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Author: Tom Pounder

Family Ministry Student Ministry 

Introducing the newest Family Ministry Resident

February 3, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments

This week, we have welcomed Elizabeth St. Martin as our newest Family Life Resident at New Life.  She will be

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Family Ministry Student Ministry 

The Value of Teaching Teams

February 1, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments break, lessons, relief, serve, speaking, teaching, teaching styles, teams, volunteers

I used to be a solo artist.  At least that was how I thought it was suppose to be.  The

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Family Ministry Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: standing up

January 28, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments abortion, gun control, nra, pro-choice, pro-life, protest, rally, Support

Last week we saw 3 different rallies (Pro-Abortion, Pro-Life and Pro-Gun) happened at our Nations Capitol.  With each rally came

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Student Ministry 

Chowtime – 1/26

January 26, 2013 Tom Pounder 1 Comment academy, boys, calendar, Discipleship, dudes, google, laugh, Leadership, men, middle schoolers, pay, Planning, regret, safety, salary, schedule, teams, volunteers, wages, winter weather, youth workers

Just in case it was one of those weeks where you were too busy, here are a few Student Ministry

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Student Ministry 

the BLACKBOARD: best lock-in ideas

January 24, 2013 Tom Pounder 4 Comments community, ideas, lock-in, outreach, youth group

Yesterday some local para-church and church leaders got together to process and brainstorm about possibly doing a lock-in outreach opportunity

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Family Ministry Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: are we ever going to learn?

January 21, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments bicycles, bikes, deception, lance armstrong, lies, livestrong, manti t'eo, notre dame, tour de france, truth

I’ve posted about this numerous times, recently about Joe Paterno and Lance Armstrong, but honestly this topic just won’t go

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Family Ministry 

38 Years worth of lessons

January 18, 2013 Tom Pounder 1 Comment birthdays, book, church, counseling, cs lewis, dreams, families, friends, God, lessons learned, ministry, ownership, pastor

So yesterday was my birthday…the big 3-8.  I don’t know what that gets me other than a few years closer

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Student Ministry 

the Monday Morning Debrief: 3 Weeks Away…are you doing it?

January 13, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments 49ers, championship, falcons, nfl, patriots, ravens, ray lewis, super bowl, tom brady

Yesterday marked 3 weeks until the Super Bowl is played. It’ll be either the Ravens or Patriots vs the Falcons

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Student Ministry 

Chowtime – 1/11

January 12, 2013 Tom Pounder 0 Comments alabama, chow, church, dress, food, football, health, healthy, ministry, notre dame, processing, professionalism, uniform

Just in case you are still recovering from the beat down Alabama gave Notre Dame and haven’t been able to

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Family Ministry Student Ministry 

Run Focused: Healthy releasing of the emotions

January 10, 2013January 9, 2017 Tom Pounder 0 Comments focus, God, healthy, ministry, processing, psalms, relationships, running

I have a love/hate relationship with running.  I really don’t like to run, but I love the benefit I get from running.

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