Tales from the Trenches

Children’s Minister– How can we teach parents to spend time with their kids in scripture? Mr. Mark–UGGG!  I feel your pain! I think providing simple resources, ideas or suggestions are critical since parents often don’t know what to do.  Simple instructions and options for times when parents can spend time with their kids reading the…

Let me come clean with you.  Since arriving back from East Asia VBS trip this summer, enlisting three zillion Sunday School workers, record-breaking numbers for Promotion Sunday and, (thank goodness) school starting, I have been too tired to even think about Mr. Mark’s Classroom.  I was getting pretty discouraged with the drops in our subscriptions…

Okay, I feel like we have just settled into a pattern that is comfortable.  The weather is cooling off and I can wear larger sweaters and jackets to cover the stress eating of finding workers.  Now it’s time to think Halloween and I don’t want to do it.  Let’s just coast a little and enjoy…

Okay, like many of you, I love my iPhone.  If I left the house without it, it would be like leaving without pants.  Just impossible to live without it. I constantly check texts, emails, weather, Facebook, Twitter and more.  I had to really pray through texting while driving.  My family had an intervention and really confronted…