All Camp Day

All Camp Day is the most important day of the summer. All seven summer camps in our ministry join together for a day of competition, songs, games and Bible lesson. Each camp dresses up in their camp color, we have a camp mascot and vehicle, and camp song. It’s very competitive and winning the “Golden [...]

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Summer Staff ’10

My summer staff – StreetLeaders and Interns (minus a few). We got along really well! There’s a great wall of graffiti near the skating rink and Camden and it’s tradition to have our staff group photo taken there.

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What had happened was…

I have really neglected this website. I haven’t been super busy, just focusing on other things. Here’s what we’ve been doing in urban children’s ministry during the last three months: January We had two major snowstorms, getting something like 20″ one week and then another 15″ inches the next week. There was heaps of snow [...]

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Spring Break 2010

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People need Jesus

To  be honest, I’ve kind of shyed away from trying to convert people.  I guess I was burned out from years of evangelistic ministry, coupled with the realization that God saves people, not me.  And the organization I work with isn’t in your face preachy, which I appreciate, but the downside is that sometimes the [...]

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Jesus is the Reason for the Season: Teaching kids about Christmas

I’m not a paranoid right winger, but I have to admit I haven’t heard a lot about “Christmas” this holiday season. I recently went to a teacher supply store to look for bulletin board decorations that said “Merry Christmas.” And you know what? I couldn’t find any! I thought that was kind of weird. I [...]

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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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Camden named America’s most dangerous city

Although Camden hasn’t always held the top spot, for 2009 we’re back to being #1 in the nation for being the most dangerous city in America. Check out the article here. My hometown of Birmingham was 6th and surprisingly New York City was 296th! Camden is a city of potential. But I’m not surprised it’s [...]

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Jesus is the boss

We taught a lesson last week on how Jesus is the most important thing. Apparently H. was listening because at school the next day, on a Thanksgiving turkey art project, he wrote, on his own accord, “Jesus is the boss.” It makes me happy to know the kids a) listen to what we tell them [...]

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Christmas wishes

We have partnerships with local churches to buy Christmas presents for the kids, but preparation begins now and today I was asking the kids what they wanted.  I heard ps3, iPods, skateboards, but one little boy said SHOES! and then ran off. He wanted SHOES for Christmas! Isn’t that precious?  Later, I looked at the [...]

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