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2012 a year of Milestones

By Joe Ball | Published: January 10, 2012

50, 70, 21, 30, 1 and 50. No, those aren’t the signals Tim Tebow calls at the line of scrimmage or the combination to the gold vault at Fort Knox. Those numbers represent the milestones that our family will celebrate in 2012. 50-We start the year celebrating 50 years of marriage of Joe and Vicki [...]

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Learning “culture”

By Joe Ball | Published: December 15, 2011

This time of year, as we collect the Lottie Moon Christmas offering and participate in the week of prayer for international missions, I always think of our IMB missionaries that are taking the Gospel to the ends of the world. We have good friends that have spent the last twelve years overseas.  They work in [...]

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The simplicity of being intergenerational

By Joe Ball | Published: November 9, 2011

A couple of weekends ago I had the privilege of going back to Hopkinsville and officiate Alisha Sargent’s wedding. Alisha is one of our former students and she also served as our ministry intern one summer. It is always an honor to be asked to do these and we love going back to Hopkinsville and [...]

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Preparing for their departure

By Joe Ball | Published: October 10, 2011

The change in seasons is a good time for us to look at specific areas of youth ministry.  For me the change from summer to fall was always a great time to look at how we are preparing our juniors and seniors for their transition into their post youth ministry church experience.  I ask a [...]

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Involving students in Worship

By Joe Ball | Published: September 9, 2011

One of the things that always amazes me as a youth minister is the amount of musical talent our students have.  From the oboist in the school band to the bass players in one of the local garage bands our students are teeming with musical talent. We have students that are All-state choir and All-District [...]

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Summer’s over, now what?

By Joe Ball | Published: August 12, 2011

Now what?  That is probably asked of by every youth leader at some point during the summer, he/she has taken their students to camp and God has moved mightily and this question emerges in some form or another.  So now what?  What will we as church members offer our students when they return from camp [...]

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Learning from “Our” Students

By Joe Ball | Published: July 14, 2011

We have all seen the reports, stats, read the blogs and internet postings of what students are dealing with today.  And while the statisticians go to great length to authenticate their results, there is always in the back of my mind the thought that says, “But is that really reflective of the students I work [...]

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Lessons learned at the Sr PGA

By Joe Ball | Published: June 8, 2011

I was privileged a couple of weeks ago to be able to attend a couple rounds of the 72nd Senior PGA Championship that was held here in Louisville.  I had won two tickets and was offered tickets for the other days. I only went on Thursday and Friday for the opening two rounds. After a [...]

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Staying FRESH through the summer

By Joe Ball | Published: May 10, 2011

I am tired.  The best way I know to describe it is I am “end of the summer tired” most anyone in youth ministry will understand that phrase.  After a summer of mission projects, camps, VBS, church league softball, amusement  parks, Bible studies and the like there is a special tiredness that comes over a [...]

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a global movement of students

By Joe Ball | Published: March 14, 2011

In 1993 a call went out to students to take a pledge of sexual purity, and the True Love Waits movement began.  This movement has seen hundreds of thousands of young adults all across the globe make commitments to sexual purity.  Some have said that this began a time when God was purifying a generation [...]

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