[Kid Inspiration]

A couple was arranging for their wedding, and asked the bakery to inscribe the wedding cake with 1 John 4:18 which reads There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.

The bakery evidently lost, smudged or otherwise misread the noted reference, and beautifully inscribed on the cake John 4:18 … for you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband.

Here is a summary from a leaders meeting recently, it even includes a quote from Shakespeare! Albeit altered slightly:

[ Leaders Meeting ]

Today is in God’s plan for you; it’s a part of your destiny.

There are two things I want for this service:

1. Kids impacted and taught the word of God

2. Leaders flourishing in their gift and their ministry and living out the plan God has for your life.

Here’s what I know, this next service is very important in my life’s journey, I will probably learn something new, maybe have a brand new idea, most likely improve in my gifting, and maybe even God may use me in the next hour?

IT’S ALWAYS SHOWTIME!

- Every Service
- Every Conversation with a child
- Every Message
- Every Cell
- Every Thank You
- Every Smile
- Every Eye Contact with a visitor

1 Peter 3:5 Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

Church is a theatre and every service a stage.

The kids are watching you!

Found this AWESOME short article in my archives… I think from a Mark Victor Hansen newsletter. It has some great thoughts on how we can begin to teach our children. You WILL get a lot out of it… maybe even change the way you think about learning!

“Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Until all are taught. - Mark Victor Hansen

Change expert Don Wolfe teaches that there are two kinds of learning: informational learning and transformational learning, or head learning and heart learning.

Informational learning is predominant in our educational system. Teachers talk; students listen, take notes, take tests, get grades, and so on. It’s all about memorization and regurgitation.

Transformational learning is about empowering students to discover the answers for themselves. It’s a slower process, but much more profound. That’s why it’s transformational.

We live in the age of too much information and not enough transformation. When people get stuck, it’s rarely because they don’t know enough. It’s because they lack the ability to act on what they already know. Transformational learning is not about taking notes in a notebook. It is about writing the lessons on your heart and in every cell of your body-so that your behavior flows effortlessly, without compulsion, from the wellspring of your natural desire to live the life you were born to live.

The main goal of transformational learning is to cause you to experience ‘ahas’. An aha is when your awareness expands?when you ?get it.? The lights go on and you say to yourself, ‘Aha!’

What did you aha today?

Okay… I just had to post this up… Now this will make absolutely no sense if you are not a New Zealander, or a Australian… proabably… nowyou may know a kiwi… and understand.

This is written, I believe from an Aussie point of view.

FOR BIST EFICT RID THESE OUT ALOUD

Milburn – capital of Victoria
Peck – to fill a suitcase
Pissed aside – chemical which kills insects
Pigs – for hanging out washing with
Pug – large animal with curly tail
Nin tin dough – computer game
Munner stroney – soup
Min – male of the species
Mess kara – eye makeup
McKennock – person who fixes cars
Mere – Mayor
Leather – foam produced from soap
Lift – departed
Kirri Pecker – famous Australian business tycoon
Little crusps – potato chips
Ken’s – Cairns
Jumbo – pet name for someone called Jim
Jungle Bills – Christmas carol
Inner me – enemy
Guess – Vapour
Fush – marine creatures
Fitter cheney – type of pasta
Ever cardeau – avocado
Fear hair – blonde
Ear – mix of nitrogen and oxygen
Ear roebucks – exercise at the gym
Duffy cult – not easy
amejen – visualise
Day old chucks – very young poultry
Bug hut – popular recording
Bun button – been bitten by an insect
Beard – a place to sleep
Chully Bun – Esky
Sucks Peck – half dozen beers
Ear New Zulland – an extinct airline
Beers – large savage animals found in U.S forests
One Doze – well known computer program
Brudge – structure spanding a stream
Sex – one less than seven
Tin – one more than nine
Iggs Ecktly – Precisely
Earplane – large flying machine
Beggage Chucken – place to leave your suitcase at the airport
Sivven four sivven – large boeing flying machine
Cuds – children Pits – domestic animals
Cuttin – baby cat
Fush and chupps – fish and chips

Well here is a short interlude for your day… This is possibly the funniest thing I have heard all month! I love the part where she gets out her bible to clobber him…

You will have to play the clip to find out what I mean… just click the link below (I’m still chuckling).

According to an article published by Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School’s online research and business analysis journal, Paul learned an important lesson while working at GE under former CEO Jack Welch.

Welch loved international trips,” Paul told his audience at the Wharton conference. “Whenever he came back from one, he told people he would get out of the elevator at the office and say to himself: ‘This is my first day at GE as CEO. The previous guy was a real dud. So how can I do better than he did?’ He understood that as a leader you always have to be reinventing yourself; you have to have some tool that helps you abandon past behavior and look with fresh eyes at your task.”

This is an excerpt from Leadership Wired, John Maxwell’s newsletter…

I am going to try that this Tuesday… “This is my first day as Children’s Pastor of Hillsong Church… The previous guy was a real dud. So how can I do better than he did?”

Wow… I can already think of a couple of things [grins]