March 2010

Let me just start by saying our church is not emergent at all. So when I read on Amy’s blog that she was organizing a blog tour of Ivy’s book I jumped at the chance. In the years I have been doing kids ministry I have learned a few things. Learning from people who do […]

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Here is another video I found interesting. I love Regina’s voice her lyrics are always interesting. Enjoy.

Our church is still very new to the whole milestone concept. We are planning on adding some milestone traditions in the future in the areas of dedications and baptisms. Right now one of the ways we best partner with parents is by being very intentional during school transitions. What I love about the milestone model

Here is a little program I found called vector magic http://vectormagic.com/home turns any picture into a vector file recently this little program saved me quite a few hours of tracing in Illistrator. It doesn’t work for everything but for what it does work for it is brilliant.

Why we like how and not why? We ask “How” because it puts pressure on someone else to answer the questions we are asking. For instance asking “How do you guys check your kids in” gives you information about how someone does something and requires very little action on your part. “Why” is much more

A few months ago a did a random post about innovation. I have been thinking about it ever since. The thing I keep going back to is how we don’t innovate because we ask the wrong question. We ask “How” instead of “Why”. How maybe an easier question to ask and answer by asking why

Read this really great blog post from my friend Kenny about Brand Confusion. I am a big advocate of churches using branding and being intentional about how you present yourself as a church. Everytime this comes up you push people in two camps 1.) Branding is what the devil does in his spare time and 2.)

Well things have been a bit hectic. But another kidmin challenge has come to a close. It was a great challenge lots of practical advice as well as some humours suggestions on how to best recruit more help in Children’s Ministry. I dropped the most creative category because I felt it was difficult to do humours, practical and creative. So