Life Here and There

How do you like the look of our new church auditorium? Kidding! This is the worship space recently completed by Justin, our Youth Pastor and his students. They have an awesome place to call home. You can read more about the remodel at Justin’s blog.

I’m excited about the work that our new Pastor of Youth and Outreach is doing already, and now you can keep track of him too at www.refugeministry.net.

Refuge Youth Ministry

It’s amazing how lives can be changed where there are few phones and no televisions next to a lake in rural Oklahoma. We arrived home yesterday from church camp at Grand Lake Baptist Assembly near Grove, OK. We were completely exhausted from the heat, the driving, the activities, the odd sleeping hours and eating routine, but I feel so blessed to have gone and experienced it all.

At the end of the week, at least fifty young people had made the decision to receive Christ as Savior and begin a personal relationship with Him. The numbers, however, don’t tell the half of the real story of how lives are impacted by this very important week. I wanted to reflect on some interesting experiences, and you may hear about some of them in future posts as well. (more…)

This past weekend, our church held a DiscipleNow weekend with our teens. Chris Selby, whom God is using in amazing ways as Youth Minister at Maysville Baptist Church, led our kids through The Gospel Journey, a video series about evangelism. I was made aware of the power of this up and coming generation. (more…)

One of my favorite Bible heroes is Josiah, the eight-year-old king of Israel. When he was a teenager, he commissioned some repairs on the Temple and the Book of the Law was recovered and brought to him. He took it and read it privately and it sparked a passion in his heart to see revival in his generation. (more…)