I have a confession. I was that parent that you are talking about in your planning meetings. That parent who has no idea where their child is in their Awana handbook, the parent who did not regularly help their child study their sections. Should I have been more involved in my child’s Awana progress? Maybe. … [Read more…]
They are called “Digital Natives”. Children who are born with technology as a norm. When my children were young, the technology that we had to be worried about was how much TV they could watch and how much “gaming” they did. The big desktop computer was in the living room and they had limited time … [Read more…]
I have to be honest. I really dislike using activity sheets in children’s ministry. Inevitably, they always become paper airplanes, doodle pads, or left behind, yet that seems to be the main way that we try to convey to the parents what was taught during that time. Can you relate? There has to be a … [Read more…]
Yesterday I posted about a new game entitled, The Aetherlight. In that post I referenced one of the youth that I showed it to and that we played together to accomplish a mission we were both working to complete. It turns out that he published a vlog (video blog) review of the Aetherlight and did … [Read more…]
I often use Minecraft to engage children with the things of God. A friend knew that I used Minecraft and so while attending CPC in 2015, he introduced me to a video game called “The Aetherlight”. I was interested in the game, but I did not think much about it because it was still in … [Read more…]