On my way to the church. Another beautiful day in central Texas! # CMO: #kidmin Let me re-feed you http://tinyurl.com/o2fwp6 # Yum! Just has a tasty lunch. The rest of my day is pretty much filled with meetings. Yeah! # CMO:...
Read MoreHere is “part two” of the blog post from yesterday. 5. BE ORGANIZED. Think through the details of your event and plan accordingly. We recruited for three ministries at our recent expo. Each ministry was assigned a...
Read MoreOkay, I thought I’d elaborate on something Sara mentioned, but it provided to be a huge success. At the very end of the service, the staff member who oversees live production was doing announcements. She made the...
Read MoreHi Friends! My sweet hubby Kenny invited me to chat with you about a subject I love dearly – volunteer recruiting. My, oh my. Children’s ministry is a hungry beast when it comes to volunteer recruiting huh? Ever feel like...
Read MoreI was hoping to get a little more feedback from my previous post about how you fill the gaps. If you didn’t read it or didn’t have a chance to post, I’d still like to hear some more ideas. You can post your...
Read MoreSo, 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...
Read MoreThis session was led by Craig Jutila. Someone said that most of this information is in his book “Daze to Knights.” I knew he had this book, but I didn’t think this was about volunteers. I’ve heard Craig...
Read MoreWell, 2009 was a great year. I’ve been amazed and blessed by the community who reads what I write on this blog. It’s been a privileged to email, tweet and chat with many of you and even better to exchange phone...
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I’ve been hosting Baby Dedications for over 20 years. About 15 years ago, I really started re-inventing the traditional Baby Dedication experience. When I arrived at Mariners Chruch in December 2020, I set out to fully re-invent Baby Dedication as quickly as possible. This case study outlines how I built the best Baby Dedicaiton I’ve ever expereinced in just under 14 months.
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Baby Dedication has come a long way. It was 22 years ago when I hosted my very first Baby Dedication. It looked exactly like what every church did for Baby Dedication. However, it wasn’t until my journey to become a parent and my journey to help the church better partner with parents intersected that everything changed.
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