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Orange Week 2.0
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by Kenny.
So last January I was preparing to head up to Dallas for the Orange Tour and in my excitement I flippantly declared the following week “Orange Week.” The folks at ReThink thought it was a good idea, so the following week a rag-tag group of incredibly Kidmin Pastors blogged about the Orange Strategy. It was an incredible experience, an almost overwhelming source of information and ideas. Well, it’s getting ready to happen again. Why so soon?
Well, next week the 2011 Orange Conference opens for registration and that’s worth getting excited about. So, with some help from the ReThink team, we’ve organized another Orange Week (let’s call it Orange Week 2.0) and it’s going to be even better than before. Check out the blogging team this time around.… Read the rest
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Orange Week Concluded
Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Wow! What started with just an idea for personal thoughts and reflections about a strategy and an upcoming conference experience became a mini-movement in the kidmin blogosphere and twitterverse. Most importantly I’d like to thank my inner circle of blogging friends, Matt, Sam, Gina and Jonathan (especially grateful to spend two days with Jonathan this week). You guys have been such an inspiration to me these past two years and have become dear friends. As I’ve explored the exciting ideas of Orange, you’ve all been very refreshing sources of information and ideas… I love wresting big thoughts with you.
Also, a big thank you to newer blogging friends who jumped in to help and contribute substantially. Dan Scott, I look forward to knowing you better, you’ve certainly got a lot of respect from me.… Read the rest
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Orange Week: Leverage Influence Recap
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Today concludes the primary posting for Orange week with the strategy element of “Leverage Influence.” So here are the blog posts from Thursday, the 5th day of Orange week.
- I started off Leverage Influence with a post about engaging students in meaningful ministry as a means of discipleship.
- Kendra Golden compares us engaging students in ministry to a drug dealer getting a kid hooked on drugs. Ha! I don’t think I ever would have taken that approach, but I like it in a weird way.
- Matt McKee posts about Leveraging Influence using another story form OrangeLeaders.com but then also sharing how it’s done at his church. One of the last things he said was significant. It was about being territorial about students and realizing we can work together to reach them.
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Orange Week: Wednesday Recap
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Sorry I’m a few day’s late on Wednesday’s recap. Between traveling back and forth to Dallas, attending the Orange Tour and then coming down with a nasty little stomach bug, I’m just now getting caught up again. So, let me catch us back up on the two Orange strategy elements being discussed on Wednesday
Elevate Community
- Kendra offers a very interesting view into the importance of Christian community. Of all the Christian disciplines, it’s the one discipline that translates easily to a new believer. It’s how God designed us, to have community.
- Matt McKee’s giving away ten Family Times Packs.
- Matt McKee pulls a story off of ornageleadders.com to illustrate this point, a story Reggie tells about his daughters need for affirmation as well as a description of what elevate community looks like at Matt’s church.
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Can you guess Reggie Joiner’s middle name
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
So, what do we really know about Reggie Joiner? He started the ReThink group which produces 252 Basics, My First Look, XP3 and the Orange Conference. He worked on staff at North Point for several years, developing the Orange strategy through ministry there. He rides a motorcycle. He’s a huge fan of Apple. He likes taking pictures. What else? Anything more personal?
What about his middle name? Do you know it? Yeah, you do… it’s actually Reggie. However, his first name is pretty top secret. Thanks to my good friend Matt McKee, he got Reggie to confide his first name… and this little known secret is a good one!
So, here’s a little contest. I know a lot of you out there already have Think Orange.… Read the rest
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Elevate Community: It’s gotta be in your DNA
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
It helps when the commitment to community is a part of your church’s DNA. If it’s not, then you need to find a way to change that. Otherwise your effectiveness to reach kids, specifically in student ministry will be severely limited. Fortunately for me, my church has small groups as a core part of the DNA. However, when I arrived almost 2 years ago, there had never been small groups in the children’s ministry. Now I’ve known a lot of childrens ministries have have existed without small groups, but not when there are small groups in every other aspect of the church. Needless to say, the leadership was begging me to launch small groups.Two years later, our elementary kids are more connected than ever.… Read the rest
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Orange Week: Tuesday Recap
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
Because I got out of order and messed up the bloggers, this recap will cover the two topics that were blogged today. It was another busy day with all kind of exciting posts. Personally, I’ve seen scores of reader and commenters engaged that I’ve not yet seen up to this point. The feedback I’m hearing is great and I’m so glad people are getting a good taste of Orange.
Reactivate the Family
- I start up this element of reactivating the family with the main though, the church has taken the parents God-given role and we’ve got to give it back. There’s a lot of “talk” about family ministry and incorporating the family, but unless we get parents motivated about actively engaging in their kids spiritual lives, we’re not getting anywhere.
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Orange Week: Two Post Tuesday
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
I’d like to spin this in a way saying this is the way we planned it, but that’s just not the case. There was some confusion among the stellar Orange Week blogging team and it looks like I might have been the source. I planned for today’s topic to be “Elevate Community,” but some thought it was “Reactivate the Family.” I propose a simple solution.
I officially declare this Tuesday of Orange week: Two Post Tuesday!
Essentially I’m releasing tomorrows topic today as well and we’ll spend both today and tomorrow exploring both of these posts. If you want to jump on board and blog on either of these elements, jump on in, you’ve got two days.
Don’t forget, we’ve got another give away both today and tomorrow as well.… Read the rest
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Orange Week: Refine the message recap
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
So many great posts about refining the message on this second day of Orange week. Let’s take a look.
- I started off the day with a post defining the strategic element of “refining the message.”
- Jonathan Cliff talks about the results he’s seen in the last two years as they’ve practiced this idea of refining the message through the curriculum choices they’ve made. His post stands out the most to me thanks to the graphic coloring sheet of Absolom’s unfortunate death. Even more interesting was that Jonathan still has this now infamous coloring sheet.
- Gina’s giving away a really cool resource. Click here to find out how you can get it before it’s gone.
- Anthony Prince throws in his two cents concerning messaging.
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Refine the message: Additional thoughts
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this very thing lately. At my church we use 252 Basics and My First Look. It’s great curriculum. However, I do think that every church needs to evaluate their own unique situation, determine their target and evaluate what message needs to be presented. Obviously, there are central biblical truths that need to be communicated in every church, but not all churches are the same and neither is the demographic of the people they’re trying to reach.
Here’s what I’ve been wrestling through the last few months. In George Barna’s book Revolutionary Parenting, he defines a biblical worldview.
A biblical worldview, as defined by the Barna study, is believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic; a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or do good works; Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; and God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today.
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