Archive for • Challenge to Action
• 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 […]
• A Kidmin Bargainologist
A Kidmin Bargainologist If you never pay full price for any- thing, you eventually get the reputation of being a Bargain Shopper. However, if one is constantly occupied with the study of bargains in all their forms, they might just be a Bargainologist. It seems to me, if one spends years never having enough money […]
• A Helping Hand
There is something special about offering someone your hand. It is symbolic of presence, or not doing something alone. To extend a helpful hand is something every children’s leader can do. Find a child! Come along side them and offer them your hand of assistance. Every kid, no matter how good his parents are, needs […]
• A Light in the Fog
Light in a Fog Fog has a way of engulfing the visible rendering it invisible. Normally, a Lighthouse is useful at night when visibility is diminished. Then you add fog in the night and you have a hazardous condition for navigating any coastal waters. Lighthouses have been strategically constructed all along rugged coastlines to provide […]
• Lead Children to Jesus
Teachers: Lead Children to Jesus The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise. Prov. 11: 30 The greatest joy of teaching children is watching them put their faith in Christ. The hope of each generation remains in the children. The Scripture makes it really clear that […]
