Call 911!

by | Jul 15, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Revival, Walk of the Spirit

While in Bible College, I was introduced to the writings of Samuel Chadwick. Chadwick (1860-1932) was one of the greatest preachers of English Methodism. Warning: He is one of those writers whose works will cause the reader to use highlighter pen after highlighter pen...

Super-Sized Ministry

by | Jul 8, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Leadership

Here’s a short blog entry with a really big concept … super-size your ministry by using this Summer to move ministry outside of the four walls of your church. Let’s look at reality. Most if not all of our ministry is limited to the confines of our...

Praying Mysteries

by | Jul 1, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Leadership

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know the name of every child in our ministry. I’m not a bad children’s pastor. I’m really not. And it’s not that I’m battling some debilitating memory disease. You’ll have to agree...

Here’s to Longevity!

by | Jun 17, 2013 | Children's Ministry

A couple of weeks ago, Vickie and I celebrated our 34th anniversary of being in children’s ministry. We are days away from celebrating our 24th anniversary of being the children’s pastors at Trinity Church International in Lake Worth, Florida. Those two...