[Kid Inspiration]

Right now over at the swerve blog (from lifechurch.tv) Craig Groesche is writing a 5 part series on mentoring. I was talking to a friend of mine who I thought would be right with me in the need for every leader to have great mentors in their lives.
He hadn’t really thought about it.
Apart from [...]

So our church has a number of Youtube accounts now… one for United and one for rest of church life.
Check them out and subscribe so you can get updated on new videos being released.Here is the Hillsong Conference highlight video I linked to in the last post.

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Hillsong Conference 2007 Friday Video Blog + Week [...]

So what is the purpose of your ministry to children?
We have our annual conference coming up in just two weeks at Acer Arena in Sydney. As well as Kidsong World we run the Children’s pastors and leaders stream. Nathan Mclean and I will be speaking in one of sessions with the leaders about curriculum and [...]

This one snuck up on me! Rob Bradbury from Planet Shakers in Melbourne Australia. He and his team have started a podcast and a blog!
Check it out at: childrensministry1234.com
I have mentioned Rob in the past on the blog, for a nominal fee, ’cause he is a brilliant leader in Children’s Ministry in Australia!!
He [...]

So I had not really heard of John Piper until recently when I started to check out the Desiring God website. They also have a ministry targeted to children.
They make excellent use of the net and apparently the website contains all Piper’s sermons and articles since he started in ministry. I love seeing a dude [...]

Religion does seem to be good for young children. The religious attendance of parents and a cohesive religious environment in the home yields significant benefits for children’s behavioral, emotional, and cognitive development, and such outcomes are most pronounced when both partners attend services frequently.”
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study by researchers at Mississippi State University
Article from Rick [...]

The downside to day care?
These kind of articles become a LOT more interesting when you have a one year old child — in day care three days a week.
It seems that children who are looked after by their mothers up to the age of 3 do significantly better in developmental tests than those cared for [...]

Nice article about ‘contemporizing’ the bible for kids.

A pain-free way to get a little blip on the attention-o-meter is to look for strategic places you can contemporize the language. In other words, add some modern lingo, even pop culture references, to tug them in.

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Author Donald Miller wrote this after attending screenwriting course:

It [...]

A church leader I love hearing and reading is Andy Stanley.
Great speaker and writer…
Here are some thoughts from a conference he spoke at late last year… I know a little behind the times but better late than never.
God works through systems. For example, your body is a complex system designed by God. It’s systematic and [...]

I heard about this amazing innovation a few months ago and have been looking forward to seeing the final project… well it has been finished.
The laptops are powered with a wind-up crank, have very low power consumption and will let children interact with each other while learning. It is touted as a potent learning tool [...]