Archive for • Philosphy & Vision
• Day Dreaming or Vision?
Pursuing Your Dreams? There is nothing quite like the freedom to pursue your dreams. Many of you are launching your children’s ministries, still others of you are farther along. However, the same question applies: How are you preparing to achieve your vision? When I was a college student, I would often wonder just how my [...]
• Confessions of a Stuck Leader
After forty, plus, years in the ministry experience, I must confess I have been “stuck” many times. “Stuck” is a kind of quagmire experience that I can “wallow in” that basically renders me immobile to forward progress. It comes when I am over committed to big events and I try to recover by being [...]
• A Church with Closed Doors?
That’s Right! Whittier Area Community Church closed it’s doors this weekend. The doors are closed because it is Serve Weekend. This is now the third annual Serve Weekend where the whole congregation is encouraged to show love and compassion to others by practical service projects in our communities.
The mission of Serve Weekend is to [...]
• My Floral Bouquet #6
These floral beauties are daisies, that I captured in Estonia. Daisies are quite common flowers, found in so many places. Daisies are, to me, rather simple flowers, rather symmetrical with only two colors with the clean white pedals. They have a clean crisp look in contrast to the green foliage. These flowers impressed me [...]
• Children’s Ministry Makeover?
Is there such a thing as a Ministry Makeover? Well, I have been working on a new look and doing some new things with our Evangelistic Ministry. Our vision is to creatively evangelize children and help others to do the same. I am hearing you say, just how do you do that?
• Celebrate the Child
In the late 1990’s there was a group of national children’s ministries leaders that gathered four times a year at the Billy Graham Center on the campus of Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. I was privileged to be a part of this group that worked hard to create an national initiative called Celebrate the Child. One [...]
