Kris currently serves as Director of the Kansas City Fellows and has been a youth ministry practitioner for more than 20 years. In addition to loving Jesus and loving teenagers, he also has a deep appreciation for all things coffee, cycling and Djing. He recently completed his Doctor of Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary and is a Sticky Faith certified coach. He’s been married to his wife Heather for more than 20 years and has two daughters.
It was a Saturday evening in November and the temperatures were starting to fall. His parents were out of town for some reason or another, his car had broken down and the snow was beginning to fall. It…
In this series, “Secular Wisdom at the Movies,” we hope to offer student leaders a resource – whether for summer programming or just regular teaching. So often we overlook biblical insight from the secular world. The movies in…
Like everyone else, I sat dumbfounded when I heard the Sunday morning news on June 12th: 50 people killed in an Orlando nightclub. As the days past, numbness set in. And then I heard an interview on NPR…
Twenty years ago, I worked at a Starbucks in Denver part-time while going to school. Free coffee. It was awesome. I was a seminary student studying to go into youth ministry, and all my co-workers knew it. Brock…
This is the first article in our series, “Here I am. Send me!” We learn in Isaiah 6 that only after the prophet is totally convicted of his own sin and failures, met by God’s perfect love and…
I didn’t read a single book that had to to do with youth ministry for years after I graduated seminary. I thought I knew “enough” and, to be honest, I think I was a bit tired of reading…
