actionchurch at club19 – York, PA

Friday, November 30th, 2007

actionkidz

So how do you do church for kids in a nightclub? …from preschool to 4th grade on a dance floor? We’re about to find out on December 9th. Here’s the 411 on actionkidz…

• We want it to be fun! Seriously, if it’s not fun it doesn’t matter how much “Bible trivia” you teach…kids are going to check out.
• Parents are welcome. We recognize that some parents will have questions about how we do children’s ministry…our invitation: stay and “play along”.
• Teaching will be done on video. That’s the way kids primarily learn now…white boards and lectures don’t cut it… (this also frees up the actionkidz crew from being “teacher” to being able to interact and facilitate fun instead.)
• Pick great people who love kids! I am so grateful God sent Jeff and Chrissy to lead our actionkidz start up but we still need more volunteers who love kids (and can pass a background check!)
• Make sure they have the proper resources! Truth-be-told we will spend more between now and launch on set supplies and equipment for the actionkidz area of actionchurch than the “main service”. Why? Because kids are not the “church of tomorrow” they are the church of today! Studies show that you are more likely to begin following Jesus before the age of 12 than any other time in your life… Children’s ministry is not “babysitting” or an afterthought…it is IMPORTANT!
• Did I mention fun? Example: Jeff and Chrissy have picked a curriculum for the first 8 weeks of actionkidz called “Driving force” that teaches biblical principles through racing. It looks like later in the series we will be able to have Bob bring the “actionkidz” race car for the kids to meet the driver and take pictures in the car… That’s nothing like the “Sunday School” I remember.

Thanks to Yvonne for the new artwork and logo…I think the new “crew” member is named Spike.

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Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Live on stage…Clean Slate

…yet another reason to mark your calenders and set your alarm clocks for Sunday December

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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

"right" and "wrong"

Lately I’ve been having an “ongoing discussion” with our four year old fairy princess, Reagan. It seems she likes to “be right”…a lot! Once she is convinced she “is right” about something, nothing can change her mind (I wonder who she inherited that from?)…she can even get pretty belligerent about it. The funny thing is, many time she is “right”. She remembers movie characters better than me, she remembers what mommy says better than me, sometimes she even remembers what I said better than me… She’s often “right”. What I’m trying to teach her through all of this is that you can be absolutely “right” in your position, but still be “wrong” because of your attitude and poor treatment of others.

I find this to be a hard lesson to learn for adults as well as four year olds. I’ve struggled with it much of my life. It is a hard thing to be passionately sure of the “rightness” of your position, and still remain humble and gracious toward those you disagree with. Lately this process is becoming easier for me…not necessarily because I have “grown”…I am just much more aware of all the areas I have been passionately wrong about in the past. That realization tends to humble you…

I want to make sure that humility and graciousness are ingrained in the DNA of actionchurch. I want to be “right” in our attitude toward others who may disagree with our vision of what a church can be/do in York County. I want to be a church willing to be “misunderstood” in order to share the good news of Jesus with people disenfranchised by religion. I want to be a church not deterred by criticism or swayed by praise. Most of all, I want to be a church more concerned with doing the right thing than merely “being right”!

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