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My Blog is moving
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by Kenny.
I know I have lots of loyal readers out there. It has been 4 great years but I wanted to wait till Orange to announce that I am moving my blog to samluce.com If you could adjust your feedreaders I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Kenny
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Have you used pre-designed thermal labels?
Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
Just a quick question for you. Have you ever used pre-printed color labels for computer check-in?
I’m not talking about solid color labels you can get instead of white, but maybe a white label with our ministry label already printed on it in full color? I don’t think I’d be able to use it in our Children’s Ministry since we print both name tags as well as security tags. However, our guest services team is thinking about using Fellowship One to print name tags for their volunteers and they’s really prefer not to use a generic solid color tag, especially white. Has anyone else done this with the thermal labels?
One way I’m thinking about doing this is kind of a hack. If you turn on your printers after you launch check in with Fellowship One, the ministry logo wont print on the labels. Usually this is an accident. However, if I do this on purpose, we could design a label with some color on it, specifically with the ministry logo on it.
Any thoughts?
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Orange Week 2.0 comes to an end!
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
Wow, this has been incredible! In the past 7 days, dozens of bloggers have published somewhere around 100 posts about the Orange Strategy. Simply amazing! Of the 100ish post, almost all were significant pieces of the conversation revolving around ministry to families. It was almost like we had a mini Orange Conference on the web. I know that I was challenged, encouraged and given plenty to think about. A big thank you to all of you who participated!
Speaking of the Orange Conference, did you know that you can register today. Do it NOW!
For those of you who are thinking about attending the Orange Conference in 2011, I’m going to give you 5 reason today why you should attend. I’m thinking that at least one more more of these reasons will push you over the edge to go ahead and register this week.
2011 Orange Conference Promo from Whisper Productions on Vimeo.
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Adapting adult services for kids
Posted on 03. Oct, 2010 by Kenny.
For the last 20 months, our church has hosted a Sunday evening service designed for Christ-followers called Deepen. Over time this service has just lost momentum and currently we’re exploring other opportunities to engage more people who want to take next-steps in deepening their relationship with God. One of the challenges to this situation is that we’ve stopped offering programs for elementary aged kids during many of the deepen services, mostly because there wasn’t enough support from those who attend. We felt that not offering an elementary program would be best for these services, especially if we could adapt components of the adult services for kids.
So, a few weeks ago we held an “All-Pray” service where the evening was dedicated to prayer. In this All-Pray, we had stations set up around the room where people could pray about the topic at that station and even write their prayers on the paper. We decided that we’d take advantage of the service and offer the same experience for elementary-aged kids. We created a kids prayer guide to mirror the adult prayer guide. In all honesty, parents didn’t need the adult one as the content was virtually the same.
It was so cool to see kids scattered around the auditorium, writing and drawing pictures on the paper represnting prayers they prayed for people with their mom’s and dads.
Here is the adult guide and here is the kids guide.
The only downside is that there weren’t very many kids. I think that parents made the assumption that their kids wouldn’t like it or that it would be too much trouble brining their kids to a prayer meeting. Hopefully we’ll be able to take some of the stories from this all-pray and really promote the next one. It was a great shared experience.
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Location-based networking
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by Kenny.
Today all the buzz is location-aware tools and software. Where you are and who you’re around is what counts. Whether you’re playing foursquare, gowalla or using facebook’s new “check-in” feature, you’ve seen the benefits of this trend. Maybe you’ve just been playing the game and haven’t actually noticed the benefits, but you’ve seen the potential (kinda like when you first started using twitter). Well, it’s no different with ministry. Where you are and who you’re around is so hugely important. I think one of the biggest misses for ministry leaders is when they do ministry for years and never truly connect into the larger ministry community around them. Sure you can drive down the street and knock on every church door you see, or you can use the tools available to you online.
So, the coolest location-based tool I’ve seen yet is the site I mentioned last week: Imakidmin.com. It’s not GPS enabled or an app you install on your iPhone, but it’s a powerful tool for networking. Actually, it could be your first step to identifying both local and affinity based networks. When I wrote about this last week, I was marginally excited about the potential. However, after speaking to creator Michael Chanley twice this weekend and hearing his plans for the site, I’m really excited about what is next.
So, stop what you’re doing right now and head over to imakidmin.com and put yourself on the map. You can put yourself on the blog map, twitter map, facebook map if you want, but at the very least, put yourself on the US map and your state map (if it’s available yet). You need others as much as others need you, so please don’t do it for yourself, do it for the community around you. In 3 minutes you’ll be done and in the coming weeks as the maps fill in, you’ll begin to see the benefits of this new community.
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Question to you: When do you recruit?
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve been talking to my team about a big volunteer push. More than likely we’re going to do a 2-3 week push in October which I expect will be pretty good. A few years ago we did a really big push in January which was very well received. However, when have you found to be the most effective time to recruit volunteers? I know a lot of people like to do April and May volunteer drives so they’re all screened, trained and ready for the fall. What has worked best for you?
Tell me your story. What’s the most creative or effective thing you’ve done to recruit a boatload of new volunteers? What made it so successful? I’d love to hear some new and creative ideas and strategies that we can implement as we recruit. I’ve found that strong exposure/communication as well as creativity tend to yield great success.
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Some things have to wait…
Posted on 29. May, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve got an unbelievable schedule for the next 4-5 weeks. This just released this week. Looks like I’m going to have to wait until I’m not so busy…
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#Orange10 Day 3: Perry Nobel
Posted on 03. May, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ll admit it. I’m a pretty big fan of Perry Nobel. He’s fun and exciting and doing great things for the kingdom. In a lot of ways, he’s pushing new paradigms with his leadership in South Carolina. Going into this session, I knew it would be a very “quotable” session and he did not disappoint.- Family ministry has more potential than any other ministry in the church.
- A healthy family ministry must be supported by the Senior Pastor.
- Senior Pastors need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
- Environments matter. (Parents are going to ask two questions of their kids. What did you learn? Did you have fun? If you know that this is the question that eery parent is going to ask, then create environments to know that the kids are going to answer these questions correctly. They’ll be able to tell their parents what they learned and that they had SO MUCH FUN!)
- Keep it simple.
- Conflict and tension must be addressed no matter what.
- Have the right people in the right places.
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Can someone attending #orange10 do me a favor?
Posted on 23. Apr, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve got a lot of places to be while at Orange. Unfortunately, I can’t be everywhere. Last year I did my best and I only missed one general session and one breakout session. Why? I was busy learning from others in the hallways and the Orange Leader’s Lounge.
This year I already know that I’m going to miss one breakout and one preconference workshop. The workshop I’m going to miss is Preconference 2: Thinking intern by Darren Kizer. I really wanted to be in that session, but I can’t. Is there anyone out there who’s planning to attend that workshop? I’d love to get your notes and maybe get the general rundown from you. Let me know and I’d be eternally grateful!
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