June 2009 - Childrens Ministry Online

Self check-in kiosk

Posted by Kenny Conley | Geek, Ideas | 6

I need some ideas. I’m thinking of launching two self check-in kiosks in August. At my last church, we switched to all self check-in and it was a really good deal. It was so much faster. Here at Gateway we’re using...

Faith development of a child: Episode 4

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 1

Thank you for being patient with my random thoughts about faith development. Usually when doing a series like this, I’ve got a plan and a place I’m trying to take the reader. This time; however, I’m just...

Collaboration: One Prayer

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 4

I’ve talked a lot about collaboration this year. It’s my favorite word. How do you collaborate? How are you collaborating right now? Does your church collaborate? Right now our church is doing One Prayer with nearly...

Faith development of a child: Episode 3

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 4

Last week I wrote about kids believing blindly. Give me ten minutes with a kid and I can make a child believe just about anything. Kids trust. Kids believe. This is a beautiful part of their nature. But in this respect we have...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

Posted by Kenny Conley | Random | 0

CMO: #kidmin Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21 http://tinyurl.com/napd7c # Conley Update Blog: The Swimming Hole Challenge http://tinyurl.com/nb22b9 # Grabbing some taco bell on the way in to work! Gonna be a good day, I can...

Is your orginization on twitter?

Posted by Kenny Conley | Geek, Ideas | 1

Today I ate lunch at a new restaurant and this on their menu made me really happy. Two months ago I was in the elevator at the Dr. Pepper museum in Waco and they had a sign saying they were on twitter. I just love it when I see...

Faith development of a child: Episode 2

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 1

I’ve been thinking more about Mark 9:42 that I referenced in yesterday’s post. Although I don’t see this verse as speaking to those who carelessly lead children to faith, I have a healthy fear of careless...

Faith development of a child: Episode 1

Posted by Kenny Conley | Ideas | 3

Well, it all started with talking about baptism and then moving on to leading a child to faith. For some reason I don’t feel completely done with the subject. Maybe this is more or me than you, the reader of this blog....

Church for the interweb

Posted by Kenny Conley | Geek, Ideas | 1

Exciting things are happening at Gateway. We’re making plans to launch another campus in 2010 and we will be launching an internet campus by the end of 2009. Our internet campus won’t just be live streaming of our...

How much do you matter?

Posted by Kenny Conley | Random | 2

Last week a friend from church sent me this link. She sent it to me and another friend who serves as a first grade boys small group leader here at Gateway. She thought of us in regard to point seven, “When kids grow up...