Teaching kids about justice.

I was doing some research this afternoon about how to teach kids about justice from a Christian perspective.
PBS Teachers has a website on justice activity ideas that I found helpful.
But, really, I can’t find many resources on the issue. If you know of any, let me know! Otherwise, maybe I should do some [...]

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Awkward Questions about Jesus

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4th Grade Day

My beautiful 4th graders are leaving my program and moving up to the older kids camp, so today we had a day to celebrate them. I LOVE these photos!

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StreetLeader Appreciation Day

Last week we had an afternoon of celebrating our teenage staff members, who we call StreetLeaders (SLs). They are high school students who work in our after school program, helping with tutoring and working with the kids. Our staff this school year was phenomenal!
The kids did a skit of impressions of the SLs, [...]

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A different worldview is possible.

“Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.  The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform [...]

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Cooper River Park

We spent an afternoon at Cooper River Park stalking some geese and playing on the playground.

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Teaching kids about the Holy Spirit

The Foursquare Church has an eight lesson series on Holy Spirit Discovery for Kids. Check it out!

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Spring Break 2009 Video

Check out this two minute montage of our spring break trips. Of course, the people who donated $$ will get an extended (much more awesome) version on DVD. We DID go over budget, so if you still want to donate (and thus, get the much more awesome DVD version) let me know!

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Sleep over party.

Last night we had a sleep over party. I looked at my co-worker Mwai and was like, “We’re parents to 13 kids tonight!”  
The evening started with roller skating.  We went to a try out a new roller skating rink in Cherry Hill, but were pretty much told at the door we were not welcome! [...]

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Discrimination and pretentious people

I don’t normally rant about pet peeves, but I have to make a statement about the following:
I really dislike pretentious people.

Even more so when the person is equal to me in age, education and experience!
In my position as an after school program director I have often experiened condescension from others.  There isn’t a lot of [...]

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