Childrens Ministry Online

How can you not love this song?

Posted on 19. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

Church Marketing Sucks just posted about one of Integrity Music’s newest artist, Joel Auge. Absolutely amazing! Visit his site here. I’ve been listening to the few sample songs on this site for the past few hours. Track one (so deep in love) is just incredible. I’d buy the album right now, but I’m on a tight budget right now… so I’m just listening to the songs on his web site for now.

I think it’s the folk/pop feel that I like so much. It’s different from your normal P&W albums. Check it out!

Technorati Tags: Joel Auge,Integrity Music… Read the rest

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Volunteer Video

Posted on 19. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

So, my team had an interesting idea for a video. We had been talking over the summer about how we continue to get the word out about volunteer opportunities. One day my team sat around and threw out all these ideas for a funny recruitment video. A few weeks later, they put this together. Tell me what you think. We’re pretty sure the opening scene is too long, but the second half is where things get pretty funny/cute. Any thoughts?

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Autism and Baptism

Posted on 17. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

Just curious as to what you think. I held a baptism class this last weekend and I got this comment on one of my baptism response forms:

“My child is autistic and I’m not sure how much he really understands. How do you usually address this?

So, what do you do with a child with special needs who’s family has expressed a desire to have him or her baptized (specifically when you are unable to really determine their level of understanding)? I have some thought in my head, but I just thought I’d see what others had to say. Oh, and I haven’t actually talked to the family or child, so I don’t know where this child in particular is.

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TextMarks: Doing what you wanted to on Twitter… but couldn’t

Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

A friend of mine recently introduced me to TextMarks. He knew that I loved twitter and he usually asked me the question, “but what useful things can you do with twitter?” From a networking solution, I’ve found twitter to be incredibly useful. However, I think that twitter is trail blazer… showing the world what micro-blogging looks like and it will be either a new evolution of twitter or another company that will do something absolutely amazing with it. As I use twitter, I think of all the cool things that I could do, but I’m not always convinced it will quite work.

For instance, I have known some people who desired to use twitter to keep parents or volunteers connected by offering daily or weekly information.… Read the rest

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Jelly Telly is up!

Posted on 15. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

In case you don’t read Phil Vischer’s blog, his newest project Jelly Telly is up. You can visit it at www.jellytelly.tv.

Actually it’s an in depth video of what Phil has been working on for the last several months (maybe years). It’s the “world’s smallest TV network” providing quality programing for kids all online. It’s brilliant and I’m excited to see how it turns out. Rather thank spend tons of money on advertising, Phil wants us to spread the word. So, I’m doing my part in posting to it right now. So… spread the word.

You can read more about what this announcement is all about right here!

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My week right now…

Posted on 15. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

I have so many posts to write… but I don’t know when they’ll come out. Many of my posts are inspired by something I read online or a site that I found. Right now I have 36 tabs open in Firefox. Yes, I said 36. Most of them are things I need to write. So, I’ll try to tackle some of them this week. Here are some of the reasons why I’m not nailing these things out right now: Oh and I know.. it’s probably not good to have 36 tabs open right now. I close down Firefox often and restart (I love how it saves my tabs and opens them up again when I restart).

• This weekend I had my baptism class during two of our services.

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Creating a better Outlook experience

Posted on 10. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

A good friend passed this on to me last week. I finally installed it on my computer last night (it’s free). Now I wish I had done this earlier.

When I was between jobs, I stopped using Outlook. The only reason I used Outlook was because at church we usually had an exchange server and we could take advantage of email, calendar sharing, tasks and all the other things that come with Outlook. However, since I wasn’t a part of all of that, I just used my gmail account. As soon as I came on staff at Gateway, I started using Outlook again. I immediately missed using gmail as my primary email. The search function of gmail is so amazing and it absolutely puts Outlook to shame.… Read the rest

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A cool little tool for my socially minded peeps

Posted on 10. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

Okay, I’ve been using this service called Digsby for about 3 months. It’s actually made a big difference for me as I’ve become more and more spread out over multiple email and social services. Other than my church email, I have a gmail account, yahoo account, email for this blog, IM capabilities for yahoo and gmail. In addition I’m fairly active on facebook and twitter. Those are a lot of sites to stay on top of. Well, Digsby is a social network aggregator and brings it all together. Once you load it, you have one touch access to all of those services and more. You can chat with a friend on Yahoo while your checking your Gmail, chatting with someone using facebook chat in addition to updating your twitter status… all without having a single web browser open.… Read the rest

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Another poster for your review

Posted on 09. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

This poster goes with the postcards I designed last week. Any thoughts?

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Lame Excuse: The Gibeonite deception

Posted on 08. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.

Has this ever happened to you? A volunteer who’s been serving in your ministry for a few months informs you that they need to step down. You ask why and the throw down the stinkin’ God card. “I feel the Lord is calling me to do something else.” Again, I haven’t heard this one in a while as I’ve been in churches lately that were a lot less “spiritual.” Where I’m at now they just stop showing up.

What the heck are you supposed to do with that? Who am I to argue with God?

Actually, this one isn’t that difficult. It’s Joshua chapter nine. The Deception of the Gibeonites. Just before this chapter, God had given very specific instructions. He told the armies of Israelites to wipe out all the enemies.… Read the rest

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