Nativity Scene Christmas Crafts

I was searching the internet for ideas on how to make a Nativity scene for our afterschool program art class and came across a great website called Artists Helping Children. It has about a dozen different options of how to make a Nativity scene using different forms of art media. I wish I had discovered [...]

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Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry

Last week I attended the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry hosted by the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Seminary. It was in Hendersonville, North Carolina at a beautiful camp ground called Kanuga. I went for a two day retreat and then for an additional four day conference.  It was nice to get a break [...]

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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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How Children Come to Faith in Christ

From Between Two Worlds who got it from the first source Ryan Kelly: How do children come to faith in Christ? Check out the following radio interviews with Jim Elliff that are available for free online: 1. Genuine Salvation: More Than a Prayer 2. How Children Come to Faith in Christ 3. Taking our Children [...]

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Shout out to my awesome church

I attend an awesome church called Vineyard Community Church – West Philly. In previous posts I have written about how it’s my church soul mate and have given reasons why I like it.    They just upgraded their website and it’s great.  It even has access to recent sermons from our pastors Brad and Becca.   [...]

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Lack of urban children’s ministry resources.

I googled “urban children’s ministry” and there were only 28 results.  Seriously?! I skimmed through and noticed a lot of newsletters, links to a couple of children’s ministries, and a few college ministry groups. Seriously?  Is it because of lack of interest?  Is it because we’re not meta-tagging properly? Or is no one discussing this [...]

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Be Careful Hiring For-Profit Employees in the Non-Profit World

Excellent post by Phil Cooke – Be Careful Hiring For-Profit Employees In The Non-Profit World.  He writes, “Before you jump at the chance to hire a highly regarded executive from the for-profit world at your church, ministry, or non-profit organization, here’s a few things to consider: 1) The business models are dramatically different. 2) Non-profits [...]

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Most awesomest website.

For Enneagram Type 5 Investigators like me, I have hit the jackpot with Yahoo Answers If I want to know why our AC broke and what to do about it, Yahoo has the answer. If I want to know how to naturally heal my cold sore, Yahoo has the answer! For inquisitive minds, Yahoo Answers [...]

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