Archive for • Challenge to Action
• Theme Experiences are “IN”
Theme Programming is Still “HOT!” Dressing up in a costume, developing a character, or creating a set on the stage is still HOT. Check out a few Children’s Church programs and you will get the idea…creating a cool learning environment. I was considered quite “odd” forty years ago, when I decided to wear a Barrel […]
• Cutting Evangelism
Cutting Evangelism? I have noticed that when a church experiences financial troubles the first areas to get cut is evangelism and advertising. I see this as a impulse reaction. Instead of asking “how much?” We should rather ask, “who can we target to reach?” We do know from Church growth studies that churches that target […]
• 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 […]
• Taking One More Step to Jesus
Taking One-More-Step Closer To Jesus If you could figure out how to take one-more-step closer to Jesus, what would that look like? Would you pray? Would you read a great book? Join a Bible Study? Would you prepare differently? Would you ask for more wisdom? Would you give more? Would you witness more? What would […]
• Best Bargain in Tough Times
Karl Bastian, the Kidologist, writes…”As I hear about churches cutting budgets and individuals tightening their financial belts, I just want to remind you that Kidology.org remains your BEST INVESTMENT in tough times.For what you would pay for a magazine and one good children’s ministry book, Kidology.org gives you access to more help, ideas, resources […]
• One “More” Year?
Maybe it is just another new year to you, but not to me! I get very reflective during this time. I find myself reviewing my year and thinking about what was missing and what could have made a difference. I then begin formulating thoughts about what my future year might look like if I […]
• Closing the Office
We began the new year downsizing the office by removing all our creative products, manufacturing, distribution to Kid Helpers Resources, Inc. As the year wore on our office was becoming just a storage unit. So after several months of struggle with it, it was finally decided to close the office after 36 years in the […]
• Celebrate God’s Goodness
We had an wonderfully eventful mission trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. Some fifty-two of us journeyed by bus to remote and needy places. The most wonderful part of the trip was that “God was with us.” He promised us that He would be with us, you know. It says in Matthew 28:19-20, “Therefore, go and make […]
• Top Ten Fatherhood Facts
Top 10 Fatherhood Facts from The National Fatherhood initiative 24 million children (34 percent) live absent their biological father. Nearly 20 million children (27 percent) live in single-parent homes. 1.35 million births (33 percent of all births) in 2000 occurred out of wedlock. 43 percent of first marriages dissolve within fifteen years; about 60 percent […]
• From Where I Sit…
Here, these camping chairs speak volumes. Benjamin, my grandson, placed his chair next to his Dad’s chair at the campfire ring. I was impressed so I took this picture to record the message. Do you hear the message of Fatherhood? It is about position. It is about being there. It is about differences. It is […]
