Hey, be quick and enter this comp to win a copy of Follow You! at Kidology.org

Dave out.

Now that we have three main campuses we don’t get to see each others room setups. So last kids staff meeting we had a fun competition. But I will let Kathryn MacDaddy tell you the rest of the story:

We had a competition between our Hillsong Kids staff called “Pimp my Set up”… The idea was that we each take 5 photos of our age groups room set up and we present them to the team. We then choose 3 finalists and vote on the winner. And I WON!! Yeah Baby..I WON IT!!! My prize was a gift card for the movies, which I will enjoy every second of!!! Read On

Great comic from Wondermark today…

It does contain an element of truth in it.

Every generation tries to impose it’s own values on the next (negatively or positively).

Great little article I stumbled over while researching on leadership.

Why I Believe in the Next Generation By Marty Cauley

I believe in the next generation for five reasons: ingenuity empowers them; injustice enrages them; challenges enthrall them; culture equips them; and hope inspires them. The future they face is not as bright as the one they should have inherited; but I know that they will rise to the challenge!

Love his thoughts on young people in leadership.

P.S. As far as the site goes… design matters. The site ain’t the prettiest at the ball… and there was no RSS feed. A great example of great content being hamstrung by design and old school ways (4 years ago) of distributing it. — Jus’ saying.

(Maybe some of the next generation Marty is talking about should get their hands on the site).

Just heard the first episode of a new podcast called CM Edge from Henry Zonio

Love it! I really feel like the voices are growing in support of our current generation of children!

More and more people speaking, many more listening!

Loving it — check it out: cmedge.com

So after losing a whole bunch of blog posts due to some database weirdness and the backup that my webhost was about 2-3 days before but unfortunately  after the issue and my backup was from 8 Jan so about a month ago I went back into google reader (which obviously cache’s each blog) and pasted each post back into my site…

Phew, although I did feel a little lame about my rather scarce blogging pattern over summer highlighted by the realtively quick time it took to reconstruct my blog.

And I lost a whole HEAP of comments on each of those posts! If I lost one of yours I am truly sorry… it was your work!

So…

1. Backup your work regularly.

2. Backup your work regularly.

3. Regularly is like once a week for me.

The good to come out of this is I will endeavour to post some quality posts with increased frequency.

(write more good stuff)

Dave out.

I just lost three months of posts on my blog – which is why the last post is from Nov last year.

Not happy!

I have a small glimmer of hope that my hosting company has a backup that is later than mine – Jan 8 2009…

Why does it always take a disaster to make me see the light!

Automatic backups people!

Anyway, I will hopefully have them back soon! Amen!

I recommend the following cartoon only for those extremely well versed in the internets, but I have wondered for many years if anyone else experienced the below question…

Ha!

(for more… xkcd.com)

Just one question as we head into the weekend.

For most churches, the weekend is VERY important.

So do you know if you have kicked a goal this weekend?

How do you measure it?
What would you feel good about accomplishing?

Then assess if that is what your senior pastor/leadership would feel good about you doing…
If not (or even if you think you know), then find out what they think is a home run, and what are the things they would assume that you would be doing…

Don’t judge a weekend by your own filter. Get the right filter over what you are doing.

The 2008 World Submarine Racing Championships

I am fascinated with this phrase: “Attention is the currency”.

Because I think that in this age it applies SO much to our kids.

I have a LOT of choices when I put my son to bed at night… so much else I could be doing rather than reading him a story or spending time with him. My father had a lot less choices, no mobile phone, only two channels of TV (this was the 80’s in New Zealand).

So more than ever our love is measured by time and attention.

So with the many distractions that our kids face, it is so easy to stand out in our culture. Even the bare minimum will make you stand out in the mind of a child!

Here are some very interesting thoughts from the blog of Tim Ferriss