My son, Nick aka “BigRunkDaddy 6″ is playing varsity quarterback this fall for the Levelland Lobos and I’m determined not to miss a single game for three reasons: 1. I’m his dad and he wants me there. 2. he’s really good and I want to see him play, and 3. its just the right thing to do. So we are simply trusting that God will provide unique opportunities of ministry this Fall that will work around Nick’s games.
As a result my Fall Schedule through November will be limited to Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday events or Sunday – Wednesday type events. I only have two full weekends available until November because of a Thursday night game and the bye week. So if you’re interested in booking me for a weekend before November, I will only be available The weekends of August 27 & October 1.
Fall weekends available prior to November:
August 27-29
October 1-3
Other than that let’s get creative and do some one nighters, short weekends, or maybe even a souped up, modernized youth revival!
So give me a call and let’s get together and make some unique plans to reach teenagers for Jesus!!
God Bless Y’all
Runks
Join me now for a little recap of my crazy life on the road I like to call, “Why Runks, Why.”
-Recap of the first 3 camps of summer with: Travis Avenue Baptist, Fort Worth Texas at Windemere Baptist camp, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri; Camp Awesome at Camp Copass in Denton, Texas; and All-Star Week with Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano Texas at Carolina Creek Christian Camp near Huntsville, Texas.
-Ridiculous 6 am flights on both ends of my first camp – not good for a night owl like me!
-2 weeks in a row with one of my favorite worship bands to work with, Branch.
-Talking with and ministering to several hurting students with a stories similar to mine.
-CrazyAmerican Idol knock-off late night with the most amazing Thriller dance routine ever! – Travis Idol.
-Water skiing for the first time in forever and sorta learning to wake board.
-Issuing an tube challenge to a boat driver and losing miserably!
-Quick 18 hour turnaround at home – doing laundry & putting it right back in the bag and sleeping a little.
-Running into one of my favorite seminary professors, Dr. Roy Fish, at the airport in Dallas.
-Camp Awesome absolutely living up to its name!
-3 of the CRAZIEST youth ministers I’ve ever met in my life all at Camp Awesome.
-Most intense session with a hurting teen I have ever had but it was productive & God was all over it.
-A ton of students getting saved the first night of All-Star Week!
-The most out of control, fun, and crazy painful game of water polo ever!
-Students meditating on specific scriptures during response time = powerful move of God!
-Students saved every week!
-Watching 15 students get baptized the last day of All-Star Week!
-And last but not least, a video of teenagers worshipping on the last night of All-Star Week.
I’ll never get used to this!!!
God Bless Y’all – Runks
Why Why Runks, Why???
Want to get parents more involved in your student ministry or at least help them be included in the experiences their teens have in your ministry?? Northview Baptist Church in Lewisville, Texas may have found a way to do just that. During their recent DiscipleNow they tweeted out updates about what was happening during the weekend. It was a blow by blow explanation of just about everything that happened during the weekend including the crazy games being played, the worship songs we sang, and even snippets of my messages – all in real time! They had done this from their camp last summer and the parents told me it was awesome to be able to keep up with what was happening with their kids while they were away and made it easier to get them to share their experience when they got home.
Northview just used twitter for this but I think it would be a great idea to use your student ministry fan page for updates as well since most parents are on facebook anyway and you wouldn’t have to convince them to join twitter to participate.
As a parent of teenagers myself, it drives me nuts how hard it is to get two words out of my kids about their experiences in the student ministry. Tweeting out what is happening would give us parents some specific information to ask about and hopefully better engage our kids when they get home. I’d love it if I could ask them what they thought about the message on the Prodigal Son on Tuesday night or the mud pit relays on Thursday afternoon instead of being limited to just asking, “how was camp?” I really hope our Student Pastor is reading this! hint, hint…. hahaha
God Bless Y’all – Runks
Join me now for a little recap of my crazy life on the road I like to call, “Why Runks, Why.”
-Jesus > me Refuge 2010 • First Baptist Church, Portland, TX
-Working with my old friends Josh & Stacy McClary to help them resurrect the Student Ministry in their new church.
-another smaller event with lots of one on one time with more students.
-lots of unchurched teens and 2 of them giving their lives to Christ!
-After the worship and before I preached, Josh had the students come up, lay hands on me, pray for me, and for God to speak to them through me. I’ve never experienced that before and it was AWESOME!!
-A bonfire that required a bazillion feed sacks, enough diesel to run my truck for a week, a leaf blower, & 2 hours to get started!
-Josh transformed into an ice cream sundae. They were gonna do this to me but they couldn’t catch me!
-And last but not least….. The most painful student ministry game I’ve ever seen!
God Bless Y’all – Runks
Why Why Runks, Why???
