Tag Archives: Christmas
Christmas Infographic
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by Kenny.
Here are some interesting numbers surrounding the Christmas holidays!… Read the rest
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Christmast Prayer Activity
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by Kenny.
I don’t repost stuff on this site very often, but I figured that I couldn’t pass this one up as it was too popular last year.
A year ago as we were preparing for our Christmas Eve services, I led our staff in a prayer event for our church that had a fun Christmas theme involving Christmas music. What’s not to love about that? Click here to read that post and download files to host a similar Christmas prayer event with your staff or volunteers.
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Christmas thoughts about the naughty list
Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Kenny.
A few weeks ago, Sara and I watched the Polar Express. It was my first time to watch it and it was pretty good. It wasn’t spectacular by any means. I can’t remember the specific part of the movie, but there was a place where the elves were trying to determine whether a child was going to get a gift because he had been on the naughty list. I remember my wife and I having a short conversation about that part. It’s one of the elements of the entire Santa myth that is most troublesome to me.
Sara and I haven’t exactly sat down to discuss how we’re going to handle Santa with Titus. He’s three this year and he still really doesn’t know anything about Santa.… Read the rest
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Christmas thoughts of the nativity
Posted on 21. Dec, 2010 by Kenny.
Many ideas have invaded my thoughts this Christmas season concerning the significance of the holiday and what he’s done for us. If my son was a little older, they’d be things that I’d like to pass along to him. So for now, I’ll just write them here and in a few years, Titus and I can have this conversation.
It’s funny how we idealize the Christmas story and focus on specific parts. Watching the video story by James reminded me of this truth. In our mind we see a beautiful scene of Jesus wrapped in swaddling cloth in that little manger… asleep in the hay. It’s a perfect scene we recreate in all of our homes with our little nativity sets and teach our kids.… Read the rest
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Social Media enters the Christmas Story
Posted on 19. Dec, 2010 by Kenny.
In the last three days I came across two fun but touching videos about the birth of Christ as told through social media. What if Joseph was on facebook? What if the shepherds were twitter addicts? Enjoy!
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Another creative way to use the iPad in ministry
Posted on 08. Dec, 2010 by Kenny.
So, here’s one more use I can add to my list of great way the iPad can be used in ministry. The iBand. North Point is so creative and fun, I wish I’d been there to see it. Obviously it was a fun piece, but I’d probably discourage any church from going to an exclusive, weekly iPad band.
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Crazy Christmas Countdown Review
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Back in the Fall we experienced some lower than normal numbers that have been attributed to the flu that was so widespread. To say that we had lower than normal numbers was an understatement. We had over 300 kids who didn’t attend once in October that were regularly attending in August and September. We had leaders and volunteers call the families of every kid. We also began to promote the holidays with something we called the Crazy Christmas Countdown. Here’s what we did.
We totally decked out the Kids building two weeks before Thanksgiving and started 5 weeks of Christmas celebration. Every week was crazy sock week where kids with the craziest socks were recognized and maybe even won prizes.… Read the rest
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A new holiday classic?
Posted on 12. Dec, 2009 by Kenny.
Last night Sara and I watched “Prep and Landing.” It’s a fun Christmas show by Disney.
I’m not really sure what it is though. Hulu says it’s Episode 1 of Season 1, but I’m not sure we’re going to see more episodes before Christmas. Regardless, it’s a great flick.
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Crazy Christmas Countdown postcard
Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Kenny.
My team and I came up with an emphasis for the holidays called the Crazy Christmas Countdown. Partially it is to provide a little momentum going into the holidays that we lost from our dip in October. We were rushed with the design, but I’m pretty happy how it turned out. I think that if I had a little more time, I would have worked on the back of the card (socks in the circles) at the bottom. They look good, but it still feels a little awkward to me. What do you think? Any thoughts or suggestions?
I’ll write later about details (like why we’re using this, when we’… Read the rest
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Near Christmas disaster
Posted on 28. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
I’ve had a fantastic Christmas, but it almost didn’t happen!
Many of those who follow me on twitter knew what was going on and were praying for us. They saw the whole ordeal unfold.
For the past few weeks, Titus has been fighting off colds and stomach bugs. Last Sunday he was hit hard. We’ve never seen him so sick. He was throwing up, congested and downright lethargic. He’d just lay in his crib or or arms… so sad. We had plans to drive from Austin, TX to Atlanta, GA after our last Christmas Eve service. I wasn’t too concerned about Titus being sick since it was still several days away. Since he was so sick, Sara wasn’t feeling great and Sara had a lot on her plate as well, I kicked into over drive to get us ready.… Read the rest
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