I started the Generation LINK Residency because I wanted to learn how to do children?s ministry. My expectation was to build relationships with the kids and learn how to teach in ways that make sense for children. I can assure you that the Residency has...
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are, This is Chris Concannon, a Resident from Redemption Hill Church in Medford MA., just north of Boston. I?m writing to you on a chilly and rainy early afternoon from my warm and cozy study space to update you...
I never imagined spending much time in a culture different from my childhood and high school experience.? Honestly, I never really put much thought into culture in general--that is until my college friends asked me to plan a day of games in honor of the...
I have always wanted to work with children. From the time I started kindergarten until my high school graduation, anyone who asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up heard the same answer?a teacher! I was thrilled to teach preschool when I...
Over the last year my life has changed multiple times. I have moved, received a promotion, started as a resident, and now I am pastoring a church towards a replant. Needless to say, my life has been a whirlwind since April of 2017. Last year...
Is it not a sobering thought to think of all the pieces that are fitting together in your life to get you where you are today? Recently I have had the time to look at how God has brought me through so many places and...
Before I came to school at Southeastern I had no real concept of good, church membership processes. The limited amount of knowledge I had on church membership came from a shallow experience of being baptized as an unregenerate child and unknowingly being brought into membership. Shortly after I...
For the past several weeks, our church has been going through a series that we are calling, ?Church Matters.? What is the big deal about church? What do we do when we gather as a church, and why do we do what we do? In order to...
As a twenty-five year old, 27,000 dollars is a daunting, incomprehensible sum. This sum was the amount of money that I needed in order to serve at at my local church as a Generation LINK Resident. I was to raise my salary for the year,...
??The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.? Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this phrase famous in his 1933 inaugural speech after defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover in an absolute landslide in the 1932 election. To his credit, Hoover tried; but with the stock market crashing into a...