Dave Ramsey is teaching a 3-week series at LifeChurch.tv for churches across the world to use. It’s called Life. Money. Hope. Featuring Dave Ramsey. You’re invited to participate in these services at any of their campuses or at http://live.lifechurch.tv for any of our 10 church online experiences.
If you’d like to use the messages at your church, you’ll be able to download them from http://open.lifechurch.tv beginning March 31, 2009.
Here’s a 2-part interview where Dave speaks to ministers and discusses integrity, accountability, among other things. Well worth watching!
What applications do you see for customized maps in children’s ministry? Post a comment with your ideas for how customized mapping can be utilized in your children’s ministry.
With Halloween just a few weeks away, many churches are busy preparing for some sort of Halloween outreach event. This is a great time of you to conduct outreaches, for a variety of ideas. Dick Gruber and I discussed a host of considerations for Halloween outreaches in episode 14 of Children’s Ministry Talk.
Dick has been generous enough to share his Halloween Outreach Booklet and Trick or Treat Tract. Download ‘em both and put ‘em to use in your children’s ministry! While you’re at it, leave Dick a comment and let him know you were blessed by these resources.
My good friend Dick Gruber has revamped his website and it is now live at dickgruber.com.There you’ll continue to find a host of resources, helps, articles, and links related to children’s ministry.
In addition, Dick’s blog is now combined with the site, making it easier to be notified when he posts new updates as well as to post comments on items you find to be a blessing. His new site is also searchable, so if there’s something in particular you are looking for, you can just give the search a try! There’s a bunch other new features that I’ve added, but you’ll just need to take a look for yourself.
Take a moment to stop by Dick’s new site and leave him a comment. I know he’d love to hear from you.
Spread the word…Dick Gruber is offering his Evangel Art: Reproducible Art for Children’s Ministries for FREE! This incredible resource includes:
over 40 evangel pages
385 picture words
124 scripture pictures
All artwork is provided in .jpg format and can be easily incorporated into any word processing, desktop publishing, or presentation software. To request a free download of Dick Gruber’s Evangel Art, simply complete the download request form at http://www.cmuo.com/resources/evangelart. You will then receive an email with more details for downloading your free copy.
Looking for more free resources? Dick has also written a song entitled, “The Children’s Pastor’s Prayer” that can be downloaded for free from http://www.cmuo.com/freesong.
Looking for an efficient way to share photos of your latest children’s ministry event with parents, volunteers, or the children of your ministry? Give online photo sharing a try. If you take digital pictures, you need to watch this 3 minute video that explains the value of posting photos on a service like Flickr for sharing or safe keeping.
Thanks to Mike George for passing along a great site offering information for parents regarding the different video games that kids are playing: http://www.whattheyplay.com. Check out the site and pass it along!
American Idol returns for its seventh season when it premieres on January 15. The hit series empowers viewers to discover America’s next solo singing superstar by voting for their favorites to win the coveted American Idol title.
Every year, tens of thousands of hopefuls from across the nation audition for a shot at stardom and a chance to be the next American Idol. Kids watch on TV as week by week the next American Idol gets closer.
Idol is the going to be the buzz word at school, on the playground and on the web beginning in a matter of days. What are you doing about it in your children’s ministry?
KidzMatter is proud to announce, Who’s Your Idol?. Who’s Your Idol is a dynamic and relevant 4-week curriculum series for elementary children. Ryan Seacoast hosts this series that teaches kids to put God #1 in their lives.
Look at what you get:
Editable lesson files
Video skits (featuring Simon, Paula and Randy)
Memory verse videos
Idol spoof videos
Quiz videos
Graphic slides
Games
Object lessons
A 60-second countdown
6 worship videos
Puppet scripts
Small group questions
As you can see, this package contains everything you need to have an awesome four-week children’s church experience! You can check it out more details and get your copy here.
The public beta version of YouVersion has been LIVE for several months. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. Here’s a glimpse from the YouVersion blog of the features in this free online Bible study tool…Simply go to YouVersion.com to see how it works. Everything is free and will remain free, but to interact with some of the personalized features you’ll need to go through a simple registration process.
Here’s a glimpse at what you can do with YouVersion:
Search for scripture, jump to a book/chapter/verse, or scroll through our Bible Reader
Star verses and content
Tag verses and content
Contribute and/or associate images, videos, links, and text to verses or series of verses
Start journaling in the “My Journal” feature
See what others are sharing
Email items to your friends and family
Rate content
And so much more…
More details are here. I’ve signed-up with YouVersion and am I really enjoying the using it thus far. I am especially enjoying the 1 year Bible.
Go ahead and give YouVersion a try for yourself and comment with your feedback. How might you be able to use this tool to enhance your personal walk with Christ as well as your children’s ministry?
Bob Klein shares his experience with a giant inflatable movie screen at a recent movie night. He picked this up from Walmart online for $200. Very cool!
