Teaching Children to be Grateful
Teaching Children to be Grateful Here is an article from a blog at Focus on the Family about gratitude – teaching children to be grateful. http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/spiritual-growth-for-kids/training-kids-to-be-grateful The part I most liked is the exercise of actually counting your blessings. In Children’s Church, you might actually have children count their blessings and make a contest to […]
Do A Little Every Day | 7 Habits of a Good Artist | Andrew Price
Do a Little Every Day | SEVEN HABITS OF A GOOD ARTIST based on Blender Foundation Speech by Andrew Price. (You should be able to view the full series on Youtube.com) Habit #1 is “Do a little bit every day”. If you are reading this blog, you most likely know that I am attempting to […]
Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children India | Mission Moment #5
Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children in India | Mission Moment #5 Here are a few more of the children’s stories as sent to me by Simon David, the director of the home in India. Here is his contact information blessingchild2002@yahoo.com (For some reason I am unable to rotate the photo – sorry about […]
Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children India | Mission Moment #4
Mission Moment #4 | Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children In the next few weeks we will be focusing on some of the children the home cares for. All of these stories were provided to me by Simon David, the director of the home. You can reach him at blessingchild2002@yahoo.com Pavani lost her father […]
Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children | Mission Moment Part 3
Here is a letter from the American pastor whose church sends a team each year to the Home for Aids Affected Children. He recounts how his church came to be in contact with Mr. Simon David, the Indian businessman who founded the Home for Aids Affected Children. Here’s my story — At Bear Valley Community […]
Why Start a Home for Aids Affected Children? | Mission Moment #2
As I mentioned in my previous blog, many years ago a Christian minister in India contacted me in regards to helping with children’s ministry. This was in the early days of email. Now I receive many such requests and most of them I don’t pursue, but this one seemed special. I asked him if […]
Over Under Game
Over Under Game for Children’s Ministry Good high energy game for all ages. Instead of water, you may find slippery things at a dollar store that make this game a lot of fun to pass from one to another. http://www.greatgroupgames.com/over-under-game.htm Click here for Children’s Ministry Resources
Orphanage and Home for Aids Affected Children in India | Mission Moment #1
MISSIONS INDIA If you are considering missions India, you may be interested in the next few blogs. Many years ago I was contacted by a ministry to children in India. Over time we communicated until one day the gentleman running the ministry asked if he might translate the gospel book I had done, into […]
ORPHANAGE AND HOME FOR AIDS AFFECTED CHILDREN INDIA | MISSION MOMENT #6
ORPHANAGE AND HOME FOR AIDS AFFECTED CHILDREN | MISSION MOMENT #6 Here are more stories from Simon David the director of the home for children in India. You may contact him if you wish at blessingchild2002@yahoo.com This is Ezra, this boy ran away from his home and was wandering on the roads. As one of […]
DEVELOP YOUR TALENT
DEVELOP YOUR TALENT: It took me some time to accept all the “re-do’s” that I had to do in my cartoon drawings and bible story writing. All the early stories that I did, I had to re-do at least 3 times and at first I used to get so frustrated and angry at myself. “Like […]
FEED YOUR SPIRIT
The message I want to remind you of as a children’s minister is the importance of remembering to feed your spirit. You need personal time with the Lord that is NOT about ministry. I know, having been a children’s minister, that you can spend enormous amounts of time doing the work of the ministry doing […]
SOUR RELIGION
The church has had 2000 years to win the world by religion, and many times the religion is “sour”. Religion by rules never worked in the Old Testament under the law. People do well under love and grace. Jesus was the friend of children and sinners. For many who grew up in church as […]