Category Archives: missional living

ten things that break my heart

Posted on 03.30.2010 by andrew burden

far more kids signing up for summer camp as for a mission trip sports or other activities taking priority over church or youth group families thinking their child can’t go on (insert relationally strategic event) due to lack of money … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, feedback please!, missional living, volunteer backpack | Tagged bullying, evangelism, frustration, grief, recession, responsibility | 4 Comments

holy anger and other goals

Posted on 03.29.2010 by andrew burden

Yesterday in our first combined mission team meeting with our friends at Christian Fellowship, the kids worked with sections of a prayer of St. Francis I hadn’t heard before. We have always encouraged the kids to memorize the well-known “Prayer … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, missional living, theology, volunteer backpack | Tagged grief, justice, missions, poverty, relationships, sacrifice, St. Francis of Assissi, suffering, urban church | Leave a comment

once a warrior, always a warrior

Posted on 03.25.2010 by andrew burden

Ten years ago today, a group of 6th graders in Leawood, KS, lost a dear friend in a four-wheeler accident. I would meet those students about five months later when I became their 7th grade teacher. I wrote this piece … Continue reading →

Posted in amazing kids, gotta read these, missional living | Tagged grief, legacy, maturity, middle school, teaching | Leave a comment

cyberbully

Posted on 03.04.2010 by andrew burden

Phoebe Prince was [a] pretty, intelligent, 15-year-old high school student who had just accepted a date to a high school dance. An immigrant from Ireland, Prince had been in the United States for just a few months when she took … Continue reading →

Posted in cultural engagement, hot topics, missional living, volunteer backpack | Tagged bullying, counseling, cyberbullying, social media, teaching | 5 Comments

validation

Posted on 02.21.2010 by andrew burden

You are great. You are amazing! We don’t hear things like that very often, do we? Our community group met tonight, and we were in charge of providing the goodies as well as the lesson. I had seen the video … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, cultural engagement, feedback please!, life is a great teacher, missional living | Tagged cultural engagement, Heather Flies, local church, relationships, validation, YouTube | 4 Comments

different

Posted on 02.18.2010 by andrew burden

What do you do with the kid who’s different? The boy who wears eye makeup and has black fingernails, the girl who goes through five shades of hair color every two weeks, the bookworm amidst athletic kids, the student who … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, missional living, published elsewhere, volunteer backpack | Tagged affirmation, Billy, bullying, evangelism, high school, image of God, isolation, Kendall, middle school, relationships, respect, ROOT1, volunteer youth ministry | 3 Comments

m&m salaries, vitamin powder, & ooey-gooey cake

Posted on 01.24.2010 by andrew burden

Today was a marathon of worthwhile but cumulatively exhausting engagement. While we savored a second week of just that little extra sleep before church, once we left the house we weren’t back for more than 12 hours. In middle school … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, cultural engagement, missional living | Tagged affluence, cultural engagement, Feed the Hunger, Haiti, high school, local church, middle school, To Save a Life | Leave a comment

to save a life (movie review)

Posted on 01.22.2010 by andrew burden

Two things really let me down when we watched an opening day showing of To Save a Life. The first was that the song by The Fray that I thought had inspired the name of the film was nowhere to … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, cultural engagement, family life, feedback please!, missional living, volunteer backpack | Tagged abortion, adoption, affluence, alcohol, conversion, cultural engagement, cutting, divorce, drugs, evangelism, grief, guilt, high school, hypocrisy, maturity, middle school, movies, relationships, sexuality, suicide, To Save a Life, transformation | 2 Comments

january people

Posted on 01.14.2010 by andrew burden

I have decided that working out is bad for me. I can work out at Burger King. Oh good gosh. The guy in the locker room who I overheard saying this was dangerously, well, endomorphic. The shape of his body … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, life is a great teacher, ministry longevity, missional living, volunteer backpack | Tagged consistency, evangelism, gym, January people, Life Time Fitness, middle school, parables, relationships, volunteer youth ministry | 5 Comments

what do you see?

Posted on 01.11.2010 by andrew burden

When you look at a group of teenagers, or preteens, or college students, what do you see? The gym has been extremely crowded the past few days, even at times I wouldn’t expect it to be. The weight room is … Continue reading →

Posted in church and ministry, missional living, volunteer backpack | Tagged appearance, evangelism, Life Time Fitness, perspective, relationships, vision, volunteer youth ministry | Leave a comment

Category Archives: missional living

ten things that break my heart

holy anger and other goals

once a warrior, always a warrior

validation

different

m&m salaries, vitamin powder, & ooey-gooey cake

to save a life (movie review)

january people

what do you see?

commenticity

amazing kids

for the backpack

it's who i am

my daily rss

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Category Archives: missional living

commenticity

amazing kids

for the backpack

it's who i am

my daily rss

into the cloud

this page is copy protected. feel free to link to it.