Today as we left the church my daughter is going to VBS this summer one of the volunteers told us that there was a t-shirt and CD of the worship music (legal of course) for her in another building and on the way home we popped in the CD and she started to sing along to these new songs.

Then it happened… I had an idea! Maybe you have had the same problem I have had in the past and that is finding good Children’s Church Worship Material on CD and/ or DVD. For the most part there isn’t a lot of quality CM worship stuff that I’ve found but VBS is a big seller of Christian publishing houses and so tons of resources are put into the programs, including the music. What if every summer you bought the music form the VBS (if you are still doing one) your church is doing and then went online and looked for other good VBS programs and bought the music CD and DVD (many of the programs have DVD with the music and words already put together in a video). If you got 2 or 3 CD’s think of how many new quality songs you would have and if you are technically handy could rip the DVD’s individual songs off and make your own play lists.

If you do this already or have a way to tweak this leave a comment and continue on the conversation.

How many times do we blow through time with a friend, spouse, or your children? I’ve begun to realize that I’ve blown through these times without internalizing what is being said or happening. As I sit and listen to preaching ministers, comics and story tellers they use a lot life experiences (both good and bad) to connect with the audience and connect the point of their message.

How about you do you take time to internalize what’s going on around you or just blow through life like it doesn’t matter? Take sometime after reading this post and leave a short comment of some story that happened in your life.

I’ll go first.

I’ve been rereading “They Smell Like Sheep” by Lynn Anderson and one of the chapters is about mentoring. The author talks about how one of the ways mentoring happens is through being the example. As I finished up the chapter and walked out into the living room my daughter was coming out of the bath in her towel and took it of and started to run through the house. Then my son came out in his towel dropped it and started to follow her running around. We all long for some example to follow. The best way we can mentor and build up Christians and leaders is by taking them with us, inviting them over for dinner, or to just watch the game. Let them experience life with you and without even noticing it mentoring and life change with occur.