This summer I read “Emotionally Healthy Spirituality” with Rob and others in our church who are in vocational ministry.
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I have been working at Cup of Cool Water for more than 4 years. In that time I have worked with hundreds if not thousands of at risk youth. It is interesting how certain words or phrases can become so common that we can easily disconnect ourselves from…
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When I started practicing the spiritual discipline of sabbath, I thought that I was just committing to a day of rest; I didn’t realize that the journey I was embarking on would be the beginning of deep inner healing…
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I have to admit, when I first found out about Jarabacoa, I remember thinking how intimidating of a place it was. The Dominican Republic as a country stands at such an interesting spot in it’s history…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how we talk about other people (myself included). How we can gossip and be incredibly cruel to one another. Or maybe even worse, how we can (sometimes even unintentionally, but we do it) think of ourselves as better than other people…
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On Friday I was at the fairgrounds with the Cup of Cool Water team getting ready for the Bike Swap. One of our clients had been earning community service by helping out at Cool Water Bikes, so he came along with us…
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A couple weekends ago, I took a trip back home to Gig Harbor to spend some quality time with my brother, Alec. A special bonus of my trip was visiting my mom’s 5th and 6th grade classroom.
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I spent two hours unclogging a toilet this week. When Monday rolled around I had an idea in my head of how the next few days would go. I had tasks to accomplish, and deadlines to meet, but then all of the sudden, the plan that I had set for the week, was thwarted by a horrific mess in the boys bathroom at the Hillyard YFC building.
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In early 2012 I met with someone I greatly admired, she was a school counselor at a local middle school and from what I knew of her, she was a world changer. I had just moved up to Spokane to follow my dream of attending a Spokane University in order to obtain my Masters in School Counseling.
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If you are involved in ministry in any capacity, you have certainly heard about burnout. We work or serve others because God calls us to and many of us have...
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