This month marks the countdown to Easter. Many church leaders have already participated in staff meetings planning for the extra services, the decorations, volunteer recruitment, special events, and promotion to the community. Many of you have ordered our Easter Guide…
Life can get wild and ministry can get crazy. When you don’t think things can get any busier, they can and they do. In my life I’ve learned “busy” is a relative term. What one person calls busy is not…
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to…
Imagine if your pastor shared the following message the week before Christmas. “Here is our plan to celebrate the birth of Jesus this year as a church family. We have scheduled a ‘decoration day!’ You are all invited to join…
A message from one of our D6 Conference sponsors EVA BOSSENBERGER IS USING HER TALENTS TO BRING GLORY TO GOD THROUGH OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD. EVA CELEBRATED HER 101ST BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY, OCT. 28. Most mornings 100-year-old Eva wakes up between…
D6 Spoken Word A growing sense of urgency, not anxious emergency But an emerging scene immersing teens in enough uncertainty That leaves them afloat. Tossed on waves too large for their boat And another coat of paint won’t fix…
Ever notice how your team is working exceedingly hard, but pulling in different directions? How would your job feel if your team was challenged to all move to the same goal? When your entire ministry team comes to one conference…
Most of the time when we need to discipline our children, we are confronted with both an incorrect action and an incorrect attitude. Sometimes, however, we encounter a right action with a wrong attitude. For example, suppose you tell your son to apologize to his sister…
I often get asked the question, “What ministry conference do you recommend?” I’ve been to quite a few! As a church planter, I’ve done that round of conferences. As a children’s ministry director, I was able to attend quite a…
I need to start off by confessing this was not our idea. We stole (ahem, borrowed) it from some friends (thank you, Kyle and Sarah). A few years ago, my wife and I took a parenting class at our church…