’t be and then trying to fill… [Read more…]
June 24, 2011
by Derick Brown
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