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Letter to a Former Ministry.

Rough Draft of letter I sent to my last ministry - heard they will be celebrating 40yrs the end of this month. Dear Church Family, Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:3 says “I thank my God every time I remember you.” I take that verse to heart when I remember the fine people at Cary Christian Church. Valerie, the children, and I would like to send our greetings and congratulations on your 40th Celebration of the Church. We think of the people there as family. We had a GREAT 5 year ministry there in which it caused me to grow, stretch, and to be challenged. As the youth & family minister there – it has helped me on the journey which God has called. Our children, Kendra, Nicole and Brian grew up at Cary from Infants to now starting in elementary school. Valerie and I bought our first home while there. You celebrated in our joys and were there in the heartaches too of Valerie losing her dad to a brain tumor. When we think of Cary Christian – we

Top Ten Things you can do on Youthworker Appreciation Day!

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Today: Sept 6th is YouthWorker Appreciation Day. Here are some things you can do: 1. Write an encouraging note to a fellow youthworker. 2. Send him or her a free subscription to the Journal of Student Ministries. 3. Offer to buy them some resources for their own personal library. (Goto the Christian bookstore to do this today) 4. Give them a gift card to their favorite place. (Tickets to sporting events works too) 5. Offer to babysit their kids. 6. Buy that ever so important office knickknack for their office or home. 7. Have all the students sign a banner or card telling them how important they are to the ministry at the church. 8. FREE Food. 9. Ask what they may need. Get involved in their lives. Share your story and how important and valued they are to you. 10. Write on others' blogs on what you did. (Even tell Marko Make it a surprise and dream Big! Our youthworkers love God and love those students. Let's show them that We love them too!!

5 Things I would Do to Change the NHL

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So over at Puck Daddy blog they have different sports and hockey personalities writing on 5 ways they'd change the NHL ... so here are mine. 1. Fire Gary Bettman there is even a website dedicated to do so. Fact is even with some of the recent improvements of the "NEW" NHL - the current commish has lost respect from the fans, players, and well some of the ownership doesn't even know or understand the direction the NHL is going. (The Coolest Game on ICE) The commish has made this rich and vast history sport into a mockery and well for the NHL to make up for things like the lockout, expansions, Free agency out of control, Hockey hard to find on the networks ... and well disrespect from the Union ... Gary needs to go. 2. Turn the Winter Classic idea to the Stanley Cup Champions versus All-stars. Having the Winter Classic and the recent all-star game (almost a joke now and wondering why?) The Winter Classic needs to embrace the different venues and also make the Break .