Met with Mike and Gareth on Tuesday to discuss the Pipeline conference. What it is: Conference for Youth workers and Children’s workers What we want to accomplish: 1. Help Youth workers and Kids workers see the value of collaboration 2. Create a conference that is a great balance of information/application/network connection I think we all […]

Just got off the phone with Tammy Melchien. Tammy currently serves as the Executive Director of Kids’ City, the Children’s Ministry of Community Christian Church. CCC is a multi-site church with 8 locations in the Chicagoland area. Her pastor wrote the book “The Big Idea”. It is a fantastic book that basically cast vision for

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His name is Mark Schilling he likes watching movies and taking long walks on the beach. Just kidding. Mark is a great guy. He is actually the second Youth Pastor I have had the privilege of working with. There are many things that I appreciate about Mark. His commitment to the local church Mark is

Just got my iPhone last week. It was crazy but well worth it. Read that story here.The web was all a flutter with the app store. I have found however that some of the touted apps from the app store don’t function as well as some iPhone specific web sites out there. Here are a

Found this site through a friend. I can’t stop laughing. The guy is a genius. One of my favs is “#337. The guy that screams “Jesus!!!” at concerts” Make sure you read they comments some of them are as funny as the blog post.

Couldn’t agree wit Seth more. Apple botched it.

Another way I believe that child and youth ministries can work together is through sharing resources. I know that one of the ways I have seen God bless and use our children’s ministry and youth ministry in our church is by using our strengths to strengthen each other not just our position. There are many

My suggestion for Apple for when they redo their iPhone ad. Twice as fast, half the price (2/3 your life) I am not a line sitter. I just don’t understand the cultural phenomena of can’t wait to have something so I will wait 2 days in line to have it now. I digress. It is

When you look at a kid do you see the same thing your youth pastor sees? I believe that commonality of vision is one on the most important things Youth Pastors and Children’s Pastors must share. Because you have commonality does not mean you have to be a carbon copy. You don’t have to do