Orange Conference, Part 2

Yes, I’ve already posted about how excited I am to be attending The Orange Conference next week, but I just wanted to share my breakouts for all of my kidmin readers out there. (Sorry, family, this post will make no sense to you.)  I’d love to chat and meet up with blog/twitter friends! Breakout A: [...]

Orange!

I cannot wait to go with a team of people to the Orange Conference at the end of this month!! The Orange Conference last year was my first exposure to the vastly changing concept of family ministry. It rocked everything that I thought about children’s ministry. I knew having quality programming for kids at church [...]

Lessons from Walt Disney

…Well, not Walt himself, but from Lee Cockerell, the former Exec. VP of Operations for the Disney World Resort. The staff at Oak Leaf is reading Cockerell’s book Creating Magic right now. Each month, the staff reads a book that has been influential in the makeup of Oak Leaf. It helps us to be on [...]

He has our back…and we’ve got his!

You’ve got to check out my pastor’s blog post for the day about Oak Leaf Kids. (You may want to read the one before it on Student Ministry as well…) It’s incredible to work for a church and under a pastor that believes in kids ministry being more than childcare. I am such a firm [...]

i am actually going to use a sports analogy!?!

so I have not been able to stop thinking about something my brother and his friend, Aaron were talking to me about the other day. On Saturday, I spent the day going to my brother’s college football game and then had dinner with the family afterwards. Sadly, our beloved team lost, which brought dad, Josh [...]

Tear down the Walls

been listening to Hillsong’s latest cd in the car lately. on my drive to and from work. every day, i pass a church that has a fence and a locked gate. it’s a small church that hasn’t seemed to grow in the last 5 years i’ve been driving past it. i never see more than [...]