Archive for January, 2007

New Camp Ride

Check out Southwind’s newest ride.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8959221252413764426

Amazing Grace

Just a little plug for the movie that is coming out called Amazing Grace:  The William Willberforce Story.  I got the opportunity to see it early, and it’s a great story of a man called by God to social justice and the abolition of slavery in Britian. 
Check out: www.amazinggracemovie.com
It would be great to take kids [...]

Candid Camera Club

A friend of mine shared an awesome idea with me yesterday.
A few years ago, he got some administrators and a coach to help pull one over on some kids.  He set up a camera in one of their offices and had them call a kid in and basically scare the crap out of them.  You [...]

Meet Generation Next

Check out this Pew Research Center study titled “How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics: A PORTRAIT OF “GENERATION NEXT”.
There are some very interesting statistics & about 3 pages of statments under the title “Meet Generation Next,” including this one.

One-in-five members of Generation Next say they have no religious affiliation or are atheist [...]

Are We Addicted to Fame

20/20 recently ran a segment entitled “Are We Addicted to Fame”, based off the book “Fame Junkie” by Jake Halpern. 20/20 reported on a survey Halpern conducted for the book:
He asked the middle schoolers which careers appealed to them most: President of Harvard or Yale; the CEO of a big company like General Motors; a [...]

Parents Need Our Help

We know that the basic consequence of sin is barriers in relationships – first to God, then to others.
That is not lost in the relationships parents have with thier kids.  In fact, according to a new poll, parents are literally afraid to talk to thier teens about important issues.
The survey shows that a majority of [...]