PHOTOS
22Aug2014
Teaching Kids to Pray Series: Modeling Prayer
Children are like sponges; they soak in all the things they see around them and those things affect them. We've all seen children imitate. Little girls put on their mother's shoes, little boys use their daddy's tools, and sometimes vice versa. From very early on babies start mimicking smiles and facial expressions. Children may not understand all they are doing or imitating at the time, they just
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Teaching Kids to Pray Series: Repeat-After-Me
Children typically do not teach themselves. For a child to learn a core value, skill, or truth, they need to be taught. Children may learn passively through their environments and other people, or actively through focused instruction. If we think of how a child learns to speak, we recall them learning words through repetition, and by picking up the sounds and syllables spoken around them. A child
Read More09Jul2014
You Can’t Google That
They come in each Monday, flitting from friend to friend with the latest fad, toy, or electronic something-or-other to show during their own designated time of show-and-tell. Chaos abounds as they share their day’s activities and latest mobile device game. Between high pitch squeals, giggles, and “no-adults-allowed” cliques, I attempt to draw them away from the clamor to quietness, from dist
Read More10Mar2014
“When I Grow Up…”
I have often heard the phrase, “Children are the church of tomorrow.” I wholeheartedly agree. One day they will be leading, pastoring churches, running ministries, taking the gospel to foreign nations as missionaries, leading worship, and all the things that our adults are doing now. However, the statement in itself is incomplete. Yes, they are the “church of tomorrow” and worth investing
Read More31Dec2014
Preserving Our Heritage
Baking is one of my passions in life. My family is well aware of this fact, and presented me with a KitchenAid mixer last Christmas. With this gift came a free subscription to a publication that is full of delicious new recipes to try. One article caught my eye. The author was talking about the passion he had for "starter." Centuries ago, someone discovered that yeast is alive and can be cultivat
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