Kids

A Simple Thanksgiving Idea

While meeting with our Waumba Land Team this week, I heard what they were doing for their volunteers for Thanksgiving. I thought it was a great idea! Send each volunteer a personal Thanksgiving card from classroom parents: 1. Order an inexpensive Thanksgiving postcard. (Order enough so that you have three postcards for every volunteer.) 2. Pull three address [...]

Thank you Gordon!

Game Day - September 12

On Sunday I filled in as a Coach on UpStreet at Buckhead Church. It was great to watch some of our first grade small groups in action. Here’s what I learned: When you arrive early and get organized, you give kids and parents the impression that you are excited and that something important is going to happen. Six [...]

Game Day - September 5, 2010

On Sunday I had the opportunity to hang out in Waumba Land at Buckhead Church. It was Labor Day weekend. We were a little short-handed. We were wearing many hats! Good times! PS - These pictures were all taken on my iPhone. Give grace to the photographer. Right away I spotted a few problems… A bug problem. A  frog [...]

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 [...]

Waumba Land: The Logistics!

Have you ever struggled with the tension of how to create a fun environment for preschoolers while keeping systems in place that ensure their safety and then manage the millions of details that go into Sunday morning? OR, have you ever been totally bogged down in the details of preparation that you lose sight of [...]

One-on-One Meetings - Part 2

You should spend time with the key leaders on your team, not only because of what they have the potential to do, but also because of who they have the potential to become.  Remember, every time you invest in one of your key leaders you are modeling what you hope they will do for the [...]

One-on-One Meetings - Part 1

One-on-one meetings are a great way to invest in your key leaders and volunteers. The members of your team want to know that you see them as individuals and recognize their strengths.  They want to know that you are committed to their growth. We schedule one-on-one meetings with our staff teams and with our key volunteer [...]

Recruiting Preschool Volunteers

Very few people will show up every Sunday to take care of crying babies and change diapers. When we are recruiting volunteers to serve in Waumba Land, we are calling volunteers to be a part of something much more important than that. The chair and the stage set that you see in this video are the [...]

New Volunteer Orientation

We are in the season of recruiting leaders for the fall. The first step in our process with potential volunteers is our new volunteer orientation. You can read more about our volunteer process here. Here are the elements of a successful orientation: Create an Environment. At a new volunteer orientation, you are making a first impression of [...]