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I Love K! Magazine. I have been a kids pastor for 12 years and have never really found much in the way of books or magazines that spoke to me where I was at (however I do feel that is changing). I felt all the books and magazines out there where addressing things I wasn’t […]

In today’s day of media driven everything. No matter what size ministry you have I can’t imagine doing kids church without ProPresenter. Our church has used many different worship service softwares over the years. Nothing in my opinion touches ProPresenter. If you are not using ProPresenter consider it. If you are using curriculum like elevate

I remember around 6 months ago I was having issues with time management. (shocker) I didn’t feel like I had enough time in a day to get everything done that I needed to. I asked Brother Jim what I should do. He said get the book “The Effective Executive” and read the chapter on time

Better late than never. September cheat sheets are avalible for download. http://samluce.com/?p=1951 #kidmin #cmconnect # Drinking coffee from The Roasting Plant in NYC thinking how it may be better than stumptown! #fb # RT @tonymorganlive: who needs business cards when you could have john's new wordpress theme? http://bit.ly/15CG02 /// John is so the man! #

Merry Christmas! It is that time of the year! Time to think about what we are going to do for Christmas. A friend of mine told me about this, it looks amazing! They are going to be launching a website the first week of October. This could be an amazing resource to complement what you

I remember being new in children’s ministry looking for good worship music for kids and it was hard to find. I mean I have never been a fan of “Jesus want’s me for a sunbeam” I think songs like that have their place in kids church and where cutting edge at one point in history,

I have owned many phones but none like the iPhone. I think every kids pastor should own an iPhone (or a smart phone of some type). I being a mac cool-aid drinker think everyone should own a mac. Anywho. Let me tell you why I have found my iPhone an indispensable tool of my trade.

Today I become Gianni’s dad. When kids go to school you become “Oh so your Gianni’s Dad, nice to met you” I think when kids go to school is the beginning of the end for personal coolness as a father. I plan on fighting the system as long as I can. I can’t believe that

One of my fellow kids pastors Anthony Prince has a great blog, a few weeks ago he did a Top Ten series of posts where he listed his Top Ten tools every kids pastors needs. I thought it was a great idea picked up some great tools actually ordered one of the books he recommended.

"when you are tired your decision-making skills erode. You start missing things.." from Outliers #kidmin /// I need a nap # Watching the funeral of the lion of the senate. He is survived by a lot of family and 99 weasels. # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #utica_ny #pastor #kidmin #cmconnect