Chris Bishop

Some thoughts on the directions of youth ministry and if we are leading with faith or marketing.  Take a look and then let me know your thoughts on the directions that we are going in. Where do we go?  How do we rethink the way that we do youth ministry, church and spread the Gospel [...]

I have been neglecting some of my revbishop time for the past couple of weeks because of the roof situation, absence of the senior pastor, the beginning of lent, cleaning the house for the new pastor to have a walk through, getting the call that Katie is going to be reappointed, a sick daughter, youth [...]

Multi-site churches: A new variety of religious experience – USATODAY.com My dad sent me this link today and I thought it was a great article I think that this really is the way that we can mutiply ministry in the best possible way. A big question I have is how this would trickle down to [...]

This is my talk from the weekend.  I am really excited about the next couple of weeks as wee look to service and making a very visible statement about the hungry and homeless in our community.  I have heard about 15 stories of people doing great things since Sunday.  Way to go.  MUMC Sermon November [...]

What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff? I love Shane. Here is a snippet of a letter he wrote for esquire.com To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have [...]

goofy eden (3 of 4) Originally uploaded by pastorchrisbishop So we were talking about having a beard-a-thon to raise some money for youth group the other week. Daniel was talking a big game, but he didn’t know Eden was in the mix. Looks like she will be taking home gold with no contest from the [...]

This weekend brought about a couple of changes to the youth room in as we prepare for a new program that i am really excited about.  We brought in a new chair and couch thinks to a member of the congregation.  Also, we were given 5 computers a little while ago.  Three of the comps [...]