My Mid-Week ambitions
Recently I’ve posted in in various forms/blogs about my Wednesday night experiences. I created an elective based program in my early years of ministry… which it just about killed this idealist. Several years later...
Read MoreReinventing VBS
Are these isolated occurrences or the beginning of a new trend? Several years ago, leading churches like Fellowship Church and Saddleback church ditched VBS as we knew it. Their replacements? Shiney new events like...
Read MoreWeb Tools (Part 3):
Just a quick followup on the posts I did last week titled “Web Tools (Part One and Part Two). I got some feedback to readers and I thought I would post links to a few websites of our contemporaries who are really hitting...
Read MorePhil Joel: A “Boom-Chaka-Laka” Rockin Good Time!
I found out about Phil Joel’s new CD, “DeliberateKids” from someone last night… I just can’t remember who. I finally sat down and listened to the samples on the website! Subsequently I went to...
Read MoreWeb Tools (Part 2): Managing Event/Registration Information
I wrote yesterday about utilizing your website for communication purposes. It’s an incredibly effective method to communicate to visitors as well as regulars/members. If you make it simple and neat (ideal for all,...
Read MoreWeb Tools (Part 1): Opening effective paths of communication
I know, totally boring title! However, this is a topic I’m very passionate about. I feel that if you’re not using the internet to communicate with your church… then you are behind the eight-ball (unless you...
Read MoreStaff Retreat – Developing Mission, Vision and Goals
A few weeks ago I took my staff on a retreat. We rented a great lake house on Lake Travis just outside of Austin, Texas. Initially I was taking the team to the PDCM conference… but it was cancelled. So I found this place...
Read MoreI hired myself…. 6 times.
Okay, that’s an exaggeration. I didn’t hire all of my staff (some were inherited). But, 4 out of the 6 people who work with me in CT Kids all have the same personality as me. For many years I’ve been a big fan...
Read MoreSURGE: Kids in Missions
With great excitement I’m embarking on a great new ministry for kids at Cross Timbers. This July I’ll be taking a team of 40 to Mexico on a missions trip. Although mission trips to Mexico are about a common as...
Read MoreGO TO SCHOOL!
 Okay, I know that sounded really demanding. Also I know that school is almost out (two more days in my neck of the woods). However, this needs to be said. If allowed, every children’s pastor needs too be in the schools...
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