A few months ago I picked up the Hunger Games. I started reading it early one Saturday morning and couldn’t put it down. I’ve now read all three books in the series. It’s been a while since a great story has totally sucked me in this way. The over arching theme of these books is not for young [...]
Continue reading...9. September 2011
This summer we produced a new song called Unlock the Power. We’ve been using it with our kids for the past three months and they love it. So we thought we would share! Take a listen: unlock-the-power-final-mix Here are the details: The original music was produced for worship on UpStreet, the elementary environment of North Point Ministries. Each North [...]
Continue reading...7. September 2011
This year we launched a NEW strategy to connect with our parents. We dabbled in the world of social media with our parents last year and this year we decided to jump in and give it our full attention. We want to partner with our parents. We BELIEVE that they are the greatest influencers and leaders of [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2011
JumpStart is a 30-minute presentation for both kids and parents where we teach children what it means to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. This is an important part of our strategy to lead children and parents into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We’ve created a 30 minute presentation [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2011
Today was promotion Sunday - a big day around here! Hundreds of kids and parents arrived at our campuses ready jump in. Some came for the first time. Preparation for this day takes months. We really aren’t preparing for just one day. We’re preparing for the whole year. Where does most of our preparation lie? Volunteers! We find [...]
Continue reading...10. August 2011
We used this video last year and we are using it again this year! It’s just a fun way to remind our volunteers of a few important things.
Continue reading...26. May 2011
On Sunday, May 22, we concluded our year long journey through God’s big never ending story. We weren’t sure how our kids would do sitting through a longer, animated, voice-over type video segment, so we popped some popcorn and created a movie atmosphere. You could have heard a pin drop!
Continue reading...13. May 2011
Since we’ve been talking about new volunteers all week, I thought you might like to see the piece we are using this week to apprentice new volunteers. Part 3 of the New Volunteer Process will be posted on Monday!
Continue reading...5. May 2011
One of my favorite things about Family Birthday Celebration is hearing our kids share their stories. If you work in Children’s Ministry you and your team play a part in stories just like this every week. God is at work in the lives of our children. I love that we are here to witness it!
Continue reading...28. April 2011
I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend! As we have been busily adding a fourth and fifth campus to our teams we figured out that we would be producing 22 large group presentations of the Easter story for our UpStreet kids on Easter weekend. We wanted it to be GREAT! We wanted to use our best [...]
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3. February 2012
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