Southland just concluded its week of Staff Training with Pastor Eric Gustafson. The Takeaway is a weekly podcast produced during the summer of 2025. Each episode will feature a highlighted portion of the preaching as well as testimonies from campers, staff and sponsors. We trust that you will be able to take encouragement from what God is doing in the lives of others.

For our final Walk Talks episode of the year, we’re excited to bring you a special Friday Focus edition! As you may have seen in the artwork and title, this episode is a bit unique—we have two guest speakers joining us.

Just a couple of weeks ago, we hosted our first-ever Pastors and Youth Workers Conference here at Southland Christian Camp. It was a great success, and for this final Friday Focus episode, we’re sharing a Q&A session from the last day of that conference.

The conversation features Pastor Ken Keltner, who serves in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Chuck Gourley, the youth pastor at Campus Church in Pensacola, Florida. My dad, Brother Mike Herbster, sat down with both of them in front of our conference attendees to ask some thoughtful questions about youth ministry.

Whether you’re a pastor, youth pastor, youth leader, or even a teenager involved in youth ministry, we believe this episode will be both helpful and encouraging. It offers valuable insight into youth ministry philosophy—whether you’re planning to serve full-time in ministry or simply want to understand the “why” behind what you do.

We hope you’ll take the time to listen, be encouraged, and be challenged by the wisdom shared by Pastor Ken Keltner and Chuck Gourley.

We have attached a link to all the session recordings from our Pastor’s and Youth Worker’s Conference and we would highly encourage you to go and listen to them, and maybe they can be an encouragement to you.

https://www.southlandcamp.org/sermons-from-southland.html

During this final week in the life of Moses, we will examine several portions of Scripture that he wrote as he prepared to hand over the leadership of the nation to Joshua. Throughout this study of Moses’ life, we have explored his “mountain moments” and his “valley moments”—that is, we have studied both his obedience and his disobedience. This week, however, we will focus on the legacy Moses leaves behind and his challenge to the nation of Israel to continue following God and trusting Him to provide. We have thoroughly enjoyed this study, and it is our prayer that you have grown in your dependence on God and have learned from the mistakes of the Israelites.

During this final week in the life of Moses, we will examine several portions of Scripture that he wrote as he prepared to hand over the leadership of the nation to Joshua. Throughout this study of Moses’ life, we have explored his “mountain moments” and his “valley moments”—that is, we have studied both his obedience and his disobedience. This week, however, we will focus on the legacy Moses leaves behind and his challenge to the nation of Israel to continue following God and trusting Him to provide. We have thoroughly enjoyed this study, and it is our prayer that you have grown in your dependence on God and have learned from the mistakes of the Israelites.

During this final week in the life of Moses, we will examine several portions of Scripture that he wrote as he prepared to hand over the leadership of the nation to Joshua. Throughout this study of Moses’ life, we have explored his “mountain moments” and his “valley moments”—that is, we have studied both his obedience and his disobedience. This week, however, we will focus on the legacy Moses leaves behind and his challenge to the nation of Israel to continue following God and trusting Him to provide. We have thoroughly enjoyed this study, and it is our prayer that you have grown in your dependence on God and have learned from the mistakes of the Israelites.

During this final week in the life of Moses, we will examine several portions of Scripture that he wrote as he prepared to hand over the leadership of the nation to Joshua. Throughout this study of Moses’ life, we have explored his “mountain moments” and his “valley moments”—that is, we have studied both his obedience and his disobedience. This week, however, we will focus on the legacy Moses leaves behind and his challenge to the nation of Israel to continue following God and trusting Him to provide. We have thoroughly enjoyed this study, and it is our prayer that you have grown in your dependence on God and have learned from the mistakes of the Israelites.

On today’s Friday Focus episode Malachi Herbster has a conversation with Coach Jason Bell.

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Jason Bell has been the head men’s basketball coach at Pensacola Christian College since June 2021. He graduated from Crown College with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education in 1998. Bell also published a book in 2019 titled Coach Your Team, Not Your Sport.

Bell was born in Adrian, MI, but spent most of his adult life in Wyoming and Colorado. As a young man, Bell played on the high school basketball and soccer teams in Adrian, MI, and played three years while attending Crown College.

Bell has fourteen years of coaching experience, leading the men’s basketball varsity team at Front Range Baptist Academy from 2007 to 2021. While at Front Range, Bell led his team to a 191–107 record which included three state championships, four Sweet Sixteen appearances, and two Great Eight appearances. He also earned CHSAA 5280 League Coach of the Year in 2019.

Upon his arrival at PCC in 2021, Bell got right to work recruiting incoming freshmen, graduate students, and transfers. With a new program and new players, Bell dove in feet first and has been coaching the Eagles for the last three seasons. With an overall record of 30-44 (16-17 in conference play) Coach Bell and the Eagles worked their way into the NCCAA South Region Championship game in 2024 for the first time since the 2015-2016 post-season.

Outside of basketball, Bell has been a financial advisor in Cheyenne, WY, an experience that shaped his views concerning building professional relationships with coworkers and clients.

“My view is that when God gives talents, He gives them to us so that we will use those talents to bring others closer to Him,” said Coach Bell. “I’d like our basketball family to encourage our players and our opponents to use their talents to move people closer to God.”

Bell and his wife Chastity have three daughters, Mary Beth, Abby, and Aubrey. In his spare time, Bell has enjoyed continuing to coach as well as spending time on the lake by his home in Colorado.

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Bio taken from www.pcceagles.com

This week on Walk Talks, we dive into one of the most sobering moments in Moses’ leadership journey. As the Israelites grumble once again over their thirst, Moses reaches a breaking point—and instead of following God’s command, he takes matters into his own hands. What does this passage teach us about obedience, leadership, and the weight of representing God well? Join us as we explore how a moment of frustration cost Moses the Promised Land, and what this means for our walk with God today.

This week on Walk Talks, we dive into one of the most sobering moments in Moses’ leadership journey. As the Israelites grumble once again over their thirst, Moses reaches a breaking point—and instead of following God’s command, he takes matters into his own hands. What does this passage teach us about obedience, leadership, and the weight of representing God well? Join us as we explore how a moment of frustration cost Moses the Promised Land, and what this means for our walk with God today.

This week on Walk Talks, we dive into one of the most sobering moments in Moses’ leadership journey. As the Israelites grumble once again over their thirst, Moses reaches a breaking point—and instead of following God’s command, he takes matters into his own hands. What does this passage teach us about obedience, leadership, and the weight of representing God well? Join us as we explore how a moment of frustration cost Moses the Promised Land, and what this means for our walk with God today.