January 2010 - Childrens Ministry Online

Service project versus teaching kids to serve

Our mission for Next Gen mirrors the mission of our church. One of the components of our mission relates to serving. Specifically, here’s how serving supports our mission. Be the Body (Serve) We help kids realize that they...

Worshiphouse Kids: a clearing house of kidmin media

Posted by Kenny Conley | Geek, Ideas, Random | 4

I ran into this resource a few weeks ago. Worship House Kids is a one stop shop of great media for Children’s Ministry. Worship House Media (the parent company) has been providing great video content for churches for some...

Gutsy or stupid about your mission

Posted by Kenny Conley | Leadership | 0

I’ve been thinking a lot about mission the last few weeks. One of my goals for this year is for pervasive saturation of the vision and mission in the heart and minds of our volunteers and leaders. Actually, it’s not...

I’ve noticed something about the top 100 church blogs

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas, Random | 0

The other day I bumped into Kent Shaffer’s list of top church blogs. Many of them I follow or at least visit occasionally. Several of them I’ve never heard of. This list isn’t Kent’s favorite blogs,...

Day 5: How’s it going so far?

Posted by Kenny Conley | Leadership | 1

Only 361 days left. We’re on our way, right? It was just a week ago that we penned our resolutions for the new year. So how are you doing with that? I’ll be really honest. I’m not done with mine yet. I’ve...

Remakes: What makes them sink or swim?

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 0

Have you seen this yet? So, what do you think? There’s no doubt, this is going to be a big movie this summer. Kids are going to be talking about it. If you grew up with the original flick, what’s your general...

Better Design: Conclusion

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 2

Well, this wrapped up my little series on better design. In case you missed any of the posts, you can catch them all here: Better Design: Introduction Better Design: Why you should care Better Design: Four Rules Better Design:...

Better Design: Proximity

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 0

Although good design is an art, this rule really appeals to the logical side of my brain. The rule of proximity is really about organization. The rule can be boiled down to this statement: related items should be grouped...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03

Posted by Kenny Conley | Random | 0

CMO: #kidmin Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27 http://bit.ly/8NNsUL # @tj_cummins did you use my new rules? in reply to tj_cummins # Conley Update Blog: Bigger bed http://bit.ly/6G8Ree # CMO: #kidmin Flickr vs Picasa...