A few months ago our Philippines Missions team put on a banquet. It was an incredible night full of loud laughter, fabulous food, and some hefty donations. At the end of the night I thanked our parents and cooks, our hosts and home church/school, and lastly my boss. Do you know who I forgot to [...]
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CSM 7/16/10 Review
July 17th, 2010 
joshherndon Youth pastors love the service after camp. Everyone’s jazzed, excited, passionate… But what to do the service before camp? For us, camp is this Monday and yesterday was CSM FRIDAY NIGHTS. Here’s the breakdown for the night: It Was a Quiet Night. It’s like the peace before the storm, the smell before rain, the stillness [...]
What To Do When “It’s” Not There
July 16th, 2010 joshherndon What do you do when you’re writing a message and you realize the passage you’re preaching from is saying something different than you wanted it to? When you run into this “problem”, you have 3 options: Change Your Message Change Your Passage Make It Fit, Like A Square in a Round Hole Well, that happened [...]
Face Time (the good kind of busy)
July 16th, 2010 joshherndon It’s been a busy, busy week. Not only have I been doing a lot of video editing and preparing for Summer Camp, but I’ve had two face-to-face meetings everyday this week with students or staff within our ministry. A couple of the meetings were in regards to future plans, a couple of the meetings were [...]
Stories from PI
July 15th, 2010 joshherndon Several of my Philippines team members shared some stories from our missions trip this past Sunday. You can listen to it here. Related Posts:No Related Posts
The Next Step
July 13th, 2010 joshherndon Many of our students came back from our Philippines missions trip excited and ready for the next steps in their relationship with God, our youth ministry, and affecting our community. So I’ve been tinkering with “The Next Step”: a clear, holistic discipleship training that will play to the strengths of both students and myself. Here’s [...]
10 Leadership Lessons when Leading a Missions Trip
July 10th, 2010 joshherndon I just got back from leading my first missions trip to the Philippines and it showed me how much I still have to grow as a leader. Here’s a couple of leadership lessons I learned (sometimes, the hard way): Be preventative. Pay attention to the team dynamics so if there’s tension growing, you can address [...]
CSM 7/10/10 Review
July 10th, 2010 joshherndon Our night was a bit looser than usual because of a shortened week (Philippines). We had “free talk” instead of discussion groups, student testimonies instead of a sermon, and shoot-by-the-hip instead of organization. Here’s some quick thoughts on the night: Celebrate with your Group. Our students did an incredible thing by going on this missions [...]
Philippines Day 11: The 48 Hour Day
July 8th, 2010 joshherndon Here’s some crazy math for you: At 12:30am (local time) our team took flight to Seoul, Korea. .5 hour. We arrived in Seoul at 5:30am (local time). 5 hours. We slept on floors and ate bagels until 10am. 4.5 hours. We took a tour until 12pm into Incheon to an ancient temple and walked the [...]
Philippines (I lost track of the) Day: Catchup
July 6th, 2010 joshherndon Internet service has been terribly sporadic, so I apologize for the lack of updates. But let me catch you up to speed. Here’s some highlights: Our team passed out 36,255 Books of Hope to students at 25 schools in Cabanatuan City! We visited an orphanage and served them dinner– something I’m sure blessed us more [...]