Servant Stuff…
Growing servants spiritually – together – accountability
Honor servants with specific recognition as you see them – look for opportunities – say their name
Surprise a servant with childcare sometime to thank them for what they do
Servant Appreciation – Steven James, Tim Hawkins and Dennis Lee and Richard Hight
When a team is going good, raise the bar and motivate them to do better – do a servant appreciation, then about a month later, step it up – celebrate the success First
Servant Staging Rooms
Have a place where everyone in your servant pool knows where the "need list" is – on Blogs? Or in the Staging areas?
Strategy Stuff..
More strategic planning
Goals for kids in the different age groups – focal points for each
What do we want children to leave ministry with? – focus points
Steps to Real Change – from Mick Ukleja’s talk – how could this apply to ministry areas? i.e….. transforming into doing more family ministries Also review the change Leadership documentation that Dave sent out.
Communicate the mission with the kids
Grow your strengths
Special Events – 6 to 8 weeks before the event, we do all the hard stuff up front
Less is More!
Family Ministry…
Family Ministry Concept
Our job is to equip the parents so that they can own it like the Bible says
Involving Parents more when the children are taught the salvation lesson – parents in the room
Lobby to have THK integrated into the DNA of the church – materials gathered to Don and Gary
All ministries on the same page – educate servants, and parents – team building with the servants
Ministering to kids because they need Christ now, NOT because they are our future
Give kids talking points on the hot, controversial issues to be able to defend their beliefs
Parents going into the room for the first 5 minutes to pray with THK Servants before service begins
Family Greeters
Kids in the rooms greeting kids coming in
Performance Ministry (as part of Family Ministry)…
9 weeks in summer – What if we did KidStuff? Pilot or own or adopt theirs?
Brainstorm KidStuf vs RiverCity – what works, what do we need to do differently
What’s effective in delivering a message? Make it stick
Consider using high school and college art, techie and drama resources.
God’s tool box – people’s gifts are the tools – find the tools First
Amanda Show Concept
Drake and Josh Show Concept
Getting into the kid’s culture (listen to music, watch shows, books, magazines, cartoons – like…hip radio stations… 98.1, 92.5, 96.5, Nickelodeon Magazine, SI Kids, Discovery Kids, Kid’s Bop, All That, Fear Factor, Hillary Duff, Movies, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, McDonalds, Chuck E Cheese, Disney, X-box, Nintendo, Bratz, Lizzie McQuire, Fashions, Slime Time, Endurance program, Teen Titans, Pokemon, PowerPuff Girls, Harry Potter, SpongeBob, RugRats…etc)
KIDS Language – verbal, signs, IM lingo, etc.
More sensory engagement – media stuff – lights, sounds, imagery, environment design, etc.
Media equipment purchases
Blogs and other Communication Tools with servants, parents and community – Demo Blog created
Outreach Ideas…
Easter Egg Hunt as an outreach? – get people to our campus – more than an Easter Egg hunt – potential to get many on our campus, then what to do with them?
Pull all Stark County Church resources together – what could we join to do? ex. Joint advertising campaign to promote "Stark County wide come to church day" where the 244,000 are encouraged to go to any church, and churchs will be prepared to put their best foot forward and to talk about their church’s mission, etc – maybe all participating churches give a sermon on the same topic like Expanding God’s Kingdom or "all are welcome" or something
DINO-Day – Themed event centering around Dinosaurs, escavation, creation vs evolution
MISC.
Photo document things – videos and stills of things that you are doing in order to promote for the next time you do it
More offerings to Children with special needs
Dads mentoring Dads
What would it be like if….?
To Don’t List!
Black light painting with neon – using muslin, shadows to tell stories
Game "Whose Parable is it Anyway"
Messy Games!
Wacky Games
Kids love bodily functions
Grandparent Days
Don’t be afraid to fail
Turn a problem into an opportunity
Remove distractions to keep kids focused
To much information bogs down innovation
Apollo 13 – team building (good team building exercises)
Kids mentoring kids – teaching kids
Kid baptism testimonies – show the video to other kids
Colored clippy things for climbing – concept…what are you taking with you?
Leadership issues – training – How to handle Confrontation – and handle issues while they are small
Empower others
Categorize First, then Prioritize, and then Simplify down to 3 or 5 major items (tools, learnings, etc)
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