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Discipling Your Kids Through Bible Study
I recently started a children’s Bible Study with some of my church kids. Every Thursday I meet with 11 kids ranging from Kindergarten to 6th grade. We meet for 2 hours just to study the Scripture. Now you may be thinking, “That’s a long time for kids to endure a Bible study! Don’t they get…
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Jesus Gives us Peace
This week is National Suicide Prevention Week. Its purpose is to inform and help prevent suicide. Suicide is a leading cause of death in many age groups. Depression and anxiety are serious medical concerns but Christians don’t seem to want to address them. Yes, many Christians struggle with anxiety and depression and some succumb to…
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Teaching our Children to Worship
I was standing in the middle of our Sunday morning church service. The worship team was leading the congregation in a familiar song. I enjoy worship through singing and I knew the song well. My eyes were closed and my hands were positioned open in front of me. As I sang along, my heart was…
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How My Kids are Teaching Me Self-Acceptance
Confession: I am not the most confident person. I struggle with self-doubt and self-deprecation. I am anxious about how I am perceived. My self-image could do with some improvement. But slowly I am learning self-acceptance. I am growing in my ability to be comfortable in the skin I was created to live in. I am…
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Knowledge is Power…
“His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” 2 Peter 1:3 I’ve been meditating on this verse a lot recently. It speaks of receiving life and godliness through the knowledge of Christ. Later on in the passage…
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Parenting with Your Spiritual Gifts
Fun fact about me: I love to take personality tests. I love to dive more into self discovery, finding out more of who God made me to be and how I really tick. Myers-Briggs? Enneagram? DISC? They all fascinate me. As a believer, I’m also interested in spiritual gifts. I want to know how God…
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Exposing our Kids to Missions
When my eldest son turned a mere five years old, I took him on his first mission trip. We traveled internationally to the island of Cuba. While there he engaged with kids his age who are from a different culture. He watched as the mission team shared Jesus with perfect strangers. He walked the dusty…
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Parenting in a Tech World
It’s no secret we live in an age where we are all inundated with technology. We wake up in the morning and our televisions, radios, or phone screens are blasting us with advertisements and messages. It’s easy to let technology take over our lives – and by extension – our children’s lives. Technology is so…
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Working for the Long Game in Kidmin
Last week on my blog I focused on celebrating the short term wins in kids ministry. It’s important to stay encouraged when we aren’t necessarily guaranteed to see the long term effects of our influence on the children we teach every week. They grow up and move on to student ministry and hopefully at some…
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Celebrating the Short Term Wins in Kidmin
Children’s ministry can be hard. There is no way around it. There are so many moving pieces: lessons to plan, games and activities to facilitate, craft and snack supplies to prepare, media to queue, and countless other things that demand our attention. We do it week in and week out often wondering if what we…
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Jacob Orr 