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 appreciate everyone who stops by my site and adds to the conversation. I want to take a few minutes to encourage you to check out some of the things the people who sponsor this site have to offer. Integrity Music – Carlos Whittaker – Integrity music has been around forever and after all these
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Bio’s are a like a big nose everyone has one, well lots of people have them. From the rise of blogging to the invention of “The social Network” everyone has a 140 character description of who they are and what they’ve done. Having a bio isn’t a problem. The problem comes when we start believing
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One of the pitfalls of Children’s ministry is we tell so many bible stories we treat the bible like it is a story book or play script. I am not trying to say every kids pastor treats the bible with irreverence. I am saying that when we are using the stories in the bible as
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One of the things I have always heard growing up in church is the devil can’t see our future but he does sense potential. We recognize that the enemy of our soul is out to derail us from our God ordained destiny. He has been doing this for years. If you have been a christian
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Last month was pastor appreciation month, and last Sunday our kids ministry team surprised me by giving me a scrap book of cards, letters, notes of thanks from adults and young people on our team, some notes from parents, as well as notes from the kids in Uptown now and some kids who are all grown up
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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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One of my biggest pet peeves in kids ministry is how we attack our very real need for volunteers. Every conference you go to there will be some form of breakout teaching you how to recruit more volunteers. At these break outs you will often hear tips tricks and how to’s to get more volunteers
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Last year we started something in response to our adults doing for the Advent conspiracy. We were looking for ways to get our kids involved a few of the charities our church was supporting were Love146.org an amazing organization but what they do wasn’t the easiest to translate to our kids. We decided to use our Uptown store
Things we are doing for Christmas in Uptown: Uptown Christmas Catalog. Read More »
