Parents and their job at Sunday, April 19, 2009

As I look into my family I have a few different characters. My son is a natural born comedian. My favorite word that he says right now is this. Dominic would you like a sandwich his response would be "Oh boy peanut butter and jelly sandwich". 

My daughter on the other hand is very mellow for right now, but nudges Dominic to keep going until he is about to hurt himself.

The dynamic of my family is awesome I love everything about my family. As everyday passes they get older and more dependent on their own skills and it's awesome to see.

I know when the kids get older they will eventually move out and go onto better things. I look around at the different dynamics of families, but realistically do we eventually hurt our children when we continue to do the same things we did when they lived at home. Have the parents in today's society hurt our kids are so dependent on their parents that they can't even go on vacation by themselves or get a job.

It seems when the nest is empty that is a time to enjoy your husband or even wife. Now am I saying that you should never see your child no, but what I am saying is let your children grow and be the best adults they can be if they fail pick them dust them off and get back in the game.

Being A Successful Leader..... at Sunday, April 05, 2009

What does it take to be a successful leader. You can look around and hear about these good leaders in the business realm, church realm. Look around you and work hard at being a good leader. You can get more done in the long run if you are a good leader.

Pouring into the people around you is another aspect of being a good leader. 

What can you do to become a good leader?

Ultimate Frisbee at Saturday, April 04, 2009

As a person studying children's ministry I have seen a lot of different people doing the ministry. I have also looked at how a lot of  youth groups have done their stuff. I always asked myself the question why do the youth groups go out and do things throughout the week and children's pastors just see their kids on Sunday or even at Camp or the occasional school lunch. Since going into children's ministry I have made it a personal goal that we can do things outside the walls of our church.

We just got done having an ultimate frisbee day for our 4th and 5th graders. I think I fell off my rocker because the postcard said from 10- 2 that's a long time to play ultimate frisbee with the kids because they start to get bored and want to play something else.

It was a great time because I got to hang out with our kids and get to know them better and I even heard one child say this is cool because we get to know you better.

We only had eight kids, but it was fun and I really enjoyed asking the kids questions and to be shocked at the same time.

I really don't know how to end this blog so I am just going to end it.

Connecting With Others.... at Friday, April 03, 2009

I love going out and eating lunch with Children's Pastors and even former Children's Pastors and talk with them about kids ministry. The last few weeks I have asked myself the question what is my job as a cp. Is my job to write up curriculum and focus so much on the service part what am I suppose to be doing.

I know that building people up is important, but once you get going you start looking around and your not doing that. I have asked people this question and I feel that I have to start changing my thought process and the way I am doing things. I need to be a PM (Project Manager). I have so many things under my umbrella that I can't focus on just one thing, but I need to be really pouring into our volunteers so that when I am out on vacation everything runs fine. It's not about me more then it's about reaching people for the Kingdom of God.

I need to start getting things out and focusing on building up people and communicating with our volunteers so that we can be more affective in the long run.

In essence I will be doing less, but overall be doing more for the kingdom of God.

Have a wonderful day.