Seeing Your Community With Fresh Eyes
Two years ago during Spring Break at our Tillicum City Life Center, we put together a Leadership Day Camp featuring activities and conversations about topics like healthy relationships, setting goals, and observing the assets in their neighborhood. If you’re not familiar with Tillicum, it is one-square mile isolated by a lake on one side, and […]
2019 Annual Report
Are you the new janitor?
“Are you the new janitor?” This is the question that students at Graham-Kapowsin High School kept asking Jon Asher, our Campus Life Site Leader at G-K. It’s not because he wears a Bethel School District badge, nor because he wears coveralls or industrial shirts at the school. It’s because he can constantly be seen around […]
Building Unity
What are some of the issues that divide our communities? Think of every hot topic you may be avoiding or debating this holiday season. Our families, communities, churches and young people are divided in so many ways and we as believers are somehow supposed to overcome all this misunderstanding and be the bridge. Honestly, that […]
Unexpected Encouragement
I met Lila four years ago. She is bold and stubborn and has had to operate in “survival” mode for as long as I have known her. Mom on drugs, dad in prison, nine brothers and sisters. A pimp took advantage of her vulnerability. She has been in and out of “the life” for the […]
Living with Purpose
Anyone can make a difference in the life of a youth–even if you’re still a youth yourself. It just takes one. One listening ear. One person who cares. One person who remembers a name. And that one can make a life-altering impact upon the life of another student. I serve in the youth group at […]
You Won’t Go Alone
There’s a boy who’s homeless and is currently sleeping in a car. Another boy has a home but it consistently gets shots fired at it–it’s not safe. There’s a girl who is entering her junior year of high school and just found out she’s pregnant. Another girl has been abandoned by her family and couch […]
Going Back
In a few weeks the annual return of students back to school commences: welcome to the new incoming freshman and 6th graders as well as the returning upperclassmen. It is a moment of nervousness and excitement and the faces of students (and parents) display both! The new year is ahead; students hopeful for class subjects […]
Don’t Make It Weird
Does connecting with teenagers in your life feel like learning a foreign language? One youth worker shares 5 great tips to get you started! My wife and I were having dinner with another couple that attends the same church as us. As the evening progressed we talked, laughed, shared stories and basic information about ourselves. […]
When Fun and Games Are Not Enough
Root beer floats, pizza, a hundred relay races, and thousands of types of tag…at Campus Life Club, we keep things FUN. It’s how we draw kids in at first and bring them back over and over to hear the message of the love of Jesus Christ. Lydia first came to Campus Life at Frontier Middle […]
