Chris Bishop

I began to really read Chap Clark and Kara Powell’s book Deep Justice in a Shallow world tonight.  I think that this is a text that is a long time coming.  I am excited to turn the pages of this challenging text.  This book is formatted like their previous book Deep ministry in a shallow [...]

Just finished with the confirmation lock-in and it was a great time.  I am in such a mixed state of exhausted and excited that i don’t want to go to sleep but I know that if i even set a foot in the bed I will be out.  To avoid slumber i thought that i [...]

When Jesus was a boy and his parents lost him on a pilgrimage trip.  finally after days of looking they found him in the temple.  What a wonderful thing.  I know that if I were on my own for a couple of days when i was that age I would have been found in the [...]

This Friday…in 2 days we are having our confirmation retreat that we be an awesome overnight and culminate with an awards ceremony right after the 5:00 worship service that we will be leading for the rest of the congregation.  I am so excited about this every year because this is the time when the group [...]

    Each year we get our ministry into full swing I get goosebumps.  I think that the mystery is the best part for me about the new year.  This year I was taken aback by the group that showed up for youth worship and dinner this past weekend.  I had a great time catching up [...]

On the 26th Middletown Youth will be gathering around the flag poll at the track. All are invited at 6:45 and they will share in preayer, testamony and song to star their day off united in Christ. Today youth feel so alone and stand in the minority as people that not only claim their Christian [...]

I woke up this morning…actually I would consider it still night, and I joined a number of our youth and other Middletown High School students for some fellowship and worship time before school. At 6:45 young people were dragging their selves, and all 145 pounds of their school stuff, into the chorus room for praise [...]