New Trails Ministry
11455 Elliot Road
Custer, SD 57730
Custer, SD 57730
Phone: 605-760-3633
Email: info@newtrailsministry.org
Email: info@newtrailsministry.org
New Trails offers three, five or ten day sabbaticals that are customized to your needs, are designed to help you reconnect with God who has called you to service and can assist you in recovering that joy. As a long term ministry couple, we know firsthand the joys and challenges of full time service, and combined with our wilderness locations we provide the place, space and direction to assist you in creating the space to recover your passion for ministry.
Lets Not Waste a Perfectly Good Crisis!
/in GeneralBack in the day, I remember Elvis singing the song “Only Fools Rush In”. The opening line is this “wise men say; only fools rush in…” Then the song continues about the singer’s inability to resist falling in love. I would like to use those lyrics in this “Corona Virus” season and to suggest it… | Read More
Reflections When Times are Uncertain
/in GeneralI wonder when the last time you opened your Bible to read Psalm 75. OK, let me be honest this Psalm is not on my top ten list of passages to read either. Today, this passage came up in my morning devotions this morning so allow me to repeat part the part that caught my… | Read More
The Providence of God
/in GeneralI realize this is the Lenten Season and we are just a few days from Palm Sunday and then Easter Sunday, and then…. But this is the Covid 19 Season, and Palm Sunday is not going to be celebrated with large groups of people gathered in buildings, waving Palms and singing hymns. Easter Sunday, if… | Read More
You Are Not Alone
/in GeneralI am not sure if you know who Ed Stetzer is? I know he doesn’t know me, but I follow him in Twitter. (It is true you can teach an old dog new tricks) Ed is the Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. A short time ago he tweeted about a… | Read More
Self Care is Not Being Selfish
/in GeneralIt was a normal run of the mill board meeting, something I had done repeatedly over the past number of years. However, as we neared the end of my agenda, one of my board members, noted he was attending a seminar and part of the topic was self-care. After listening to my list of activities… | Read More
The Sousaphone of God’s Unchanging Love
/in GeneralI came across and article in Christianity Today Pastor’s newsletter, where the author described his time in the High School marching band. Because he was a tuba player, he also had to learn to play the Sousaphone. I too spent time in the marching band, however, I played a trombone, so walking or sitting, it… | Read More
God Wants You all to Himself
/in GeneralBy now you know that New Trails is located in a remote area of the Black Hills of South Dakota. I have also given some rationale as to why this is important and vital to what we do. However, I recently read a blog from a man who has served as a mentor to me,… | Read More
The Easiest Job in the World!
/in GeneralEugene Peterson in his book, Working the Angles, states “Being the kind of pastor that satisfies a congregation is one of the easiest jobs on the face of the earth….” Let me let that hang for a minute before I add the context. Being a pastor who satisfies a congregation is one of the easiest… | Read More
Avoiding Marriage Madness
/in GeneralIt seems that every March we encounter a phenomenon known as March Madness. We arrange our brackets, hoping we have picked the perfect set of teams to predict the Final Four in college basketball. If you are a basketball fan, you know well the agony of a “busted bracket”. This year I heard that the… | Read More
Of Old Sayings and New Thinking….
/in GeneralThere is an old saying about ministers and professors, “Those who can do, and those who can’t teach.” I suppose this could be said about any profession. With any saying like this one there is an element of truth, as well as some overstatement. As I have moved into that stage of my life and… | Read More