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Pixable: Your Girls Ministry’s best friend for memory keeping

Dec 23, 2009 | Featured, Girls Ministry, technology

It's amazing how facebook has revolutionized our ability to save, comment on, celebrate, and keep in touch with memories through the facebook photo tagging abilities.  I know that within hours of an event, I have instant feedback from our students and leaders as they upload their photos to photo albums ...

Praying for and with parents

Dec 11, 2009 | Featured, Girls Ministry, Moms

Recently I have had the great honor of praying with some moms that mean a lot to me, and listening to them lift their daughters up to God in prayer.  As I participated in one such prayer time with a mom, it made me think---I need to make more time ...

Developing the art of conversation and listening

Dec 5, 2009 | Featured, Girls Ministry, Moms, volunteers

"They don't listen to me!"  This is a statement I hear over and over again from teen girls.  How do you develop the art of listening to a teen girl?  It's different than how it was when they were younger.  Girls have a lot of words don't they?  It's one ...

4 experiments to break parents out of a love language rut

Dec 4, 2009 | Girls Ministry

I had the opportunity to listen to some girls recently.  They shared that they heard their parents say they loved them, but their actions weren't matching up.  It made me think that perhaps those parents were getting into a love rut with their student.  What's a love rut? It's like ...

Help for the frazzled girlsminister or girlsministry leader!

Dec 2, 2009 | Featured, Girls Ministry, technology

I have great intentions of getting together with people for coffee. By the time I'm done with responsibilities on a Sunday or Wednesday, I have a handful of people that I know I need to touch base with over coffee or lunch.  The problem is sitting down to set up ...

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