At the 2016 Children’s Pastors Conference I attended a breakout session entitled “The Bi-Vocational Leader”. I have never been in full-time ministry. I have always worked full-time outside of the church serving as a volunteer leader most of the time and for a brief time, I was given a small stipend in my role as … [Read more…]
When you think of Awana, what is the one word that comes to mind? I would venture to guess that most people would say “clubs”. It is what Awana has done well for over 60 years. At the Children’s Pastors Conference (CPC16), Awana introduced something that has been in the works for several years. It … [Read more…]
One of the parts of attending the Children’s Pastors Conference (CPC) that I really enjoy is seeing friends in ministry that I haven’t seen in a while as well as meeting new friends with the same passion, reaching children for Jesus. We can gather together and share about our ministries and encourage one another. We … [Read more…]
Unfortunately, sometimes parents and kidmin leaders aren’t sure how to teach children about global issues, and fall back on telling them how bad people in other countries have it. It’s especially easy to fall back to this tactic when kids get too self-focused. While it’s certainly true that our kids enjoy a high standard … [Read more…]
This evening I was going to post about the first general session which was held Wednesday night. There was a lot of great information and insight given to all those in attendance, too much to record here. To see a glimpse of the first general session, I will defer to GJ Farmer’s who did an … [Read more…]