Currently I am running a million directions trying to meet deadlines for many things. We have huge transitions this week with our classes, ages, and classrooms. New teachers starting. New large group environment starting. Our weekday preschool program is finishing up its second school year and we have record enrollment for the summer program we’re [...]
Archive for May, 2008
running a million directions
Posted in children's ministry, random thoughts on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Change…
Posted in children's ministry, church on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again, kids are getting out of school, being promoted grades, and everything at church changes. At least at ours it does!
This week will mark the new classes for kids in the Children’s Ministry. We don’t do any hoopla for “promotion” – personally, I think that’s silly. But we are having [...]
Smaller is not an excuse!
Posted in children's ministry, church, leadership, vision on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So as a church leader, when you attend a conference or something at another church, if you are not a mega-giga, huge church. you have the potential to walk away feeling discouraged and deflated. Often you think, “Well, I can’t do that! We’re only __(fill in the blank)__ people!” I’ve felt that way many times. [...]
Relevancy?
Posted in church, leadership on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some thoughts spoken by Louie Giglio ar the Orange Conference have been on my mind for a week now. He was talking in our last main session that the church has made relevancy the idol of the contemporary church. That we need to focus on cultural transcendence rather than cultural relevancy. The bottom line was [...]
Orange Conference Day 3
Posted in children's ministry, church, leadership, vision on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Day 3 of Orange was awesome. We wrapped up with hearing from Andy Stanley and Louie Giglio. Some thoughts:
Andy Stanley
Don’t think in terms of evangelism – think in terms of people. Christians and non-christians have more in common than we think.
A small group leader has more potential to assist a Christian in their spiritual development [...]
Orange Conference Day 2
Posted in children's ministry, church, leadership, vision on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I loved hearing Francis Chan speak on Day 2 of Orange. He spoke in our 1st main session of the day and blew me away. Some thoughts:
so much of what we call success in our churches isn’t necessarily the Holy Spirit working, but just having the right team in place – we need to look [...]
Orange Conference 2008
Posted in children's ministry, church, leadership, vision on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow! Just returned from Orange Conference 2008 today and am feeling pretty full right now. It was great and I came away with a ton of inspiration, ideas, and vision not only for Children’s Ministry but for the church as a while. I’ll share a few tidbits from the speakers:
Day 1 – Reggie Joiner
He opened [...]
