Well, here it is — my 500th post. I don’t really know what to say now that I’ve reached this milestone, which is probably odd for a blogger, but I guess I’m not an ordinary blogger anyway. Most bloggers hit 500 posts in six months to a year, but it’s taken me two years and a month. Most of the normal blogging recommendations aren’t really applied here either: I don’t blog every day, I don’t go through my RSS reader every day and I don’t promote my site much to others. *shrugs* The main blogging recommendation I do follow is making the site my own and showing authenticity when appropriate.

I had no real goals in mind when I started this blog, but here are some goals I’d like to meet and continue for my next 500 posts.

• Encourage other youth workers.
• Provide helpful resources that will advance the Kingdom.
• Discuss various issues and topics related to youth ministry.
• Share the work God is doing in my personal life and ministry.
• Network with other youth workers.
• Evaluate how I can be more effective in reaching teenagers.
• Look for new ways to communicate God’s timeless Word.
• Have fun!

(If you rearrange the first letter of each sentence above, you get the acrostic, “S.E.N.D. H.E.L.P.” lol Maybe my subconsciousness is trying to tell you something.)

• Various new blog features being added
• My Dad is now blogging
• Thinking Blogger Award
• Terapad review: A new blogging platform youth group websites
• My most popular blog posts of 2006