Archive for Archive for October, 2011
• Time With Grand Kids
Time at Knott’s with Grand Kids I always wanted to be a Grandpa, Now that I have eight Grand Kids life has gotten sweeter for me. All my four kids married late and so all my friends were becoming grandparents before me. Just to make up for it, I would adopt other people’s kids just […]
• Kidmin Talk
Kidmin Talk Karl Bastian, the founder and president of Kidology, Inc., has launched a new bi-monthly podcast series this fall covering Everything Kidmin (children’s ministry). This weekly, about forty-minute, show is patterned much like a Talk-Radio Show with segments and bumper music. Each installment tackles the current buzz in the “kidmin” world, looking at news, […]
• Leadership: Ownership
Leadership: Ownership How do you create ownership in programming? How do create an environment that is conducive to ownership? How do you deal with saboteurs that seek and destroy a good plan? These are significant questions when it comes to developing new programs in children’s ministry. There seems to be three ways that churches do […]
• What Stepping UP Means
What Stepping Up Means! Stepping UP is the concept in leadership that involves moving forward, but exerting more than normal walking energy to lift that other foot higher. It involves taking that extra effort to raise your game to another level. This can occur when people enhance the productivity of their existing activities and assets […]
• Optical Illusions in CM?
This is one of my favorite optical illusions. There are two ladies here, one young and one old. Can you see them? An optical illusion is defined as something that appears one way when you look at it, but to another it appears different when they look at it —two different views of the same […]
• Truth Alive Magazine
For over a year now, I have been quietly submitting monthly articles for the magazine called Truth Alive published in India. Truth Alive is an English Christian family magazine produced in India. Written by prominent Christian writers from across the world, this 26-paged magazine is designed to develop and strengthen the Christian faith in English, equip individuals to transform their communities […]
• Top Hundred Kidmin Blogs
I Made the Top Hundred Kidmin Websites For the second year in a row I secured a spot on the top 100 Kidmin websites. That’s pretty cool. Tony Kummer has figured out a system for qualifying some really good Kidmin sites. Notice where Kidology ranks, and our Scripture Lady too. Whoa! You might want to […]
• How to Approach A Horse
How to Approach A Horse We took 50 kids to a Horse Ranch for a weekend camping experience. The attraction and novelty was the horses, but there were many other farm animals there. Each kid had an animal to care for, for the entire week. Of course, these city kids, who would hardly lift a […]
