Archive for • Challenge to Action
• How To Dunk A Cookie
HOW TO DUNK A COOKIE, By Nancy Kannard Read the directions first before performing this at home. First washing your hands (to the elbow) is recommended. Then one starts with a fresh cookie. (Recommended for this would be a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie rather than a boxed cookie or something of that sort. If […]
• Program Rehab: One by One
All Children’s Ministry leaders want their programs to grow by design. We want healthy groups and growing people in them. However attempting to remodel ministries we did not start is, admittedly, very challenging. You want to stop the exodus of families caused by keep-out signs and a rather large back door. Reversing this reputation or […]
• 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 […]
• 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 […]
• Winners & Losers
Winners & Losers: Program Priority Wars In some church ministries one can find the alarming glimpse into what we might call turf wars. Basically, it is where one area of ministry tries to maintain dominance over others. So these ministries square off with all the trappings of warfare—to do battle for positions of favor. Some […]
• Leadership: Isolation
Leadership: Isolation Why would the subject of Isolation be included in a list of desirable qualities for leadership? We are surrounded everywhere by sounds and noises, in cars, in home, in elevators, at work, answering machines, shopping malls and restaurants. Being alone in such a social world is different. Isolation is the opposite, a removing […]
• Moving Forward, Stepping UP
Moving Forward, Stepping UP Sharon and I took an Alaskan Cruise this year for our vacation. Of course, the Holland America Cruise Ship Zuiderdam was just huge. One of our off repeated experiences every day was to leave our room to navigate our way from deck to deck. There were really two ways to do […]
