Mentoring | Dave Overholt

Communion

Posted on April 6, 2015 2 Comments

I love communion. I think it reminds us all what is at the center of our lives! At my church we have the communion tables at the back and when people are ready, they go to the tables during the last four songs of our service. This last Sunday, we talked about communion and a […]

The Money Tap

Posted on February 17, 2015 2 Comments

I have been a student for far too many years of my life. One evening, as I was working on yet another paper for school, I had an idea. Nathan needs money. Now this was not a voice, just a weird idea out of nowhere. Nathan played lead guitar in our worship band and he […]

Passing Along the Verse

Posted on January 6, 2015 1 Comment

I used to be a youth pastor. I loved being a youth pastor. In my heart, I could have done it for another few decades. The pastors of the churches I was working for, however, had another idea. They wanted me to plant their youth groups into a church for all ages. I didn’t think […]

God-Incident

Posted on November 5, 2014 2 Comments

I was on vacation and traveling up north with my trailer in tow. About half way up, I heard the brakes start to squeal on my vehicle. After unhooking at the campsite, I drove my truck into town to see how bad the brakes were. They were bad. So bad, they didn’t have all the […]

My First Open Door

Posted on September 23, 2014 1 Comment

I forget where I first heard the verse, but I certainly remember the first time I experienced it. Somewhere in my mid-teen years, I took Col. 4:2 literally. “Pray for me too that God may open a door for his message.” From this verse, I understood that I could ask God to open a “door […]

Close Flying

Posted on August 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

I was on a small plane from St. John’s to Gander in Newfoundland. The flight was only about an hour and there was only one row on either side of the plane. I always tell people to be 10% more friendly which, when you’re an introvert, is only easy when you are literally rubbing shoulders […]

High Risk at the Library

Posted on May 23, 2014 3 Comments

High Risk in a Library I was teaching a course at my city’s very-secular university, “McMaster,” and I had stayed late to talk to some students from my class. I still had to check some books out of the library’s fifth floor so I made the trek across the road to the library. I found […]