Open Source Youth Ministry

My Paranoid Paradigm Shift

Emergent, missional, organic, house churches, Kingdom building, global world-view, post-modern, open source, discipleship, multiplication, church planting… all sorts of wonderful buzzwords that have been on my mind in recent years. I have realized, almost to my own surprise, that I’m still evangelically minded at heart (*please read that by the biblical definition of evangel: “good [...]

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Whats Been Up?

It’s been in the back of my mind for a couple of months now. I sit around thinking to myself, “Self, it’s really time you start putting in the time you need to for OSYM.” Well, it’s been a while, January 8th to be exact. A lot has happened since then. Right now what I’m [...]

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‘The Calf Path’ by Sam Walter Foss

One day, through the primeval wood, A calf walked home, as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. [...]

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Second Step

Well, Its that time again. Time for me to make another entry here. You know how I was mentioning that I recently moved to BC from the other side of the country? Well its been about 4 months and I’m liking it. That being said it’s also been 4 months away from the place that [...]

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Stepping Out

“The person who implements three crappy ideas still has three experiences in the real world more than the person who holds onto their idea waiting for the perfect time & way to implement it.” This was said to me by a good friend when asking about what and how to write for this site. There [...]

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Youth Pastors: A Decade Into The Future

What will we be like just 10 years? It’s a legitimate question, especially considering this decade is almost through (yeah: 2000 is just shy of 10 years ago). And it has been quite a decade! Well, over at REYouthPastor (formerly smalltownyouthpastor.com) Jeremy Zach asked the very same question back in October by taking a quick [...]

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