Mt. Rainier is so beautiful. People come to Seattle for the sole purpose of catching a glimpse of it on a sunny day. The problem with having one of the amazing crowns of God’s creative achievements is that we forget about it. We get used to it. We become home blind to it.

This happens with other things in life too. My wife for instance. She is amazing! And she is also beautiful! I realize that I become home blind when I get used to her, I take her for granted. When she gets dressed up for a date night (which rarely happens, the date night, not the dressed up) I get a chance to get healed from my blindness. She is a knock-out, and it took me taking her on a date to remember it!

This is the same way with our amazing leaders God has called into youth ministry at Believers Fellowship. God is moving in this world, calling up missionaries that do amazing things for the down and out. Think of the impact of Mother Theresa and how many people know about her. Think of IJM and Gary Haugen and what he is doing. But God is also at work on the home front. He is at work in our midst…and it’s exciting to see God using these homegrown heroes to make a difference in the lives of teenagers in Gig Harbor.

So in our new series, we will get a chance to hear about what God has done in the lives of some of the leaders/mentors to raise them up to have a heart for teens. We will see what God is doing in their lives recently, and see how we can learn from some of these homegrown heroes right in front of us!

This Wednesday Phil Hoffman will teach us a lesson in John 15, and Dave Columbini will teach on Thursday about what God is doing in his life!

See you there!

Last Friday we had over forty parents from Believers Fellowship come out to Real World Parents! RWP is a seminar put on by Wisdom Works ministries, and was presented by Johnny Pearson.

We came together, no one as experts, but all as seekers in how to connect our story into God’s story of love and redemption. We saw how our role as parents fits well with what Paul calls every Christian to be…an ambassador. In 2 Corinthians 5 we read “and we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were making his appeal through us…” We desire to model what an ambassador looks like to our family! When we become ambassadors, our home becomes an embassy! We were challenged in making our home an embassy to the world. This was contrasted with the way we tend to deal with the "world." We tend to isolate from the world, or putting rules on how much world comes into our home, or agree with the world...yet when our homes are embassies we transform the world.

Many parents came expecting to learn about behavior, but were pleasantly surprised to be challenge to live for God and that will be the biggest lesson their children will pick up. When we only deal with behavior, we miss the heart. The heart is formed in the home, not by our culture!

So hang in there parents! Your job is incredibly important and God wants to work in your heart so you can work in the hearts of your kids! Our prayers are with you as we strive to raise up the next generation of Christ followers that will make a difference in the world, in this city, in their schools, and in your neighborhoods!

Don't worry if you missed out, we are already planning another seminar for the fall!

We are back!

Here is blogging 2.o

We are going to give it another try, and get the word out that we have a blog, that is updated, that is a good source of upcoming events AND recap of old events.

Spread the word, and read on!

Johnny