Cutting-edge ideas for kids and the heroes who lead them
I have to admit, I felt like a superhero. It was daddy-daughter late-night date night and I had crafted the perfect plan. Elle and I would eat chocolate-chip pancakes to our heart's content, rent any movie she wanted and stay up as late as our sleepy eyes would allow us. I even found a stack …
Continue reading "From Hero to Villain (That Time My Five-Year Old Hurt My Feelings)"
This is an adaptation a blog I first wrote exclusively for The Mentoring Project in March of 2015. When I was nine-years-old, I was sent home from school because I had head lice. These little black bugs made a grand, unwelcome entrance into my Mexi-Rican, medium-sized afro. I still remember my teacher's dreadful stare. I had no …
“You’re telling me my child has to sit in church with me?” “He’s going to be bored out of his mind!” "But Pete is preaching through the book of DANIEL!” “I drove 30 minutes here just for you to tell me there is no Kids Ministry? This is unacceptable.” These are all real, actual statements I’ve …
I've been a huge advocate for mentoring for about ten years and have been blessed to experience being both a mentor and a mentee for the last several. Concurrently, I've been working in children's ministry in the local church and now oversee an elementary ministry that consists of about 300 first - fifth graders and …
Continue reading "When Two Worlds Collide (Why The Church Needs Less Volunteers and More Mentors)"
On Easter Sunday, I watched with the rest of our church family as dozens of kids made their way down to the front of the worship center, to kneel at our make-shift altar, and trade in their "old rags" for new ones. "Watched" is a strong word actually. I could barely see through the flood …
