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« Previous Entries“I am my School” and other Student Prayers for New York
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010[Ed. note: Originally published in August 2010 issue of Tri-State Voice] Goliaths fall when adults like Saul get out of David’s way. For the last twelve months, student leaders from greater New York have proven this truism time and again. Now some are organizing a citywide prayer walk of 1,600 public schools the weekend of [...]
Goliaths Fall When Students Lead
Monday, September 14th, 2009Goliaths fall when adults like Saul get out of David’s way. The Biblical character David was an untested teenager, a shepherd boy with no military training, when he simultaneously proved to be the only man among soldiers courageous enough to confront the giant Goliath. For 40 days, Goliath’s taunts paralyzed Israel’s army with fear. Then [...]
The ONLY student led, student leadership conference in NYC?
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009All of us in youth ministry aspire to empowering students to actually lead. Rhetorically, it’s why we do what we do. Jesus called it making disciples and put it in his Great Commission speech right before he left his own disciples to run things. History records the advantages as every major social movement has been [...]
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Been thinking a lot about the Kickin’ It Old Skool Conference and can’t help but wonder how to incorporate this video accompanying the classic Gil Scott Heron song/spoken word masterpiece, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Here are the lyrics: You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to [...]
Students Leading Students – Kickin’ It Old Skool 9/12
Monday, August 24th, 2009If you think that a student led, student leadership conference sounds too good to be true, be amazed on September 12. The planning retreat with the conference’s student organizers last week was unquestionably the professional highlight of my summer. These teens are legit. (Too legit … too legit to quit.) More Info and Register.
Kickin’ It Old Skool: Conference & Concert
Thursday, August 6th, 2009REGISTRATION INFORMATION COMING SOON
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, March 20th, 2009Rev. Ray Spending the day at Latino Pastoral Action Center, holistic ministry pioneers in the South Bronx. Since the 1960s, founding visionary Rev. Ray Rivera championed the ideas of community development long before they were called community development. Today, he invests his experience and wisdom in emerging holistic ministry leaders throughout New York City and [...]
Friday Foto Finish: Remembering the Truly Poor During America’s Economic Crisis
Friday, September 26th, 2008One of the billions of human beings around the world who subsist on less than $1 a day. Rev. Ray Rivera from LPAC reminded me today about the Micah Challenge, an international effort to mobilize Christians against poverty. “The campaign aims to deepen Christian engagement with impoverished and marginalised communities, and to influence leaders of [...]
Reflections on the Beginning of a Movement
Thursday, September 25th, 2008The launch of 20/20 Vision for Schools may be over, but the work just begins. Here are some initial thoughts and a synopsis of two launch events in three days. 1) The New York City Leadership Center’s Executive Forum “An Urgent Appeal to Engage a Generation At-Risk: Helping Everyone Reach Their Highest Potential,” Thursday, September [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, June 6th, 2008You talkin’ to me? The original Greek Hippie Gangsta, Pastor Tom Mahairas of Citivision, gets in the face of a youth worker. + More from LPAC’s annual Transforming Youth Capacity Building Project Retreat here.
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