September 2008

Read a couple of great blog posts from my friend Jonathan about failure. Then I read this in my devotional. I think God is trying to say something to me. Failure provides the opportunity not only to humble the self, but also to be with the failure of others. If your life or mine were […]

The website is up for the Pipeline conference. The online registration is active. We are open for business. I have been talking to quite a few children’s pastors the past few weeks and am starting to get very excited. I think we are going to be be building something different from the ground up and

You thought Jim Carey was flexable. Check this guy out. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AnYtHKqEcc&feature=related

I think there are some very fundamental across the board mistakes we make when it comes to outreach. 1. Everyone else does it outreach – I fell into this one with VBS. I am not a VBS hater I just began to judge the effectiveness of what we do and VBS was not working for

There are a ton of things you can do. I believe that what you do for outreach should be all about values. What we don’t do. VBS Harvest Parties Ect. Do I hate these things no not at all I just felt that they were robbing from the resources that we had to do what

I was reading the message boards on the kidology site and came across this post from Todd McKeever. He posed a great question that I believe is worth all of our time. What does creative outreach look like? Here is what he had to say: I have been wondering for some time and will throw

My wife and I are celebrating our 10th anniversary with our good friends. We are having a great time. There is no city in the world like New York. You can’t beat the food, culture, atmosphere. Coffee Dinner Gelato Desert Needless to say we are very full and very tired.

To sum up my series on Bible Bucks. I think no matter what you do you should consider the following. 1. Do bible bucks enhance your overall experience? 2. Do kids love bible bucks more than Jesus? (I had a girl say to me once as I greeted her before our service started. “I don’t

Love watching short films from budding film makers. I watch tons of these. Thought you might enjoy this one. It is a cute story that is short enough that if you hate it is was only 2 minutes of your life gone forever. Unlike most hollywood movies I have seen in the past few months.

The next take on rewards in children’s church comes from another of my blogging friends Jonathan Cliff he is the children’s pastor of Trinity Church in Lubbock Texas. He has a great sense of humor and I find it so refreshing to connect with other children’s pastors around United States who think along the same