May 2010

The winners of the Shout Praises Kids: Promises DVD and CD combo pack are: 1. Stormy Martin from twitter @stormymartin 2. Rich S. from a blog comment Congrats you two email me your mailing info and I’ll get the stuff out to you. (Winners were chosen using http://www.random.org/)

Our church just got a iPhone and Android app (You can download it here). A couple of months ago a good friend of mine started a company to help churches and christian organizations use technology to further their mission. His company R04R made our churches app and they did a great job. I have seen quite a

I would like to say that Blake is a great guy (any friend of Gina McClain is a friend of mine) who is part of a great church. But these two videos are still funny. I am sure all you have seen or heard of the first one. I am not sure how many of you

I find it odd that we avoid certain aspects of biblical gospel centered Christianity. Usually this happens as a result of a segment of christianity abusing it. Faith is one of those things. I think people have misunderstood and have used faith to control and even wound others. I want to blog a few posts

I came across this great article from Harvard Business Review. It was short thought provoking and to the point. “If we want to change what they care about, we should change what we measure.” “What you measure is what you will get. Period” I think this is a great question for children’s ministry. If we get what

Well in back to back days I have seen the series finales of two shows that had been my favorite at one time. I remember watching the very first episode of 24. I was hooked until season 5 when the writing became stale and predictable. I also remember watching the first episode of the second season of Lost

I reviewed the SPK: Promises worship CD yesterday today it’s your turn if you would like to win a copy of the cd and a DVD of the video backgrounds to the songs tweet the following. @samluce is giving 2 SPK: Promises worship packs  from http://IntegrityMusic.com/kids over @ samluce.com http://samluce.com/?p=3315 #kidmin I have two packs

One of the things that is difficult  in children’s ministry, finding worship music that isn’t lame. In our kids church when we decided to switch from doing live worship to mostly DVD worship this was one of my main concerns. We use two main sources for our DVD worship videos, Hillsong and Shout Praises Kids.

My friend and fellow blogger Kenny has been doing a great series about the getting a job in children’s ministry and sharing a bit of his journey. I interned as a youth pastor and thought I was hired to be a youth pastor but due to semantics and devine providence I became a children’s pastor through a  less than traditional path. I

I had the honor of being asked to contribute a 200 word article about what matters most in children’s ministry right now. The easy part for me was coming up with the topic; keeping it 200 words or less proved to be much more difficult. The free e-book “What Matters Now..(in Children’s Ministry)” is great;