Category: Replay of the Week

Why do we go visit incarcerated youth? Why do we even care? This past week at Palmetto Youth Academy, where boys are sentenced from nine to eighteen months, we focused on the message of hope Read more…

Last week, I went to use the hose that is wound up in a cart on the side of our home. Apparently wasps had taken up residence in my hose cart. Months and months I Read more…

When I was three years old my father walked out on our family. He moved on and began a new family of his own, without looking back.  My mom single-handedly raised my brother and I Read more…

When we went to speak in juvenile detention, I met a young man who had been arrested and was awaiting his adjudication. He shook my hand and told me his name (which for his anonymity Read more…

This past week, I was visiting the county jail and noticed a young man that I used to see in detention when he was a youth of seventeen. I remember this young man, because he Read more…

What leads a youth into a life of crime?  So many have made observations and done countless hours of research into the psyche of the criminal mind and how it develops. As we meet with Read more…

Where are the Fathers? When I was three years old my father walked out on our family. He moved on and began a new family of his own, without looking back.  My mom single-handedly raised Read more…

This week my message at the juvenile detention center was on forgetting the past, straining toward a better future, and pressing on to achieve their purpose. I said it wouldn’t be easy, but that is Read more…

Yesterday I decided to go with Bayside Community Church’s Adopt-a-block (AAB) – an outreach to the low income neighborhoods in Bradenton, FL. It was a good day to interact with the community and try to Read more…