Yutes

Student ministries is something we have struggled with here at Ridge Stone, and I even came here to help start them, but quickly I moved to kids and have loved it ever since. Now I am involved heavily again in student ministries but this time by directing a core team of volunteers who will hopefully run it by themselves one day.

Right now we have kicked off a new phase in our student minstry called The Project and so far things are pretty good. The kids seem to be enjoying themselves and the volunteers are feeling the best the ever have about the future.

The Project is our first step in splitting up Middle and High school and having a worship service and short message for each and we have been blown away by the enthusiasm these students have for the music and the message.

I am really excited to see where this leads and really pumped about seeing our teenagers growing closer to each other and God.

Creative Meetings

Last night was our creative meeting for our next series in both Planet Shakers (K-5) and our PreK section of Tiny Town

We got some really good ideas and I am pumped about kicking these off in a couple of weeks.

We like to have the planning meeting about 3 weeks before the next series starts then have a work day sometime in the next two weeks before the kickoff and then try to get as much of the props as possible up to the theatre before we start the series, though space sometimes is an issue.

For the past couple of weeks leading up to this we have been emailing each other ideas on what would could be doing and the basic premise of the next series. This gives us information to take to the meeting to make our time more efficient.

Alot of churchs do not do as much prop creation as we do but alot of churches dont meet in movie theatres either. We always want to create an environment to remind the kids what we are talking about and inspire some excitement too.

I usually have some OK ideas but if I didnt have a creative meeting I dont know where we would be.

Creative Meetings rule.

Preston

KidMo

We use curriculum from KidMo every Sunday in our Planet Shakers (K-5th) and Prek classes.

It has been the best to work with considering our format and portable location.

Their lessons, materials, and teaching videos are all top notch. Their support staff is amazing too.

They are almost always available and are more than willing to do whatever it takes to help out.

We don't always use KidMo exactly as the script may say but it is the bulk of our messages and we have seen great things in our kids as a result of it.

I highly recommend KidMo to anyone but especially to church plants who are portable and are looking to build a solid volunteer base.

I am always ready to talk about curriculum so please leave a comment if you have one or shoot me a question.

Preston