Welcome Home, welcome home

I know I said I was taking a blog holiday but my last post got lost in cyber 301 redirect land. So if you are coming here wondering what the heck is going on, welcome to the new and Lord willing final home of samluce.com. I had been thinking of separating my blog into two […]

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Innovation in Kids Ministry

There has been a question that has been dogging me lately, and it’s this. “Why isn’t there more innovation in Children’s Ministry.” I have been thinking about this for a while and the latest issue of Harvard Business Review is all about innovation. I read an article about the DNA of an Innovator, it really

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Superman Ice Cream

When you think of kids what colors come to mind?  Let me guess, primary colors, right?  The true blue, solid red, bright yellow, and golden green seems to penetrate all things kids.  Why is this?  Is it that kids don’t know any better and therefore are given the basics, or is it that these are

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Performance skills – 101

Performance skills – 101 Sharpening your skills to use in every aspect of your program. One of my greatest frustrations is that only in the church world do people think that performing, preaching and mc’ing are a natural gift. This belief means that (1) those who believe that they don’t have this gift are excused

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