How to Play “Movin’ On Up”: 20 plastic cups per contestant. One of the 20 cups should be a different color. This is a race against another person to see who can pull the one-colored-cup to the top first. This game is modified from Minute To Win It and we did it @ msy. source […]
I was reading a children’s book about the Gospel to Sari the other day and afterwards I read the foreword which was addressed to parents. The author encouraged parents to read and re-read, review, and ask questions about the Gospel. In that moment I was mentally reviewing how many times we teach and review the Gospel in […]
This past Wednesday @ Middle School Youth (Hayward Wesleyan Church) we started a new series called: “Tempting Stuff.” One of the questions posed to the students in their small group was: What are some temptations that middle school students face? In an effort to bring out to the whole group what was being shared in […]
We stepped back into LIVE acting the story this past Sunday. Jesus raising Lazarus back from the dead has a lot of action in it that makes it perfect for involving the students in the re-telling of the story. Jesus Raises Lazarus Back to Life [y3_w11] Story Lesson (317.65kb, pdf) Audio File (11.25mb, mp3) Video Link […]
It seems like it’s worth a look at the words “sloth” or “lazy/laziness” in the book of Proverbs to see what God has to say about “standing still” and what excessive free time seems to do to a person. via Lifehacker
Pastor Heath Davis subs in and shares the miraculous story of Jesus walking on water and commanding obedience over creation. Jesus Walks on Water [y3_w10] Story Lesson (341.25kb, pdf) Audio File (14.73mb, mp3) Video Link (11.6.11 @ vimeo.com) Video Link (11.2.08 @ vimeo.com)
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We’ve been recording our Main Street Teachings for over 4 years now. If you’re aware of how we cycle through the stories of the Bible every three years, then you’ll realize that the stories we are currently doing have a digital record from the three years prior. The fun part of is that it’s difficult […]
The guys over at BrookwoodStudents have done a couple of “implications” videos in which they “critique” pop songs in a humorous way. Our msy students find these hilarious! See also: Implications of “Grenade” by Bruno Mars (video) source YouTube
Discipleship: A personal and intentional process in which one or more Christians guide unbelievers or less-mature believers to embrace and apply the gospel in every part of their lives. Discipleship is a process that includes personal profession of faith in Jesus Christ, as he has been revealed to us in Scripture. Discipleship involves developing perspectives […]
Here are the links to the articles/blog posts I’ve written in October: @cmbuzz.com Wrestling… Discipline… Responsibility??? @wesleyankids.org “FUN Is Not A Four Letter Word”
I like technology, and it’s insanely connected with almost everything we do in our lives in 2011. “Church” is something many of us do in our lives, so it is safe to posit that technology will be a part of it somehow. What the “somehow” looks like is hopefully thought through wisely, but definitely not […]
Jesus feeding the 5,000 is a well-known story. It’s difficult to mess up, and, at the same time, introduce anything really new. With this in mind I used this opportunity to give the Main Street students some perspective on where we were in the New Testament; particularly the books we are pulling the stories of […]
On Sunday, October 16, we took the Followers students and most of their families on a bus ride to Copper Falls State Park in Mellen, WI. It was a beautiful, sunny fall day and the students had a blast hiking and exploring. Their favorite thing seemed to be dumping HUGE rocks off the bridge! source […]
Bullseye We played this game @ msy on Wednesday, October 26 with a single-shot nerf gun 5 suction-cup darts a whiteboard marked up with targeted prized areas Fun times! source YouTube graphic Bullseye-Game.jpg [107kb, JPG]
I like how this graphic pegs the various “perspectives” and uses of each particular social media platform. The middle school pastor in me likes that it’s a little “potty” humor-ish! HT ChurchMag
Another successful year of “Trunk or Treating” @ Hayward Wesleyan! We topped last year’s numbers by about 30 candy-goers. Our “official” count was somewhere around 1050 students (not counting their parents in tow!). We repeated the same location and traffic flow as last year. In order to contain the large line of people, we wound […]
YouTube video description: At 12Stone Church we’re in the middle of the Culture Shapers Series. We’re talking about how culture shapes us and how we shape it. As we’re approaching the Technology week of Culture Shapers we couldn’t help but have a little fun with the most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook. […]
This past weekend in Main Street, we recounted more miracles of Jesus. He healed: Jairus’ daughter a bleeding woman 10 lepers one leper I kind of set the students up this past Sunday. It was awesome! Every week we rotate either singing or playing a game. This week was the game rotation. So we played […]
YouTube video description: Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium is message. […]