Jeff's Musings

My spouse is the former Julie Ann Smeenge and we were married on May 25, 1981. For those of you suffering from math deficiency, that is twenty-five years. We were just kids when we said the two words that we really didn’t understand then and sometimes still can’t comprehend today. I was ...

Recently a group of high school students from Kinston, Alabama were in the Cleveland area on a misson trip to help us survey Perry, OH for a new church that my wife and I are launching. As they went around neighborhoods asking questions like “what type of music do you listen to” and R...

The word psychology derives from two Greek terms meaning “the study of persons.” Some argue that since the Greek root from which we get psych means “spirit” or “soul”, psychology is religious in nature and involves the study of the spirit and soul. People today when using the term psycho...

As a pastor, I have had the opportunity to counsel scores of people on issues ranging from marital problems to criminal behavior. Having taken phsycology classes in pursuit of a Business Degree and taking classes for degrees in Pastoral Ministry, I want to look at both models over the next two days....

It amazes me that the majority of us have no idea what we have been called to do. If that is the case, then life for many of us is meaningless. For many years I thought my calling was to be a good husband and father. Maybe you feel it is your calling to be […]...

In spring of 2006, God began to do his stuff again in the lives of the Calloways. He extended an invitation to my family and myself in a whole different direction from what we have been used to. It is the invitation to become church planters. The invitation came to us by way of Brad […]...

It has been over a month siince I wrote anything here and what a busy month it has been! Since my last entry I served as the Ministry Coodinator for P2 Cleveland, which is a student mission trip here in Cleveland. There were six teams from Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina, and I have to admit, [&h...

I will be out of the blogging world over the next two weeks. Have a great day!...

Like many people in life, I have always wanted to be on Easy Street. The problem is, Easy Street doesn’t exist for the majority of people in our country, at least in the way that we think about Easy Street. Several years ago I had the opportunity to be on Easy Street and though the […]...

My wife Julie and I were married on May 25, 1981 at the ripe old ages of twenty and nineteen respectively. We were still attending college, Julie in computer science and myself in business/accounting when we made our lifetime commitment to one another. After graduating, Julie got a low paying job wi...