Celebrating a Year at Kids Rock

It’s hard to believe it has been a year since I started as the children’s pastor at the Rock of Southwest! As I reflect back on the year, it is so satisfying to think of all the amazing things I have gotten to do as I’ve worked with some incredible staff and volunteers! Just scrolling through my Facebook wall is overwhelming and brings back so many memories.

I inherited a ministry that was well staffed both from paid staff and volunteers; a place where kids were valued and where there was freedom to be creative and try new things. It was nice to start a ministry that wasn’t “on fire” and be able to build upon a solid foundation.

Here are some of the highlights for me from the past year:

We started with “POOF” – a meet the new Kids Pastor magic show that was a lot of fun!
Relaunching children’s church as The Outpost and teaming up with some amazingly creative volunteers to bring a whole new level of large group learning filled with time machines, Minecraft portals, fun green screen videos, puppets and more!
Launching The Outpost Crew and getting kids involved in leadership! Making videos with them! Like the Wordless Book skit or making Worship Videos with the kids.
Branding our website and email for the kids ministry to www.KidsRock.church
Creating a closed Facebook Group for our parents and volunteers. (no link, sorry, just for Rock folks.)
Re-branding our midweek program, The Blast Zone.
Bringing in Josh Denhart and The Amazing Chemistry Show PLUS doing his Science VBS a few weeks later!
Getting SLIMED!
Introducing the Next Steps for Kids class for parents and children to learn together!
Participating in the Great Stack Up!
Creating a Rubiks Revolution among the kids!
Running a Minecraft Realm to play with kids online from the church.
Having fun with a walking (talking) snowman or walking puppet stage!
Creating the Super Bible Bowl and the Bible-O-Rama Sunday!
Watching so many kids make decisions for Christ, especially when Barney Kinard came and we had a huge harvest!
Spooky Sunday showed Death no longer has any sting thanks to Jesus!
Bringing in JumpStart3 for a Kids Worship Concert and Brett Belleque for a Balloon Sunday!
Relaunching Toybox Tales with the Armor of God and the Dark Evil Man series! (One sample, more on my YouTube Channel)
Getting to completely design the Children’s Wing for our new building that opens up later this year. (Lord willing, by Christmas)
Participating as a leader in our annual 5-6th Grade Mission Trip last week.