BLOGS

Blogs are a wonderful tool of community and connection. We've searched the blog world for folks who wrote about Mike Yaconelli and his imprint on their lives. Enjoy this sampling of entries from all over the world. We'll be adding to these as we find more entries. (If you'd like to submit one that we might have missed, please eMail us, and include a link to your blog. Thanks!)

added 11/17

• my four walls
  "I didn't follow Yac like the Dead or have some close relationship with him, but like so many he was like a grandfather to me and touched my life in a way i could never repay."
• Chalkdust
  "Mike did stop it, but he let us go on a bit longer than I would have. I remember looking over to where he was standing, and he seemed enormously pleased."

added 11/14

• Jerodmac
  "We liked to hear him talk of the uncertainty of life, the smallness of humanity and the wild ferocity of God."
• Maltagirl
  "a lot of what i ever learnt about grace, i learnt from him."

added 11/13

• Pastorized
  "It was the first time I was redeemed as a woman. Mike gave that back to me. And I sat in my chair and wept."

added 11/10

• Atypical Girl's Blog
  " All I had were a pile of dreams and a passion for youth, and Mike Yaconelli’s book met me where I was at."

added 11/06

• jonnybaker blog
  "a greenbelt favourite speaker who manged to make you laugh and cry and feel inspired all at once, cheeky, fun, a writer, a prophet, said it how it was, a storyteller...."
• Knightopia
  "I hear all the time that "none of us is guaranteed tomorrow," but it isn't until someone dies suddenly and unexpectedly that this reality becomes really real."
• Lilly's Pad
  "He introduced me to the power of lectio divina, he taught me to use clay to worship, he introduced me to jonny and steve's labyrinth."
• Pip Wilson
  "The whole service this morning, about the Saints, was all about Yac ......... but I doubt anyone else knew him or have heard of him. "
• PoMoMuSiNgS
  "I know that Mike is dancing in Heaven with his Creator—and loving every minute of it."
• Random Musings
  "He has, more than any other person (besides God), shaped my philosophy of youth ministry."

added 11/05

• The Area
  "He pastored a church but he also pastored a nation of youthworkers."
• Da Youth Guy Thinks Aloud
  "Yac also worked to create a resource for youth ministry in YS that reached across denominational boundaries."
• Deep Thoughts by Gman
  "To me knowing Yaconelli was easy. I just needed to know Jesus."
• John Davies
  "All this makes me remember the truth Yaconelli always held as self-evident: that laughter is heaven's language."
• joshua.michael
  "His teaching allowed me to have the freedom to be the person and youth pastor God created me to be."
• looking out from my little place
  "Whether you loved or hated Yac, you couldn't ignore him and it's strange thinking that one of our modern YM pioneers has gone home."
• Onionboy
  "Humility, discovery and grace simply poured out of his writing."
• Pagittblog
  "He was a wonderful man and somewhere in me I feel that good people like Mike deserve a better fate than this kind of death."
• Rambling Thoughts
  "I was encouraged, ticked off, inspired, and stretched by Mike."
• Tall Skinny Kiwi
  "Maybe his humor was just HONESTY. Maybe he carried part of how God sees us."
• Theophilus
  Through his writings and even through the little interaction I had with him, he pointed me to Christ.
• Waving or Drowning?
  "I guess it's a human trait to relate losses personally."

added 11/04

• The Corner
  "A prophet left us last night to go home, leaving the world a sadder place."
• Greenbelt Blog
  "Here's to Mike, one of those in glory: there will be laughter in heaven with that big holy guffaw of a man in there."
• ianua
  "...he then stepped back, and served me communion."
• Kenya Minus 35
  "Mike... worked very hard to try to figure out the essence of the Christian faith and strip it away from centuries of man-made religion and millenia of human failings."
• Life, etc...
  "Michael Yaconelli is one of my heroes."
• Redland Youth Ministries
  "Mike was basically a youth pastor for the youth pastors"
• Staci
  "Mike's articles and thoughts on youth ministry have given me courage to follow Jesus' call for my life."
• Wanderings of a Post-Modern Pilgrim
  " I have spent the day wondering why it is that we respond to the death of someone like Mike Yaconelli as if we knew them personally."

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