I have been absent from the blogsphere for a while now. Our family has had some big decisions to make the past few months, that will overall effect my ministry to children and families. My husband has been the youth pastor at our church, Dutch Fork Christian Church, for the past 7 years – where [...]
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New seasons, new challenges…just faith
Posted in church, family, random thoughts on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hello, I’m Michelle. I’m a …
Posted in children's ministry, church, family, random thoughts on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
church planter’s wife.
That’s right, as of January 11th, I will be a full-time church planter’s wife. JD announced his resignation to our church today as we open this new chapter in our lives.
So that also anserws a bit as to why I haven’t been blogging the past few months. God has been moving us in [...]
living a creative life
Posted in children's ministry, church on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Check your language
Posted in church, leadership on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On of my biggest pet peeves is to listen to pastors or teachers who speak in “christianese.” The language that Christians use. We need to understand our audience, whether children, teens, or adults and make sure we’re not using our elite country club language in explaining spiritual truths to them. Make sure the terms you [...]
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 [...]
