ReCAST Church has grown and shifted and changed shape many times since we began in the Spring 12 years ago.  When we had our first service with 14 adults and 21 children, there was no youth group in sight.  We had two kids entering middle school that attended in those early days and I even…

I was not a summer camper as a kid.  But I wish I was. I first heard about Camp Barakel when I was a student at Columbia Bible College in South Carolina.  A friend and fellow Michigander invited me to come up and counsel there for the summer between my sophomore and junior year.  Having…

I have been familiar with death my entire life.  My formative years were spent watching my father battle and eventually succumb to cancer.  He passed into the rest of it all three days after my 8th birthday. And so I have spent all of my days with a keen awareness of my own mortality.  And…