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We are not sure of our baby’s name but we are sure that we are blessed. We have a beautiful family surrounded by amazing family and friends. Thank You all for your love, friendship and generosity. (more pictures tomorrow) Claudia 9 pounds 21 inches long born July 26th at 8:23am.

Mike Teavee – No Boundaries Kids need boundaries they crave them. Kids do not feel safe or loved in an environment where they can do whatever they want. It sounds very loving to embrace you child’s creative desire to do whatever they want. I believe it is cruel. By allowing you kids to do what

Working on my bathroom dealing with two of the things I like least. Electricity and insolation. # Consulting with a church this weekend. My church. What are you doing? #kidmin # (On pastors) "There are only two kinds of people who make a living doing what we do us and circus performers." John Wesley #kidmin

Veruca Salt – Give your kids whatever they want Why do we give our kids whatever they want? Guilt Wanting our kids to have what we didn’t have growing up Because we can Because it’s easier than saying no Because we love them and want whats best for them We may be trying to buy

When I was in college I was know to pull a prank or two. Going to a conservative Christian college pranks were frowned upon which added to the fun. Anyways we pull some good ones off over the years and I graduated with a BA in Theology and minored in an amazing ability to find

Violet Beauregarde – Wrong Priorities The next trap I think many parents fall into is the wrong priorities trap. We communicate to our kids every day what is important. By what we say but far more by what we do. I will start off by saying I am a very competitive person. I like to

Augustus Gloop: Self-Control We live in a day and age now were we are blessed with so much. So much food, entertainment, money. We have so much we are so blessed! This should be great news for our kids, but is it? The down side to all this blessing is that kids now days have

I was going to write some blog posts about family but went back into my archives and found a series I did on family skills illustrated in the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” I thought they were worth revisiting hope you do too. Importance of Family. As a children’s pastor you see the good

My church is to big for this. Whatever you are doing I guarantee this is quicker, faster, easier and cheaper to use ,especially in a multi-site church, than what you are using now. My church is to small for this. The great news is Bible Bucks 2.0 is free for the first 10 kiddos and

Sometimes innovation happens by accident sometimes it happens on purpose – I have always been on the fence when it came to rewards in kids church. I have used everything, stamp books, fake money with Jesus on it, even manually putting point amounts on name badges. I needed to come up with a new system