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Please email resumes and any questions to <a href="mailto:fccmargate@gmail.com">fccmargate@gmail.com</a> </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/family-pastor-opening-crossroads-church-st-cloud-mn#post-231 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:14:10 +0000 jeremysnoberger 231@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Resumes are also accepted via email. To submit a resume or request more information, please email <a href="mailto:jeremy@crossroadschurch.info">jeremy@crossroadschurch.info</a> Thanks! </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/family-pastor-opening-crossroads-church-st-cloud-mn#post-230 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:12:08 +0000 jeremysnoberger 230@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Crossroads Church is looking for a leader who has a desire to see the church and the family join together to make an impact in the lives of our children and youth. Crossroads began in 2002, and from the beginning we have had a focus on caring for the family which has motivated us to seek a Family Pastor who will deepen this commitment. The Family Pastor is a full-time position. The goal is to create an overall plan for spiritual formation in our children and youth, and to lead and support this ongoing ministry alongside of the family. This is a first step toward a comprehensive structure that will involve training and leading volunteers and also managing full and part-time staff in the future, in order to develop a healthy and vibrant culture in which all children and youth experience life in the presence of Christ.</p> <p>A full job description can be provided upon request. A degree in the areas of Youth/Children/Family is preferred but not required as this is a key staff position for our community. Please submit resume with references and current picture to Crossroads Church c/o Jeremy Snoberger 710 Sundial Drive Waite Park, MN 56367. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/heritage-christian-church-%e2%80%93-fayetteville-ga#post-229 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:37:35 +0000 hancakes14 229@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Heritage Christian Church – Fayetteville, GA<br /> We are seeking a lead Children’s Pastor in a large growing church with a dynamic Children’s Ministry. We are looking for someone who is passionate about leading children into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, someone who is experienced in leading a staff and a large team of volunteers. In addition to our Sunday morning programming we have multiple programs such as Awana, Respite Care, and C3. To learn more about the church please visit <a href="http://www.heritagechristia.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.heritagechristia.org</a>. 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We are looking for a visionary leader who is passionate about equipping children and parents to discover their destiny in God. The Family Life Pastor will collaborate with ministry leaders in producing a weekly, full-scale KidStuf Family Experience; implementing a dynamic 252 Basics Small Group &amp; Large Group environment; and overseeing an Early Childhood team which creates a captivating, God-centered experience for preschoolers. </p> <p>This is an incredible opportunity to join a team which seeks to deepen and advance God’s kingdom purposes for all generations. Learn more about us at <a href="http://www.soacres.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.soacres.com</a> or <a href="http://www.kidstuflex.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.kidstuflex.com</a>. For more info e-mail Bill at <a href="mailto:brattray@soacres.com">brattray@soacres.com</a>. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/orange-staffinders#post-226 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:07:12 +0000 GTeal 226@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>During the upcoming Orange Conference I will be scheduling preliminary interviews with candidates for our Lead Children's Pastor position. Please read the job description below and send your resume to Greg Teal at <a href="mailto:gteal@westsideomaha.org">gteal@westsideomaha.org</a> . </p> <p>Westside Church</p> <p>Website: <a href="http://www.westsideomaha.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.westsideomaha.org</a> </p> <p>Job Title: Lead Children’s Pastor<br /> Reports To: Community Life Pastor<br /> Department: Children’s Ministries </p> <p>Job Titles Supervised: Children’s ministry staff, MDO staff, and Happy Face Preschool staff</p> <p>General Purpose: Provide leadership and vision to overall program development, coordination, implementation, administration and direction to staff and volunteers for birth through fifth grade.</p> <p>Essential Duties and Responsibilities:<br /> • Communicate vision and purpose of children’s ministry to the church family.<br /> • Develop and implement “Orange” family ministry programming within the children’s ministry.<br /> • Manage organization design, programming, and communications for children birth through fifth grade.<br /> • Hire and manage children’s ministry staff, directors within MDO and Happy Face Preschool. Responsibilities include vision casting, organization, training, delegation, budget oversight, leadership development and conflict management.<br /> • Prepare and administer children’s ministry budget, annual ministry plan and personal growth plan.<br /> • Oversee consistent and on-going recruiting effort of volunteers for all children ministries.<br /> • Select, evaluate, purchase and monitor overall curriculum for birth through fifth grade.<br /> • Oversee weekly staff meetings, individual staff meetings, plans training and retreat events, provides opportunities for staff to attend conferences and networking events.<br /> • Provide programs and counsel to families with children including parent training and resourcing.<br /> • Attend weekly directors meetings.<br /> • Work up to 50 hours per week.<br /> • Attend at least one training seminar dealing with children’s ministry per year at Westside’s expense.</p> <p>Other Duties:<br /> • Oversee classrooms so that they are stocked with necessary supplies.<br /> • Maintain supply and food storage closets<br /> • Conduct baptism classes<br /> • Serve on pastoral team for individual and corporate needs of the congregation.<br /> • As assigned by the Community Life Pastor</p> <p>Minimum Requirements:<br /> Education: College degree or equivalent experience required.</p> <p>Experience: At least two years experience in a children's ministry setting with a proven track record,or other background demonstrating application of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:</p> <p> Working knowledge of:<br /> • Family structure and child development<br /> • Team building and development<br /> • Recruiting<br /> • Preparing and managing budgets<br /> • Microsoft Office tools </p> <p> Ability to:<br /> • Cast vision<br /> • Communicate effectively both verbal and written<br /> • Manage conflict biblically<br /> • Recruit, motivate, encourage and mentor staff and volunteers<br /> • Create, develop and execute ministry plans and programs<br /> • Handle stress under pressure<br /> • Delegate responsibility and exercise authority<br /> • Multi-task several projects at one time</p> <p> Be an active member of Westside Church, attending services on a regular basis. If not a member at the time of hire, begin process by attending Membership Class at next available offering.<br /> Thank you for your consideration! </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/child-check-in-programs#post-225 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:57:35 +0000 Marty 225@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>We've used Youth Assistant for a couple years now. You can check it out at youthassistant.com. The main thing I like about it is you can use a hand held or wireless scanner to check in/out. There are bigger and fancier programs out there but this one has met our needs. It's not just for youth ministry but children as well. Don't let the name discourage you. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/friendship-virtue-more-cool-stuff#post-224 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:59:46 +0000 d_dejesus 224@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Wow great ideas Lisa! In light of the whole Friend-Pics application tool from the Family experience, we decided to rent an actual vintage photobooth, calling it our Friendship Photo Booth and encourage the kids to bring friends to take pictures with. We even got our logo and virtue definition printed on the bottoms of the photo strips. I found a local guy here in Dallas. You can check out greatamericanphotobooths.com to get an idea of what they offered. We also used 10 pieces of foam core board to spell out "Friendship" in front of our stage and encouraged the families to bring in photos of them with their friends to display on the board. So by the end of the month we'll have the photos spell out the word.</p> <p>We're also doing a Bring-A-Friend Contest where we're keeping track of kids who bring new friends each Sunday and tally them on a big piece of foam core board, the"Friend-O-Graph", onstage. At the end of the month, the winner and their best friend will receive a 3 hour pass to Amazing Jake's, which has a video arcade, laser tag, bumper cars, etc.</p> <p>Hope this helps! </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/child-check-in-programs#post-223 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:30:04 +0000 gccfarron 223@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>I know there are many programs available that provide a secure check-in for parents and their children. We've been doing the basic numbered name tag thing for years and are looking to upgrade to something that can possibly track attendance, record contact/food allergy info, and makes sign-in/out quick and easy. I would greatly appreciate any recommendations. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/friendship-virtue-more-cool-stuff#post-222 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:53:38 +0000 lisamolite 222@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Another thought we had originally was to switch weeks 3 &amp; 4 of the reThink curriculum and have the breakfast on the beach week be our DI Friendzy event day. We would treat large group sort of like a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" where the small groups did things as the large group was going on... so when the storyteller was talking about fishing... and the host is fishing behind him/her... small group leaders were handing out gold fish crackers to their small group members... or we would stop and have some small group team competition where each small group had to play a fishing game (magnets on paper fish with a home made fishing rod) and the first team to get five fish in their bucket wins that competition. We would do various activities throughout the large group time that mimicked a Rocky Horror Picture Show feel while creating space for small group teams to compete and/or have fun together. We decided not to go this way, but I thought I'd share it anyway. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/friendship-virtue-more-cool-stuff#post-221 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:46:40 +0000 lisamolite 221@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>We just met today to plan for our Discovery Island Friendzy and I am excited about all that the team came up with. We will also have this event on the last Sunday of the month to wrap up the virtue. Our intent for this day is to have an on-site event for small group leaders to have some designated time to spend with their small group members. We really want to build the idea of team... and small group and just celebrate the friendships that our elementary kids are hopefully making at church. Having said that... we have also advertised it as a great day to bring a friend! </p> <p>Each small group will be assigned a color over the next two weeks and will come up with a team name with that color in it. We are encouraging the kids to come in dressed and "accesorized" in that color on the 25th. At KidStuf this week, I came out and talked about it at the end wearing a purple shirt, purple glasses, a purple wig, purple bracelets, bandanas, etc... to show them they can go as crazy as they'd like with it. Hence the name... Friend-zy! We are planning to prepare boxes of things to "decorate yourself" for kids that come in for the first time or may have forgotten as well. Our large group leaders and other leaders in the environment will dress in all colors (tye-dyed).</p> <p>The way we are structuring the day is to have kids come in and join their small group leader to create a team flag. The flag will have a pocket on the back of it to collect puzzle pieces they will receive as they move throughout the day. After the flag decorating, we will move the groups through stations. Each station will have some fun, team building activity. One station will have the kids make friendship bracelets and have their small group team photo taken. They'll be given inexpensive frames to have their small group friends sign so they can take the photo home in it. Other activities are games, etc... that requite team work. </p> <p>At each station, the team will receive a puzzle piece. At the end of the station time, each group will have time to put their puzzle together and share some food treat as a team. Then we'll move to large group where each group will share what they experienced, show their flag and place their completed puzzle on a large board (backward). Once all of the groups puzzles are up on the main board... it will say the virtue and it's definition. We will end the day with worship b/c we thought the best way to end would be to celebrate the best friend we could ever have-Jesus! Whew... that was a long post. Sorry, just thought I'd fill you in on what we came up with. I'd love to hear what everyone else is planning for this month. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/new-great-ideas#post-220 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:37:59 +0000 cmetcalf@dentonbible.org 220@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>One of our very successful and favorite events is Nerf Warz!! We use the top floor and a million nerf guns with obstacles etc. We charged 3$ for pizza and refreshments. We had it right after church so it was easy for leaders to stay. People still ask for it!!<br /> And the kids and leaders talk about it for weeks afterwards. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/friendship-virtue-more-cool-stuff#post-219 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:15:02 +0000 NickBlevins 219@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Hey,</p> <p>Our elementary director had a very similar idea, calling it Discovery Island Friendzy (Discovery Island is our K-5 environment name). She met with some volunteers today to brainstorm for it. I'll see if she can share some of that here.</p> <p>Nick </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/recruiting-consistent-preschool-leaders#post-218 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:11:32 +0000 NickBlevins 218@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Hey Angela,</p> <p>I just checked that survey I mentioned and apparently it indicated that in general, 61% of our church's attenders attend weekly, 25% attend 3x/month, and the rest attend 1-2 times/month. That was a survey of the whole church though, and not specific to families with children. </p> <p>Interestingly enough, only 34% of those "weekly attenders" indicated they serve on a ministry team at our church. And, there was a strong relationship between attendance and serving, meaning the more they attend the more they serve.</p> <p>Maybe the attendance issue is the place to start?</p> <p>I hope that helps! </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/friendship-virtue-more-cool-stuff#post-217 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:10:22 +0000 mccc-children 217@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>........by old fashioned, I just meant, we encourage the kids to bring their family friends all the time, so having a special Sunday just seems old school.....I in no way want to offend anyone that has special "bring your friend days" Does that make any sense? :) </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/friendship-virtue-more-cool-stuff#post-216 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:07:59 +0000 mccc-children 216@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>So we have decided to have a "Friend Day" on the last Sunday in April to honor our virtue of friendship this month. We wouldn't normally do something like this because it seems so "old-fashioned" in some ways, however, we want to get the kids excited about bringing their friends to church...... Cuz we all know, when the kids are happy, the parents are happy and more engaged. We even sent a letter to all of our parents asking them if their kids could invite some of their friends to spend the night on the 24th so they could come to church with them on Sunday morning the 25th. I hope I haven't ruffled too many feathers with that one, however we have provided a coupon for some pizza and some activities we think the kids would have a good time doing together the night before. When they come to our church services on Sunday morning we plan on throwing a big party in honor of them and using the games and Bible story provided...... Anyways, I was just curious to see if other people were doing something else in regards to the "friendship virtue". If so, what are you doing? Anyone got any great ideas to share? </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/paid-nursery-staff#post-215 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:35:50 +0000 tam1 215@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>We actually have 2 paid staff members for our nursery as well as group of a rotating volunteers to assist them. There are a couple of reasons we decided to go with the paid staff. 1. With that age group, we found that having one consistant person staff the class each week was invaluable considering the greater needs of caregiving requirements. That consistant person knows each child's/family's needs, allergies, feeding &amp; sleeping routines, etc. This is very comforting especially for new parents. 2. We were having difficulty staffing those classes with volunteers. 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Any ideas? </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/paid-nursery-staff#post-211 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:15:44 +0000 NickBlevins 211@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>The fact that they are long time members, but don't attend or connect, should definitely be addressed. Although, that's not positive :)</p> <p>I can only suggest casting a vision for why you want volunteers, not just in the nursery but throughout children's ministry. It sounds like the church leadership is a little scared to upset some members and that should be settled first. Meaning, the ministerial staff needs to fully support your decision before you take it to anyone else.</p> <p>They may not be fit for other roles, but you could consider still paying them, and transitioning them to leadership roles, or administration/preparation roles during the week. 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Or, does anyone else have this problem at their church? Just wondering...thanks for any suggestions. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/orange-staffinders#post-209 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:33:55 +0000 lancescarbrough 209@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>If you are a student pastor interested in working at a church that currently uses XP3 curriculum and functions on a family team, please send me an email- <a href="mailto:lscarbrough@colonialonline.org">lscarbrough@colonialonline.org</a>.</p> <p>We run between 150-175 students attending our Wednesday night worship environment.<br /> This would be a great opportunity for someone.</p> <p>Colonial Church: <a href="http://www.colonialchurch.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.colonialchurch.com</a><br /> Contact: Lance Scarbrough- Family Pastor</p> <p>Title: Director of Student Ministry</p> <p>Mission: To lead students into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.</p> <p>One Sentence Position Summary: To create and deliver irresistible environments and experiences that lead students into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.</p> <p>Synopsis:<br /> As a fully devoted Christian, with a growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you will have a passion for ministry to students from Grade 6 – 12. You will possess excellent gifts in leadership, communicating and in equipping/leading adult and teen ministry volunteer leaders. </p> <p>Reports to: Executive Director of Family Ministry </p> <p>Ministry Responsibilities:<br /> • Provides leadership, creativity and management to all aspects of student ministry, which includes ESCAL8, Collide, The Revolution, and RevGroups<br /> • Develops and manages large group (worship and communicating) and small group processes.<br /> • Leads, mentors, equips, trains, recruits and holds accountable volunteer leaders within student ministry.<br /> • Working with Director of Music, recruits, develops and schedules talent for worship leaders and musicians.<br /> • Recruits, develops and evaluates communicators in each environment. The Director of Student Ministry may also be a worship leader and communicator, but would do so on a rotational basis with others.<br /> • Encourages and provides opportunities for students to get involved in serving opportunities.<br /> • Responsible for ensuring a high quality standard in everything related to student ministry.<br /> • Responsible for bringing the “orange principles” to life within student ministry by developing and executing creative ways to partner with parents.<br /> • Develops and distributes various communication sources to communicate with students and parents including web site, Fellowship One data base and advertising hand outs.<br /> • Collaborates with children’s ministry staff and team on weekly activities and long term plans to encourage a “family ministry” perspective vs individual department areas.<br /> • Works with the Executive Director of Family Ministry and other staff/team members to develop a comprehensive vision for ministry from birth through to young adulthood.<br /> • Oversees strategic planning process for student ministry as it pertains to ministry annual planning and budgeting.<br /> • Responsible for updating Executive Director ongoing operations/running and alignment of student ministry to overall vision.</p> <p>Work Schedule:<br /> • Full Time - average of 40 hours a week which includes working Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings and Midweek meetings</p> <p>Skill Requirements: </p> <p>• Achiever – works hard and has a great deal of stamina, takes satisfaction from being busy, productive, and delivering high quality work<br /> • Communication – you like to and excel at explaining, describing, hosting, speaking in public and writing<br /> • Positivity – has enthusiasm that is contagious, is upbeat and can get others excited about what they are doing<br /> • Creative – you like to develop and think about new ideas and get excited about what the future could look like<br /> • Attractional Personality – you have a personality and style that students are attracted to. Students want to be with and around you<br /> • Activator – makes things happen by turning thoughts/ideas into action and reality<br /> • Focus – sets goals and filters time, energy, resources against those goals, sets priorities and then acts, likes to get to the point<br /> • Detailed/Reliable - pays attention to details and doesn’t let anything slip through the cracks<br /> • Computer Proficiency - ability to work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pro Presenter and Mac computers<br /> • College or University - degree preferred </p> <p>About Colonial Church:</p> <p>Our mission is to lead a generation of people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ by creating relevant environments that connect people to God and to each other. Colonial’s senior pastor, Terry Chapman guides a team that is committed to creating relevant environments. </p> <p>Environments at Colonial are designed with people outside the church in mind. Everything from weekend services, to family ministry, to group environments are designed to be relevant environments that bring people to connect with God, engage in community and make an impact with the world. </p> <p>Children’s ministry and student ministry are designed to partner with parents to produce a true family ministry approach to reaching kids and their parents. </p> <p>Family Ministry at Colonial is designed in the Orange Model (www.orangerleaders.org). Orange ministry is based on the idea that orange is produced through the combination of two colors that have a greater impact together than on their own. Red, representing the heart of family, and yellow, representing the light of the church, combine to make a more vibrant powerful color Orange. Orange ministry synchronizes the efforts of church leaders and parents around a master plan to help build faith and character in their children.</p> <p>PLEASE SEND RESUME TO:<br /> lscarbrough@@colonialchurch.com </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/student-director-opening-wichita-falls-tx#post-208 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:32:28 +0000 lancescarbrough 208@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Here is an updated job description:</p> <p>Title: Director of Student Ministry</p> <p>Mission: To lead students into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.</p> <p>One Sentence Position Summary: To create and deliver irresistible environments and experiences that lead students into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.</p> <p>Synopsis:<br /> As a fully devoted Christian, with a growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you will have a passion for ministry to students from Grade 6 – 12. You will possess excellent gifts in leadership, communicating and in equipping/leading adult and teen ministry volunteer leaders. </p> <p>Reports to: Executive Director of Family Ministry </p> <p>Ministry Responsibilities:<br /> • Provides leadership, creativity and management to all aspects of student ministry, which includes ESCAL8, Collide, The Revolution, and RevGroups<br /> • Develops and manages large group (worship and communicating) and small group processes.<br /> • Leads, mentors, equips, trains, recruits and holds accountable volunteer leaders within student ministry.<br /> • Working with Director of Music, recruits, develops and schedules talent for worship leaders and musicians.<br /> • Recruits, develops and evaluates communicators in each environment. The Director of Student Ministry may also be a worship leader and communicator, but would do so on a rotational basis with others.<br /> • Encourages and provides opportunities for students to get involved in serving opportunities.<br /> • Responsible for ensuring a high quality standard in everything related to student ministry.<br /> • Responsible for bringing the “orange principles” to life within student ministry by developing and executing creative ways to partner with parents.<br /> • Develops and distributes various communication sources to communicate with students and parents including web site, Fellowship One data base and advertising hand outs.<br /> • Collaborates with children’s ministry staff and team on weekly activities and long term plans to encourage a “family ministry” perspective vs individual department areas.<br /> • Works with the Executive Director of Family Ministry and other staff/team members to develop a comprehensive vision for ministry from birth through to young adulthood.<br /> • Oversees strategic planning process for student ministry as it pertains to ministry annual planning and budgeting.<br /> • Responsible for updating Executive Director ongoing operations/running and alignment of student ministry to overall vision.</p> <p>Work Schedule:<br /> • Full Time - average of 40 hours a week which includes working Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings and Midweek meetings</p> <p>Skill Requirements: </p> <p>• Achiever – works hard and has a great deal of stamina, takes satisfaction from being busy, productive, and delivering high quality work<br /> • Communication – you like to and excel at explaining, describing, hosting, speaking in public and writing<br /> • Positivity – has enthusiasm that is contagious, is upbeat and can get others excited about what they are doing<br /> • Creative – you like to develop and think about new ideas and get excited about what the future could look like<br /> • Attractional Personality – you have a personality and style that students are attracted to. Students want to be with and around you<br /> • Activator – makes things happen by turning thoughts/ideas into action and reality<br /> • Focus – sets goals and filters time, energy, resources against those goals, sets priorities and then acts, likes to get to the point<br /> • Detailed/Reliable - pays attention to details and doesn’t let anything slip through the cracks<br /> • Computer Proficiency - ability to work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pro Presenter and Mac computers<br /> • College or University - degree preferred </p> <p>About Colonial Church:</p> <p>Our mission is to lead a generation of people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ by creating relevant environments that connect people to God and to each other. Colonial’s senior pastor, Terry Chapman guides a team that is committed to creating relevant environments. </p> <p>Environments at Colonial are designed with people outside the church in mind. Everything from weekend services, to family ministry, to group environments are designed to be relevant environments that bring people to connect with God, engage in community and make an impact with the world. </p> <p>Children’s ministry and student ministry are designed to partner with parents to produce a true family ministry approach to reaching kids and their parents. </p> <p>Family Ministry at Colonial is designed in the Orange Model (www.orangerleaders.org). Orange ministry is based on the idea that orange is produced through the combination of two colors that have a greater impact together than on their own. Red, representing the heart of family, and yellow, representing the light of the church, combine to make a more vibrant powerful color Orange. Orange ministry synchronizes the efforts of church leaders and parents around a master plan to help build faith and character in their children.</p> <p>PLEASE SEND RESUME TO:<br /> lscarbrough@@colonialchurch.com </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/set-props-for-monthly-virtues#post-207 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:13:06 +0000 Angela McCann 207@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Hi Mike!</p> <p>We are going to use long and wide strips of colored butcher paper with black out silhouettes of kids layered on top. It's not very literal but it's visually stimulating.</p> <p>~Angela </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/propresenter#post-206 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:57:24 +0000 dpgove 206@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Is anyone using ProPresenter in elementary ministry? Are you going to the Orange conference? Would love to meet -need tips! <a href="mailto:diane.gove@woodridgechurch.org">diane.gove@woodridgechurch.org</a> </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/youth-name-for-fall-retreat#post-205 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:54:40 +0000 SROUKEMA 205@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Planning to do a youth retreat in the Fall using the 'Rhythm' curriculum, but need a catchy name that will attract youth. Wonder, Discovery, and Passion are not really words that teens use. Thought of calling it Rhythm retreat, but it sounds took much like a seniors retreat. Any thoughts? </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/recruiting-consistent-preschool-leaders#post-204 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:23:46 +0000 NickBlevins 204@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>Hey Angela,</p> <p>Families attending irregularly like that is very common if you're consistently reaching unchurched families. It would be great to survey all the families (maybe the whole church) to find out their background (church/unchurched) and then cross that with their attendance. 60% sounds like a lot though. We have a survey we did last year that was incredibly helpful that I could send to you if you would like. That issue alone would be interesting to explore. I would probably start by figuring out what other healthy, growing churches similar to yours experience with that. I'll see if I can figure out our attendance patterns and let you know.</p> <p>About preschool....if I'm understanding you correctly, all of your volunteers serve each week now, but you need more volunteers? There's probably other information that would help me brainstorm ideas:</p> <p>How many services do you have, and are they identical?<br /> Is the normal pattern to serve during 1 service and attend another?<br /> Do teenagers serve?<br /> What percentage of adults/students serve somewhere in the church? (as % of average worship attendance)</p> <p>Summer is coming up and creating a "summer team" each year has been a huge way to get new volunteers into the fold. Some serve only during the summer, but many stay on board after that. </p> http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/topic/set-props-for-monthly-virtues#post-203 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:59:16 +0000 mikekelly09 203@http://www.orangeleaders.com/forums/ <p>What are some of you using for set props for this month of April: Friendships? Need some other ideas besides backwards stuff and famous friends. </p>