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Archive for November 2008

Scot McKnight chiming in on children's, youth and young adult ministries

Group Life Conference Main Session 1, originally uploaded by wcagrouplife. Scot McKnight posted some thoughts on his blog about an alarming trend of more and more 20-something simply opting out of church. Now, I don’t think Scot is being an alarmist in how he is looking at the situation, but according to him the statistics … Continue reading »

Not Just "Children's" Ministry

  Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream, originally uploaded by JoshMcConnell. For my wife’s birthday, a friend of ours got her a DVD copy of Mary Poppins… one of my wife’s favourite Disney characters. About a month ago, we watched the “pop up” version of the movie. It was neat to see all the little facts … Continue reading »

Twilight Hits Theatres this weekend

If you haven’t seen or heard all the teenage girls swooning over Edward Cullen, then you might not be aware that a popular teen novel series called Twilight has hit theatres this weekend. While many of us in CM won’t run into too many littler kids who might know about Edward and Bella, we will … Continue reading »

Generation We

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2032854&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Generation WE: The Movement Begins… from Generation We on Vimeo Thanks to Lanny Donoho’s blog for bringing my attention to this video. As I watched this video, I was really excited about the hope that Millennials have in the midst of all the negative that they have facing them. I, then, thought, “Did the … Continue reading »

Create a Muppet Whatnot!

How fun is this? You can go onto the FAO Schwartz website and create your own Muppet. They’ve got three body types to choose from, eyes, noses, hair and clothes you can choose from. And the cost for something like this? It looks like it only cost $90 to make one of these. I’m not … Continue reading »

My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less…

    The Littlest Voter, originally uploaded by Orin Optiglot. These past few weeks, based on news articles, commentaries, TV commercials, blog posts and stuff posted on Facebook and Twitter, that song could’ve been finished with the words, “than whom is voted President.” And that is from both sides of the political spectrum. I heard and … Continue reading »

A positive look at video games and obesity

As I was reading through my daily Kidscreen eNewsletter, I came across this article from the Montreal Gazette which talked about the new trend of exergaming and its implications for the possibility of video games playing a positive role in the fight against childhood obesity. Now, if only Wii Fit wouldn’t make your Mii character … Continue reading »

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