Teen Ministry

As Deep Water continues to grow, we’re finding that we need something targeted to teenagers. To meet the spiritual needs of the teens who call Deep Water home and give them opportunities to include their friends, we’re looking at our options for youth...

Baptism

We’ve had several people express interest in getting baptized. So, we have scheduled a baptism at the beach on evening of Sunday, July 21. Everyone is invited to come and celebrate with us, whether getting baptized or not. We’re still working out some of...

VBS

As John Acuff observes: Denomination, schomenation, when our kids are out of school for the summer and we’ve suddenly got to fill eight weeks of time with activities, we Christians like to put aside our denominational differences and bounce our kids like Ping-Pong...

Youth Ministry at Deep Water

When I say the words “youth ministry”, you may immediately think of wacky all-night events, chubby bunny (or any number of crazy games)–or perhaps nothing at all! As some of you know I spent many years working with teenagers and some of my best memories of...

Baptism

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been making a list of people interested in baptism. If you are possibly interested in getting baptized and haven’t talked to me, please contact me or leave a comment below, so I can ask you a few questions as we plan....

Serving Lunch at Salvation Army

In the New Testament, James writes “I will show you my faith by my good deeds” (James 2:14). Good deeds don’t make us right with God; faith in Jesus does. But, our faith is demonstrated by the things we do. All of us have many opportunities in our...