[Kid Inspiration]

We just started a bit of a leadership promo here at church for the kids department.

We are calling it ‘So You Think You Can… Lead Kids’. Encouraging clonidine sleeping prescription all of our leaders to invite one other person to lead our awesome kids – Kind of a ‘Double Your Impact’ month.

Check out the page here: hillsongkids.com/leadkids

Now I did this site pretty much myself using free tools online and put them on our site. And the video was edited with iMovie, but comment below if you would like to know the process of the deal and with enough interest I can lay it all down for ya!

Great clomid for sale 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 one question as we head into the weekend.

For most churches, the weekend is VERY important.

So clavamox price comparison 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.

YouTube is a site that creates nothing.

All the creators did (before Google bought the site) was put up a way for people to create content and share it with the world.

I mean its not like a news site where people create meaningful content at the employ of the almighty Goog… it’s just a way to put lame videos that SHOULD have been sent to the funniest home video show of your choosing!

And therein lies the crux.

Millions of people have made YouTube what it is today by creating all the content FOR Google (then they make millions from advertising, which is a whole other rant).

This culture, and the culture of our kids growing up is shifting from ‘consumers’ to ‘contributors’.

I watched Macgyver diffuse bombs using a matchbox and three hairpins growing up, I never really considered it possible to make my own episode… even if I wanted to, film was expensive and forget about editing it!

Today’s culture honours the contributors, the creators, those brave enough to put something out there and they disregard the leechers, the whiners, the critics who have never created anything.

You want to have an opinion that is valued, a voice that commands respect…

CONTRIBUTE!

Networking claritin on sale is not so much just about meeting other like minded people, it’s about the bringing value.

The little community of Children’s Ministry bloggers that has grown and developed in the last four years is full of people that CREATE content.

Are you serious about connecting?

Do you really want to build relationships that sharpen you?

Do you want the generation rising to listen to anything you have to say?

Then WRITE something, FILM something, RECORD something… and put it out there for every person in the known universe to read!

(btw: There are at least 900,000 blog posts every day online.)

Please, for your sake: Move from consumer to contributor!

I just sent out an email to our key team… thought I would post it here:

(And if you want to post your answers in the comments).

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Are you growing in your passion to reach children for Christ and grow His church?

We citalopram without prescription never become mature in our leadership or love for God. The thing about mature fruit is that it is just a few days away from becoming rotten fruit. We have to be leaders that are growing, not stagnant.

Really search your heart and address the issues that are holding you back. This break Beci and I are on right now is time for me to address one of the things that is holding me back. Devotion – I need to develop
the time I spend in devotion to Jesus Christ.

I have something different for our key team meeting this Wednesday.

We will not be meeting at church, instead I would love you to take the time and read this article.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/childrensministry/articles/becominganauthenticleader.html

Then simply reply to this email and write down some thoughts for me about one of the areas Jim talks about.

eg. 2. Leaders are problem solvers. Let me know a challenge or something God has spoken to you about problem solving, or even a problem you have solved in your ministry.

Looking forward to your answers!

God Bless

David Wakerley

So in every service in Hillsong Kids we have various upfront positions rostered for our primary school programs.

And I always forget who ends up doing what.

So if I write them down here:

1. It might just help me remember them
2. If I forget, they are online for posterity

THE THREE M’S

MC – Responsible for the running of the service, welcomes kids etc. They also do the offering.

Ministry – Does our ask God, thank God prayer requests. And any time of ministry/prayer with the children.

Message – Does the message. Every service someone will bring a message to the children. Some services it may be longer than others.

There are a lot of other roles in a service, but these are three of the main one’s in terms of upfront/platform citalopram online apotheke leaders.

As I sit here Friday before a big weekend (our family services), and KIDSFEST next Wed where we record “Follow You”, our new kids album!

It’s a perfect time to assess, dream and strategise about the future. I always have my best ideas in an incredibly busy/creative times…

Here are some thoughts from a staff meeting or something recently… I didn’t make a note in my notes

Leadership is a moral calling

• Leadership cipro sale is not what I do it’s who I am
• Leadership is a decision to be

Can others SEE your progress… is it evident to all? (1 Tim 4:9-16)

1. Lead in speech – The tongue is a powerful instrument of leadership… It makes words!
2. Lead in life – What word describes your life? (Col 1:10)
3. Lead in love – Be the best lover you can be (does not require Viagra)
4. Lead in faith – We should never live in doubt, always in faith
5. Lead in purity – Draw the line, and keep a marker handy, you will have to keep it from being erased.

Dave out.

Love this thought to think on and ponder while you ruminate…

From Seth Godin

Irrationally committed

If you’re looking for the sensible, predictable, long-term strategy, this probably isn’t it. Except when it is.

Entrepreneurs who are irrationally committed to their business are far more likely to get through the Dip…

Salespeople and service providers and marketers who are irrationally committed to customer service can completely transform an ordinary experience and make it remarkable.

Is cipro prescription drug being irrational irrational? Of course it is. That’s why it often works.

The most fun people I know are irrational, the most successful people I know do unrational things…

Jesus was an unrational dude.

Maybe we should lead unrationally?

The older you get the more you realize you don’t know.

Just when I think I have an insight or handle on things I see or hear a quote that blows me away.

I am a student of culture. cipla generic viagra I study it, disect it, look for the good in it and generally spend my life searching for the glimpses of God that can be found in it. Especially the culture as it relates to kids.

So what you need to do is visit the Catalyst conference website and watch their promo video.

(www.catalystconference.com)

“There’s far too much preaching today coming from culture instead of speaking Gods word to the culture.”
- Craig Groeschel

Anyway it may not be life changing to you, but it reminds me to make sure our kids bring God to their worlds and not let the world overwhelm their God.

Dave out.

At some ungodly hour I will awaken tomorrow and get on a little bus and make my way down south… Way down South to Melbourne to Kidshaper, our annual national Children’s ministry conference.

We are taking not just our staff this year, but a whole bunch of volunteers so it will be a blast!!!

I plan to cialis to buy Twitter the conference which will hopefully be a better experience than the one at our Colour conference a few months ago.

It turns out it’s hard to blog a conference while serving at it! (who knew).

I am speaking in just one elective so I will have a lot more time to comment on the messages and ministry.

So follow the Twitter stream at http://Twitter.com/kidinspiration

If you are coming, see you there! My elective is on Thursday afternoon, come and say hi!

If you don’t subscribe to Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox… then steer your browser in this direction Pastors.com

You get it every week in your inbox and it is an excellent read!

There is an article in this weeks edition from Craig Jutila.

Leading a dynamic team takes energy, enthusiasm, and the ability to empower others. It has been said that a leader is someone with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head. As you lead an effective and dynamic team, there are seven observations worth remembering. They will keep you on the right path and give you success with those you serve. read on

We run a 5 Star Leadership Program for kids in years 4 and 5. And last Saturday night they took over… running the whole shebang. MCing, Preaching, Running Games, Doing sound etc, etc.

 

A Giant Connect 4 Competition.

 

Kirra Preaching up a Storm

 

Tayla Speaking the Word!

 

Caleb MC’ing!

 

Me and Caleb talking about stuff!

It was a huge success and the kids loved running everything – get a group of your kids to try this… very rewarding (You will also be surprised with what the kids preach about!).

Seriously – check this out… do it now!

This test from Lead the Way God Made You: Discovering Your Leadership Style in Children’s Ministry by Larry Shallenberger will help you discover your unique leadership strengths. Then use Larry’s book for the second step of the leadership journey discovering how to best use what God’s given you to bless your ministry, your co-workers, and the kids you serve.

Harry S. Truman said:

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”

Self-discipline isn’t about torturing yourself or denying yourself. It’s about mastering yourself as a surgical tool you can use to pursue the purpose of God wholeheartedly.

You want to lead a powerful team of leaders who passionately believe they are called to minister to kids?

Then master YOURSELF first!

You may have heard of John Maxwell…

If not, then you are about to.

In his latest newsletter, John talks about team building. Now I would bet that if you are in any kind of ministry, then one of the hot topics you want to know more about is exactly that; How do I build a world changing team?

Read this article now!

After that, you must do two things:

1. Goto injoy.com and if possible get your good self to an John Maxwell event.

2. Sign up for his free Leadership Wired newsletter.

Leadership is an expensive calling. It will cost you time that would be easier to waste.

LK 14:28-30 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, `This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’

“Counting the cost” is a biblical idea that applies to every area of the leader’s life. Whatever you do is going to require some energy, and life is too short to focus on ideas that don’t matter.

Building the house of God matters — it’s as simple as that. Sow your life into it.