Videos for Early Childhood

Now that we are finished with all three weeks of our half-day summer camps, I’ll share some of the video components we created! Each day, we told the Bible story to 225 kids (ages 3-entering Kindergarten) on video.  Throughout the week, we covered the story of...

How to make Glow-Sticks

Somewhere in the soul of every children’s ministry leader is an inner geek.  And if you are like me, you’re always searching for cool ways to interact with kids in a teaching environment .  I came across this video on how to make Glow Sticks and knew the...

Pixar on Collaboration

Check out this video from Pixar University’s Dean: Randy Nelson. Here are three quotes that stuck out to me: •    The core skill of an innovator is error recovery not failure avoidance. •    Collaboration means amplification. •    Be interested, not interesting....

Lead the Way God Made You – Blog Tour

It does not seem that long ago, but in the fall of 2003 I began my journey in full-time children’s ministry in Madison, WI.  I had Biblical and theological foundations from my newly earned Pastoral Studies degree and loads of volunteer experience working with...

The Digital Diet

I came across a couple of great resources for Digital Immigrants who want to become more fluent in the language and tools of Digital Learners.  The Digital Diet is a new book by Andrew Churches, Lee Crocket, and Ian Jukes.  The contributors have also create some...