Summer 2017 – Gadgets & Gizmos! Part 3: Our Plan for Environment

Life App: Creativity—imagining what you could do because you’re made in God’s image. Theme: Gadgets & Gizmos Date: Summer 2017 It's Gadgets & Gizmos Galore! In Part 1 of this series, I explained how we landed on our summer schedule and programming for this year. In Part 2 of this series, I...

Summer 2017 – Gadgets & Gizmos! Part 2: Curriculum-VBS Mashup!

Life App: Creativity—imagining what you could do because you’re made in God’s image. Theme: Gadgets & Gizmos Date: Summer 2017 Evaluation Brings Change In Post 1 of this series, I talked about all of the changes we've implemented to our summer programming this year. The changes came out of evaluating our...

Determination – The Amazing Maze – May 2017; Our Finished Product

Life App: Determination—deciding it’s worth it to finish what you started.  Theme: The Amazing Maze Date: May 2017 Here's to an A-MAZE-ING month! This month has been a blast and I have loved working with our interactive set. I've also loved all of the different mazes for the games each week. They have...

You Lead Labs – 252 Kids Interactive

I am a HUGE fan of 252 Basics! As an elementary leader, we've used it since our church's inception 11 years ago. In addition, my children were part of North Point Community Church's elementary programming from 1999-2003 when Reggie Joiner was the Family Ministry Director...

#OC17 – Opening Session, Content Notes

The Opening Session of Orange was chock-full of great information. It was challenging and inspiring, all at the same time. In addition to great music, there was dancing, laughing and tons of fun! But beyond all of that, there was solid content. As always, there...

#OC17 – Opening Session, The Experience

Off To A Great Start! OC17 opened last night and it did not disappoint. In true Orange fashion, the conference theme is woven through everything they do. The connections they make to the theme (including a hopscotch board for us to jump through as we exited registration)...