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The next couple weekends find me in St. Louis and Spokane. This weekend, I’ll be traveling to St. Louis for the National Youth Workers Convention — I’m thinking about bringing Lily (6) since NWA is...
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An Open Letter to YouthWorks
Let me join the chorus of voices welcoming Tic Long back to Youth Specialties, now part of the YouthWorks world. Tic was nothing but gracious to me over my ten years of speaking at the National Youth...
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Full Circle at the National Youth Workers Convention
In 1994, I drove a rusty old van from Minneapolis to Chicago for Youth Specialties’s National Youth Workers Convention. I was an exhibitor for a little start-up mission organization called,...
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On My Return to Youth Specialties
What does a trainwreck look like? Like Tony, Mark, and Doug attempting to reprise the Church Basement Roadshow at the National Youth Workers Convention in 2008.Tomorrow will mark my return to Youth...
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What I Learned at Youth Specialties: Youth Pastors Want to Talk about Gay...
Steve Argue, Chap Clark, Andrew Root, and Danielle Shroyer talk about eschatology on a theological panel moderated by Eric Leafblad at the 2012 National Youth Workers Convention (photo by Gavin...
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Did You You Know that Dietrich Bonhoeffer Was a Youth Pastor? [Book Week]
Last Friday I was wandering through my old stomping grounds, the National Youth Workers Convention, in Sacramento. Beside me was Andrew Root, a friend since we were both Ph.D. students at Princeton...
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