Last night was Detour’s end of the year cookout and with that we pull out the black tarp for some old school slip-n-slide!  Our friend Bill brought a couple of his huge blowup slides…the grill was hot with some hamburgers and hot dogs add a little music and about 300 students who just finished their last day of school…that’s a party!  

Today we are heading to the beach and I am looking forward to hanging out with some of the most amazing students…got to do some work in th office first!

Sorry about the long delay between post…i believe i just experienced the fastest season of youth ministry in my young, short life!  Today is the last day of school for everyone and our first day of summer ministry…and I can’t wait to get this summer started.  Here is the deal…tomorrow we kick it off with our first hang time of the summer and we are heading to the beach.  We are working on rooming assignments for Bigstuf as I am writing this blog. Next Monday night the girls are kicking off a Summer Bible study and we have over 40 signed up for that…you girls don’t want to miss out on Monday night’s, it’s going to be awesome!  Guys we kick our study off after we get back from camp and we will be having it on Thursday night’s…so don’t miss out on that.  We will be at Bigstuf this time next week!  It’s going to be one great summer with Detour.

It’s a very rainy Monday…where did the sun go? I hope everyone had a great weekend! I have some congrads to hand out…let me start of with Topsail High Golf team for getting the state championship ring that you have been working so hard towards! Congrads to the Topsail Middle School girls volleyball team for winning the end of the year tourney and for going undefeated. Congrads to all of you who made a C+ on your report cards…very nice!

We are on our last series TEXT ME and what a great start to the series. Tons of great feedback from you guys, I got over 100 TXT messages just last Wed. alone. If you have any questions that you want answered send them my way to 910-386-7778.

Can’t wait to see Coldplay in concert this summer!

Okay guys it’s time for the  21 day challenge that will take you through the Broadcast series and hopefully give you some deeper insight on what God wants for your life.  I hope you are challenged by it and enjoy taking time out of your day to get some clarity from God on your life!

The Topsail Middle School girls voleyball team did an awesome job today putten a beating on Cape Fear.  You girls rock and it’s very cool that most all you go to Detour!

The guys baseball team are also rocking it on the baseball field and are once again undefeated…in fact they have not lost a a game in any sport this year!

What an amazing weekend…we still have Sunday!  I went to the beach with the family and it looked like everyone else had the same idea cause the beach was packed.  Finally a weekend without rain!  I saw some limo’s out last night meaning it was prom night for some of you that go to THS.  I am sure everyone looked amazing…can’t wait to see some pics!

Last Wed. at Detour we kicked off a new series called Broadcast…what a great turn out for the first night over 350!  That is crazy this time of year with all the stuff that is going on.  Keep up the great job of inviting your friends…there is always someone new to bring.  In fact this Wed. everyone who has read my blog or the read the devo I am going to give you a chance to broadcast something live.  On the next blog I will give you some more info.

Don’t forget about the 21-day Broadcast challenge.  I have been posting a devo everyday for you to read and prayer through.  I know it will encourage you if you take time to read it! 

Living clearly is what we are after…that is, a life that is true and transparent.  This does not mean that we don’t make mistakes but it does mean that when we do         we react and respond in a way that honors God.

1 Timothy 4:11-16

 ¹¹ Teach these things and insist that everyone learn them. ¹² Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity. ¹³ Until I get there, focus on reading the Scriptures to the church, encouraging the believers, and teaching them.

 ¹⁴ Do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecy spoken over you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you. ¹⁵ Give your complete attention to these matters. Throw yourself into your tasks so that everyone will see your progress. ¹⁶ Keep a close watch on how you live and on your teaching. Stay true to what is right for the sake of your own salvation and the salvation of those who hear you.

These verses tell us to be diligent in the Truth that we know through God’s word and consistant in the way that we live.  Take a moment to write down three things that you should do to live a life of clarity.

It has been one crazy month for me…I guess that’s why they call it march madness!?  I know everyone is jacked up for spring break…I know I am and i don’t even have a spring break.  I am excited for you guys to have a break before you make the final stretch of yet another school year.  Detour celebrates the end of a school year by heading off to Panama Beach, FL for some Bigstuf action! So make sure your signed up to go with us.

We only have two series left before our Detour Summer schedule begins…and let me just say Detour 500 is going to rock this year!  Our next series is Broadcast…this  series follows are Risk series where we ask each of you to take risk like never before…God type risk.  We challenged you to invite your friends like never before, we have asked you to share your faith like never before and in our Broadcast series we are going to help you ensure that you life is broadcasting what is important to God.  I believe that God is going to move at Detour in a way He has never before…that is our prayer!  The last series this year is Text Me…this is where you get to send in your questions about life, God, and everything else and we respond to your questions…that’s right you guys basically get to pick the topics each night.  So start sending us your questions!

Many of you are asking if Joey and I have made it to the next round for the Amazing Race…we should know within the next two weeks.  I am going to post our open cast call video for you guys.  We had two minutes to tell them why we should be on the show.

This week at Detour the band High Flight Society will be hanging out with us and they will help us kick off Spring break with a concert so we expect to see a ton of you guys hear.  Don’t forget it’s Chick-fila night!

It has been a crazy 4 weeks for me…I have been in and out of Wilmington for the last month and just finished up my last weekend away in Atlanta with some amazing students.  I must apologize for not blogging my usual amount but I am cool with doing too little blogging than too much…you know what I mean.  There are some sick blog people out there doing it 24/7!  I got to catch you up on all that I have experienced but for now know that we are very excited about all that is happening at Detour and God has some great things for us over the next few weeks.  Tonight Emily is going to speak to us about React and what took place on her recent mission trip to Africa.  

Next week we begin sign up for Bigstuf camp…it will be the trip of a lifetime so do miss out!

 Well guys we just finished another amazing series and was so pumped by your response to the feature film Fatal Flaw that we showed last night at Detour.  You guys are awesome and so encouraging to us.  I will blog more about this next time but I just wanted to say  THANK YOU GOD for showing up big last night!

I am on my way to taking some students to Liberty University…it’s going to be fun catch up with you later.

I can’t believe I am saying this but we are canceling Detour as a result of our winter snow storm! We did not want to put any of you guys in danger due to the possibility of ice on the roads. So we will kick off our Fatal Flaw Series next week…can’t wait to see you…so until next week stay warm.