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hey everybody, thanks for visiting. i just got back from brandon cameron's student leadership conference in the tri-cities area of washinton state. it's called evoke and it was very well put together. over 800 students and youth pastors and amazing facilities that thier church has recently built. brandon has a great team in that area that he networks with who are very progressive thinkers and love kids. great job guys!
we've got a lot of great feedback on the latest changes in thrive. this month with kevin moore is going to be really good. in fact, since this program was done, we have actually hired kevin and he and his wife are in the process of moving to tulsa. we are so excited to have them! kevin will be re-engineering our team 180 campus program to restart in the fall. it will have a strong discipleship tie this time to insure better discipline and deeper spiritual growth in those that ride our busses. we'll keep you posted as it progresses. it's going to be amazing.
my oldest son jeremy leaves today with a couple friends to check out the u2 concert in denver. he and i went and saw them in dallas on their last tour and it was the best concert i've ever been to. jeremy and i both got to meet and shake hands with bono and the edge afterwards - life could have ended that night and i would have been a happy man!
my new book "the big black book for parents" comes out this month and walmart has placed a pretty big order. yeh! you can check it out at harrisonhouse.com. fyi... i will be in my homeland [calgary] next week doing some skiing and seeing cathy's brother and sister for a few days. i love going home and seeing all the old stomping grounds - good memories.
think about this... "volunteers don't volunteer." you have to go out and get them don't you. i thing we should stop calling them volunteers and start calling them "draftees" or "recruits" or "forced spiritual labor." the point is, don't wait for good people to come to you - go out there and get them!!
have a great week.
blaine
we've got a lot of great feedback on the latest changes in thrive. this month with kevin moore is going to be really good. in fact, since this program was done, we have actually hired kevin and he and his wife are in the process of moving to tulsa. we are so excited to have them! kevin will be re-engineering our team 180 campus program to restart in the fall. it will have a strong discipleship tie this time to insure better discipline and deeper spiritual growth in those that ride our busses. we'll keep you posted as it progresses. it's going to be amazing.
my oldest son jeremy leaves today with a couple friends to check out the u2 concert in denver. he and i went and saw them in dallas on their last tour and it was the best concert i've ever been to. jeremy and i both got to meet and shake hands with bono and the edge afterwards - life could have ended that night and i would have been a happy man!
my new book "the big black book for parents" comes out this month and walmart has placed a pretty big order. yeh! you can check it out at harrisonhouse.com. fyi... i will be in my homeland [calgary] next week doing some skiing and seeing cathy's brother and sister for a few days. i love going home and seeing all the old stomping grounds - good memories.
think about this... "volunteers don't volunteer." you have to go out and get them don't you. i thing we should stop calling them volunteers and start calling them "draftees" or "recruits" or "forced spiritual labor." the point is, don't wait for good people to come to you - go out there and get them!!
have a great week.
blaine
posted by Blaine bartel at 1:53 PM
7 Comments:
blaine, great to see you in blog world! i subscribed to thrive for years while i was in student ministry (i'm pastoring a church now), and loved being a part of elevate for several years as well.
i'm looking forward to seeing more of what you're learning and what God is doing in your life. keep it up!
thanks bill. i hope your church is going well!
Hey Pastor Blaine. This is Jody Earley. Heard about your blog from Thrive so thought I'd check it out. How are things going? I don't know if you've heard, but Mandy and I had another little girl 4 weeks ago - Grace Elizabeth Earley. I look forward to reading your book for parents I need all the help I can get. I feel like my little girls teach me more than I teach them sometimes. Mandy and I are learning a lot from both parenting and being out here in Maryland. I would like to thank you again for the great opportunity that you gave me way back when at oneighty. Take care and I will be sure and check out your blog from time to time. If your interested in seeing some photos of the family you can visit earleylife.blogspot.com.
hey jody,
good to hear from you. i'm glad you guys are doing so well. i keep up on you from ginger and gary. i liked your site - great pictures. btw, thanks for using jeremy to produce the video for your church awhile back.
take care,
bb
hi blaine this is ainya
i sent your wife cathy an letter
and didnt write my address so if you could email me and i will try to write back
thank you and god bless you all
ainya
hi this is ainya
if you could reply
it would be greatly appreciated
Hi, Blaine. I guess you don't even read this blog anymore, since it apparently hasn't been updated since 2005. I just wanted to say that I used to watch you on "Fire By Night" many years ago in my youth group. It is 2014, now, and I'm 42 years old.
I'm sorry to hear about what happened in your family, and I hope that yall have healed from it and have been fully reconciled. I wish you all the best. Just know that you have in fact impacted a lot of people you will likely never know or meet. You are NOT "disqualified from ministry", as you though you were. God used David after he committed adultery AND murder, and he used Paul after he sanctioned the murder of many Christians.
God is NOT done with you yet, my friend! He's not.
Secundus
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