One of the scariest things for me as a parent is when I first heard my kids say or do something I say or do. The impact of my actions on the life of my kids really hits home when you see them acting just like you. To this day it still freaks me out. […]
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My mother always told me this even before we had kids “Be more concerned with how adults respond to your kids than how their peers respond to them.” Some of you may be scratching your head? What does that even mean? This is something I constantly monitor with our kids. I want to see how
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Last year a couple of other kids pastors posted how they are Children’s pastors not family pastors. Here is Justyn Smith’s Take http://www.justynsmith.com/2010/04/childrens-pastor-not-family-pastor-at-heart/ Here is Joe Mcalpine’s take http://www.joemcalpine.com/?p=737 Justyn and Joe had some great points but here is my take on the debate between family ministry and kids ministry. When I first started doing
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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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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 posted a guest post over at the Lifeway kids blog. In the post I ask if we are right things get us angry during the Christmas Season. Head on over to their blog and join the convo and while you are there check out their blog it’s really good.
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Leading well. One of my few crazy theories in life that I have is that leadership is more than charisma. Leadership is not how well you speak or even how many people follow you. In theory leadership for me is all about how well you build a team. Like most theories I have, true or not
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
How we use XP3 for our 5th and 6th graders. Read More »
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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