Hi there! Spring is in the air here in Phoenix. I know most of you, you are still in coats and wishing for the warm weather to make its way to your city. Maybe you should come visit us in Phoenix! Speaking of visiting Phoenix, have you started thinking about Life Teen Convention in June? know June seems like a long ways away, but it’s really not! It will be April next week. That means Convention is only 2 months away. Can you believe that? I have been on the airline websites for the past few

Hi there everyone! Well, I just returned to the office from a two-week trip to Camp Covecrest in Tiger, GA. We had a great turn out for the Youth Minister’s Retreat – about 60 youth ministers! It was wonderful to be able to talk with so many of them and get to know them. That is one of my favorite parts of my job. After that, several of us on staff and other contributors gathered to begin working on programming for summer camps. I want to be a teen at camp this year! It is going to be awesome.

Happy New Year Everyone! So have you made your resolutions for 2008 yet? I hope so, and I hope that one of them for all of you youth ministers out there is to TAKE SOME TIME FOR YOURSELF this year! Speaking of time for yourself, it’s not too late to sign up for the Youth Minister’s Retreat out at Covecrest in 3 weeks. As of right now, we have 55 retreatants signed up. The theme of the retreat will stem from Benedict XVI new encyclical on Hope. Besides working on youth minister’s retreat,