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Sharing the Roof

According to a Reuters report this week, there’s been a rise in the purchase of multigenerational homes (meaning more than one generation share the same dwelling) over the past year

Sticky Faith Summit Day #1

In 2010, we have 12 churches who are part of our Sticky Faith Learning Cohort, which largely revolves around our FYI College Transition Project research.  Yesterday we started a three-day summit here in Pasadena with teams from Highland Park…

Heard in the Van

I spent last weekend with some of the junior highers from our church at Forest Home’s winter camp. And yes, I got to drive a van.

How Do I Get my Pastor to Change?

Often when I speak or meet with youth workers and parents to discuss our research at FYI, they quickly buy into the changes that our research suggests…

Fight for a Kid

Just like in yesterday’s blog I’m going to basically transcribe a story from Reggie Joiner’s Think Orange in this blog. It’s such a powerful and memorable story that I hope you share it with other parents.

My Initial Concern about Reggie Joiner’s Orange

When I first heard about Reggie Joiner’s “orange” philosophy, my first concern was that he didn’t value the impact of non-family adults in a kids’ life.

Intergen Sunday School Class

Our church, Lake Avenue Church, is doing a bit of an intergenerational experiment these days. The Navigator Sunday School class, which is a class comprised primarily of senior adults…

Multiple Connecting Points

This past Sunday I spoke at our church’s high school gathering. I love the format we’re following this fall…

Reaching Across Generations

With the passing of film director John Hughes this week has come a blog post that is catching all sorts of attention, written by a woman who as a teenager became Hughes’ penpal.

Can I Trust You?

A few weeks ago I was speaking for a group of new high school grads a couple of times, and just before the first session I met some of the students.  One guy (we’ll call him Tim) introduced himself, then…

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