Be Care Full!

What a great week at COC Metro! We had a couple hundred kids show up for four nights of getting their hula on and having some fun.  We had a slew of flip-flop wearing volunteers loving and teaching those kids about Jesus.  I’m always amazed at how God works in…

I never want to think I know it all in children’s ministry and I pray a lot about how God can make me a better minister.  One of the things I pray about is for God to give me the right words to say to a child when I talk…

When I decided to take the plunge and become a Christian one of the things I had to learn was how to speak a new language.  It was called Christanese and it had been spoken to me several times in the past, I just didn’t know what was being said. …

Churches should get along! Churches should work together! Churches should do some events together! Why ? I believe – People would see the whole church in a better light. A unified group that expresses love and joy, not the misunderstood notion of intolerance and exclusivity that so many see. Other…

The past few days God has hit me with a call to become develop a ministry within my present full time job at Fellowship Technologies.  I’m a bi-vocational pastor that works during the day at at Christian business and the rest of the time as a Children’s Pastor for the…

Recently I’ve learned that there are a bunch of churches throughout the United States that are planning the same event as a result of reading a book.  The book Sun Stand Still by Steven Furtick of Elevation Church fame tells of when the church held an Easter Event where a…

From the past post entitled much the same.  It’s important to remember this very important principle – Children’s Ministry is Not Childcare! And to prove my point some more, I’ll give you the top 5 Reasons why it isn’t at least why it shouldn’t be: 5) Your children’s ministry is…

The past two years has been interesting for me. I’ve had to try run a vibrant children’s ministry with little resources to do so.  It’s not that the church doesn’t want me to have resources, it’s just the nature of the life cycle of our church, the community we are…

On of my biggest pet peeves I have is when I hear a pastor of any church call their children’s ministry “childcare”.  it’s not the worst word in the world it’s just not accurate in most cases.  Childcare in and of itself is a fairly nice word but it sounds…

Pretty much every weekend involves hours of insanity for the Holt family.  WHY you ask? Because getting ready for a good Children’s service requires hours of preparation and work.  The only problem is that we don’t have hours – we only have minutes that’s because our kids are involved in…