Archive for • Children’s Ministry
• Target Aud—Young Families
Target Audiences The third in a series that will attempt to help you deal with some of the issues you face in relating to various constituents in your children’s ministry. #3. Focus on Families with Young Children It is all about your preschool and your program menu to help parents. It has been researched that […]
• Target Audience—Fathers
Target Audience-Fathers This is the second in a series that will attempt to help you deal with some of the issues you face in relating to various constituents in your children’s ministry. #2. Focus on Fathers I remember becoming a father and wanting input, so that I could be the best father for my children […]
• Target Audience—Boys
Target Audiences This will be a new series that will attempt to help you deal with some of the issues you face in relating to various constituents in your children’s ministry. #1. Focus on Boys It is often easier for us to favor working with the girls in our ministries because they are typically more […]
• Add a Spoonful of Fluff
A Spoonful of Fluff It is easy to be tempted to add some “marshmallow fluff” to our programs. Marshmallow Fluff is a real product. It has been around for almost a hundred years. It is made of marshmallows—kind of whipped into a cream. It is mostly air and sugar, not really much substance. It has […]
• Plate-Spinning Management
Plate-Spinning Management The fine art of “plate spinning” is a sort of a juggling act where you keep as many plates (real or plastic) spinning as you can on top of sticks or poles. If a plate stops spinning, it will fall and break, so you have to visit each plate as it slows, to […]
• Morning Pages
Morning Pages The concept of Morning Pages is founded on a few observations from a writer who discovered her secret for creative writing. Julia Cameron describes this process of writing in her book called, The Artist Way. She had been writing for several years before she stumbled onto her creative writing process. She noticed her […]
• 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 […]
• Move the Rock!
Move the Rock There is an amazing phenomenon that only occurs in Death Valley. On Racetrack Playa, one can find sliding rocks on the riverbed. There seems to be no apparent explanation how these heavy rocks move along the dry parched ground. These rocks leave a rutted trail like they were pushed or pulled along […]
• Show Me Your Work!
Show Me Your Work! Learning math was always a chore for me in school. It never really came easy for me. However, when the teacher required me to “show my work,” this added another dimension to my math skills. If somehow, I skipped a step in the process, but got the right answer by guessing, […]
• Next Generation Partnership
Partners for the Next Generation Recently, our church sponsored a Photo Contest. However, the photo submitted had to answer the question: What do I love about my Church? After a lengthy process, I concluded, “I love my church because it has been willing to partner with me to influence the next generation of the […]
