February 2009

This blog post is dedicated to my good friend and fellow kids pastor Jonathan Cliff who in addition to being a standup guy and a great kids pastor is deathly afraid of puppets (His wife is to guess it runs in the family). I must admit I am not the biggest fan of puppets in […]

I think regardless of size there are some basic things that you can do to keep your kiddos safe. In my mind the areas that I constantly try to review Children’s Area Access – Do everything in your power to make sure you have one entrance and exit and don’t let anyone past that is

As I said in my last post keeping kids safe is huge in my eyes and although most parents are very good at stranger danger education. I feel that many parents either don’t know about the significant danger the internet poses or don’t know what to do about it. What would you do if I

This week I want to talk about keeping kids safe. In Uptown we have 4 Be Attitudes 1. Be Safe 2. Be Courteous 3. Be Engaging 4 Be Consistent. Some people wonder why we put safe first. To me if Parents don’t feel that their child will be safe they won’t bring them to Uptown

I have been a kids pastor for a few years now and in the course of those years have tried everything there is to do bible bucks 1. Custom name tags with points updated for each kid by hand. (was I crazy) 2. Paper money (kids getting beat up for bible bucks in the bathroom

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Had a chance to connect this week with Henry Zonio a great kids pastor up in the Great White North (Thunder Bay to be exact) I connected with him on twitter a couple of weeks ago and started reading his blog. He’s got some great stuff going on. He started a Children’s Ministry Podcast called

Unbelievable! Actors are so weird. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpYk7WGN5Y

Today is the two year anniversary of one of the worst days of my life. I remember getting a phone call two years ago that a 5 year old boy in our kids ministry was being rushed to the hospital. I jumped in my car and started to pray. I got to the hospital just

I want to take a few minutes to brag on a few companies that have been making some amazing products that I have found helpful in kids ministry. Stickystreet.com We have been running our kids store for about two weeks now. Stickystreet has exceeded expectations. I have been doing kids candy stores “bible bucks” for