by Meg Calvin | Mar 8, 2017 | Books, Resources
Can you picture a child who has fallen through the cracks? Who is that kid on the margins that requires the most patience? You know-that student who makes your job ten-times harder, but it’s impossible to stay mad because you know what darkness awaits him at...
by Matt Guevara | Sep 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
I love learning from fields outside of my experience. I recently finished a book by Twyla Tharp, famed ballet chorographer. Ballet = far outside my field of experience. So very far. Similarly, animation is outside of my field and I was eager to learn from Ed...
by Dr. Denise Muir-Kjesbo | Jul 4, 2015 | Books, Resources, Reviews
I celebrate the growing interest in adoption in our churches today. Children in need of a home are finding places of safety, belonging and love in Christian families and churches. Yet often adoptive children come from hard places: international contexts where the care...
by Matt Guevara | Jun 29, 2015 | Reviews
In the summer of 2010, my boss handed a copy of Dr. Michelle Anthony’s book, Spiritual Parenting to the entire kidmin team. My daughters, Isabel and Sofia, were 5 and 4 years old at the time. As a dad, even one who was on staff at a church working in children’s...
by Taryn Cleaves | Jun 10, 2015 | Reviews
“Everyday is Gospel Day” I recently came across the book Show Them Jesus by Jack Klumpenhower. The subtitle is Teaching the Gospel to Kids. I love learning new techniques for teaching kids, so I was pretty intrigued. Jack’s basic premise is that every message and...
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