This spring we are hoping to be opening the first of our Champions club’s in our Albany campus. We hope open one in our Utica Campus in a little over a year. What is a Champions Club? Glad you asked. The Champions Club is Lakewood Churches ministry to kids with special needs. It was started […]
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When it comes to starting a special needs ministry or anything in life that is worth doing the hardest part is knowing where to start. The first thing that you have to do is deal with the ignorance factor. This is so huge because I believe ignorance is one of the biggest reasons churches don’t
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A couple of my very talented friends have new CD’s out. The first one is from a good friend of mine who actually grew up in my kids ministry he and his family are a big part of our church. Shaun is a gifted songwriter and did an amazing job on his début album. It’s
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Have you ever gone to see a movie because the first one was so good and you left wondering why you wasted your money. I have. The new Rizers CD was nothing like that in fact I may like the second album better than the first one. Before the first Rizers CD came out I
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I still remember the first time I saw Vegetables talk. It was years ago Phil Vischer first brought us Bible stories told through the creative lens of household vegetables. It was great it had something for the kids and parents. He was able to capture the imagination of parents and kids at the same time. Vischers new
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The Power Of Family. At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it adds a few scenes that were not in the original movie. For me these last few scenes made the movie so much more powerful than the original movie with Gene Wilder. It really drove home that the four kids and their
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Mike Teavee – No Boundaries Kids need boundaries they crave them. Kids do not feel safe or loved in an environment where they can do whatever they want. It sounds very loving to embrace your child’s creative desire to do whatever they want. I believe it is cruel. By allowing you kids to do what
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Veruca Salt – Give your kids whatever they want Why do we give our kids whatever they want? Guilt Wanting our kids to have what we didn’t have growing up Because we can Because it’s easier than saying no Because we love them and want whats best for them We may be trying to buy
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Violet Beauregarde – Wrong Priorities The next trap I think many parents fall into is the wrong priorities trap. We communicate to our kids every day what is important. By what we say but far more by what we do. I will start off by saying I am a very competitive person. I like to
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Augustus Gloop: Self-Control We live in a day and age now were we are blessed with so much. So much food, entertainment, money. We have so much we are so blessed! This should be great news for our kids, but is it? The down side to all this blessing is that kids now days have
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