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Orange Week: Leverage Influence

21 Jan

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Saving the universe is always a team effort

If you serve in children’s ministry, you cannot afford to glance over today’s #OrangeWeek concept: Leverage Influence.

One of the major themes behind the idea of leveraging impact is getting students involved in the mission, not just being the mission.  The endgame is not merely passing the faith on to the next generation… it’s equipping them to pass the faith on to the generation that comes after them.  We’re not giving students and children tickets for the heaven train and asking them to wait for its arrival.  Instead, we’re called to wrap them into the great commission, that they might own their faith in such a way that they pass it on to others.

If you want to geek out on a church that has integrated its strategy across the board when it comes to getting children and students plugged into service, check out Dan Scott’s post Orange Week: Leverage Influence.

We’ve seen students take a more bold approach to faith because of their involvement in running Glenkirk Church’s Vacation Bible School.  We enlist about 300 Jr. and Sr. High students from our community to invest in the work that’s done on our campus each summer for VBS.

I’ve posted about what this looks like before…

Students go through over 20 hours of training in order to serve during the week of vbs.
Click HERE to read more.

We take any student who wants to work with kids and is willing to fill out an application.
Click HERE to read more.

Getting students involved in passing on their faith gives them a chance to own what they believe about who God is.  For some, serving on our campus for that week is a gateway into becoming a Christ follower.  For others, serving reminds them of why they decided to follow Jesus in the first place.  And, for a select few, God uses this experience to call students into the radical world of full-time ministry.

If your church isn’t giving Students a chance to serve, you’re robbing them of a chance to know Jesus more fully.

There’s more to be said on this subject, but apparently Southern California isn’t built for rain.  We’ve had a few days of downpours in a row and you’d think the world is ending.  Because of frequent power outages, I’ll wrap this post up here.  To read more about the Orange concept of Leveraging Influence, make sure you swing by Children’s Ministry Online throughout the day!

 
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Posted by on January 21, 2010 in Kidmin, Los Angeles

 

Orange Week: Reactivate the Family

20 Jan

Orange Week: Reactivate the Family

If I’m being completely honest and vulnerable, I’ll tell you one thing – I don’t want to let my kids down.  I want to pass on the faith well.  I want my kids to know and love Jesus in a way that impacts the rest of their lives.  I want my kids to pass the faith on to the generation after them.  I don’t want them to become just another statistic.

Every parent in your church feels the same way.  If you put a picture of their kids at the beginning of this post, they would sign off on many of the same things I think and feel as a parent.  If only every one of them understood what’s at stake when they drop off their kids in our programs…

Students are leaving the church.

Every Summer, we graduate kids into the abyss of post-high school and we hope and pray that what we’ve taught them at church sticks.

If, along the way, the church fails to engage and partner with parents in the spiritual formation of their kids, more students will walk away from the church.

The Orange philosophy of ministry calls on the church to partner with parents and Reactivate the Family.  Let me share with you a few ways Glenkirk Church is investing in families in 2010.

This Saturday, we’re offering a Marriage Conference featuring Jim Burns – an award winning author of several books on marriage and family, and host of the nationwide Home Word radio program.  We’re investing in marriages and telling our community that we believe the home should be the hub of ministry, not the church… the church exists to equip families to pass the faith on to their kids.

In two weeks, we’ll be taking a group of dads and sons (and some moms and sisters) to spend some time making connections and watching giant trucks crunch cars, fly through the air, and make a ton of noise.  Every parent in attendance will leave with a “parenting mission” for the next month.  Events like this give us an extra opportunity to speak into the lives of parents as they walk alongside their kids in everyday activities.  As the year progresses, we’ll offer other events that isolate one-to-one relationship in families (couples events, mother/son, father/daughter, mother/daughter) and leverage those events in a way that equips families and gives them tools to talk about their faith at home.

On Valentine’s Day, we’re welcoming couples back onto our campus in the afternoon for a little pre-date romance to start the evening.  We’ll have a string quartet, flowers, and prizes for couple married the longest, the most recent, the most times (well, maybe we won’t give out prizes for that last one).

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It’s not an accident that, in the first 2 months of 2010, we’ll have hosted 3 large events that look to strengthen families and marriages.  Each time we get parents together for a gathering, we have an opportunity to affirm their desire to pass their faith on to their kids and we have the responsibility to equip them to do so.

There is not a family that walks onto your church campus who wants to fail (even if your church is portable).  As parents, we can’t look at our kids without thinking of the men and women they’ll become and what they’ll do with their lives.  For parents who love Jesus, our top priority is passing our faith on to our kids.  As a church, you have a captive audience… you just need to start speaking their language and become intentional about using the 30 hours you have with a student over the course of a year to equip the 3000 hours their parents will spend with them.

Want to see what others are saying about Reactivating the Family? Head on over to ChildrensMinistryOnline.com to see what others in the kidmin community are saying during Orange Week!

Want to read a recap of Day 3 of Orange Week?
Check out “Orange Week: Tuesday Recap“

 
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Posted by on January 20, 2010 in Kidmin, Los Angeles

 

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Orange Week: Elevate Community

19 Jan

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You are all Sunday School teachers.  When you drive through the parking lot, when you wait in line for donuts, when you choose whether or not you’ll lean down to say hello to a small child… you are teaching our kids what it looks like for a grown up to live out their faith.

No pressure.

Every opportunity I have, I remind our church, and our parents, that raising a child up in the faith is a job that’s bigger than one person can handle.  Heck, it’s bigger than one family can handle.

Moses, at the end of his life, gathered the people of Israel together for one final charge – pass the faith on to the next generation.  When we look at Deuteronomy 6, we see a call to the community of God’s people to walk alongside their children and youth and teach them what faith in God should look like.  The call goes out to more than just parents – it’s the aunts, uncles, grandparents, brothers, sisters and neighbors who are called to rally together to pass on a love for God to those who are younger than they are.

Somewhere in the mix, we’ve fallen short on this one.  Some parents have been told that it’s their responsibility, and theirs alone, to lead their children to Christ.  Other parents have been given the impression that the church will handle the spiritual development of their kids… all they have to do is drop them off.  If your church can toss these two misconceptions out the window, and embrace a community approach to a child’s spiritual development, our kids have a better chance of being equipped to reach the generation after them with the Gospel of Christ.

But, Elevating Community is a two way street.  The church needs to be intentional about placing leaders in the lives of children and students who can speak into situations in their lives in ways that parents rarely can.  Parents need to consistently bring their kids to church in order to foster trusting relationships with small group leaders.

At Glenkirk Church, we have a consistent model of ministry that elevates a community worship experience (large group teaching/praise) supported by a relational time of reflection, application and prayer.  Whether you are 4 years old, or 74 years old, our hope is that you are experiencing both large group and small group environments.  This rhythm exists in everything we do.

As a parenting tool, I often encourage parents of our elementary aged students to serve as a small group leader in student ministries… consider it “covert-ops”.  When parents develop meaningful relationships with students outside of their children’s peer group, it elevates the perception of need for that same relationship in their child’s future.  That is, when they see how important small group leaders are, it encourages them to support and partner with their own child’s small group leader.  At the same time, it often gives parents a glimpse into their own family’s future (by hearing the struggles and situations that their children may face in the coming years) and gives them an opportunity to equip and prepare their own kids for the future.

Want to see what others are saying about Elevating Community? Head on over to ChildrensMinistryOnline.com to see what others in the kidmin community are saying during Orange Week!

Want to read a recap of Day 2 of Orange Week?
Check out “Orange Week: Refine the Message Recap“

 
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Posted by on January 19, 2010 in Kidmin, Orange

 

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Ideas: The One that Worked

18 Jan

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This is a series of posts exploring three major types of ideas that exist in a collaborative community… ideas that have to be shared in order for the community to actually be collaborative.  For the first post in this series check out: Ideas in a Collaborative Community.

I wanted to start this series with the easiest type of idea that needs to be shared to make a community begin to shift toward collaboration : The One that Worked.

I’ll start with an example from our ministry at Glenkirk Church, just outside of Los Angeles, CA.

The Idea

Years ago, we looked at our attendance records and noticed some patterns… in the fall, our Sunday morning numbers would begin to climb until leveling off a few weeks before Christmas.  After a few weeks of slight decline, Christmas visitors would come check us out and attendance would pick up again on a steady climb toward Easter.  After the Easter boost, our numbers would plateau until mid-May when they would begin their free-fall into the Summer months.  During the summer, numbers dropped to about half of what they are during the school-year, with a ridiculous jump in attendance during the two weekends following VBS.

As our team looked at this pattern, we began wondering what would happen if we created a large event in the fall, pre-Christmas, that could help build momentum and increase our peaks through the holiday season.  That, my friends, was how our Halloween Festival was born.

The idea was simple, we’d create an event in the Fall that would bring people onto campus with the goal of giving as many un-churched families a glimpse of our church as possible.  We labeled it a “Halloween Event” because Halloween is the 2nd most celebrated Holiday in the US (Christmas is a distant first -  It’s estimated that over $2.5 billion is spent on Halloween annually) and “Harvest Festivals” or “Fall Festivals” seem to only to bring in those who are looking for Halloween alternatives – typically Christ followers (not our target audience).  We hosted the event the Wednesday before Halloween so that we wouldn’t compete with the churches in the area already running successful/large events on October 31st (one nearby church runs an event on Halloween that pulls in over 10,000 people… why compete with another church if you don’t have to!).

Over the last two years, we’ve seen hundreds of families come onto our campus who have never been there before.  They trick-or-treat through our children’s ministry and youth ministry large group and small group rooms.  They meet families and friends of Glenkirk who host the carnival areas and food court.  They discover how to drive from their house to our church (something that we feel will come in handy when they plan on checking out a church in the near-future).  The come excited and leave happy.  We’ve seen this event act as a catalyst for multiple families who visited on Halloween and now call our church home.  The only thing we’ll continue to tweak is trying to create more places for families to slow down and meet each other.

We call this event a success.

How to Share Ideas that Worked

When an event is over and it meets your established criteria for success, you need to tell others about it.  It’s important to share tools that you find effective with others who are looking for new strategies to reach those outside of the Church.  However, there are a couple quick rules you’ll need to follow in order to share this idea effectively.

Share the process, not just the results.
You’re not helping the kingdom when you simply brag about the results of an idea.  Your idea didn’t cost the church money? Great! 13 kids made decisions to follow Jesus because of your idea? Fantastic! Your Senior Pastor didn’t hate the idea? Amazing!  But, for your idea to actually help the community, we need to know the thoughts and process that went into it.  How did you plan to measure success?  What went well?  What will you fix next time?  Why do you think your idea worked?  Would your idea work in another community or at another church?  These are the questions you’ll need to answer to help others who are considering using your idea.

Which leads to…

Be willing to be copied

The best and worst thing about sharing an idea that’s worked is that others will try to use it.  And you need to be okay with that.  If your idea lead to success, then you should be willing to have someone else see that same success elsewhere.  If you’re holding onto an idea too tightly to share it, then you’re more concerned with castle building than kingdom building.  At the end of the day, we need to be excited about seeing others in ministry success.  We need to learn to collaborate, rather than compete with each other.

Over this series of posts, we’ll continue to explore the other two major types of ideas that exist in a collaborative community… ideas that have to be shared in order for the community to actually be collaborative.

 
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Posted by on January 18, 2010 in Kidmin, Los Angeles

 

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Orange Week: Refine the Message

18 Jan

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When you peel away the curriculum your church uses to communicate the message you want kids to take home, what’s left?

Whether you use a rotation model, video curriculum, Large group/Small group formats, puppets, or another method, the curriculum you use is just the shell around the heart of what you’re trying to communicate to children and their families.

At the end of the day, I think those of us leading children and students need to realize the truth behind the following ideas…

  • All scripture is equally inspired
  • All scripture is not equally important
  • All scripture is not equally applicable to every stage of life

If you can wrap your mind around those concepts, you have a much better chance of refining your message.  If you want to argue against that, skip on down to the comment section!

Now, what does that look like at Glenkirk Church?  For starters, we’ve taken time over the last year to specifically gear what we teach at each of our programs to meet specific ends.  Let me give you a quick rundown of what that looks like:

Good News Clubs

A little over a year ago, our church began running after school programs in three of our local public Elementary schools.  Our clubs now serve over 300 kids on a weekly basis.  Our team decided early on that, if we wanted to communicate a relevant message to large groups of children who did not already attend church, we didn’t need to teach every story in the Bible at our clubs.  Instead, we try to focus on big picture ideas (What is the Bible? What is Prayer? Who is God? Who is Jesus? etc.) and we use the Biblical narrative and texts to give answers.  At the end of the day, many of these kids could never compete in a Bible trivia competition… and we’re okay with that.  Instead, we’re giving them tools to discover who God is and that Jesus loves them.

Adventureland

Kids need a place to ask questions about who God is.  Adventureland, our Sunday morning environment for kids at our church, is that place… it’s a place where foundations are built and where kids are equipped to live out their faith.  We structure our mornings to intentionally teach and model what we feel a Christian community should look like (a place where we gather for large group teaching, we spend time in relational small groups, and we look for ways to communicate God’s love to those outside the circle), and we are more concerned with ways to live out our faith during the week than we are with covering the Bible from cover to cover.  I’m not ashamed to say that.  There are sections of the text that we’ll never cover on a Sunday morning… and I’m cool with that.

AWANA

You may have a church in your area (maybe even your own!) that runs an AWANA program.  It probably looks a little different than ours.

Because we’re already actively involved in evangelistic endeavors off-campus, we are able to take our mid-week program and really focus on growing our kids in their faith.  We’ve refined our message in a way that helps our kids become the people that God created them to be.  We give our kids hard challenges.  We ask them to memorize key sections of Scripture (not ALL of it… but the pieces that we feel are applicable to the life stages and situations that our students face).  We ask them, above all else, to consider who God has created them to be… and we try to give them tools to live into that reality.  I like to consider our AWANA program a launching pad rather than a discipleship program – discipleship sounds stagnant to me… and our faith should be anything BUT that.

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Refining your message starts with having an end in mind.  Can you define why you run the programs you run?  If you’re a parent, can you tell me what end your church has in mind for your child?  If your church has refined its message, you should be able to answer those questions.

Want to see what others are saying about Refining the Message? Head on over to ChildrensMinistryOnline.com to see what others in the kidmin community are saying during Orange Week!

Want to read my favorite post from Day 1 of Orange Week?  Check out this amazing post on Integrating Strategy (part 1) by my colleague Dan Scott.

 
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Posted by on January 18, 2010 in Uncategorized

 

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Orange Week: Integrated Strategy

17 Jan

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You Can’t Do It Alone.

You don’t live in a vacuum.

When I first heard of “Orange” ministry, I thought this was going to be the hardest part… Children’s and Student ministries working together in collaboration?! Are you kidding?

Now, years later, I’m beginning to see that having a strategy in place isn’t just a good idea, it’s essential.  But, I’ll confess, we’re not there yet.  Having an integrated strategy hinges on the simple concept of having a strategic plan that successfully takes a child from the cradle to college in a way that leads them to become fully devoted followers of Jesus along that path.  It takes a true partnership between church staff.  It takes a clear plan and measurements for success.  It takes a rethinking of all that we thought we knew about children and youth ministries.  Most of all, it takes a leap of faith.

Integrated

Months ago, our church realized that we were going to have to restructure in order to survive the economic downturn.  I sat down with our Student Ministry director to come up with a game plan for how our departments might restructure.  We had talked about partnerships and collaboration in the past but had never truly put our money where our mouths were.  In trying to integrate our two departments, we decided to share an administrative assistant and intentionally overlap the staffing of our departments.  Doing this has forced us to know what the other department is up to.  If our assistant is swamped because too many events are going on, then parents who have students in both areas are probably feeling the same way!  This is the first step in the direction of integration for us – we know we’ll have to do more in the future to become truly orange.

Strategy

I’d be hard pressed to give us high marks in the area of strategy, based on the simple fact that our Student Ministry department is in the middle of an overhaul.  They have great plans for the future.  It’s just that, they’re launching this weekend – it’ll take some weeks of fine tuning to figure out where they fit in the big picture of integration. Our hope is that, by having our Student Ministry staff join us in Atlanta for The Orange Conference this year, we’ll be able to develop the strategy side of things for a Fall Twenty10 launch.  It’s hard to let go of “my plans” for our church’s kids and share the creative process with a peer on our own staff.  What if they don’t like my ideas?  What if I can’t do all of the things I want to do?  What if I lose my 5th graders to a combined pre-teen program?! The possibilities for losing control are endless.

In the end, I have to trust that a strategic plan for our church’s kids will be better than anything I could come up with on my own.

If you know me, you know that I had a hard time writing that sentence.  We’ll see, over the next year, how much I mean it.

Want to see what others are saying about integrated strategy? Head on over to ChildrensMinistryOnline.com to see what others in the kidmin community are saying during Orange Week!

 
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Posted by on January 17, 2010 in Kidmin, Orange

 

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Orange Week

17 Jan

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Knock Knock.

Who’s there?

Orange.

This next week, a fellowship of leaders from across the country will be sharing their thoughts and experiences on the concept of an “Orange” ministry philosophy.

If you don’t already know who these game changers are, here’s a quick list of who’ll be involved:

Kenny Conley (www.childrensministryonline.com)

Called to children’s ministry as a 14 year old, Kenny has dedicated his entire life toward reaching kids for Christ and equipping them for life’s greatest journey. In addition to his passion for kids, Kenny’s heart is to equip and encourage those who pastor and work with kids by sharing ideas, training and giving away “things that have worked for him.”

Currently Kenny is the Next Generation Pastor at Gateway Community Church in Austin, Texas. Kenny has a B.A. in Christian Education and a M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction. He’s been a children’s pastor for over 11 years and can’t believe it’s been that long.

Kenny is married to Sara, his wife of 8 years and has one child, Titus Whitfield Conley. Kenny especially enjoys movies, skiing, Diet Pepsi and red jello!

Gina McClain (www.ginamcclain.com)

Gina McClain is a speaker, teacher and writer.  Her marriage to Kyle McClain keeps her marginally sane while their 3 kids (Keegan , Josie and Connor) keep her from taking herself too seriously.  Her driving motivator is to lead Christ-followers to embrace and foster ministry in their home.  If the living room is the hub of ministry, the neighborhood is different.  If the neighborhood is different, the city is different.  If the city is different, the world is different.

Sam Luce (www.samluce.com)

Sam Luce has been the children’s pastor at Mt. Zion Ministries Church in Utica NY for the past 12 years. He is passionate about empowering the local church to effectively reach kids for Christ. When he is not working he loves spending time with his beautiful wife and three kids.

Matt McKee (www.mckeelive.com)

Matt loves making a difference, marketing, technology, and sports; as well as his wife, Jessica, and two sons, Patriot and Azlan.

Church Experience:
Matt worked at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX for five years, helping create and produce “G-Force,” a curriculum for elementary age children. He also contributed to the dream phase of Elevate, an elementary curriculum currently in production. Now, he serves as the Pastor of Students and Children at Horizon Community Church in Cincinnati, OH.

Social Media Experience:
Matt consults with many professionals in the Cincinnati area in creating and maintaining a social media strategy (ie. Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, ect..). Strategy is more important than just doing. His best advice for those trying to leverage social media for either business or personal use is to be human. You can interact with him on twitter, facebook, linked in, posterous, or his blog.

Jonathan Cliff (www.jonathancliff.com)

Jonathan is the Children’s Ministry Pastor at Trinity Church in Lubbock, TX.  He would be considered an Abnormal Children’s Pastor in many circles, as he’s not a big fan of puppets or magic tricks that cause things to spontaneously burst into flames.

His blog is a collection of family, church, culture, and technology musings from someone who isn’t really important enough for his thoughts to matter.

He is the faithful husband of one, and the very tired father of three.

JC Thompson (www.jcisonline.com)
JC is a creative guy.  Rather than write out his bio… he has it in video format here: Click HERE to view video

Dan Scott (www.danscottblog.com)

follower. of Jesus

husband. to Jenna

father. to Liam, Ellison, Addison, & Taye

creative director. for the families at Ada Bible Church

creative. to bring joy.

vulnerable. here, there, and everywhere. seriously, ask him anything.

lover. of God. of Jenna. of kids. of church. of life.

friend. to many of whom he doesn’t deserve.

son. of Gordon and Janet.

communicator. through print design. music. written word. spoken word.

supporter.of social justice. of environment. of community.

pastor. sometimes.

teacher. sometimes.

artist. always.

Kendra Golden (metacognician.blogspot.com)

Kendra thinks about thinking. She learns about learning. That’s essentially what metacognition means. In her blog she writes about a new chapter of the Bible every day. Although she writes curriculum at LifeChurch.tv, her blog isn’t about that. And although she truly loves her husband and three kids, she’s mostly way in love with God. So He’s who she writes about. He’s who made her a metacognician.

If you’re new to the concept of Orange, you’re about to have your mind flooded with the basics of the strategy and hear, firsthand, some of our experiences as we’ve tried to shift the way we’ve done ministry to reach and equip the next generation of Christ-followers.

Hope you enjoy the week.

 
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Posted by on January 17, 2010 in Kidmin, Orange

 

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Ideas in a Collaborative Community

14 Jan

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Over the next series of posts, we’ll take a look at some of the best ways to share ideas within a collaborative community.

To start with a novel-esque concept, let’s imagine (if just for a moment) that there’s no such thing as a “bad” idea.  In fact, let’s pretend that there’s no such thing as a “good” idea… sorry, “Good Idea Fairy” I think that means you’re out of a job.

Ideas, within a collaborative community, are best communicated when we toss the concepts of “good ideas” and “bad ideas” out the window.  Given a clean slate, we’re more likely to share ideas than if we’re worried about the grade that idea will get from the group.  Fellow #kidmin guru, Kenny Conley, recently posted a dilemma he’s having with the branding of his children’s ministry check-in station.  For Kenny’s post to generate a collaborative conversation, readers have to be willing to put out ideas without fearing what grade (good, bad, lame, boring, old-fashioned, fail, etc) others in the community will give it.  Ultimately, it’s up to Kenny to decide, not which idea is good or bad, but rather, which idea best accomplishes his goals.  At that point, he can make a good or bad decision, but the ideas the community offers are just there to help him process that decision.

Over the next series of posts, we’ll explore three major types of ideas that exist in a collaborative community… ideas that have to be shared in order for the community to actually be collaborative.

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2010 in Uncategorized

 

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Happy New Year!

13 Jan

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Better late than never, right?

You might be wondering why a month has gone by without a post… I have three reasons.

Reason #1: Baby Kate and Cartwheels

I’m still trying to figure out how to juggle full-time ministry, adding my voice to the #kidmin community, and spending time with our son and daughter.  Seriously, who would pick sitting in front of a computer screen over this adorable little girl?!

And, how could I NOT take this little guy to Disneyland… it’s half an hour away and we have annual passes!

Reason #2: Meeting 5 People

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In this series of posts, I went big and listed 5 people I wanted to share a meal or a cup of coffee with in 2010.  I’ve spent the last month praying about how to make those dreams a reality.  Now that the year has officially started, I’m going to begin my march toward collaboration.  The Napkin Conference (February 25-26) and The Orange Conference (April 28-30) should help check a few of those names off the list.  Jim Wideman and Sue Miller, I’m talking to you.

Reason #3: Christmabirthdays

Christmas is a crazy season for those of us in ministry.

Glenkirk Church hosts 4 Christmas eve services… two of which are geared specifically to young children and their families.  In fact, we’re shifting our strategies to reach families in some new and exciting ways this year.  Revving up for Christmas and then launching large ministry plans for 2010 takes concentration.  I also spent a night with some of our best friends rocking out to karaoke & celebrating my birthday.  Now that the holidays are over and things are under way, I’ll use this space to share some of the strategic ways our team plans to reach families with the Gospel of Jesus in this coming year.  For a glimpse, check out what we sent to the families who visited our church in 2009 by clicking HERE.

All that to say, it’s good to be back.

 
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Posted by on January 13, 2010 in Kidmin

 

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