[Kid Inspiration]

Stand back and take a look…

How will people write about this time in history? From when I left school in 1995 to now the internet has practically invented itself. I remember signing up for a hotmail account in 1996… I have had that same email address for almost ten years!!!

Its amazing how the impermanence of the internet can be more permanent that the physical world — one email address in a decade but… countless physical addresses in two countries!!

I truly believe that this moment in history is a matchless opportunity that we cannot fail to grasp.

Why the heck would we not live in a constant state of wonder and amazement… To view the Kingdom of God here on earth as anything less is tragic. Why live in a haze of negativity — it won’t change the future. Look again at your world see the opportunity not the familiar old faces of routine.

Familiarity is a killer — of dreams, of passion, of wonder, of excitement, of the promise of God for your life.

I remember thinking — around the time of that first hotmail address — that the future was as bright as 300,000 firefly’s covered in kerosene and set alight with 56,000 fireworks.

Do I still think like that? Not as much as I used to — Not as much as I would like to.

The light on the horizon is the dawn NOT the dusk!

From Wired Magazine:
The scope of the Web today is hard to fathom. The total number of Web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 billion. That’s 100 pages per person alive.

How could we create so much, so fast, so well? In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in front of 1 billion people, or one-sixth of the world’s population. That remarkable achievement was not in anyone’s 10-year plan.

Why aren’t we more amazed by this fullness? Kings of old would have gone to war to win such abilities. Only small children would have dreamed such a magic window could be real. I have reviewed the expectations of waking adults and wise experts, and I can affirm that this comprehensive wealth of material, available on demand and free of charge, was not in anyone’s scenario. Ten years ago, anyone silly enough to trumpet the above list as a vision of the near future would have been confronted by the evidence: There wasn’t enough money in all the investment firms in the entire world to fund such a cornucopia. The success of the Web at this scale was impossible.

But if we have learned anything in the past decade, it is the plausibility of the impossible.

The plausibility of the impossible!!

Surely the children of God can write about the plausibility of the impossiblities. My life today exists in the impossible of 1995, but the plausible 2005. I choose to be amazed and grateful at the plan of God for my life.

Let’s live like Jesus is coming back tomorrow, but imagine a world that exists for your childrens, childrens, grand-children.

The light on the horizon is the dawn NOT the dusk!

Bless Ya.

David Wakerley here…

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Notes from a message on Managing People

Managing people is a life long journey.
By David Wakerley

1. If you don’t deal with your insecurities then you will put a ceiling on another’s life.
2. Separate the person and the task.

Management of People.

If you are managing people you need to build them.

How do you build a person?

1. Believe in them
2. Encourage them, publically and privately
3. You release them. No ceiling
4. Instruct them, wisdom.
5. Discipline them. Heb 12:11
6. Promote them, spread good gossip.
7. Challenge them.
8. Love them.
9. Respect them.
10. Pray for them.

How do you successfully manage peoples work?

Monitoring, timesheets, feedback, job description, mentoring, accountability and meetings.

1. Take the time to notice.
2. Take the time to critique
3. Take the time to check. Triple check.
4. Take the time to celebrate successes.
5. Take the time to work through a failure.

Here is an excerpt from an email I just sent out to our key leaders.

I was a little fired up when I wrote it!!!

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It’s game time.

The first half of the year is over. I believe that the next five months are going to be full of growth and momentum.

I have been praying recently just that leaders in our teams are really going to rise up and become leaders… I believe for the team that you lead that you will see a passion and a commitment like never before. We NEED more leaders desperately. Those people that see what you see and feel a burden to reach more kids.

Out goal is to increase the core of the team. Weekends are not enough to change a generation. In order to do what we are called to do you we need massive commitment – not just to Hillsong Church – but to the thousands of kids who have not heard about Jesus.

Pray – Pray – Fervently for people to join YOU on the journey. To come in midweek and sow their lives into a cause SO much bigger than themselves…

I’m fired up and ready to go.

Passion is a topic squarely in the forefront of my overactive mind. In order to create the kind of culture and atmosphere that breeds engaged kids and enthusiatic committed leaders we MUST be the kind of people whose primary goal every weekend service is to be the “dispenser of enthusiasm”!!!

Serve it up!

Check out this quote:
“Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling”

Great quote okay — This is from an article talking about business leadership!!

So, the way I see it… we have the advantage… we already have a calling that is completely spiritual and has emmense eternal significance… if that doesn’t want to make you jump up and down like a man with a ferret down his pants – I don’t know what will…

I LOVE that my vocation and calling is building something eternal, not just lining the pockets of a shareholder, or buying the bosses beachfront property in Cancun… I don’t need to give myself little pep-talks about the fact that what I am doing matters… IT MATTERS… I am responsible for Christianities future leadership… they are sitting in my children’s ministry!!

Bless your cotton socks.

So the pre order form for the new kids album is up online.

2005 Live Worship For Kids

Pre order your copy of the second Hillsong Church Live Kids Praise and Worship Album! This dynamic Kids album will be recorded at our annual Hillsong Conference during Kidsong World 2005!

# Australian Release Date: October 2005
(Subject to change)

Its going to be GREAT!! no bias here of course.

Well, just another reason to get to Walt Disney World… the Disney Imagineers have come up with a talking turtle. In thier new attraction, Crush (the sea turtle from Finding Nemo) swims up on a large video screen and asks questions to the audience calling people by name and (once told) identifying them by what they are wearing, answers question from the audience and reacts to the audience response.

The “secret” of the attraction is of course that Crush is a digital puppet controlled by a puppeteer who’s performance is translated in real-time in to computer animation that appears on the screen.

My dream job…

Turtle Talk with Crush

One of the awesome guests we had at Kidsong World this year… (I should write some more posts about that ) was Natalie Miller…

If you are in Australia, and you need a puppeter/ventriloquist then you need to look her up…

Start at her website and go from there.

She is really brilliant and way better at ventriloquism than I am (really not hard, I mean I have seen mute meerkats throw their voice better than I can).

Anyhoo… get her round for your event or outreach, tell her Dave sent you… won’t get you anywhere, but would be very funny.

Wow… how funny is this:

A survey of 8 to 14-year-olds in the U.K. found that Jesus most represents what it means to be a superhero, followed closely by Florence Nightingale and David Beckham.

Daily
Telegraph Story

Kids are also more interested in fighting poverty and environmental issues than earning extra money or having their sports team win. Pretty amazing little generation that is being raised at this moment in history!

Anne Longfield, the chief executive of 4Children, said: “With the mass popularity of cause-related wristbands, and campaigns against war and poverty, children and young people are leading the way in social conscience.”

God Bless em’

Little story of a man named Honda…

In 1938 Mr Honda was a broke student who had only one dream. To design a piston ring that he would sell to Toyota. He would go to school and then work at his idea at night, covered upto his elbows in grease. After years of spending time, effort and money when he thought it was perfect, he took it to Toyota and they rejected it.

He was ridiculed by friends, teachers and family for designing such a stupid gadget that nobody would want. Instead of giving up, he spent another 2 years making the design even better and then Toyota finally bought it.

Happy ending right? Wrong.

Mr Honda needed to build a factory to build the piston rings and needed concrete, but Japan was getting ready for WW II and so none was available. You’d think he would quit, but not Mr Honda, he actually went and found a new way to manufacture concrete! He built his factory and was finally able to produce his piston rings.

If you thinks the story ends there you’d be dead wrong. Look what happens next..
During the war, the United States bombed his factory. Instead of feeling defeated, Mr Honda told his employees to “Quickly run outside and gather the fuel cans that the American planes are dropping, we need these raw materials for our manufacturing process!”
These were materials they could not get anywhere in Japan. (Mr Honda found an opportunity even after being bombed!) Mr Honda took anything life gave hime and found a possitive use for it.

After his factory had been bombed, to make matters worse, an earthquake hit Mr Honda’s factory and leveled it totally. What a stroke of bad luck.

Now Mr Honda had no money, no permenant place to live and couldn’t even afford the gas to go to the grocers to buy food for his family.
Mr Honda made a very powerful decision. He asked himself, “How else can i feed my family?”
Mr Honda wanted a better lifestyle for hmself and his family, he was not going to just settle like so many others do. Having no money and very few resources, he asked himself another question, “How can i use the things i already have to get to where i want to be?”
Mr Honda, thinking like this and looking for whatever he had, one day found a motor, a small motor that would be used to drive a lawn mower. This is when he got the idea of hooking it up to his bicycle. In that moment, the worlds first first motorized Honda bike was created. He rode it everywhere and his friends and neighbours saw him and asked him to make them one. Pretty soon Mr Honda had created so many bikes, he had run out of motors, so he decided to build a factory. But…Yes there’s a big BUT, Japan was torn apart and he had no money.
Not wanting to give up and saying “There’s no way” Mr Honda came up with a great idea. He decided to write letters to all the bicycle owners in Japan, telling them that he had thought of a solution for getting Japan moving again and help people get to where they need to go cheaply. Then he asked them for an investment. Of the 18,000 shop owners who he wrote to, 3000 gave him money. He then went on to build the factory and manufacture his first shipment. Now you’d think he’s a success right? Nope.

The bike was too bulky and very few people bought. Again, instead fo giving up, Mr Honda stripped the bike down to bear essentials, making it lighter and smaller and he named it the “CUB” and now finally this creation became an “overnight success” winning the Emperor’s Award. Everyone looked at him and was thinking how “lucky” he was to have come up with such a great idea. Little did they know that luck had nothing to do with it unless you count bad luck, then luck had lots to do with it, but Mr Hondas perceverance is what finally paid off.
Today Mr Honda’s company, The Honda Corporation is one of the most successful in the world and outsells every car in america except Toyota.

The Lesson: Mr Honda came up against problem after problem, but he never let his problems or even uncontrolable circumstances get in his way. He decided that there is always a way to succeed if you’re commited enough.

I hope you enjoyed reading this, but more importantly, i hope you gained something from it. Feel free to post your thoughts.

Well it happened a little quicker than I thought… which is a good thing when you are talking about computers and the internet.

I have moved the blog away from kidinspiration.com to its own domain… childrensministryblog.com actually I couldn’t believe that the domain was still available!!!

So please add bookmarks and put the new RSS feed information in your readers etc.
http://www.childrensministryblog.com/feed/

Speaking of RSS… there is a site online that I use everyday that contains ALL the blogs that I read and get my information from…

Its called Bloglines and is just BRILLIANT… check it out at: http://bloglines.com

The design for the blog is on its way right now, and look out for the podcast coming soon…

Lots of stuff happening

Bless your cotton socks

Dave.

Q. What did the Zen master say to the guy at the hotdog stand?

A. Make me one with everything

Wow… what a week of Hillsong Conference…

We had our kids album recording on Thursday and Friday mornings, what an awesome two days. It even got a mention in the Sydney Morning Herald.

I am really pleased with how this album is turning out! Later on this week I will sit down with the team and check out what we captured on the days.

Will post some updates on this in the coming days and weeks. Check out the article… I love seeing kids worshipping God, and love the thought that people are reading that in their paper… exciting!