Well, since the DHEFC website is acting up, I’ve posted our summer youth group schedule here – we have some really exciting things planned! You don’t want to miss it!

Check out The Summer Schedule for Youth Group 09 !

June 5th, 2009 | Category: sam reflects, things we read | Comments (1)

At the start of our very busy  weekend, we celebrated our graduating class from Youth Group. I always love our senior banquets because they are reminders of how our students develop and grow in their lives and in their faith. Perhaps more importantly senior banquets are a reminder of how much our church cares [...]

May 31st, 2009 | Tags: graduation, Youth Group | Category: ministry, sam reflects | Leave a comment

Last weekend was pretty busy – on Friday we did a youth rally with some of my friends from Bethel Lutheran and Huntington Baptist Church – along with John Bernor and his youth group. On Sunday night – we had a really great kids program – check out some pictures in the video above.

May 8th, 2009 | Tags: DHEFC, Kids Program, Music | Category: ministry, sam reflects, sights and sounds | Leave a comment

With National Day of Prayer being celebrated today, and talking about prayer for youth group this Friday and “Does God Answer prayer as the topic for this week’s Sunday “You Pick” sermon – I’m posting some of my favorite verses from Hab 3 – we talked about this in prayer meeting last night – the [...]

May 7th, 2009 | Category: sam reflects | Leave a comment

So, for our Sunday Night The Way Worship – we’ve been looking at some of the Psalms in detail and thinking about how the Psalmist worships God. We’ve been challenging each other to write music from these Psalms and sing them together – The recording (above) is our first take on some good words – [...]

April 30th, 2009 | Tags: Music, Song Writing, Worship | Category: sam reflects, sights and sounds | Comments (2)

It’s true – I now have a new project vehicle- needs some work… but hopefully we’ll be able to get it out on the beach during the summer. Looks like some sweet adventures ahead of us.

April 21st, 2009 | Tags: Beach, CJ, Jeep, Summer | Category: sam reflects | Comments (3)

I’ll never forget taking an evangelism class with John Leonard at Westminster . One of the things I’ll remember is him talking smack about Christians who are really into the idea of going to parties to witnessing to non-Christians. At the time it was popular and courageous for Christians we knew to [...]

April 15th, 2009 | Tags: Evangelism, gospel, Liberty University | Category: sam reflects | Leave a comment

Funniest Youtube Video I’ve seen in a while

March 26th, 2009 | Tags: shepherding | Category: sam reflects, sights and sounds | Leave a comment

Never fear fellow Long-Islanders, Spring is almost here.  After our six hour defensive driving course (I know, I know–how lame, but we’ll be spending 10% less on car insurance and we did not even switch to GEICO) Sam and I wandered down to Cold Spring Harbor and then made our way back to [...]

March 7th, 2009 | Category: ashley ponders, sam reflects, things we read | Comments (2)