Have you been busy being a saints? From Dec. 9-12, Jennifer Belock and I attended our national youth ministry conference (NCCYM) in New Orleans, LA, where we celebrated the theme “March with the Saints!” Obviously it was a very appropriate theme for the location, but it was also a tremendously powerful theme in terms of our faith. We were reminded throughout the weekend of the power of the communion of saints – those who have gone before us in our faith tradition, those who have gone before us as saints and faith mentors in our own personal lives, those who march with us side by side today as living witnesses, and those young people who we are preparing to be saints, marching into the future.