Posted by aaron on Jan 23, 2012

Happy Birthday Mom!

My mom turns 29 years old today. I love my parents a lot. Growing up, they were an example of a couple that loved each other, that loved their kids, and loved Jesus. My mom is someone I admire a lot. She has worked hard in her life and I have seen her influence on hundreds of lives simply because she said “yes” to letting God use her in whatever way He saw fit. She always encouraged me...

Posted by aaron on Jan 17, 2012

Why CampKidJam?

You should know I’m picky about camps for kids. I’m not so concerned about the where and what as I am about the why and how in a camp for kids. Two days after I graduated from high school, I went to work at a summer camp. God used that time in my life to instill in me a knowledge and experience of what matters in children’s ministry and how to communicate with kids. I also came away with ideas...

Posted by aaron on Jan 16, 2012

Make It Personal: Joe’s Elf Video

I realize I’m late in posting this. But I have to do it while I’m thinking of it. Our last FUSION was about how to Make it Personal. When we as followers, parents, kids, and families, make our faith personal, it allows us to pass that on to other people. Joe serves on our UPTOWN team and graciously agreed to don a Buddy the Elf costume, in an attempt to make some Christmas cheer personal...

Posted by aaron on Jan 16, 2012

Thoughtless Words

Yesterday in UPTOWN, we our team was teaching about self-control. Every parent I’ve met this month has been giving me high fives when they learn about the virtue this month! Our first hour 4th/5th grade team put together an object lesson that tied in well with our thought for yesterday. This week, we learned about Proverbs 12:18. “Thoughtless words can cut like a sword. But the words of the wise...

Posted by aaron on Jan 14, 2012

in·gen·ious

I had every intention of writing every day this week while at CPC, exploring some new component of the conference or highlighting some great sparks of “wow!” Those moments came, but not in the way I have usually received them from conferences. I lost my conference book at the end of Thursday, and with many of my notes so I can’t recap anything from sessions here. In fact, I’ll likely be filling...

Posted by aaron on Jan 10, 2012

Connections: #CPC12

One of the things that is absolutely essential to success in any business, ministry, hobby, anything of importance to you, is networking. Someone, somewhere, just scoffed when they read that, but it’s true. Isn’t every Sunday at church a networking of believers to celebrate what Jesus has done in their lives? Isn’t every small group a network of people living out their faith together, sharing...

Posted by aaron on Jan 9, 2012

Connections

Last night at Journey we had a great evening connecting people with each other and beginning a new four months of connect groups, life groups, classes and triads. I love it when people spend some extra time being intentional about the connections they make. What if we were intentional about our connections all the time? What if we were intentional about making connections in our relationships with our...

Posted by aaron on Jan 6, 2012

Imagine

Looking ahead to 2012 is more fun than actually being in 2012. When you look ahead, you can see your “future self” and he/she is all that you want to be. Once January 1st rolled in, you realized that in order for you to become your “future self” you had to confront “every day self” first – and not just once. You have to meet “every day self” 365 times (plus one – it’s Leap...