Monthly Archive: October 2012

Alex Absalom, Leader of Missional Innovation with RiverTree Christian Church, provides the following insightful and practical discipleship article. Please share with your team. ___ Were you discipled well by an older Christian?

Free Thanksgiving Resource On the fourth Thursday of November, we celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday honoring the early settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving. But where did the Pilgrims get the idea in the first place? Enjoyable and spiritually instructive, Thanksgiving-Your Peace Offering is highly recommended. Read to your children, print and send home with kids, or email directly to parents. Click …

Veteran Children’s Pastor Barney Kinard provides seven practical keys that will help you improve your serve. Please share with your team. __ We all talk about partnering with parents, but what does that look like for the teacher? How is it that teachers can partner with the parents of the children in their class? It is quite easy to concentrate on the lesson preparation and …

  Optimism. Honesty. Teamwork. Integrity. These are just a few Christ-like character traits that benefit children and families. But how do we teach these qualities to kids? American writer James Baldwin once said, “Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” Dr. Scott Turansky provides the following insightful and practical DiscipleTip. 1 Please share with …

  You will enjoy this excerpt from Ed Cyzewski’s new book entitled Hazardous: Committing to the Cost of Following Jesus. We encourage you to share it with your ministry team so that children grow in Christ-likeness. ____ Many of us think of Jesus as a nice guy who blesses children, pats lambs on their heads, serves up bread and fish for breakfast or dinner, takes …