Chris Bishop

I love the adventure of shaping and facilitating worship.  This is a picture from our last youth worship service.  The goal of the service was to capture the drama and emotion of all of Holy week.  We began on Palm Sunday, and people even threw their hoodies and jackets on our road to Jerusalem (see [...]

When I can (when my calendar and alarm allows) I love going over to the high school and just hang out with the students who attend the early morning FCA.  Today one young woman asked a very pointed question that gave the group pause and took them off the printed lesson and into a deeper [...]

After listening to a podcast this week I found youthleaderstash.com it is a great site that is chock full of wonderful game and talk resources.  I don’t know how I didn’t know about it before this, but now I am glad that I do.  Take a peek and tell me what you think about it. 

I have my tent set and ready to go.  We have less that 30 minutes before the students come for our Homeless For a Night event and I am really excited about what all we are going to be doing.  I always get nervous at this time before an event.  Pray for the students, our [...]

I am a fixer… Though I know my limits (cars and things that cause expositions that could take off an arm), I really like making things better.  I don’t think that this is an uncommon desire.  If you see something broken or someone hurting many times there is a desire to fix it. I am [...]

Email a Workcamper : lifeforceyouth.com Do you know some one who is at workcamp right now????Well then send them a note and let them know they are doing a great job. We have a group of 20 who have gone off to New Castle, PA to work on houses for a week. They will be [...]

SO we have the first day of camp “under our belts”.  It got kicked off with me trying to be just as cool as my wife with a matching camera bag. Today we had a group going rafting and another group who went hiking to Harpers Ferry and MD heights. We had some really great [...]