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Orange Tour 2011 (Part 5)

Final Session:

"What in the world are you saying to change the way someone sees the world?"

"Say less more often so everyone will know what really matters."

"Be selective about WHAT you say."

"The average church only has on average 40 hours a year with an individual child."

"The average kid spends 400 hours a year playing video games."

"You either teach less for more impact, or you teach more for less impact."

"All Scripture is equally inspired."

"All Scripture is not equally important."

"Jesus prioritized what the most important commandment is."

Core Insights:

    1. Wonder: Design, Identitiy, Connection

    2. Discovery: Faith, Transformation, Truth

    3. Passion: Community, Compassion, Restoration

 "Be relevant about HOW you say it."

"It's presentation not information that engages the imagination."

"Relevance is using what is cultural to say what is timeless."

"All Scripture is not equally applicable for every stage of life."

"There are some things in the Bible that you might not want to talk about with Preschool children."

"Develop the skill of crafting WORDS."

 "Say ONE thing at a time."

"Don't disengage at high school graduation."

"Collaborate with other AGE GROUP ministries."

Be intentional about who else speaks vision into your people."

"Parents have 3,000 unstructured hours on average per year with their children."

" Organize ministry around relationships." SMALL GROUPS!

"You can't ever compete with the budgets of Disney, Mtv or city events. However, they can't compete with your relational potential."

"Are you giving your kids an option to live the better story?"

Orange Tour 2011 (Part 4)

Partnering with Parents Breakout:

"With what we do as church leaders, we unknowingly either give parents hope in the spiritual development of their children or we shut them out."

"Every parent wants to do a better job in the spiritual development of their children, but not all of them are equipped to do so."

"4/5 of parents connected in the local church say that their church has done little or nothing to help them with the spiritual development of their children."

"Most of us think it's our job to get an Involved Parent to be an Aware Parent and an Aware Parent to be an Invested Parent.  That's where we get in trouble."

"There is another level of Parent between the Aware Parent and the Invested Parent.  This is the Engaged Parent."

"Most of the time we have defined Spiritual Leadership in an impractical way and impossible scenario for parents to feel successful."

"The fifth grade kid who's dad starts praying with him will feel like a major change has happened."

"Are you leveraging the Sunday morning main service platform to cast vision of partnering with parents?"

"We need to help parents re-engage and transition the way they are parenting as their children move toward personal independance. "

"Pay attention to the rhythm of your church events and leverage those times to pour into your parents."

"Embrace the milestone moments (event based and issue based) to connect small group leaders and parents."

"Why aren't we making it EASY for parents to engage with their children on a spiritual level?"

 

Orange Tour 2011 (Part 3)

Session 3:

"We should be working to 'Inceite Wonder' in a child's spiritual life."

"Inciting Wonder can be done by helping children understand that they were DESIGNED by God and not just an accident."

"We need to help children realize that their IDENTITY is found in their Creator."

"What we do should be done so that children can easily CONNECT with God."

"Every person who works with your Preschool age children need to understand that they are the first impression of who God is and how He loves."

"The story of David and Mephibosheth shows us the power of living out the love God to others."

"As leaders we have to be comfortable and prepared for our students to wrestle with finding a FAITH of their own."

"If we don't allow kids to deal with their own doubt they'll never find their own FAITH."

"All of this is not about having great faith in God but putting whatever faith we have and placing it in Jesus."

"It's not about the amount of our faith.  It's about where we place our faith."

"We need to remember that our job is not the transform people but to be an instrument of God as He changes people."

"It's almost impossible to invite someone into the story we want them to be a part of if they don't understand the big picture."

"Instead of ramping up the Wonder and Discovery dials in Student Ministry, we should be focussing more on the Passion dial."

"Students are desperately seeking true COMMUNITY; both as a recipiant and a participant."

"Students need to understand COMPASSION and RESTORATION so they will feel the responsibility as the Church to reach out to the broken lives around us."

"We aren't inviting people to stop drinking, smoking or making poor choices but into a better life."

Orange Tour 2011 (Part 2)

More thoughts from Orange Tour....

"Every story you tell, song you sing, environment you create should be geared to usher people closer to and deeper in a relationship with God."

"There are three innate areas that we can effect in the life of people. Wonder, Discovery and Passion."

"You are instinctively drawn to what is supernatural, miraculous, or spiritual." - Wonder

"Turn the 'Wonder Dial' up for children so they can be amazed by a God who is bigger than their imagination."

"You are instinctively drawn to understand you own uniqueness and role in a bigger story." - Discovery

"We're wired to want to grow in who we are, in friendship, and in community." - Discovery

"You are intinctively drawn to connect relationally and to rescue those who are hurting or broken." - Passion

"You're either turning the 'Passion Dial' up or turning it down whether you realize it or not."

"The number of students attending is not an accurate metric for success in Student Ministry. A better measuring stick is how many students are plugged back in to DOING ministry." - Passion

"This is the reason people who don't know other people will go to another country to help those in need." - Passion

"If you don't ever give the next generation a chance to DO something then they will never understand what you're saying to them about BEING the Church."

 

Orange Tour 2011 (Part 1)

I'm excited to be at Orange Tour today.  I'm even more excited to be here with some of my staff and volunteers.  I believe the NRHC Family Ministries are on the verge of something truly amazing.  Here are some of the thoughts Reggie Joiner has been sharing with us this morning.

" Mission doesn't determine success.  Strategy does."

"You'll never have to work at being misaligned.  You will have to be dilligent to be synchronized."

"It doesn't take a leader to kill something that's already dead."

"A team can't be on the same page without regularly being in the same room."

Great stuff so far!  Think ORANGE!!!