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From Kids to Adults – Service

Last November I decided to wake up early to do some black Friday shopping.  There were some good deals on and I wanted to see what the big deal was.  I woke up early that morning and headed off to Walmart.  With some excitement, the parking lot was not full nor was there a line.  I was a little concerned as the store opened 5 minutes before I had arrived.  I walked in and it was jam-packed in some sections…

Podcast – 9:31 Growing the Church in Canada

Pastor Jon has been featured in the latest instalment of Heritage College and Seminary’s podcast: 9:31 Growing the Church in Canada. it is a 2-part interview with each lasting a little over 20 minutes. You can catch them on iTunes here.

Verse of the Week

Last year one of my awesome volunteers made a suggestion that really caused me to think.  It was a Tuesday evening, after youth, the leaders and I were having a debrief like we do most Tuesdays.  We were discussing the night and how it went when this leader said: “Devon, I have noticed that the students don’t really know their Bibles”.   What she meant was that students didn’t bring their Bibles and if you asked them to find a verse…

From Kids to Adults – Self Control

February’s Curriculum is called Operating System which I believe is quite clever.  See Computers run off an Operating System and they are never perfect.  They need updates in order to keep running well.  How accurate is that to us as humans.  We aren’t perfect and we need constant updates to better ourselves.  At least I know I do, I can’t speak for you. The theme verse is 2 Peter 1:3 which says “3 By his divine power, God has given us…

The Power of Fun

Youth Group is an interesting thing to handle.  In some ways it is like a mini-church service except let’s be honest, we don’t play games at church.  There aren’t any church services I have been to that has said before the message we are going to play tag or dodgeball.  Yet for most youth groups games are a part of the rotation.  Is this because the youth leaders are trying to fill time or perhaps there is something more intentional…

From Kids to Adults – Compassion

Since it is Christmas time, our students are learning about Jesus birth.  One of the themes is compassion.  Compassion is something that speaks highly of Jesus’ life. Our theme verse for the month is John 3:16 which says 16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life”.  This verse describes compassion to its fullest.  God loved us so deeply that he…

Rob and Kathryn Fleming

Warmest early Christmas greetings our friends:                                                Winter, 2018 Tokyo Christmas doesn’t really “Deck the Halls” for us in a country where less than 0.5% of the people identify as followers of Jesus. But that doesn’t stop the holiday sales! As in Canada, as soon as Halloween has mercifully faded away, selling in the name of Santa is…

Bedlam 2018

I listen to a youth ministry podcast called Rethinking Youth Ministry.  This is a podcast with a bunch of the youth pastors that work for Orange and write our curriculum.  These people are smart as they have been in youth ministry for a long time.  A couple of weeks ago they were talking about retreats and as I was in the final prepping process for our Bedlam Retreat, I turned the volume up and settled in for their wisdom. One…

From Kids to Adults, Cooperation

This month our theme for our grades 1-5 is Jam Session.  It is all about building the better beat together.  That means our focus is on teaching our kids about cooperation.  Cooperation is a big part of our world.  Quite often most of us are put in situations where we have to cooperate with one another. I know at my workplace I definitely do.  Being part of a staff team means that we work both independently and together on certain…

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