joshherndon.wordpress.com is now joshherndon.com

At 6,000 hits, I thought I’d upgrade… My blog has been moved to a wordpress.org host, meaning that you will have to adjust your SMS or Bookmark if you would like to continue reading. Simply go to http://joshherndon.com/ and enjoy!

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To Save A Life

We’ll be watching To Save A Life this Friday at Central Student Ministries. (Does this mean we’re starting our Fall Kickoff Campaign before schools out?) Have you seen it? What did you think?

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A Virtual Facelift

A preview of joshherndon.com’s makeover! And for future reference, everything will be on joshherndon.com, and not joshherndon.wordpress.com . Just in case you need to adjust your “favorites”.

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4 Projects

Haven’t had a chance to blog much because I’m getting ready for several big events over the next 4-months. Massachusetts (5/25-6/1). My sister-in-law is getting married! Evie and I are going to be taking off a week to enjoy Boston’s finest lobster! Mmmmmmmm. The Philippines (7/27/10-8/8/10). Last-minute fundraising, practicing, and frantically trying to get everything [...]

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Call + Response

I just got back from seeing Call + Response, a “rocumentary” about modern-day slavery, specifically forced prostitution. Wow. What I liked about the film is it left you feeling inspired instead of hopeless. I would recommend you watch it, then tell your friends about it, too. I’ll be writing more about this later.

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Killing Momentum or Killing Consistency?

I had a talk today with Terrance Green, a friend and neighboring youth pastor about summer schedules and our weekly program. In a nutshell: we don’t know what to do. Is keeping your youth ministry program as is killing your momentum or killing your consistency? Your thoughts are appreciated in the comments.

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Breaking My Heart

My heart breaks for so many of my students. So many lives full of confusion. There’s no peace. There’s no refuge. And I get sick to my stomach when I know my hands are tied. I’ve seen that 93% of a student’s worldview will be developed from their home life. That leaves 7% for pastors [...]

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21 Days: Mantic May

Is May always this busy? I feel like I’ve been running from appointment to meeting to event to… this Saturday, for instance, I had a brunch event, a BBQ birthday party, and a BBQ dinner (all in three different cities). What does three events in one day mean? I can’t enjoy any of them because [...]

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Goodbye, “Not A Robot”

For the past 19 months we’ve had an overarching theme for Central Student Ministries: “Not a Robot”. The theme has been infused in our publications, series, and vision for the beginning of the ministry. It’s treated us well! “Not a Robot” has a couple talking points: •You are made in the image of God, and [...]

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Fixing a Bad Night

I felt like I had a rough service this past week. Ever happen to you? So I was thinking of what went wrong and things I should do next time things just aren’t clicking. Problem: I was distracted with lots of “stuff to do”. Solution: I need to assign students/volunteers to specific jobs on a [...]

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