I recently read a wonderful book, “The Creative Family” by Amanda Blake Soule that challenged me to look at creativity daily in new ways and to make living it intentional. Whether it is within my family, personally, or professionally there are many ways in day to day living to foster creativity.
Creativity is authored by God. Just [...]
Archive for August, 2008
living a creative life
Posted in children's ministry, church on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lessons from my 4 year old…
Posted in children's ministry, church, family, leadership, random thoughts on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cade, my 4 year old, wanted to color a picture. That’s cool, kids love to color right? So I got him a piece of construction paper and some markers and away he went. A basic task like coloring should be predictable, right? Paper, markers, and a 4 year old = scribbled mess and mommy’s masterpiece, [...]
intimidated by unfamiliarity
Posted in children's ministry, church, leadership on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I realized something last night about myself — I tend to not follow through with large tasks or changes because underneath it all I am intimidated by their unfamiliarity. For example — we are considering homeschooling our children. I feel almost like I haven’t taken the decision seriously, researched it much, or even have my [...]
What’s on the horizon for Children’s Ministry?
Posted in children's ministry, random thoughts on August 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So it seems as if the most current trend for Children’s Ministry has been this shift to “Family Ministry” with a large emphasis put upon “family production” for those who are in churches with the resources to do one. I am an advocate of family ministry, although I have found it difficult to fully integrate [...]
transition to 2 services
Posted in children's ministry on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It looks like in the possible future we may be switching from a Sunday School/Church format to dropping Sunday School to add another service. We’re looking at ideas. I am thrilled to be dropping Sunday School. Already this past year I have switched our children’s ministry from a Sunday School mindset to a small group [...]
