Water Slides, Middle Schoolers, and Jesus

So yesterday was a full 8 hours spent shivering in cloudy, temperamental Northeast Ohio weather to…get wet. With around 25 middle schoolers and 3 other brave adults – we ventured to the defunct SeaWorld turned Wildwater Kingdom water park in Aurora, OH. And more than just a bunch of water slides, wave pools, and beach […]

Ordinary Is Sometimes Extraordinary

So for the past three Monday evenings our middle schoolers have met up for our summer gathering at a family’s home in our community. We call it “Dive In” because we dive in to God’s word and then literally take a dive (well, its not quite deep enough…so a splash) in their pool. Its been pretty […]

When There Are Crowds

And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with […]