GETTING IT RIGHT FOR OUR KIDS
Earlier this morning I took a ride over to MacArthur Airport to drop off two of our children's ministry leaders who are escaping the January cold of New York and heading for Florida. It just so happens that the largest children's ministry event of the year is in Orlando during the second half of this week, right inside Disney!
Charlotte and Jayne were not traveling alone. At the airport they hooked up with Kim and Tracy, so we have all those responsible for our kids' programs heading south this morning to the sun. Not that they'll see much of it as they'll be in conference sessions all day until they board another Southwest flight on Saturday to come back and freeze with the rest of us as they implement all they have learned.
We have a brilliant team -
Charlotte in KIDMO
Tracy in LI'L K
Jayne & Kim in SMALLSTARS
There are 50% more children in these three areas combined than there were four months ago, so these ladies must be doing a whole bunch of things right.
We're past the days when kids went where they were told, didn't speak unless spoken to and were generally treated like children.
Today families go where the children want to go and do what the children want to do. The little dears eat what they want to eat, wear what they want to wear and watch what they want to watch and pity help the poor sucker who suggests otherwise. This is neither the time nor the place to go into a diatribe on how we're raising a nation of monsters, sufficient to say kids rule.
With that in mind, if the offspring of a visiting family does not like our children's ministry, chances are the whole family will not return. If on the other hand, the kids love it, the reverse is going to happen.
So the four ladies who even now are covering themselves in suntan lotion, deserve a lot of the credit for the continuing growth we are seeing. Whatever brings people in, what these areas of ministry are offering is helping us retain far above the average for US churches.
I hope they get to enjoy a bit of Florida and even Disney - they deserve it!
Charlotte and Jayne were not traveling alone. At the airport they hooked up with Kim and Tracy, so we have all those responsible for our kids' programs heading south this morning to the sun. Not that they'll see much of it as they'll be in conference sessions all day until they board another Southwest flight on Saturday to come back and freeze with the rest of us as they implement all they have learned.
We have a brilliant team -
Charlotte in KIDMO
Tracy in LI'L K
Jayne & Kim in SMALLSTARS
There are 50% more children in these three areas combined than there were four months ago, so these ladies must be doing a whole bunch of things right.
We're past the days when kids went where they were told, didn't speak unless spoken to and were generally treated like children.
Today families go where the children want to go and do what the children want to do. The little dears eat what they want to eat, wear what they want to wear and watch what they want to watch and pity help the poor sucker who suggests otherwise. This is neither the time nor the place to go into a diatribe on how we're raising a nation of monsters, sufficient to say kids rule.
With that in mind, if the offspring of a visiting family does not like our children's ministry, chances are the whole family will not return. If on the other hand, the kids love it, the reverse is going to happen.
So the four ladies who even now are covering themselves in suntan lotion, deserve a lot of the credit for the continuing growth we are seeing. Whatever brings people in, what these areas of ministry are offering is helping us retain far above the average for US churches.
I hope they get to enjoy a bit of Florida and even Disney - they deserve it!
posted by Roger Blackmore | 9:32 AM
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