Tell us about yourself Braden. What should we know? I grew up in Washington and I am excited to be moving back to the west coast. I started Calvin College with plans of graduating with a business degree, but God had different plans. I am about to finish Calvin Seminary and I have served as [...]
Dear Friends, About this time last year I was a little over a month away from graduating from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan (where I grew up). I was really excited to be done with my undergrad studies and couldn’t wait to take the next big step in my life: earning my Master of [...]
This video of the High School real.life Mt. Hermon retreat was shown on Sunday. Check it out! Thanks KJ for putting it together.
real.life Mt Hermon retreat. Dec 2011, a set on Flickr. Pictures from the real.life (High School) Mt. Hermon retreat last month. Thanks KJ and crew for sharing the pics
JH Journey Christmas 2011, a set on Flickr. Check out these pics from the Junior High Journey 2011 Christmas Party. Great Job Vasa and crew!
This past weekend, our high school youth program, AKA “real.life,” had the pleasure of attending Mt. Hermon’s Winter Weekend #2… and it was a BLAST. We goofed off, played foursquare, met new people, built relationships with one another, worshiped together, ate great food, and played awesome group games all weekend long! It was a phenomenal [...]
David Birney, one of America’s finest classical actors and star of numerous television series and movies, has crafted a light-hearted look at the world’s first love story through the eyes of America’s greatest humorist, Mark Twain. Twain’s Garden of Eden bursts with wit, laughter and the lyric poignance of the first love and the first [...]
An explanation and a story from KJ Van Ek, High School Youth Director at GS: The High School Youth Program at GS is excited to announce that it has ever so recently changed its name from “Youth Alive” to “real.life” (spelt as-is, complete with all lower-case letters and punctuation, but pronounced simply as “real life”)! [...]
This Sunday marks the beginning of our 2011-2012 Youth Ministry Calendar Year. There’s a lot going on this year at GS, especially in our youth programs, and so we just wanted to let you in on a few of these changes and plans! Looking ahead to this coming ministry season, we’re excited to announce that [...]
Hello everyone! My name is KJ Van Ek. Some of you might remember me as last year’s summer intern from Calvin College, while others of you may have never heard of me. For those of you who don’t know, I grew up in Grand Rapids, MI, and just graduated from Calvin this year. Last summer, [...]
