[Kid Inspiration]

From Savage Chickens

Your Best Life Now - by Joel Osteen
Warner Faith 2004
7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Joel Osteen pastors Lakewood Church which was started Mothers Day 1959 by his father John. On October 3, 1999, after the death of his father, Joel became the senior pastor of Lakewood.
This book is right up there with the [...]

We move fast in ministry. Success is celebrated briefly, failure is quickly forgotten. We started our 7th service tonight. It was new and exciting, but within two weeks, it will be as if we have been doing it forever!
Dave Ferguson (Community Christian Church Chicago) writes (a few weeks ago) on “four rules for fast teams“, [...]

Ouch!
http://theresurgence.com/mdblog_2006-05-24_death_by_ministry 
Oh Man. You need to read this! And then spend a week in prayer and fasting, then read it again. Then if possible after reading it again, make sure you understand that a life of ministry is a spiritual battle.
eg. (USA) Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, [...]

The T-Qualizer is a t-shirt with a built in sound sensitive graphic equalizer panel. As the music beats, the shirts equalizer lights up to the beat of the music.
This would be awesome to wear in a big kids meeting to measure the volume of cheering etc.
It has a fully functional EL (Electro Luminenscence) panel with [...]

Via The Church Report
This survey was sent to 2,000 church leaders with the goal of ranking the nation’s fastest growing churches and churches with more than 2,000 weekend attendance. The 127 churches nominated for the 50 Most Influential Churches survey were located in 32 states and represented 27 affiliation groups and/or denominations.
It would be fascinating [...]

Via SearchEngineWatch.
Finally, Australia gets mapped by Google Maps. Not only did Australia get street level views, so did New Zealand.
If you have never played around with Google maps, have a look. You might even be able to see your car in your own driveway.

Rick Muchow is the worship pastor at Saddleback church - Check out this article on Pastors.com where Rick answers a question about kids praise and worship
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The worth of our children is so significant and powerful! They are the next generation of our church, but often we are so busy leading the adults who are [...]

Article about parents who want their kids to ‘get religion’.
A Leap of Faith
…many nonreligious parents — whether they’ve eschewed belief or practice or both — find themselves seeking the psychological, spiritual and moral blessings they hope a religious background can bestow on their offspring.