My friend Michael Chanley has done it again. He has given the kidmin community another opportunity to connect and network online and with imakidmin maybe offline. Chanley created Cmconnet a couple of year ago and it has quickly become a sort of kidmin facebook I know I found a couple of kids pastors who live […]
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[Here is a post I did awhile back Mary-Kate posted a comment today so I thought I would bring it back up for debate or perhaps food for thought (pun intended)] I saw this movie the other day and loved it. Pixar rocks. I thought there were quite a few clips that could be used
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Today my beautiful bride turns — ! When I think of my wife I am there are so many things that flood my mind. I love that she is Italian, she’s an amazing cook. She is a great homemaker and creates an amazing environment for our family to grow in. My wife is an amazing
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I am currently reading a book by the Heath Brothers called Switch. In this book they talk about helping people with change. Finding the switch in a change situation. One of the things they said that has gotten me thinking in regards to family ministry is something they call shrink the change. The basic idea
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Rebekah grew up in Redeemer Church. She has a genuine passion to serve kids and families and feels called to children’s ministry. I asked her to type out why she knows she is called. There are few things more powerful than a personal testimony that you can go back to and revisit when times get
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One of my pet peves in kids ministry is that we design below the intended age we are trying to reach. I am not sure why we do this. Personally I think it happens because we wrongly target the lowest age kids in the demographic we are trying to reach, or we are just out
Designing stuff for kids ministry Read More »
It’s about that time of year again so I thought I would bust out a retro post and get your thoughts on a timeless question in Kidmin. What about Halloween? This time of year there is always a bit of a hub bub about all saints day. As a children’s pastor I am frequently asked
Retro Post: To Trick or To Treat. Read More »
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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A few weeks ago I had a video of a southern politician who made a very funny video and had an equally funny website. This week it’s us Yankees who are at the receiving end of a crazy political video. If you want to be a more effective public speaker as you watch this make
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I had a short lived idea to do a video podcast that I called TakeTen. It would TakeTen minutes to make and TakeTen minutes to listen to it. My idea was to interview different people in kidmin for ten minutes and release it as a podcast unedited and uncensored. The video aspect didn’t work so
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