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I'm a youth pastor in Southern California at a Nazarene church. I've been serving here for about 4 years. We have a large youth group of around 100 teens from all different cultures and backgrounds.

We merged with a Spanish church in January of 07 and our youth groups are now ONE! As of a little more than a year ago, I am working with a co-youth pastor named Javier. If you want to know more about me, you can read my very first blog post here.

I started this blog as a way to remember the amazing things that happen in my everyday life in ministry... the hilarious things that my teens say and do, the joys and victories, and the life stories of the amazing teenagers that are the future of our church, and our world. But I am also glad when it brings encouragement and joy to others. Feel free to leave your comments and let me know you're reading!

I am so blessed to be here, I love my teens... they are my heart!


And by the way...
at our church...
we speak 5 languages!!!
English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Gypsy! :)


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A day at the beach

10:58 PM at 10:58 PM

I mentioned in an earlier post that I'd taken some teens to the beach this week.

Ministry (especially youth ministry) is about so much more than teaching the teens twice a week. We run a relational ministry. Javier and I both spend a lot of time one on one and in small group settings with the teens. We do things purposely to go where they are. We take them lunch at their schools, we take them to eat and do fun things. The whole point is to build relationships with the teens. And I honestly enjoy it so much! I really truly love these kids! And I enjoy spending time with them.

So I had kids on spring break this last week... so I took a few kids to the beach one day. I thought I'd share a couple videos... cuz they're always fun!!!






If you remember from my earlier blog... I talked about how they tried to throw me into the ocean... You can see a little bit of them doing that to each other in these clips.

This is my job.

I am the luckiest person in the WORLD!!!

:)

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