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Find me at Forma
posted on Jan 14, 2017Along with many fabulous (and sparkly) friends, I'll be at the Forma Conference in Garden Grove, California from Jaunary 25-27. Join me to talk VBS and digital ministry - and to get a copy of The Best VBS Workbook Ever! I'll sign it in your favori...
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Training Teens for VBS
posted on Jan 13, 2017Training for VBS is necessary for everybody - not just teens - who volunteers to help. Here are some VBS training suggestions I wrote for Building Faith. The only thing I would add is that if something goes "off script," even if the volunteer hand...
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Writing
The Sacrament of Back to School
posted on Jan 13, 2017My youngest left for college this year. I thought I was doing ok until I read my own darn post on Building Faith about finding the sacramental in every day life and got all choked up.
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Collaborative Art & Digital Projects
Nourishing Stories
posted on Jan 13, 2017
Stories orient and inspire us. Stories, like food, nourish us. At the Christian formation conference at Kanuga, Heather Annis and I designed a collaborative art project based on nourishing food stories, traditions, recipes and table graces and I...
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Writing
Sharing Discomforting Scriptural Stories with Children
posted on Jan 13, 2017
Scripture can be messy. And disturbing. And scary. And definitely not rated PG. Or sometimes even PG-13. Those difficult stories have a way of sneaking up on us. Like when my rector asked me if I wanted to preach the children's sermon on an upco...
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Writing
Feral Church Children
posted on Jan 13, 2017"Feral church children" is a phrase that bothered some people, even though they liked the article on Building Faith. Ok. It is partially just my weird sense of humor. But then someone suggested "free range children" might be better and I got to t...
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Writing
Why We Need Christmas Pageants
posted on Jan 13, 2017My thougths on the glorious holy chaos of Christmas pageants, written for Building Faith. All is not necessarily calm, but it is bright and all is well. In the midst of this chaos I remember the words of the Prophet Isaiah 11:6, “A little child ...
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Raves & Faves
A Child of Books - an INCREDIBLE picture book
posted on Jan 13, 2017I am RAVING over Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston's latest picture book "A Child of Books." They had me at the opening line "I am a child of books. I come from a world of stories." This book gives me goosebumps - the whole premise that we are made ...
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Raves & Faves
The Wandering Wisemen
posted on Jan 3, 2017
One of Advent FAVES this past season was The Wandering Wisemen on Instagram - it followed the wanderings of the three kings Balthazar, Melchior, and Gaspar - along with their faithful camel, Hezekiah - on a whimsical holiday quest to find the in...
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