I really do think that Groups Kidmin Conference could be a game changer. In my years of serving as a kids pastor I have seen a gigantic shift in the culture of who, how and why kids ministry is done. I think that we are starting to see those changes speed up due to social media and […]
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For my latest edition of TakeTen I caught up with Stephen Posey. For those of you who don’t know Stephen he is the Chidren’s Pastor at Church On The Move. Recently Stephen and his team were able to take over what many people call Big Church, I like to call it “Old People’s Church”. They
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We started something last year called a “Happy Birthday Jesus Party.” It was a blast! We had a Birthday party for Jesus in every one of our environments. One of the things that has always bothered me is the concrete reality of who Santa is. Kids have a fresh reminder of who Santa is every
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Had the privilege of doing a guest blog post at Lifeway kids. They have a great blog with a great group of writer. They were kind enough to allow me to do a guest post for them. I wrote my post about the the 8 tech tools that should be on every kids pastor’s wish list for
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Group me seems like it’s almost made for kidmin. It’s an amazing tool that is web based but has a fully functioning iPhone and Adroid app. Basicly you create a group of users who all have cell phones a unique number is assigned to that group and every time you text that number it is
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This book was one of the best parenting books I have read in a while. It’s so cool how when God is speaking something to you he goes out of his way to do it in 5.1 Dolby surround sound. So often I grip a little walkie talkie and try to scan for God’s frequency
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I had an idea come to reality last Friday. I have had this idea to help families connect create a shared memory but most of all give parents and opportunity to lead their own children to Christ. Over the past couple of years I have been thinking about how we can use significant events to
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To reward or not to reward. It’s the age old question in children’s ministry. I am one of those people who can see value in both but if you force me to take a side I will usually side with rewards because I know when used properly they work. At Redeemer we use an online
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I don’t care if you like cats this is funny.
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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 still
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