What you actually do is more important than what you say you do! One of the things I love most about the internet is being able to connect with like minded kids people from all over the nation. One of the things I like least is seeing people use their churches and use the internet […]
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Support your pastor! I know that we all know this but actually doing it can be difficult at times. We live in a culture that second guesses everything. From sports to the quickest way to the mall we always think we know more than the person in charge. How many times have you yelled at
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Last week I flew to Tennessee to take part in the last retreat of the second year of our infuse group. For those of you who don’t know Infuse is a now 6 month leadership mentoring experience with Jim Wideman. We had an amazing time connecting with eachother but most of all learning from Brother
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I am reading this book called “The Grace Awakening” in the book Charles Swindoll talks about the importance of understanding grace and how much we misunderstand grace. Swindoll quotes Martyn Lloyd-Jones as he talks about Romans 6: “Are we to continue in sin that grace may increase?” If it is true that where sin abounded
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My ten favorite post of 2010 Love Jonathan’s honest, humors look at life and ministry. http://kidmin360.com/2010/11/17/future-of-childrens-ministry-jonathan-cliff/ http://www.jonathancliff.com/2010/11/dumb-things-2/ Matt wrote a guest post on my blog that I thought was spot on. Environment matters. http://samluce.com/?p=2295 – Matt’s guest post Here is another post by Matt on Technology. I love Matts forward thinking on church and technology. http://www.whatisorange.org/orangeleaders/blog/?p=4366
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I thought it would be fun to end the year with a few top ten lists. The first one is my top 10 posts from 2010. How to Customize Facebook For Your Children’s Ministry. Free Bible Lesson Job Stuff Kids Pastor’s Like #105: Candy and Drugs. Top 25 iPhone apps for kids. How We Tweek
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Have you ever asked your kids what kids they admire most. Most of the time they will tell you the name of a kid who is a few years older than they are. Once I started finding this to be a trend it caused me to rethink how I design things for uptown wether it’s
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I really do think that Groups Kidmin Conference could be a game changer. In my years of serving as a kids pastor I have seen a gigantic shift in the culture of who, how and why kids ministry is done. I think that we are starting to see those changes speed up due to social media and
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We started something last year called a “Happy Birthday Jesus Party.” It was a blast! We had a Birthday party for Jesus in every one of our environments. One of the things that has always bothered me is the concrete reality of who Santa is. Kids have a fresh reminder of who Santa is every
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This book was one of the best parenting books I have read in a while. It’s so cool how when God is speaking something to you he goes out of his way to do it in 5.1 Dolby surround sound. So often I grip a little walkie talkie and try to scan for God’s frequency
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