I want to let you know of a great conference coming up in March 2011 called “Focus Conference.” It’s in Greenville, SC and features Michael Chanley, Tim & Amanda Cowles, myself and many others from the NCLA team. I’m excited to be a part of this event and I would LOVE to see YOU there….
Everyone remembers “the catch”—who remembers what they said about the catch? Yet, “the catch” says it all! It’s super easy to get caught up in the busyness of children’s ministry. As children’s pastors we are thinking about what needs to be taught and not always on top of making the moment happen. What do I…
People literally ask me almost every week—“Who are people that I should be connecting with or can learn from?” Children’s Ministry Magazine just made it easy…check out the list and start connecting with these emerging leaders! Click on the image: -PJ
I had the honor of preaching for our church’s youth ministry last week. I started going through the book of Daniel, which is eventually where I preached from. As I was going through the classic true-story of Daniel and the lion’s den, I felt like he revealed a leadership principle to me that I hadn’t…
Every children’s minister needs to connect with people. Why? It could have something to do with growing ministry teams to impact this generation of kids. Something they didn’t teach me in college was that I need to be a person people want to be around and a person that people genuinely like. Here are a…
One of the great privileges I have at our church is the opportunity to have a few moments with some of the most influential leaders in Christendom. For that I am very grateful to Pastor Benny Perez. “Thank you!” if you’re reading this. Our conference just started this past weekend and I picked up Dr….