I came away from The Orange Conference this last year with all sorts of shifts buzzing through my mind.
You can find some of those thoughts here.
My biggest “wake-up” moment came for me weeks later as I finished my first pass through Reggie Joiner’s Think Orange.
I needed to reevaluate everything that I thought I knew about children’s ministry.
I could take up a lot of space laying out everything I LOVE about what is essentially my new Children’s Ministry manifesto… but, I think Jonathan Cliff does the concepts some justice in his series of Think Orange posts here.
The Church-at-large exists to equip families to reach the next generation with the Gospel of Jesus. It’s taken me 8 years of Children’s Ministry to finally hear that message and respond – I’m excited to see where that philosophy of ministry takes our team.
jonathan
August 9, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Did you read this book, while thinking that somebody was writing what you thought all along? I know I did!
and I think it should have been titled Orange Manifesto!
Anthony Prince
August 9, 2009 at 2:44 pm
it’s like they stole my wildest ministry dreams and wrestled them onto paper.
I’m a fan.