One of the biggest mistakes I made when I was just starting out was trying to do to much myself. I have learned that if you want to build something that lasts and if you want to last you MUST build a team. Here are the basics in my mind of building a team: Identify […]

Saturday – Hanging out in Nashville Kenny and I were going to visit Gina and Faith Promise Church but our plans changed. We ended up Going all over Nashville for the Day. [nggallery id=6] Got to spend the day with Craig Gyergo a great kids pastor from Memphis – Really got to drill down and

Tony Kummer has a segment on his ministry-to-children.com blog that he calls the children’s ministry thinktank. He asks 5 different children’s ministry leaders a question and posts their response. He just posted everyones response it is worth the read and very interesting to see how different kid’s pastors view calling. Here is my response to

Thursday – Friday (Infuse Retreat with Jim Wideman) Highlights Catching up with and hearing what God has been doing in the lives of other kidmin leaders from around the country. (Eating southern breakfast at Loveless Cafe – always an experience) Car conversations to the breakfast –  To breakfast: Figuring ways to connect kids and help

Tuesday – Flew into Nashville drove to Cincinnati – Met up with Matt Mckee one of my good friends and fellow blogger – {Funny moment of that trip – Matt’s parents upon hearing that all met on line, asking if we were going to steal stuff} [Take away from the stop – Everytime I get

I have been working on a few design projects and I have had a few of you ask where I get my vector files from. So I thought I would share the sites I use to find the vector files I am looking for. Dry Icons Vecteezy.com Freevectors.net Creativemyk.com BittBox

My good friend and blogging buddy Kenny over at childrensministryonline.com and I are  both part of Infuse (Jim Wideman’s mentoring project) We thought it would be fun to head down a day early and connect with as many Kids people as we can along the way. We thought it would be fun to ask each

Had a great time meeting with my friend and fellow blogger Matt McKee. He has recently updated his blog and moved to WordPress and to a new URL http://www.mattmckee.me/ He has a great blog and I know some of you may have lost him in the transition. Why you need to read his blog? He 

(Above our our 4 Be Attitudes – Be Safe – Be Courteous – Be Engaging – Be Consistent) If you are anything like me you love to read, hear about leadership in a concerted effort to grow and expand my own ability to lead I try to learn from every leader I meet. One of

I talked about iconic values last post. One way I plan on using the icons I created of our values is in our volunteer shirts. I think having a large icon on the front will stimulate conversation that will force volunteers to repeat our values and by teaching others they will internalize those values themselves.