Volume Not Perfection | 7 Habits of a Good Artist | Andrew Price

Habit #2  Work on Volume not Perfection 7 HABITS OF A GOOD ARTIST based on Blender Foundation Speech by Andrew Price (You can find the series on Youtube.com) Habit #2 is to work on Volume of pieces and not perfection of each piece of art that you do.  Andrew Price uses the example of Picasso […]

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

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 […]

The Number Game

The Number Game for Children’s Ministry This would be a fun game to review biblical statistics. Choose numbers that describe the size of the tribes of Israel or the enemy armies etc. http://www.greatgroupgames.com/the-number-game.htm   Click here for Children’s Ministry Resources

WE CANNOT DO IT WITHOUT THE LORD

WE CANNOT DO IT WITHOUT THE LORD A Blog by Rev. Grace Verrier After many years of ministry, and having my “congregations” change every six years (I taught children 6-12 years old) I became very familiar with the curriculum I taught.  My goal in presenting the six-year curriculum was to familiarize children with the layout […]