Have you ever received that “beep” and subsequent vibration from your phone and, for a brief moment in time, everything around you is placed in an ensuing pause mode? Your driving is distracted, particularly if your phone happens to be in the pocket. Your mind is pulsating, considering what that text message may reveal. Perhaps [...]
Gateway Worship Arts Conference is geared for music ministers, worship teams, musicians, and all involved in church ministries who are passionate about seeking God. It is a conference rooted in biblical truth and ignited by a desire to challenge and equip those involved in church ministry. Join us this year March 10th – 12th at [...]
IO: Tell us about your family?
Scotty Slaydon: My wife’s name is Krista, and she is from Elyria, OH. My wife is very creative and artistic with music, painting and drawing; she also likes to target shoot and go camping. My daughter’s name is Abigail, and she was born in Chicago, IL. We were blessed to adopt her at birth. She plays the piano and …
First, there was the frenzy to display the face on a virtual book. Then you had to be connected to everyone. Before too long, we were all staking out a little piece of virtual real estate as our space. I’m guilty of hours spent there, crafting witty sayings, fine tuning the “about me” section, updating [...]
Luke records the account of his Lord appointing the seventy-two individuals of whom He sent forth, two by two, into every city and town in which He was about to go. Jesus then speaks these words, “The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that [...]
IO: What is the vision for your student ministry?
BC: Our vision comes from our name which has two meanings. The first is LIFE which stands for Living in Faith Every day. And the second comes from the 4, which is our statement. “IV Life Student Ministries” exists solely to help youth live out their faith and personal calling by showing them how to Expose Christ, Exalt God…
Because it is too dangerous to meet publicly for church, the thirty-nine of us had to make due with an undercover worship service in a small hotel room. If one of us started to pray too loud, we turned on the television or the shower to drown out the sound of our worship. If caught [...]
My grandfather, L. D. Segraves, was the first in what is now a line of four generations of preachers. He enjoyed poking fun at seminary-educated preachers with degrees behind their names. He had a third grade education.
So how did I wind up being a seminary professor?
My father completed the ninth grade. After being [...]
In the spring of 2007 Pastor Foster told the youth team about a bicycle ride that the district youth committee had been discussing.
It was going to last two days and cover two hundred miles. He briefly covered what had been said about training and the thought that went through my head was, “which youth committee [...]
Dr. Leon Bass is a former high school principal and veteran of World War II. Dr. Bass participated in the liberation of Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. He has presented his story to audiences all around the United States and the world. A couple of years ago I was privileged to attend his [...]
