Life App: Courage—being brave enough to do what you should do, even when you’re afraid. Theme: Fear Incorporated Date: October 2016 NEW FEATURE! Each month, Ready Set Sunday will create a Pinterest Board as part of our brainstorming process. Check out our October Pinterest Board here. All Systems Go! Our new process for...
In my September-Set Design Post, I mentioned gathering a team of volunteers together to talk through our current process for set design in our elementary environment. That meeting brought about some of the most amazing changes to the way our set design process will work....
Life App: Trust—putting your confidence in someone you can depend on. Theme: High Wire Date: September 2016 Trusting My Team - During Trust Month! As noted in this post, this month's set was completely volunteer driven. Not only did the ideas come from the volunteers, but they also owned most of...
Life App: Trust—putting your confidence in someone you can depend on. Theme: High Wire Date: September 2016 New Season, New Strategy! I had a few ideas rolling around in my head for this month's set, but couldn't really give too much time to it because of all that came with the...
Summer in Maryland I know that in many areas of the country, the school year ends in late May and kicks off again in mid-August. As a result, many churches program for summer in June and July. Here in the North East, however, kids attend school through...
Since the main focus of this blog is about creating irresistible environments, I felt I would be remiss if I did not post about the amazing environments at OC16! After all, the Orange Team has inspired my love of environments over the years and fueled...
Life App: Contentment - deciding to be happy with what you've got. Theme: Supersize Me Date: May 2016 This is absolutely one of my favorite sets we've every done. I love anything super-sized. We've done super-sized objects in the past. Some of my favorites included a stopwatch, piano keys, paint brushes,...
Life App: Contentment - deciding to be happy with what you've got. Theme: Supersize Me Date: May 2016 Mad Dash...
If you've been tracking along with this series (see Part 1, Part 2, and/or Part 3), you've already read about how my experience with the Orange strategy affected my parenting just as much, if not more than my leadership. I have two adult daughters now...
Life App: Service—lending a hand to help someone else. Theme: All Hands on Deck Date: November, 2015 Signing Off From the Observation Deck We wrapped up the Life App of Service this past Sunday and are neck deep (not knee - neck) in constructing our December set. More on that tomorrow, but...