Kids

NEW! Family Birthday Celebration Website

A few weeks ago we launched a new website designed to walk our kids and parents through our baptism process. This is a process that we had always managed ourselves in the past. This new site allows us to communicate to both kids and parents and better prepare them for the big day. Take a look [...]

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Our Plan to Partner With Parents

Sorry that you haven’t heard from us much this week, but we’ve been getting ready for this little thing called the Drive Conference! Today is the big day and I just sat in on a pre-conference session and listened to Billy Phenix unpack a big picture view of our strategy to partner with parents from birth [...]

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Preschool Take-Home

We are always working to create tools for our parents that will help them as they teach their kids about God. We have found that the best tools do the following: * They are simple to use. * They fit into the regular routines of the family life. * They are visually appealing. * They are fun! We want to make [...]

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You Are Invited to JumpStart!

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. You can find out more about JumpStart here. We invite [...]

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Family Focused Environments

Do you have a consistent opportunity to talk to kids AND parents together? Focusing only on children and neglecting parents is not only bad strategy, it is an irresponsible use of a church’s time, energy, and resources. We are not JUST responsible for children. We are ALSO responsible to the parents. Instead of [...]

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Celebrating Stories of Life Change

How do you celebrate what God is doing in the life of your kids? One of the best environments that I get to participate in is Family Birthday Celebration. You can see a highlight of what this event looks like right here. One thing that I love about this event is how we capture on video the [...]

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Big Idea of Family

Just when we had thought we tried everything…rap videos about heaven, the story of Onesimus done to Bohemian Rhapsody, paper bag angel puppets singing the “Halleluiah chorus”…we came up with JUNE! June shook everything up. And just between us, we didn’t even know on show Sunday at 10:05a.m. if it was going to work [...]

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What is KidStuf?

From the beginning days of our church, we have held one belief that relates to our children’s ministry: “What happens at home is more important than what happens at church.” It is for this reason that we feel that one of the best things we can do as a church is to “partner with parents” and equip [...]

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