As I finished up our Easter service yesterday I thought back over the crazy morning our Children’s Ministry had. I came into Easter viewing it as an important day, understanding that there was the potential for extra first time visitiors, and for new children, everything was extra ready. The classes were immaculate. The greeters extra [...]
Archive for March, 2008
What are we aiming for?
Posted in children's ministry on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
creativity
Posted in children's ministry, leadership on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Where do you go to get your creativity? I know that creativity or the inspiration for creativity can be found in many places and it is different for each person. Some find it in watching or viewing things of great quality – i.e. Disney, others find it in a beautiful place, for me it is [...]
Friarsgate Egg Hunt
Posted in children's ministry, family on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are 5 days away from Friarsgate’s largest Egg Hunt! Join us on Saturday, March 22nd at Friarsgate Park at 10am to help search among 10,000 Easter eggs. All eggs are filled with prizes in addition to other prizes. We’ll also have games, inflatables, and food following the hunt. So bring your family out, tell [...]
Fellowship One
Posted in children's ministry, church, leadership on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We are implementing a new web based software database system at church that will totally change how we manage people and ministries. Fellowship One is created by Fellowship Church and is amazing. It’s like an onion with all the layers you can pull back to do the things you need to do. There is so [...]
growing from a conference
Posted in children's ministry, church on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So when you go to a conference and you see the awesome things another church or ministry is doing only they are like 10 times the size of your ministry, what do you do with that information? It’s easy to get frustrated and feel like what you’ve learned doesn’t apply to you being the difference [...]
blog changes…
Posted in family, random thoughts on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part of my problem with lack of posting is that I never seem to know which direction to post in. Call it a blog identity crisis if you will. After attending a workshop on blogging this past week, I realized that the contents of my Children’s Ministry blog were too broad. It started as professional [...]
Free Unleash tickets!
Posted in leadership on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have 3 tickets for Unleash at Newspring Church that our church won’t be using, people have backed out. If you are interested contact me immediately. Tell me why you think you’re deserving of them and should be going! I guarantee you won’t want to miss what Perry has to say!
It’s been awhile but I’m about to be inspired…
Posted in 252 basics, First Look, children's ministry, church, random thoughts on March 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I know, I know…to my few blog readers, I am sorry it has been so long since I last wrote. Life is happening. You know? Family, kids, sickness, church, preschool, etc… I promise I will try to do better!
That being said, I am sure within the next two months I will find inspiration in two [...]