Today Yancy's new project "Stars, Guitars and Megaphone Dreams," is available everywhere. Yancy is back with her follow-up to "Rock-N-Happy Heart“ with a mixture ofsongs filled with praise, worship, surrender and fun. This collection of 12 songs willget you rocking and having a good time all while pointing you towards Christand His plan for you every step of the way. As a Children's Pastor I love how Yancy's music is kid approved! These songs will rock your face off. Once again Yancy combines praise and worship with her unique pop/rock sensibilities.Not only do kids love her music but so do parents. As Yancy's Dad I am proud of how much Word is jammed packed into each song. I'm also proud of the woman of God she has become. We all have dreams that our kids will grow up and do what Jesus wants them to do but seeing those dreams come true is a blessing beyond words! Read More »
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The Spirit is a safe guide, one whom can always be trusted. The voice of wisdom and the voice of God is always the same thing. Our helper the Holy Spirit will lead us to all truth and will never disagree with the voice of wisdom or God’s Words! One of my favorite verses is Proverbs 3:5 & 6 it tells us “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Read More »
9. After I minister and head to attend a service I rely on the help of the Holy Spirit to lead me to people I need to recruiter to be on my team. 0I refuse to wait on people to show up I’m always asking the Holy Spirit to guide me to people who need to be needed! I’m on a mission from God to connect with those He leads me to. Jesus was out and about when he found the twelve disciples. The Holy Spirit is my number one recruiting tool. Read More »
7. During the lesson feel free to follow the Spirit’s guide. I love Video and other teaching aides but the most important resource you can have in the classroom is a Spirit-led teacher! They know how to follow the Spirit’s leading and end up accomplishing the desired outcome for the cooperate vision Read More »
4. Come early and be prepared. I like to set up my props; classroom and teaching tools ahead of time so I have time to pray before the kids start arriving. I like to pray over every chair. Kids are creatures of habit and many times sit in the same area so I call their names and let the Spirit guide me to stand in the gap for their needs and their families.5. As the children arrive let the Spirit direct how you spend your time. A command mistake I’ve seen is all the children’s workers talk among themselves rather than allow the Spirit to guide the pre-service time as well as the lesson. Read More »
1. Start early in the week inviting your “Helper” to help you. Get in the habit of reading next week’s lesson when you get home from church and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you this next week to make it real to the children. Go ahead and highlight key areas that jump out at you.2. Pray for the children as the Spirit guides you! Call their name and pray what flows from your heart for each child and their family. Repeat this step throughout the week. Read More »
In that article I talked about a very valuable lesson I learned several years ago about relying on my helper. One day as I was leaving for work I had an impression in my spirit that I needed to bring my bass guitar with me to church. Rather than be quick to obey I started reasoning with myself and to make a long story short I blew off the leading and went to work. No sooner as I walked in my office the phone rang and it was my Wednesday Night bass player in my pre-youth class informing me that he just got to work and found out he had to work late and asked if I could play bass myself for him. My helper (The Holy Spirit) wanted to help me save time. As I drove back home to get my bass I saw that the more I listened to the voice of the Spirit in small things the easier it was to hear him in major decisions. I also realized it would have better for me to brought my bass and didn’t need it than to blow off the voice of the Spirit. Read More »
Back in 2008 I wrote an article here in K! entitled “Leading with Help.” In that article I talked about how it is not God’s plan for us to do ministry or life alone that is why he has sent us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our teacher, He is our guide, He is our helper and He is our comforter! Read More »
This week on July 15th and 16th a Children's Ministry historical event will be taking place, the 1st ever Children's Ministry Expo (also known as CMX) will take place in Lexington, KY. I'm planning on attending and will have a booth along with my daughter Yancy and my son-in-law Cory. I'm excited about seeing hundreds of vendors all in one place offering huge summer discounts. So in honor of this event I thought I would blog about my top 10 reasons why I'm excited about CMX... 1. I'm looking forward to being a part of a different approach to a Kidmin training event. 2. I'm excited about meeting some Kidmin folks from online live in person. 3. I'm looking forward to hanging with Roger Fields and family. 4. It's all in one room! 5. I'm excited about offering free coaching and help to anyone who wants to hang out in my booth. (Come join me on my sofa!) 6. I'm bringing my cute wife with me. 7. Friday is Yancy's 30th Birthday so I get to be with her! 8. They have Graeter's ice cream (Thursday night we are throwing Yancy a party at one, stop by the booth for info if you want to attend.) 9. I going to sell all my resources for only 2 prices. Every items will be either $15 or $5 so you can take a copy to everyone on your team! 10. I believe Jesus is going to show up and bless a lot of kidmin folks and I'm honored to be a part of this. Read More »
This week on July 15th and 16th a Children's Ministry historical event will be taking place, the 1st ever Children's Ministry Expo (also known as CMX) will take place in Lexington, KY. I'm planning on attending and will have a booth along with my daughter Yancy and my son-in-law Cory. I'm excited about seeing hundreds of vendors all in one place offering huge summer discounts. So in honor of this event I thought I would blog about my top 10 reasons why I'm excited about CMX...
1. I'm looking forward to being a part of a different approach to a Kidmin training event.
2. I'm excited about meeting some Kidmin folks from online live in person.
3. I'm looking forward to hanging with Roger Fields and family.
4. It's all in one room!
5. I'm excited about offering free coaching and help to anyone who wants to hang out in my booth. (Come join me on my sofa!)
6. I'm bringing my cute wife with me.
7. Friday is Yancy's 30th Birthday so I get to be with her!
8. They have Graeter's ice cream (Thursday night we are throwing Yancy a party at one, stop by the booth for info if you want to attend.)
9. I going to sell all my resources for only 2 prices. Every items will be either $15 or $5 so you can take a copy to everyone on your team!
10. I believe Jesus is going to show up and bless a lot of kidmin folks and I'm honored to be a part of this.
What would happen if your responsibilities, your stress, and your workload all doubled? This is exactly what has happened to me five times since 1993. It forced me to learn delegation, to make lifestyle changes and to stop doing things that I was doing that someone else could do and grow and strengthen my own leadership to do what only I could do. At the time I thought I was in over my head. I was, without the Lord but with Him all things are possible. Sometimes the best thing to get us to grow is to come face to face with the largest challenge we’re ever faced. It sure worked for David. David was given an opportunity to be used by God to solve a problem for the army of Israel. The soldiers as well as King Saul saw Goliath too big to defeat. David saw the same challenge but instead of seeing him too big to defeat he saw Goliath too big to miss. David knew the God that had strengthen him before would help him again. Read More »
What would happen if your responsibilities, your stress, and your workload all doubled? This is exactly what has happened to me five times since 1993. It forced me to learn delegation, to make lifestyle changes and to stop doing things that I was doing that someone else could do and grow and strengthen my own leadership to do what only I could do. At the time I thought I was in over my head. I was, without the Lord but with Him all things are possible. Sometimes the best thing to get us to grow is to come face to face with the largest challenge we’re ever faced. It sure worked for David. David was given an opportunity to be used by God to solve a problem for the army of Israel. The soldiers as well as King Saul saw Goliath too big to defeat. David saw the same challenge but instead of seeing him too big to defeat he saw Goliath too big to miss. David knew the God that had strengthen him before would help him again.