Yancy just came out with a brand new CD and now she has an amazing app that accompanies it. When Yancy recorded her newest album Roots for the Journey she knew these songs were special. The music, organic, unplugged and simple was something that adults of all ages would be eager to listen to again and again. […]
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At CPC San Diego I got a chance to sit down with Heather and Elton kids pastors and founders of We Choose Virtues. I asked them a few questions – What made them start We Choose Virtues? – It started off as a classroom management tool for the preschool class Heather was teaching. The kids
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Last week I had the honor of speaking at the Napkin Conference for my good friend Pastor Benny Perez. What were some of the highlights of the Conference for me? 1. Being able to see the church that my friends Pastor Benny and Pastor Wendy and their team have built. 2. Meeting some of hero’s
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We’re giving this away to one lucky commenter, but read on! Okay…so I love the guys at ONLY144.com. They are working their fingers to the bone trying to bless the socks off smaller churches with limited budgets. They’re a mix between GROUPON and WOOT, only for churches. I wanted to promo this because these types of
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About a year ago I picked up a book called “Shift” it was Brian Haynes’ book written to church leaders explaining this idea of creating milestones. The basic idea was as church leaders you would use the big moments in the life of each family “Salvation”, “Baptism”, “Baby Dedication” etc. to partner with the parents
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My ten favorite post of 2010 Love Jonathan’s honest, humors look at life and ministry. http://kidmin360.com/2010/11/17/future-of-childrens-ministry-jonathan-cliff/ http://www.jonathancliff.com/2010/11/dumb-things-2/ Matt wrote a guest post on my blog that I thought was spot on. Environment matters. http://samluce.com/?p=2295 – Matt’s guest post Here is another post by Matt on Technology. I love Matts forward thinking on church and technology. http://www.whatisorange.org/orangeleaders/blog/?p=4366
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The next sign of a miserable job I want to takle is irrelevance. Lencioni describes Irrelevance this way: Everyone needs to know that their job matters, to someone, anyone. Without seeing a connection between the work and the satisfaction of another person or group of people, an employee simply will not find lasting fulfillment. Even
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We started something last year called a “Happy Birthday Jesus Party”. It was great around 4 weeks before we informed the parents about it by giving out flyers that were actual birthday cards. We encouraged kids to invite their friends to a Birthday Party for Jesus. We taught our normal lesson about 2 weeks before
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Ministry To Children is a fantastic resource for anyone associated in any form whatsoever with Children’s Ministry. They have a huge variety of resources for anyone from a stay at home mom to a full-time kids worker. A few months ago I met Tony Kummer he is a great guy, what I love most about
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Preschool Arcade – Includes three educational mini-games for under a dollar! – ABC Invasion – Pinball 123 – Claw-Crane Matching Fully animated, with dozens of great sounds for little ones to enjoy, plus it is educational! Teaches alphabet recognition for all the letters of the alphabet both capital and lower case, enforces basic number recognition
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