Kids

Give It Your ALL!

You know what I love about our teams? I love that they take an idea and they give it their all. We never sit in a meeting and spell out every little detail of every idea to make every little thing amazing. NEVER! Honestly, I could never dream up half of the things that they do. [...]

Merry Christmas!

Every year our staff takes a team picture and creates a postcard to send out to their volunteers. As you can see, some of them are VERY creative! Merry Christmas!

Hire Good People

A few weeks ago the fire alarm went off during the service at our North Point Campus. We evacuated over 1,000 kids, around 4,500 adults, and several hundred middle school students. Here’s the kicker! Both the Waumba Land Director and the UpStreet Director were out of town. It was the Sunday after Thanksgiving and we were [...]

Job Description: UpStreet Production Director

When Public Ministry Intersects With Personal Pain

At some point in our life we will experience pain. Death, sickness, cancer, troubled relationships, bad choices…no matter how hard we try to avoid it, pain is part of our journey here on this earth. Growing up as a preacher’s kid, I’ve watched many people in public ministry navigate the waters of private pain. As someone [...]

Our Process for Creating a Great T-Shirt

It’s funny, but the one thing that our volunteers most look forward to is their new t-shirt each year! They ask about it…worry if they will look good in the color we have chose…and hope that we don’t decide on the smaller cut/style like we did one year! We do our best to keep it [...]

Thank you Gordon!

Does It Really Matter?

From time to time I run across a group of people who want to shortchange the budget, time, and creativity that goes into preschool ministry. Whenever I run into these situations, I just cringe. Not only are children learning at a faster pace than any other time, they are absorbing a massive amount of information they [...]

New UpStreet Postcards!

As always we like to freshen things up for the start of the new school year. We want to set our small group leaders up for success. We want them to be reaching out and building relationships with their kids. You can read more about that here. Here are a few new postcards that we designed [...]

Curriculum Process

If you’ve ever taken on the task of developing and writing curriculum, you know that it is an all-consuming process. Sunday is always coming, so the right content has to be ready. One of the most important things that we do every week is communicate a message. Not just any message—but a powerful message that has [...]