We have Talent Night tonight at our youth group and I bet there are some people who think they know what this look like in a Pentecostal Church, let me get the jokes out of the way early We’ll be handing out awards for Best tongue talker Best interpretation of those tongues (People who…
Last night was wild. The kids were hyper and kind off in their own little world. I had no ideas they were going to be that way but I’m glad I had this game planned. King of the Ring is a game I had planned as part of our Greatness Awaits…
Jesus said., “Follow me and I’ll make you fishers of men.”. The disciples left fishing and went on a journey, an adventure. There is something in a man’s heart that leaps for joy when someone says, “I see potential in you.” They may have interpreted that as, “I find you worthy of my time and…
This just in, I am a mental case. I some how overlooked an article I asked the wonderful Heather Lea Campbell to write as part my mentoring series. So, today I bring you Heather’s thoughts on what she looks for in a mentor. You can catch with her on Twitter at @heatherlea17 and you can…
Good morning all. This week I got caught up in a whirlwind of thoughts attributing power (unfounded) to those I would consider my “opponents”. I felt like I was lined up agains a sumo wrestler waiting to crush me. Not my real opponent mind you but my imaginary opponent. The one i created…
Have you ever been lost in a city or town and stopped to ask for directions? I have and the mistake I made was asking a group of people for directions. There were several ideas of how to get me to my destination. They said things like, “You could take route 22…..” , interruption,…
In my previous post I discussed what I thought the difference between mentoring and coaching is. I invite you to share what you think the difference is and which one you are more in need of at this point in your ministry. Today, I want to talk about mentoring and specifically my mentoring journey. …
I read an article the other day called “How To Teach Someone A Board Game“. It is a simple, short article; but I think if we borrowed the tips from this article we could teach our ministry volunteers faster, with less mistakes, and with a win for everyone in the end. Make Sure _________________________…
Whenever we have a kurfuffle like “What should we do with a believer behaving badly?” we have some choices: 1. Ignore it. The problem with choice is that a chunk of our students are not ignoring it and they are looking how we respond to it. So, I don’t think ignoring it is…
Pic Source I played some games with my almost 14 year old son this weekend. The game we played was called Summoner Wars and it’s a fun strategy card and dice game. It is a new game, to us, and so we played three times over the weekend, I lost every time. So, I…
