Comments on: Borders Books and Children’s Ministry

By: Todd McKeever

Todd McKeever — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:26:22 +0000

Ryan great post and a great way to say it.

By: Brenna

Brenna — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:41:37 +0000

Ministers can learn how to scale down the activities and events when they worship in rented facilities. You have to be very creative on how and when and what kind of events to plan. We only have our worship space on Saturday nights so we plan other events in homes and in the community, usually quarterly events, and they’re more geared to be family events. These events are better attended because there aren’t too many of them.

This weekend we’re doing a combined adult-children worship by doing “Are you smarter than a Children’s worship kid?” 4 kids on the panel/class, 2 adults will have questions and are allowed to ask the kids for help. It’s all part of the pastor’s sermon series on spiritual study.

By: amber

amber — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:12:03 +0000

Ryan,

I love this post of yours because this is how i was feeling this week. I had a moment with a friend of mine on Wednesday that I was feeling that the children ministry was getting caught up in to many new things and not enough basics. So I am sitting here in my office preparing to get out a big highlighter, notebook, and my bible…..and start all over. I keep struggling with all these new curriculum’s to find that only certain parts are working. And the things that work the most with my kids are the things that have nothing to do with the curriculum’s I’m using. The are loving the things that I come up with helping there spirituality. Your post though is comfort that another CP was thinking the same thing as me this week. It makes your heart and tummy do flips because it’s another reassuring moment that God is speaking to you and not you being self centered.

Amber
PS I love this blog site. You guys help out so much. Also it’s funny becuase we have been talking about a climbing wall also here in my ministry you guys just beat us to the punch. Thanks for the wisdom to this young gun.

By: Glen Woods

Glen Woods — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:39:21 +0000

Interesting post. Thank you for sharing it!

I work in the floorcovering business. We work hard to have the appropriate product mix for our client base. We deliberately choose not to show all possible products. We pick and choose. When we choose correctly, this increasing our closing ratios. Borders is following this principle in their own right. But here is the rub, in my view. We have to balance pragmatism with theological and pastoral acumen. Having said that, in children’s ministry, I think we need to be missionaries in understanding the culture where we are located so that we can choose wisely the ministry emphases we focus on. I think doing a few things with excellence is far better than trying to do just about everything.