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Gina posted this amazing post on her new site www.ginamcclain.com. I loved it, why because it was short and pithy. You need to check it out. Here is a quick quote from her post. Policy may determine whether a customer is contacted. A culture of caring makes the contact unique. This idea is massive. We […]

Well not really. My friend Ryan Frank has been blogging for a while but he launched his new blog RyanFrank.com yesterday. He already has tons of great content. (How does he do that) Ryan is a great guy who really has his finger on the pulse of what is going on in kids ministry. His

1. Will I like it? Yes, Pixar delivers again. The only Pixar movie I had any sort of mixed feelings about to date was Wal-E. 2. Can I bring kids from the church to it? Yes. It shouldn’t be PG the only reason I could see the PG tag over G is brief but tasteful

RT @coldplay: Coldplay-shaped puppets go sightseeing in NYC (but banned from Empire State Building) http://bit.ly/14tVzw # Change has to take place in the context of vision. – @andystanley # Saturday church doing #kidmin. Lov’n that our church has esspresso machines. Making myself a doubleshot. http://twitpic.com/5t3va # Doing a 4year old class today. Loads of sick

Kem Meyer is the communications guru at Granger Community Church she lives to create less clutter less noise. As a kids pastor I could use a little more of both those things. I remember a few years ago when I started reading blogs , long before I started mine, Kem’s blog was a shining beacon

Acronyms I am not sure who likes acronyms better churches or the government. In the government there is the FBI, CIA, DHS, FEMA, NSA the list goes on. As far as the church goes, when I first became the Children’s pastor of our church the name of the elementary ministry was R.O.C.K. Church, I honestly

I have been listening to Andy Stanley’s Leadership Podcast. It has been rocking my free word. If you don’t subscribe to his pod cast you should. He asked a question on his talk about Breaking Paradigms. Here is the question: “What do I believe is impossible to do in my field (Kids ministry) but if

We just finished our first Hillsong Big Curriculum. I loved it. Like anything there were some things I’d like to see changed for next year overall I loved it. My story tellers and small group leaders alike loved it. Which brings me to the point of this post. Most of my small group leaders loved

RT @chicowoo: My wife just said “kids make it hard to be a good mom” LOL # Working on simplifying my categories on my blog. A bit of free advice START SIMPLE/STAY SIMPLE. # Watching Survivor. Still want to be on either Survivor or The Amazing Race at some point. #fb # I am looking

My good friend and fellow blogger Jonathan Cliff made this video for his small group leaders. I think it has value for any small group. Humor + Information = sticky Only two things could have made this video better. 1. Changing the name from KidsPlace to Kidzplace. 2. Random puppets speaking spanish. Kidsplace Unscripted from