Nashville Tennessee here I come!!!

I am very excited about doing student ministry at Long Hollow Baptist Church!!! The Pastor's name is David Landrith and I got the opportunity to hang out with him during my original visit. He is a tremendous leader/communicator here is a video of last weeks sermon: All In!!! I will be flying up to Nashville this Thursday morning so I can meet all of the students and leaders who will be attending Quest Weekend (like Second Houston's Premiere Weekend). Brian Mills and I will be going from home to home meeting students and connecting with parents. Please be praying for this weekend that God would do AMAZING things in the lives of the students who will be attending. You can also be praying for my transition up to Nashville. My official start date is March 8Th but there are many things that have to be taken care of up there as well as down here in Katy. Honestly, I am really stressed out but very excited at the same time. The Longhollow Student Ministry staff, leaders, and students have been sending me text messages (399 up to this point) welcoming me to Long Hollow!!! I wanted to give you a look into this church and what God is doing there. Here a 2 videos I have seen that really get me pumped up about being a part of their church staff: Video #1 and Video #2

Crazy Love Campaign: Youth Building from Long Hollow Baptist Church on Vimeo.

Welcome Curt Taylor (The Man, The Myth, The Legend)

Curt Taylor is the Children's Pastor at our Woodway Campus and does an incredible job with the families of Second Baptist Church. You can follow Curt on Twitter here: Curt!!

Red Bull's Project X "Youth Ministry"

If you have ever played competitive sports and were remotely successful, you should be very familiar with these two words: HARD WORK and youth ministry is no different. I saw this video of Shaun White (who by the way, is the best snowboarder in the world) talking about how he wanted to build a facility where he could train harder than he ever has before. Shaun realized to win this years Winter X Games, he would have to do things that no one had ever done and land things that had never landed before. He knew he was going to have to push the limits of snowboarding further and faster than its ever been pushed before. Shaun wanted to work harder this off season than he ever had before. This off season realization was made into a documentary called: Red Bull Project X, which is so AMAZING!! The whole time I was watching this, I was thinking "We need to have the same approach to youth ministry as Shaun does to snowboarding"!!! When I see someone who is at the top of his game, still trying to push themselves to become better, it inspires me. It is VERY easy to go through the motions in ministry, in others words just barley do enough to get by. In my opionion, you have two options, You can settle and use another youth pastors best or you can push the limits of youth ministry and be the best!! Question, "What are you doing that is going to seperate yourself from every other youth pastor in the country"? -Just something to think about. To see the video click this ------> Training

Breaking History Last Night

Kobe Bryant broke Jerry West's scoring record and is now the Lakers All Time Leading Scorer!!! Just in case you missed it ;?)

"The Church Turnaround"

Domino's Pizza has seen a drop in sales over the last 2 or 3 years and they are committed to taking an HONEST look at the quality of pizza they have been serving. They were very intentional about sitting their former customers down and asking them two simple questions: "Honestly, whats wrong?" and "What do we need to do better?" Domino's asked some very tough questions and got some very tough answers. Here are some quotes from this video that really impacted me: "There comes a time when you know you have to make changes", "Our staff was working day and night even weekends to get what had to be done, DONE" and "I cant wait to see what people think of our new pizza". When I saw this video it reminded me that we need to be asking ourselves the same questions about our churches and ministries. The President of Domino's said something I will never forget: "You can't run a company like this if you don't love pizza" if you in full time ministry, you need to a long hard look at this revised statement: "You can't run a church or a ministry if you don't love people"!!! I think every business or church at some point comes to the realization that, "People Are Leaving"!!! Its what you do with that realization that determines whether your church or company files "People Bankruptcy". I truly believe that Domino's Pizza is 100% committed to delivering a quality product to people. Ministry needs to have the same commitment level, sometimes in ministry we need to be reminded that were in "The People Business". Just something to think about...