I love the fall! The baseball playoffs start tonight. I feel like a 9-year-old kid the night before christmas knowing that the next morning Santa is going to bring him a red rider bebe gun. I love baseball and love the New York Yankees. Since its YouTube Friday I thought I would share with you […]
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We started doing minute to win it games as a way to transition to different parts of our service and build excitement at the same time. We do three rounds of boys vs. girls whichever team wins gets 100 bonus point to our Uptown Store. The kids love it! It adds a great level of
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Last week I started a giveaway and a review. You can find it here. Today is the last day to enter I’ll announce the winners tomorrow. If you would like to win a free copy of the book tweet the following. @samluce is giving away a free copy of Kidmin Leadership from @jimwideman over at http://bit.ly/mITycF #kidmin
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Jim Wideman has been a part of all of the major shakeups and startups in children’s ministry today. This week is another first for kids ministry. There have been many people who have offered mentoring programs in kidmin but none as successfully as Brother Jim. The idea that you would be able to keep 12 kidmin leaders
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1. BE SAFE 2. BE COURTEOUS 3. BE ENGAGING 4. BE CONSISTENT This is the last of our Be Attitudes and preparation for the weekend kept me from posting the final attitude. The first two deal with getting kids to come the last two deal with getting kids to come back again. In the church
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The winner of Yancy’s: Stars, Guitars, and Megaphone Dreams is…. Emily Gist Thanks to everyone who tweeted and left comments. Huge thanks to Yancy for her generosity. If you didn’t win make sure you head over to Yancynotnancy.com to buy your own copy you’ll be glad you did.
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Yancy’s new album Stars, Guitars, and Megaphone Dreams came out this week. In my opinion this is her best one so far. She has a great mix of fun and worshipful songs. Yancy is not only a talented artist but a great person who cares about other. She is amazing. What I really liked: 1.
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I recently outlined our process for doing events in kids ministry while talking with one of our interns. So I thought I would share it with you all. This is what it looks like for me. Event Planning for kidmin. 1. What result am I looking for? What is the win? How will I know
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Well we had a great second day. We started with rain and ended with sky, so that was great. We started out with chapel talking to the kids about the two things they need a testimony (writing down what God has done for you) and a testament (reading the bible.) It was far to cold
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We started doing minute to win it games as a way to transition to different parts of our service and build excitement at the same time. We do three rounds of boys vs. girls whichever team wins gets 100 bonus point to our Uptown Store. The kids love it! It adds a great level of
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