Summer Camp Survival Tip #2- Get Rest

Camp is stressful, the kids are loud and rambunctious, and it seems like you are always running from one place to another. The best thing you can do for yourself is to get rest. This applies to everyone from directors, to music people, to counselors and even campers. The camp I still go to [...]

Summer Camp Survival Tips- Part 1

Over the past 10 years I have spent many weeks at summer camp leading music for various groups. Also I have spent many weeks on mission trips with the various churches I have worked in. In all those years, and all those camps there are some things I have learned. Some I have learned [...]

Mission Moment

Tomorrow I will be heading of for the first of my many weeks of the summer away from home. I will be spending 7 days with college students from around Texas as they work to repair homes in the Houston area. We will call Pasadena FUMC home, will sleep on cots, share meals and work [...]

Green Props

I wanted to take a moment to give some props to my friend Russ Bowlin on his recent blog post. He has spent this last week sharing with us ways that we can live up to our responsibility in the series “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” He begins with this verse:
“The LORD God took [...]

Vote for Russell’s Song

Dear Friends, As you may know I have just finished up a 4 song EP called “Unfailing Love.” It is currently being duplicated and will be available in June to be purchased. However you can get a [...]

Prayers

I would simply ask for your prayers for my family at this time. After a year and a half long battle with cancer my grandfather, or bappaw, passed away. The funeral is coming soon and we are making arrangements.
My bappaw was a great man who said little but showed much. His love [...]

A New Level of Trust

“Trust the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths” Proverbs 3:5-6
This was the first verse I latched on to when I began my music ministry. I wrote a song called “Fork In the Road” that talked about coming [...]