by Nick Blevins | Apr 25, 2013 | 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 5000 people will be attending. This post is part of a series of posts about my experience at the conference....
by Nick Blevins | Apr 25, 2013 | 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 5000 people will be attending. This post is part of a series of posts about my experience at the conference....
by Nick Blevins | Apr 25, 2013 | 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 5000 people will be attending. This post is part of a series of posts about my experience at the conference....
by Nick Blevins | Apr 25, 2013 | 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 5000 people will be attending. This post is part of a series of posts about my experience at the conference. Session...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 24, 2013 | 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 5000 people will be attending. This post is part of a series of posts about my experience at the conference. Session...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 18, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry, Systems
A couple weeks ago I posted 6 tips for communicating with volunteers over email. One of the tips was to use MailChimp for mass emails to volunteers (or attenders, parents, anyone). I thought it might be helpful for you to see some of the emails we send through...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 14, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
In the first post I talked about the importance of creating a healthy culture in our organizations and shared two resources that have been helpful to me in that regard. I also talked about the importance of using specific language to help shape the culture you plan to...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 13, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
In a previous post I talked about the importance of creating a healthy culture in our organizations and shared two resources that have been helpful to me in that regard. I also talked about the importance of using specific language to help shape the culture you plan...
by Nick Blevins | Feb 6, 2013 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry
The Orange Conference is a yearly gathering of over 5,000 family ministry leaders (church volunteers and staff). It’s people who serve preschool kids, elementary kids and students, as well as senior pastors, all gathering to learn from each other. In reality...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 25, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry
Mark Batterson Mark is the lead pastor of National Community Church and the author of several great books. Reggie had Mark share a little about some content from his book Praying Circles Around Your Children. The mistakes we make as parents are our greatest...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 25, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Student Ministry
Main Session 1 Change is not an option, but how you respond is. 3 possible responses to change: Ignore it, and drift nowhere. Hold on, and let it drive you where you don’t want to go. Make an adjustment, and use it to get where you want to go. Leadership is...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 18, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
One of the things our family ministry team does when we meet most weeks is learn together. We do that by reading articles, blogs, books, as well as by listening to podcasts and to each other. This week we talked about a blog post from Michael Hyatt. His blog is one of...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 9, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Strategy, Student Ministry
At least twice a year we gather children’s ministry volunteers for Elevate, a training we do with the entire team. One of the things we’ll talk about from time to time at Elevate is consistency. Growth brings complexity Our church is growing, and...
by Nick Blevins | Sep 21, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
Orange Blogger Week is this week as registration for The 2013 Orange Conference opens next Thursday, September 27. All week I’ll blog about my Orange Conference thoughts and experiences along with other family ministry leaders from all over. Managing Multiple...
by Nick Blevins | Sep 20, 2012 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Strategy
Orange Blogger Week is this week as registration for The 2013 Orange Conference opens next Thursday, September 27. All week I’ll blog about my Orange Conference thoughts and experiences along with other family ministry leaders from all over. Simply Strategic...
