Yesterday, Monday, March 2, 2009, my place was covered with 6 ½ inch-snow.  Everywhere was white in color. It was beautiful, clean, spotless and perfectly white, reminding me of ISAIAH 1:18, ". . . Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow,. . . ."  I thank God for this wonderful promise that He is going to make me perfectly clean and beautiful.

On most school campuses, students are not allowed to bring cell phones, iPhones, or iPods into examination rooms. When one asks the reason for this, the response given is that there is now too much cheating using high tech gadgets

Recently, Tyra Banks appeared on NBC Today’s Show talking about her survey on Teen Sex. The findings are shocking to any youth leader.

The mention of the word music today in church settings, creates a lot of debate heat. I am confronted with this issue in every division around the world. MUSIC.

Recently in a youth meeting that I attended I saw a drama staged by young people and very talented, in which military imagery was used. The actors had fake guns etc. and were pretending shooting and all the sounds made it real.

I have a pair of burgundy colored-shoes. They have been sitting for months on the shelves and have never been worn. Why?  It is still in good shape; they are the best and most comfortable shoes I ever had. But the look was dull, they were not shiny. I had a hard time to find shoeshine with burgundy color, black or brown colors are in abundance, but not burgundy. I have shopped around to find one with that specific color, but no luck.

I’m seating in front of my computer writing this blog because my flight to Santiago de Chile was cancelled yesterday. We sat for two hours on the plane waiting for an explanation. They said (as always) "mechanical problems."

Last night I stayed till past midnight with the delegates of the New Zealand Union Conference here at Tui Ridge Park Campsite outside Auckland. I saw how youth were so excited with the coming of the New Year.

Next to my row on the flight from Los Angeles to Sydney yesterday (December30) were two nice looking professional ladies seated together. As the flight took off I could see these ladies very happy. They were going to...

The year 2008 will go down in history as the year of unbelievable. In our department we saw the unbelievable become a reality when we took about 2000 delegates to Taiwan. We could not believe this huge number joining us in community services and other social projects during the World Conference on Youth and Community Service.