This past weekend, the Wisconsin Conference Youth Department held its annual young adult event: The Table. Thirty young people attended the weekend, which was hosted by The Shepherd's House SDA Church. Thirty is about the perfect amount for an event like this, because by design it is less of a traditional youth "rally," and more of a summit or advisory for senior youth and young adults. In other words, the desired outcomes of this event are high-quality discussion, close connections, and...

How would you use $1,000 for Jesus? $50,000? How about $200,000? Here in the Lake Union, we get to ask these questions to young people. Not only do they have answers for us, but we actually have the opportunity to give them the money and watch them use it, to God's glory! TLDR; You can register for the Youth Evangelism Congress HERE Disclaimer: this is a stock image, not an actual Wisconsin youth (don't worry, we'll get there) The Lake Union Conference Youth Evangelism Congress was pioneered...

The climbing wall at Camp Wakonda was originally built for the 1999 season of Summer Camp, and it has been a favorite activity of staff and campers ever since. Affectionately, the staff at one point named the wall "Howie." The reasoning explained to me for this nickname is that the staff, while explaining the rules of climbing wall safety, would tell the campers, "This is Howie Climb"--a play on words, sounding like, "This is how we climb." This nickname has stuck for the duration of the...