Last month was pastor appreciation month, and last Sunday our kids ministry team surprised me by giving me a scrap book of cards, letters, notes of thanks from adults and young people on our team, some notes from parents, as well as notes from the kids in Uptown now and some kids who are all grown up […]
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Today is the official release date of Yancy’s new Album “Stars Guitars & Megaphone Dreams”! Yea! I have heard a few of the songs on the album and I have to say this one is her best one to date. If you have kids or work with kids you want this CD believe me. If
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The last sign of a miserable job is Anonymity. Here is what Lencioni has to say about it: Anonymity – People cannot be fulfilled in their work if they are not known. All human beings need to be understood and appreciated for their unique qualites by someone in a position of authority. As much as
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The next sign of a miserable job I want to takle is irrelevance. Lencioni describes Irrelevance this way: Everyone needs to know that their job matters, to someone, anyone. Without seeing a connection between the work and the satisfaction of another person or group of people, an employee simply will not find lasting fulfillment. Even
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Life can be so funny. I had a great time mocking politicians from Tennessee and Ohio. I guess it’s fair that New York get an opportunity to showcase some of it’s amazing politicians. The crazy part is that I watched this debate and this guy might get my vote the other candidates are so bad.
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I had a short lived idea to do a video podcast that I called TakeTen. It would TakeTen minutes to make and TakeTen minutes to listen to it. My idea was to interview different people in kidmin for ten minutes and release it as a podcast unedited and uncensored. The video aspect didn’t work so
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One of my biggest pet peeves in kids ministry is how we attack our very real need for volunteers. Every conference you go to there will be some form of breakout teaching you how to recruit more volunteers. At these break outs you will often hear tips tricks and how to’s to get more volunteers
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Just finished reading this book had avoided it simply because if you are happy with your job reading a book like this doesn’t look the best to your co-workers. I wish I would have read this book years ago. It was amazing. Patrick Lencioni is an extremely gifted writer. About 2/3 of the book is
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Here is an amazing video by the David Crowder Band. Amazing done using a Lite-Brite and 700,000 pegs. Great video great song. (Found this on Matthew Paul Turners site)
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Last year we started something in response to our adults doing for the Advent conspiracy. We were looking for ways to get our kids involved a few of the charities our church was supporting were Love146.org an amazing organization but what they do wasn’t the easiest to translate to our kids. We decided to use our Uptown store
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