After some time at work today I am ready to leave for Columbia. My wife, Kristen’s parents are moving into their home after the year long process of building a house. They have been living in an apartment with their son Drew, 18 who has cerebral palsy and their youngest daughter Emily, who is a [...]
July 31, 2008
Categories: life . Tags: building a house, Christianity, general, Kristen, life, moving, new house . Author: J.C. . Comments: Leave a Comment
As Ned said to me earlier this week, “For all the times we get to slime kids and ride on a segway, we have to do things like this” He was talking about some of the things that you don’t hear about often. (of course it depends on who your pastor is, how often you [...]
July 31, 2008
Categories: ministry . Tags: Adventure Week, children's ministry, Christianity, email, Encouragement, life, ministry, negative emails, parents, positive emails, religion, student ministry, thanks, thanksgiving . Author: J.C. . Comments: Leave a Comment
Incredible post today from Dave Wakerley about what Reggie Joiner says about what the role of small group leader should look like.
Check it out.
July 30, 2008
Categories: children's ministry . Tags: children's ministry, Dave Wakerley, Hillsong, Hillsong Kids, ministry, Reggie Joiner, Small Group Leader, student ministry . Author: J.C. . Comments: Leave a Comment
Reading through John 4 this morning I am hit with a few things:
God offers a living water to the Samaritan woman.
He talks about a gift where want is no longer something that you have. It’s just 6 days away from my birthday and I am trying to imagine a life without want. That new car [...]
July 30, 2008
Categories: life . Tags: student ministry, children's ministry, ministry, worship, be yourself, identity crisis, Spirit of God, woman at the well, Samaritan woman . Author: J.C. . Comments: Leave a Comment
Tomorrow I have a meeting with staffers about this fall’s programming. This is my favorite part out of all of our meetings. We get to discuss where we see children fitting into our ministry. Yes I said it. The idea is not new but the implementation of it certainly is. That God has called children [...]
July 29, 2008
Categories: children's ministry . Tags: children volunteers, children's ministry, christian service, Christianity, ministry, serving God, Volunteers . Author: J.C. . Comments: Leave a Comment
The past two weeks I have been extremely busy and have not had the time or energy for blogging but today I am ready to begin again. I am incredibly excited about the future of children’s ministry here at Brookwood Church.
I heard some incredible things from the adults that were there this past week that [...]
July 28, 2008
Categories: children's ministry . Tags: Adventure Week, Brookwood Church, children's ministry, elementary school, ministry, service for God, Slime Time, student ministry, teamwork, value, VBS, Volunteers . Author: J.C. . Comments: 1 Comment
So on one hand I am completely exhausted and tired. But on the other hand I am sad that its over. So I would like to show you a video of our Adventure Week that our Communications Department made.
Thanks to everyone who had a part in Adventure Week. Which is pretty [...]
July 26, 2008
Categories: children's ministry . Tags: Adventure Week, Brookwood Church, children's ministry, ministry, Power Lab VBS, VBS . Author: J.C. . Comments: 1 Comment
I am incredibly overwhelmed by the incredible work that God has been doing this week.
Today we present the gospel to our upper elementary children. I can only think of one thing this morning as I am praying to God. Two groups of people ran towards Jesus. People that had either a physical problem or a [...]
July 24, 2008
Categories: children's ministry . Tags: children's ministry, Christianity, God, Jesus, ministry . Author: J.C. . Comments: 1 Comment
I can’t believe that its here but also I can’t believe that we are done with day 2.
I would give alot more information besides the awesome incredible worship and super fun kids. But honestly there is no way I could put it all into a blog entry especially with the schedule for this week.
By the [...]
July 22, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . . Author: J.C. . Comments: Leave a Comment
Here is the video that I promised you of every boy’s dreams tied in with our theme for Adventure Week
July 17, 2008
Categories: children's ministry . Tags: Adventure Week, blast, children's ministry, Diet Coke and Mentos, explosion, rock quarry, rocket . Author: J.C. . Comments: Leave a Comment