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 [...]
messy spirituality
Posted in random thoughts on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
God is rocking my world right now and I love it! I am craving his Word more than I crave Starbucks! It seems like daily I am reading the Bible at every opportunity I have and I can’t get enough. At the same time I am reading an awesome book, “Messy Spirituality” by Michael Yaconelli. [...]
lyrics speaking to me…
Posted in random thoughts on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This song, Whatever You’re Doing, by Sanctus Real has just been speaking to my heart. It’s amazing that we have a God who know at all times what is best for us and continually moves within us. I love thinking of the illustration of being clay with God being the potter –
Isaiah 64:8
8 Yet, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
pride.
Posted in leadership, random thoughts on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll admit that something I struggle with is pride. So often I’ll go through the day, crossing things off my mental to-do list, patting myself on the back for making it through certain situations or accomplishing things, that I forget to really give credit where credit is due. Without Him, my Savior, I am nothing. [...]
Rough ministry patch
Posted in random thoughts on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been kind of a rough ministry patch the past month or so. I’ve been totally swamped busy, but today I was realizing that even more so than busy with a to-do list a mile long, I’ve been heavy with the hurts of those close to me.
Within the past month we’ve had a wonderful ministry [...]
running a million directions
Posted in children's ministry, random thoughts on May 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
