Kids

Kicking off the Year!

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 [...]

Don’t Be That Leader

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.

The Conclusion of the Never Ending Story

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!

Apprenticing Small Group Leaders

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!

Family Birthday Celebration Videos

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!

Easter on UpStreet!

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 [...]

On The Job

And The Winner Is……

Congratulations!! Jenna Ellis from Revolution Church in Canton, GA AND Tonya Ankerton from The Branches Community Church in Escondido, CA We will be using SuperHeroes this summer as well! We will post any updates or new ideas throughout the spring that we decide to do! Hope you enjoy!

Planning for Summer

We are starting to plan  for the summer! What about you? We are considering pulling out Superheroes again!  We used this content several years ago and thought it would be FUN to jump into it again. Want to use it with us? You can read more about Superheroes here. Here’s the deal — we are going to give [...]

Great Commission and Candy Land

We just launched the Big Idea of Cooperation. One of the stories that we wanted to teach as a part of Cooperation was the Great Commission. We wanted to show our kids that God could have spread His message in a million, supernatural, amazing ways, but He chose to work through people. Our bottom line? [...]