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Back from the hospital still no definitive word on what is going on. Appreciate your prayers. # RT @jonathancliff: I’m off to get staff pictures, hopefully I can find a great tree to lean against while folding my arms like @kennyconley # Wife is out. BOYS NIGHT!!!! # Social networking and listening to U2 before […]

Love this song. I think I may use some of it for birthdays for our kids church. Genius love it. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0WXs3OZKsc

For those who feel that their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept the love of Christ, which knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened,” he assumed we would grow weary,

My posts have been getting to long. So I thought I would do a short one. Yesterday was Dr. Suess’ birthday. I love Dr. Suess not just because I am a Kid’s Pastor I love Suess because: 1. His stories are fun 2. Don’t need to have a point but often do 3. His stories

This is unfortunately a sad reality that anyone who has kids should think about, and every church needs to work thorough. How are we as a community going to treat a convicted sex offender. I think like many things we don’t think that we will have to deal with something until we end up having

This blog post is dedicated to my good friend and fellow kids pastor Jonathan Cliff who in addition to being a standup guy and a great kids pastor is deathly afraid of puppets (His wife is to guess it runs in the family). I must admit I am not the biggest fan of puppets in

I think regardless of size there are some basic things that you can do to keep your kiddos safe. In my mind the areas that I constantly try to review Children’s Area Access – Do everything in your power to make sure you have one entrance and exit and don’t let anyone past that is

As I said in my last post keeping kids safe is huge in my eyes and although most parents are very good at stranger danger education. I feel that many parents either don’t know about the significant danger the internet poses or don’t know what to do about it. What would you do if I

This week I want to talk about keeping kids safe. In Uptown we have 4 Be Attitudes 1. Be Safe 2. Be Courteous 3. Be Engaging 4 Be Consistent. Some people wonder why we put safe first. To me if Parents don’t feel that their child will be safe they won’t bring them to Uptown

I have been a kids pastor for a few years now and in the course of those years have tried everything there is to do bible bucks 1. Custom name tags with points updated for each kid by hand. (was I crazy) 2. Paper money (kids getting beat up for bible bucks in the bathroom