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How to Deal with Difficult Kids

In Leadership, MinistryTags Children's Ministry, Discipleship, kidmin, Kidmin Leadership, Kidmin ResourcesPublish DateMarch 21, 2023602 ViewsLeave a comment samluce

When I was new to children’s ministry, one of the most challenging things for me to deal with was kids who misbehaved. I so wanted difficult kids, all kids actually, to like me, and parents to think well of me. I avoided hard conversations with kids and parents. What I have come to realize is that by avoiding those hard conversations, I was not partnering with parents, and I wasn’t acting lovingly towards their children. Over time I learned you …

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How to Reopen Your Children’s Ministry after COVID

How to Reopen Your Children’s Ministry after COVID

In Gospel, Leadership, MinistryTags Catechism, Children's Ministry, COVID, Family Ministry, kidminPublish DateApril 29, 202028 Views3 Comments samluce

You have to start with the understanding that this situation is unlike any we have faced as a church and as a nation. Never in the history of the Church has there been 6-8 weeks where …

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Why You Should Bring Your Kids to Funerals

Why You Should Bring Your Kids to Funerals

In Leadership, PersonalTags Children's Ministry, Kids and Teens, Leadership, Parenting, Youth MinistryPublish DateMarch 24, 201846 ViewsLeave a comment samluce

As a Pastor, I go to more funerals than most people, as a result, my kids go to more funerals than most kids. The thing that you notice at funerals that is becoming more and more …

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Brave New Church

Brave New Church

In Gospel, LeadershipTags Children's Ministry, Church, Leadership, ParentingPublish DateJanuary 2, 201853 Views1 Comment samluce

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Huxley painted a grim picture of what our world would look like not with, sadness, pain, discomfort or solitude. He showed us his picture of a world in which happiness …

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A Family Ministry Manifesto.

A Family Ministry Manifesto.

In Gospel, MinistryTags Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, kidmin, Youth MinistryPublish DateAugust 11, 201720 Views7 Comments samluce

Serving as a family pastor for the past 6 years and having been a children’s pastor for 14 years and now I have come to see ministry to the families of a church is not a …

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Honey I Shrunk the Gospel

Honey I Shrunk the Gospel

In Gospel, LeadershipTags Children's Ministry, Gospel, Gospel CenteredPublish DateMay 23, 201675 ViewsLeave a comment samluce

In 1989, Rick Moranis entered into the vernacular of our culture the words “honey I shrunk the kids” Moranis portrays a wacky inventor who accidentally shrinks his kids and the neighbor kids with his shrink ray …

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My name is Sam Luce and I have been a pastor at Redeemer Church in Utica NY for the past 24 years. 18 of those years serving as children’s pastor. Currently, I am serving as the Global Pastor to Families. This is my personal blog it is focused on Discipleship, Family Ministry, and Theology.

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