Increasing Scrip Awareness/Sales

I’m looking for ways to increase sales for our Scrip program, one of three ways we pay for Short-Term Missions around these parts. I’m starting to work on two publicity pieces for people:

A new “What is Scrip and Why Should I Care?” type of brochure. There are still lots of people who don’t know much [...]

Confirmation Banquet 2009

Last night, we celebrated our 8th Graders who are getting ready to make their Confirmation this Sunday.  It’s a special day in the lives of our students, so we celebrate them at a special banquet every year.  Everyone gets dressed up and we put on an amazing spread of food for families.
Each year, we get [...]

Apostle’s Creed 4

We wrapped up the Apostle’s Creed this evening.  Here’s the audio file in case you want to tune in:

Confirmation Mega-Post

I’ve been delinquent getting some Confirmation Audio online.  Here’s the last several in case you were eagerly awaiting them! 
Confession and Absolution:
Apostle’s Creed 1:
Apostle’s Creed 2:
Jesus Video for Apostle’s Creed 2:

Apostle’s Creed 3:
Jesus Video for Apostle’s Creed [...]

Yo Ho, Yo Ho

Tomorrow afternoon we begin our annual trek to Huron, Ohio for the Sawmill Creek Retreat.  This year, the theme is “Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Christian’s Life For Me!”  A fun tradition that we started the first year at Darcy’s suggestion is giving out awards to the kids in the evening for various things.  Here’s [...]

Birthday Wishes 2.0

By an almost 5:1 margin, Birthday Wishes is my most popular post.  In fact, it currently makes up 11.7% of all hits to my blog.  I can only assume it’s because of the file name (birthday-postcard) that shows up frequently in Google Image Search.
We’ve just about run out of the postcards from the previous post, [...]

First Trinity’s Got Talent

Wonderful wonderful evening at the Spaghetti Dinner/Talent Show this evening.  We’ll end up with less money this year than last because we didn’t have any silent auction items, but we sold about 20 tickets more than last year based on early estimates.  More importantly, that’s even more people who got to experience our awesomely talented [...]

Irritated, Not Excited

For two years now, we’ve made a master calendar for all youth events.  I like the idea because it helps parents plan ahead.  The down side is that when you forget to include something on the master master calendar (the one that includes all my personal and non-youth related church stuff), conflicts arise.
One such conflict [...]

Out of Order

As part of the Children’s message, last Sunday, I talked about how God tells us there’s a right order for things in our life.  It was all part of Putting God First.  And it’s true.  God wants to be first in our lives. 
I like things in the right order (and centered/level on the wall, [...]

Sawmill Creek Retreat 2009

Every year we go to Sawmill Creek for the Ohio District’s Junior High Youth Gathering.  We usually win the “traveled the farthest” award, which is fun.  It’s a great time for youth to get away and experience some great speakers and musicians with 700_ other middle school students.  This year, I’m especially excited about going [...]