Failure is Essential
If you want to do something remarkable you have to be willing to risk failure. You can talk and plan, talk and plan, talk and plan. Eventually you just have to try. Your idea will probably fail. That’s OK. Make the adjustment and go at it again. Formula? Test fast; fail fast; adjust fast. You [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Use Big City Studio
10 Reasons to use Big City Studio by Kidz Blitz… Teaches BIG TRUTH Bible principles that inspire kids. Uses teaching techniques that involve kids. Customizable to fit your needs. Reproducible for any teacher/worker in your church. Best games ever! Easy skits that illustrate the lesson. (Just ask Joe Nitro, Heather DeShay and Haywood.) Cool handouts. [...]
Mere Relevance
If what you are teaching is merely relevant, you are already behind. We would never thinking of limiting pilot instruction to what was relevant. Can you hear the conversation in the hanger now? “We’re not going to bother with teaching you what to do in a storm,” says the instructor, “since none of you have [...]
Top 6 Ways Your Kidmin Can Lose Respect
Children’s ministry has long suffered from the Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome of “I don’t get no respect.” Partially that is because churches, and often lead pastors, don’t understand the nature of what it means to build a spiritual foundation in kids. But we are also to blame. Sometimes, we conduct ourselves, and our ministries, in ways [...]
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I am innocent of ALL charges. I was actually detained, not really arrested.
My First Sunday as Children’s Pastor
I found out the hard way: there’s a big difference between ministering to adults and ministering to kids. Here’s what happened my very first Sunday as children’s pastor. Not only had I never been a children’s pastor before, I had never even worked in children’s ministry. Here’s what happened. Roger Fields
Push Back
If people can’t push back they will eventually push away. If people don’t feel like they have the freedom to voice disagreement they will eventually leave you. Ordinary people need to believe they are valuable enough to be heard. If they don’t think you are listening to them, they will eventually go someplace where they [...]
