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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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Life List Update

1:53 PM at 1:53 PM

So since posting about my Life List, I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of updates... and I know this isn't technically about my teens, but since I wrote about it on here, I thought I'd give updates. I created a special tag for it, so if it's something you're interested in you can follow it. If not, sorry to deviate from the typical blog topics... but again, I write this blog as a way for me to look back and remember things and be encouraged. I am excited about this list and working at accomplishing the things that are on it. So here we go!

I don't want to give away too much just yet, but I am SUPER excited about a couple of opportunities that I have. The first one is this: I have a photoshoot booked with Jasmine Star! That is what I am MOST excited about right now! I cannot wait. It is definitely going to be a blast. This is a photographer I came across when I first got interested in photography a couple of years ago, and she was just kind of starting out. I was completely blown away by her work and who she is as a person (she's a pastor's kid too!). I haven't actually met her, but I have followed her blog and I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to meet her in just a couple of weeks! She has inspired me in more ways than one, and I am so excited that I finally get to do this... and meet her!

Another update... I'm working on some of my running goals. I'm coming up with a plan and I am going to try really hard to be disciplined enough to stick to a schedule and start working towards that marathon. I don't really like to run, but I know it's good for me and I really want to do a marathon (although I'm not really sure why...).

I have something else possibly coming up that I'm pretty excited about too, but I haven't decided for sure, so I don't want to write too much about that yet.

I'll keep updating as I accomplish things!

God is sure good. Even when life isn't :)

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