Archive for January, 2010
Orange Week: Leverage Influence Recap
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Today concludes the primary posting for Orange week with the strategy element of “Leverage Influence.” So here are the blog posts from Thursday, the 5th day of Orange week.
- I started off Leverage Influence with a post about engaging students in meaningful ministry as a means of discipleship.
- Kendra Golden compares us engaging students in ministry to a drug dealer getting a kid hooked on drugs. Ha! I don’t think I ever would have taken that approach, but I like it in a weird way.
- Matt McKee posts about Leveraging Influence using another story form OrangeLeaders.com but then also sharing how it’s done at his church. One of the last things he said was significant. It was about being territorial about students and realizing we can work together to reach them.
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Orange Week: Leverage influence
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Leverage influence is the part of the Orange strategy that primarily targets students. Although I oversee a student pastor and student ministry, my primary ministry gifting lies in children’s ministry. I’d really appreciate hearing from some student pastors who are putting this into practice. However, I don’t speak from someone who hasn’t experienced this. I look at the students at my church and the ones who are strongest in their faith are the ones serving weekly in the childrens ministry or middle school. Most importantly, this is how I was “discipled.” I am a product of this strategic element.
What is this idea of leveraging influence? It’s equipping students to live out what they’re learning and to be a part of an adventure that is bigger than themselves.… Read the rest
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Orange Week: Wednesday Recap
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Sorry I’m a few day’s late on Wednesday’s recap. Between traveling back and forth to Dallas, attending the Orange Tour and then coming down with a nasty little stomach bug, I’m just now getting caught up again. So, let me catch us back up on the two Orange strategy elements being discussed on Wednesday
Elevate Community
- Kendra offers a very interesting view into the importance of Christian community. Of all the Christian disciplines, it’s the one discipline that translates easily to a new believer. It’s how God designed us, to have community.
- Matt McKee’s giving away ten Family Times Packs.
- Matt McKee pulls a story off of ornageleadders.com to illustrate this point, a story Reggie tells about his daughters need for affirmation as well as a description of what elevate community looks like at Matt’s church.
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Can you guess Reggie Joiner’s middle name
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
So, what do we really know about Reggie Joiner? He started the ReThink group which produces 252 Basics, My First Look, XP3 and the Orange Conference. He worked on staff at North Point for several years, developing the Orange strategy through ministry there. He rides a motorcycle. He’s a huge fan of Apple. He likes taking pictures. What else? Anything more personal?
What about his middle name? Do you know it? Yeah, you do… it’s actually Reggie. However, his first name is pretty top secret. Thanks to my good friend Matt McKee, he got Reggie to confide his first name… and this little known secret is a good one!
So, here’s a little contest. I know a lot of you out there already have Think Orange.… Read the rest
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Elevate Community: It’s gotta be in your DNA
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
It helps when the commitment to community is a part of your church’s DNA. If it’s not, then you need to find a way to change that. Otherwise your effectiveness to reach kids, specifically in student ministry will be severely limited. Fortunately for me, my church has small groups as a core part of the DNA. However, when I arrived almost 2 years ago, there had never been small groups in the children’s ministry. Now I’ve known a lot of childrens ministries have have existed without small groups, but not when there are small groups in every other aspect of the church. Needless to say, the leadership was begging me to launch small groups.Two years later, our elementary kids are more connected than ever.… Read the rest
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Reactivate the Family: What about when they need activating too?
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this element of Orange. It seems like this is the element that has the potential to change everything… yet it’s the hardest to be successful in. Why? Because it’s something we can’t really control. Once we attempt to reactivate families, it’s up to them to lead their own kids. Us control freak pastors don’t like this so much… since we’re so good at it, right?
I’m pretty passionate about finding ways to engage parents. I’m a big believer that we’re not really successful until we see parents living this out in their homes, using our resources or their own without us begging them to. The problem I’m facing at my church is that I’m trying to reactivate families that have never been activated in the first place.… Read the rest
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Orange Week: Tuesday Recap
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Because I got out of order and messed up the bloggers, this recap will cover the two topics that were blogged today. It was another busy day with all kind of exciting posts. Personally, I’ve seen scores of reader and commenters engaged that I’ve not yet seen up to this point. The feedback I’m hearing is great and I’m so glad people are getting a good taste of Orange.
Reactivate the Family
- I start up this element of reactivating the family with the main though, the church has taken the parents God-given role and we’ve got to give it back. There’s a lot of “talk” about family ministry and incorporating the family, but unless we get parents motivated about actively engaging in their kids spiritual lives, we’re not getting anywhere.
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Essence of Orange DVD Winner
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
I love giving stuff away!
Well, the winner of the Essence of Orange DVD is…. (drum roll)
Clay Conry
Clay is a Student Pastor in South Dakota and it appears that Orange will help his church streamline the transition between older elementary and middle school. This problem isn’t new, but it is an alignment (integrated strategy) issue. Clay, I hope that this DVD will help unite your strategy to help families!
Don’t worry people, this was only the first item to be given away. We’ve got plenty more being given away everyday.… Read the rest
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Huge Promotion for Orange 2010!
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Okay, if you’ve been thinking about going to Orange this year, now’s the time to start making up your mind. Actually, this sweet deal might make it for you.
In case you didn’t know, registration prices have already been cut by $40 per person. However, until February 18th, you can save an additional $50 per person up to $200. Once you register (before February 18th) you will get a $50 credit (up to $200 total). Once the conference has ended, you’ll have access to your credit to use for My First Look, 252 Basics, and XP3 curriculum as well as access to Orange Leaders resources. If you’re already paying for these resources, you could save up to $200 by registering before February 18th.… Read the rest
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Orange Week: Reactivate the family
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
For two long the church has been in the wrong business. I’m not particularly sure when this happened, but the church has stepped into the role of primary spiritual leader in the life of children and students. Search the scriptures and you’ll find no support for the role the church has been playing. So why do we wonder why such a huge majority of kids walk away from their faith as they enter adulthood? The church must reactivate the family.
Reactivate the family means to help parents actively participate in the spiritual formation of their children. We have to see ourselves as the catalyst to help parents to do their job better. If we don’t, then we’ll continue to loose the youngest generation to apathy, cynicism and resentment.… Read the rest
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