How Do You Show Appreciation To Your Ministry Volunteers?
.themify_builder .text-107496-0-0-0.module-text{background-repeat: repeat} As preschool and children’s ministry leaders, we need MANY volunteers to help implement the various ministries offered to...
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How do I choose a Child’s Bible?
As parents and Kids Ministry Leaders, we want the kids in our lives to have a love for God and the Bible, to spend time in His Word. However as the national stats reveal, Biblical literacy is in...
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Tips for Including the Kids in the Word Challenge in Sunday School
Looking for some ways to be intentional with the Kids in the Word Summer Challenge through your Sunday School? Hear how Rebecca Willoughby, Kids Ministry Director at Tabernacle Baptist Church in...
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How to be a Better Choir Member
Several times a year I’m asked to be a guest clinician for church choir retreats. One of the things I always do is ask the question, “How Can You Be a Better Choir Member”? This always prompts some...
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Kids in the Word Summer Challenge – Parent Communication Tips
With busy summer schedules including vacation, camp, and VBS, it’s even more important to have a great parent communication plan. Watch this video for some tips in being intentional in communicating...
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55+ Theme Ideas & Activities
Annual Birthday Party – Have members sit at tables by month. Have Birthday cake and sing “Happy Birthday”. Have entertainment.Senior Prom – Really dress up. Have someone taking pictures.Valentine Tea...
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Faith-based Senior Living Communities
These faith-based senior living communities and organizations can assist you in planning for living in the later years of life. They are willing to answer your question as you make these important...
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Senior Adult Resources
BooksThe Boomer’s Guide to Aging Parents – 2009 – by Carolyn RosenblattThe Boomer Burden – Dealing with your Parents? Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff – 2008 – Julie HallUnderstanding People – Ministry...
View ArticleNew Member and New Believer Resources
New Member:Taking the Next Step: A Guide for New Church Members, LifewayI Am A Church Member, Thom Rainer, LifewayMembership Matters, Chuck Lawless, ZondervanDiscovering Church Membership, Membership...
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Why Sing in a Choir?
As a follow up to the excellent blog post by Steve Brown dealing with the role of the choir member, this post will focus on why we should have choirs in the first place.Sitting in the pew next to my...
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Kids in the Word Summer Challenge – Creative Ideas for Encouraging Kids and...
Our Kids in the Word Summer Challenge is a great resource to encourage Kids and their families to spend time in God’s Word this summer. On the road with vacation or at home relaxing can be a great...
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Kids in the Word Summer Challenge – 3 Creative Ideas for Teaching Verses
Recently, I had a chance to visit with Rebecca Willoughby, the Director of Kids Ministry at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cartersville. She shared some creative ideas for teaching Bible verses. I...
View ArticleHow to respond to negative comments on social networks
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks are great platforms to share what your church or ministry is doing. But sometimes the account or posts may get a few negative comments or...
View ArticleKindle your Creativity with Adobe Spark
Introduction: Hi, everybody! Jon Graham, Georgia Baptist Mission Board, here, and for my very first blog post on gabaptist.org, I’m going to give you something that is not directly related to my area...
View ArticleBuilding a Youth Choir Ministry
Now is a great time to start your youth choir ministry in your church. I found a great article on the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention website that I thought was relevant and helpful. It’s a...
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Good News: You Haven’t Been Hacked
You’re perusing Facebook. You read an article. You like a picture of your friend’s cat. You scroll a little while longer when, suddenly, you’re bombarded with friends telling you that you’ve been...
View ArticleBest Web Practices for Churches To Reach More People
First-Time Church Visitors Visit First On the Web Why the web? What are they are looking for? What are they finding? It is very likely that someone who is looking for a church, or already considering...
View ArticleGoing Live: Why you should live stream your Worship Services
THE HARVEST IS PLENTIFUL:a. 2.23 billion monthly Facebook usersb. 1.3 billion YouTube usersc. 5 billion videos watched every day.Reach the Unmotivated, Reach the Mobile (college students,...
View ArticleVideo Announcements at Your Church
Benefits: Transition Video (rearrange the stage).Saves service time (instead of someone rambling on stage for five to seven minutes, it’s limited to two minutes).If shown at the beginning of your...
View ArticleYouVersion: Carry the Bible in Your Pocket
CLICK, SWIPE, TAP and TYPE.Eleven years ago those words would not have been related to reading and studying God’s Word. Everything changed in 2008 YouVersion released its free Bible app. Perhaps...
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