Another mistake I made early on was caring more about fun that safety. I think this is why kids love teenagers because they care about fun and what makes things fun? Danger. Every year for camp we played a game called “Anything for Money.” The goal of the game was to create a yearly camp […]

One of the mistakes I made when I first started was not involving parents. I started doing kids ministry full-time when I was 22 years old. I was fresh out of college I had helped in kids ministry for years but leading something is a whole other animal. When I took over the kids ministry

One of the things about the internet I find less than great is you can very easily create a over-important fake version of yourself. You can get so much into your own personal stats on your blog, or the amount of twitter followers or Facebook friends that you began to believe you are more important

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At orange I had the opportunity to meet Craig Jutila what a great guy. One of the guys who was with him was Joe McGinnis. Joe does all the stuff for family ministry and runs the empoweringkids site. It has lots of great insights and tools for families and those who minister to families. Here

My good friend Kenny showed me this video. It does two of my favorite things, mocks Microsoft and shows why Apple’s branding is so strong….simplicity. Love this video hope you do too.

My daughter is 10 months old but having worked with pre-teen girls now for quite a few years my wheels are turning thinking how I am going to handle certain situations that will inevitably come up. One of those will no doubt be modesty. I came across this post Are Your Daughters Looking Sexy? Her are some guidelines for

I came across this app when our video guy mentioned it. I thought I would check it out. Am I glad I did. Square is a ministry/small business tool you can’t shouldn’t live without. It is an application that turns your iPhone, android, iPad device into a credit card machine. You plug in a small “Square” card

I remember the day I stopped using a PC forever. It was a glorious day. I had always loved computers my dad bought a PAL286 (you heard me 286 as in 286mb’s of beige box goodness. He was told by the guy at Office Max that “That was all the hard drive space he would ever need)

When I was growing up my mom often told me,  “If you have low expectations, you are rarely disappointed.”   I have found this to be helpful. There is always something else that you need, want, desire (every year apple comes out with a new iPhone). The key to contentment is to be grateful, and have low expectations.