The creativity of TruthQuest just doesn’t stop. Colorful, flexible and creative – TruthQuest teaches kids spiritual discernment while having fun at the same time. Perfect for children’s churches with a large group / small group model. Available as instant downloads as well! Michael Martin is a full time children’s pastor with a passion for equipping kids to thrive in todays ever increasingly secular world. Check out www.truthquest.NET
Timbuktoons remains one of my most valuable CPC finds ever! These are the guys behind the art of the Kidology Handbook, Leadership Labs, Order of the Ancient and my forthcoming book! (as well as my blog design!) Awesome custom artwork and cool video products as well from short teaching clips to countdowns. AND one of the ministry newsletters you really should subscribe to; great content as well as super deals! Check it all out at www.Timbuktoons.com
www.thefungroup.net Check out this fantastic ministry! Awesome children’s ministry tools you can make yourself, many out of PVC pipe! If you love object lessons you’ll go nuts over these folks! And the big news at CPC is a Training DVD series you can subscribe to and get a new hour plus DVD every month for a year teaching you creative methods for teaching kids! (so new details are not on their website yet, but soon will be!) FYI, F.U.N. stands for Faith, Understanding and Nurturing!
How “urgent” are the urgent things in your life? I’m slowly learning that much of what I consider urgent, isn’t truly urgent at all. It usually has more to do with my URGes than being genuinely urgent. My urg to produce, my urg to succeed, my urg to accomplish, my urg to create security, my urg to finish things, my urg to start things, my urg to get on to the next thing. Being at CPC is a good reminder, because everytime I am at a week long event, everything else gets set aside, or delayed, or postponed and it frustrates me, but it also reminds me that those things truly can wait a week. If I hadn’t been at CPC they would all have been urgent THIS week, now they will just be urgent NEXT week. Or when I get sick – the world survives all my urgent things getting done later. My family survives, my ministry survives, and the things that truly need to get done, DO get done, in time. In fact, looking back, even the things I’ve accomplished (and I’d like to think I have accomplished a few good things in life!) don’t really matter now…
I’m headed off to CPC Nashville tomorrow. Let me know (in comments) if you will be there! I’ll be helping out in DiscipleLand’s booth and, YES, I’ll have Kidology Buttons for anyone who drops by to say “HI!” AND, yes, we will be planning a Kidology Get Together, but I can’t announce when/where until I get there and scope out the schedule and location – but be checking here and/or the Kidology home page for the details, or e-mail me and I’ll be sure to let you know! This has been a wonderfully crazy few weeks! For the second year in a row, by design, I did no travel or speaking in December and declared it a “family focused” month – my little boy will only to be little for so long! You’d think I’d have had time to blog, but its been a combination of enjoying downtime and also having too much fun and company to spend time blogging, and I have SO MUCH I want to post! I may be “past dating” some Christmas posts in January! Then, I got a blessing that buried to me too. I was loaned a kitchen showroom that was closed for the…
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