This week I am going to be going into our Be Attitudes which are the values that we need to live and breath each weekend. Our Be Attitudes for Uptown are: BE SAFE BE COURTEOUS BE ENGAGING BE CONSISTENT Today I want to talk about safety. When working with kids you can never be to […]
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I am really excited about a new sponsor of samluce.com it’s a product produced by Lifeway called Flyte. It’s a curriculum created specifically to address the needs of kids in 5th and 6th grade. One of the biggest opportunities for curriculum companies is to produce a quality pre-teen curriculum. Lifeway has done that looking over what they
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Chris Spradlin over at EpicParent.tv wrote a great post about Tattling vs. Telling. I love his take in encouraging our kids not to tattle we need to also let them know when to tell. Read it here. I have had a few parents ask abou the issue of tattling. I thought I would address it
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Guerrilla concept #1 – Talk to your kids through play. I have heard lots of parents say that their kids don’t talk to them. I am still figuring this out myself but I often find my kids talk to me when I understand how they communicate and when I understand where they communicate. The other
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So what is guerrilla parenting? It’s parenting that relies on time, energy and imagination. As our world changes we need to think of creative, unique ways to engage our kids. I want to talk over a few posts or who knows maybe more about how we can engage in guerrilla parenting. What are some
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Influence in my mind is measured not by how great people think you are but how you can leverage those feelings of goodwill to help others. I know that I am not the most influential blogger in children’s ministry and being included in the original field of 60 and still be here with the remaining four is humbling to say the
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I had the privilege of writing a guest post for Chris Sprad over at Epicparent.tv. Sprad is a great guy love his heart and I love his raw honest take on parenting. His site is a breath of fresh parenting air. I love it. If you are a parent or a pastor you need to
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I’ve shared here and here about the how and why leading up to the creation of a free resource for the kidmin community by the kidmin community. We are really excited to be able to offer it for free on our blogs. What we did was create a 5 week curriculum that unveils God’s rescue
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I want to start this post by saying I do not know everthing there is about curriculum production, and I in no way am thinking of one curriculum company as I write this post. My goal in this post is to hopefully create a diolog, or even to get us as children’s pastors to ask
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Great article over at thrivingfamily.com on helping your kids deal with doubt. Pulled this Keller quote from the article Tim Keller offers an important observation: A faith without some doubts is like a human body without any antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask hard questions about
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