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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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When Little Voices Praise a Big God
I’ve spent this past week at summer camp with 109 campers ranging from 1st through 6th grade. It’s always a joy to watch kids get into a space that is solely designed to grow closer to Jesus. Their faith is strengthened and their relationships with the Lord grow more intimate. As we gathered in the…
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When the Next Generation Invests in Itself
This past week was VBS at our church. Hundreds of kids poured through our doors every day. The kids experienced an amazing time of worship, lessons, games, crafts, snacks and more. None of this would have been possible without the help of more than a hundred leaders. Each of them served in unique and important…
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What To Do About Your Strong-willed Child
Like most parents, the moment I became one was when my life totally changed. I became responsible for this little person and love instantly developed in my heart for them. As a father of three, I can tell you that every child is different. They are different in personality, in demeanor, in interests, in their…
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Jacob Orr 