We’re doing a series right now with the elementary kids called Oops. It’s a fun series on forgiveness. The idea behind this series was to really live up the “Oops” part of it by making a mess every week. This week we had kids digging for gummy worms through 5 gallons of chocolate pudding (all in a baby pool) with their faces. It was great fun. Continue reading »
Here’s an idea I had several years ago and has proven to be a very effective event. Four times a year I plan a drive-in movie to hold my church parking lot. Here’s what I do. I project the movie on a large screen on our parking lot and project sound through an FM transmitter, which allows viewers to tune into the specific station in their vehicles. Most back into parking spots with minivans and truks and enjoy the movie from the back of their vehicles or in nearby lawn chairs. I usually have the sound coming out our parking lot speakers (it’s already wired) for those who aren’t near a car speaker. Continue reading »
One thing I am very passionate about is keeping track of kids who attend my church. Over 6 years ago I listened to tape of Jim Wideman talking about the importance of tracking kids. He equated tracking attendance to shepherding your flock. I immediately felt guilty. My church tracked numbers more so than it did individuals, so I ended up buying a cheap attendance program that would allow me to keep track of my kids. Because my church was not bought in to the idea of the tracking I wanted to do, it ended up being a lot more work for me and I din’t really achieve what I wanted. Continue reading »
The Villages of Ziga
The tiny bike path we followed seemed to wind on forever, especially since the landscape didn’t vary. The rocky, sandy terrain, and especially the small knobby bushes were pretty hard on my little pickup’s tires and I worried since I had 400 presents in the back weighing me down. But we finally began to see kids pointing toward us calling out “nassara, nassara!” (white person) and we knew we were close. Continue reading »
37 Signals is a Web 2.0 company that has several really cool products on the market. As a Web 2.0 company, all their products are online applications. This one in particular is no exception. It’s called Ta-Da Lists. What does it do? Well, simply put, it’s just a to-do list. That’s it, nothing else. Continue reading »
Last night I laughed out loud! From about 9:30 until 11:30, I watched over 30 online registrations come in for an upcoming Lock-In. The deadline was Wednesday and my intention was to pull down the registration at midnight. For about 30 minutes, a registration was hitting my email every two minutes. On Thursday morning I had 2 or 3 emails from forlorn parents begging for mercy as they had missed the deadline. Why do they always wait until the last minute? Continue reading »
Sometimes in the moment of any particular weekend, doubts of my effectiveness and usefulness creep in. Sometimes as I’m finding difficulty making a connection as I’m teaching or the kids seem to be very distracted, I really wonder what I could have done to have avoided this situation. Fortunately, I carry with me a certain knowledge that has given me confidence in these moments of self-doubt. Continue reading »
