Archive for 'Administration'

More resources please

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.

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In case you didn’t know, this website has a section dedicated to resources. Last year I launched it by gathering people’s check-in registration cards. I got close to a dozen and it seems a lot of people found it helpful. I know one children’s pastor (one who’s not fond of puppets) who found it so [...]

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Calendar Planning: Promotion deadlines

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Kenny.

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the calendar planning retreat I took the kids staff on. We took about 12-14 hours to map out all of 2010. We wrapped up that retreat with a pretty clear idea of what the following year would look like (there were a few unknowns, but those would be [...]

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Calendar planning

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Kenny.

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I did something I’ve never done before a few weeks ago. On of our Early Childhood leaders has a beautiful lake house on Lake Travis and offered to share it with my team, so I took my Kids Quest team away overnight to plan out 2010. It was fantastic!
In the past I’ve always done most [...]

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Great Fellowship One missing in action report

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Kenny.

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Last week I mentioned that we’ve taken a pretty big attendance hit in October. Our plan was to call regular kids who’ve been missing. In Fellowship One, report M1035E is pretty dang amazing.
M1035E allows you to select a date range to determine a desired attendance pattern. For my case, I wanted to isolate all the [...]

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The problem with Sunday small groups

Posted on 20. May, 2009 by Kenny.

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I’m not being a Negative Nelly. I’m sharing the difficulties that come with these models. Yesterday I shared the difficulty with the Sunday School model. It has big enough difficulties that I’d prefer not to be at a church with Sunday School. However, the small group difficulties I’ve faced can be overcome with a little [...]

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