Well, for those of you asking, the other shoe never dropped yesterday. The day finished like it started — great. What a day.

Today is going exceptionally well too. If De La Hoya kicks Mayweather’s butt tonight in Vegas then I will be on a role! (I hate violence — but I love boxing. Not sure how to reconcile that really…)

Seriously, yesterday finished well. I met with a couple of dozen youth workers (and some senior pastors) in the afternoon who wanted to talk about my book, A New Kind of Youth Ministry and the one I am working on now called, Story, Signs & Sacred Rhythms.

We had a terrific time talking about challenges facing youth ministry today, challenges we could be facing in the very near future and the necessary environments we need to create within our ministry’s in order to either provide solutions for current challenges or prevent the need for solutions down the road. I am going to dedicate a series of posts in the coming days around the conversation. I found the conversation to be very inspiring and hopeful so I am looking forward to sharing some of it with you and learning from you all based on your thoughts and particular contextual findings.