by Nick Blevins | Apr 9, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Strategy, Student Ministry, Systems
This post is part of a series on 7 Keys to an Effective Volunteer Training System. Content is king I don’t know where I heard that before, but I have certainly found it to be true. Andy Stanley and the North Point staff define an irresistible environment as one...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 8, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Strategy, Student Ministry, Systems
This post is part of a series on 7 Keys to an Effective Volunteer Training System. When our local children’s ministry network gathers, we almost always talk about how we train volunteers and what that looks like specifically for each of us. Everyone is...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 7, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Strategy, Student Ministry, Systems
This post is part of a series on 7 Keys to an Effective Volunteer Training System. We often tell parents and preschool volunteers how kids learn more in the first 5 years of their life than they do in the rest of their life combined. They can do that because of how...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 6, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Leadership, Strategy, Student Ministry, Systems
I recently had a good conversation with another family ministry leader who was looking to improve his volunteer training system. One of the biggest challenges ministry leaders face is in training and equipping volunteers on their teams, and we got to share ideas and...
by Nick Blevins | Feb 16, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Leadership
{It’s Orange Blogger Week. Scroll down to the bottom to see what it’s all about.} My favorite aspect of the Orange Conference has always been connecting with other leaders and learning from them. Some years ago at our church we shifted our staff structure...
by Nick Blevins | Feb 11, 2015 | Children's Ministry
Heading into Christmas one year, our children’s ministry directors had a great idea for how we could show appreciation to the insanely amazing team of volunteers who serve in our children’s ministry. As we were talking through plans and ideas weeks before,...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 22, 2014 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry
Our team has been going to the Orange Tour each year since it began. The tour follows the Orange Conference, and carries the same theme and some of the same content. I also attend the Orange Conference each year, but every time we go to the Orange Tour I get new ideas...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 6, 2014 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry
Registration for the 2015 Orange Conference opens up this Thursday (October 9). I’ll be in attendance as I am ever year. It’s always one of my favorite experiences. If you have been to the Orange Conference before, you know what I’m talking about. I...
by Nick Blevins | Jul 16, 2014 | Children's Ministry
As we moved into a new building, we rebranded our children’s environments and came up with a whole new look for both preschool and elementary. I shared pictures of our preschool environment in the last post. Here’s a look at our elementary environment and...
by Nick Blevins | Jul 14, 2014 | Children's Ministry
As we moved into a new building, we rebranded our children’s environments and came up with a whole new look for both preschool and elementary. We planned on having the look of our preschool environments mirror what most preschool kids would see on video every...
by Nick Blevins | Jul 9, 2014 | Children's Ministry, Communication, Popular, Strategy, Student Ministry, Systems
If you serve on staff in children’s ministry or student ministry, you probably put on some important events each year. Hopefully you’re only doing events that really help people take steps in their journey, so you obviously want as many people to come as...
by Nick Blevins | Jul 7, 2014 | Children's Ministry, Strategy
When our church launched in 2006 we divided up our children’s ministry into 3 groups with 3 separate, connected brands. They were: Baby Bay (infant/toddler) Kids Kove (2-Pre-K5) Discovery Island (elementary) The water theme obviously connected them all and our...
by Nick Blevins | May 6, 2014 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry, Systems
At the Orange Conference last week I met a ton of Family Pastors / NextGen Pastors (lead birth through high school). It was great to connect and talk with so many people who are in the same role, one that is fairly new in the Church. Kenny Conley helped connect...
by Nick Blevins | May 2, 2014 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry
I’m at the Orange Conference in Atlanta, GA this week. Orange is a conference for family ministry teams and senior leadership in churches. About 6000 people will be attending. This post is part of a series of posts about my experience at the conference. Session 6 Doug...
by Nick Blevins | May 2, 2014 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry
I’m at the Orange Conference in Atlanta, GA this week. Orange is a conference for family ministry teams and senior leadership in churches. About 6000 people will be attending. This post is part of a series of posts about my experience at the conference. Session 5...
