Apr 16, 2010 | Featured, Girls Ministry, volunteers
This week our student ministry will be beginning our "SPRING MEETINGS" with volunteers. This is a new thing we are doing and I'm excited about it. Our 3 ministers took all the names of every volunteer small group leader and Sunday School teacher, then we divided the list up ...
Mar 31, 2010 | Featured, Freebies, Girls Ministry
Two years ago I had the opportunity to create an Easter Prayer Experience for our student ministry to use in a family friendly worship service on Easter. We utilized this again last year and wanted to pass it along to you if you are looking for a prayer experience...even for ...
Mar 9, 2010 | Featured, Girls Ministry, interview
I am looking for some guest bloggers to be a part of girlsminister.com. If you are interested, I've put together a document to give some guidelines and direction to help in determining if your content is best for this site. Feel free to download it and give me a shout ...
Feb 17, 2010 | Featured, Girls Ministry
I had a good conversation with Pam Gibbs, Lifeway Girls Ministry Specialist the other day. That's the joy of being so close to Lifeway---we can just drop in on people. It was a quick discussion about what was going on in the girls ministry and in my life, ...
Feb 5, 2010 | Featured, Freebies, Girls Ministry, Moms, scripture
I was deceived yesterday. It's an awful feeling. I had begun to build some hopes and plans on this "opportunity" I was inquiring about. See, we are trying to sell our home and after almost 5 months of having to be ready at a moment's notice to get out and ...
Feb 3, 2010 | Featured, Girls Ministry, Mentoring
I remember the first day on the job as a girlsminister. It was our fall retreat! I was surrounded by cliques of girls and I couldn't figure out how to get inside of one of those circles. They all seemed to be looking at me---the new girl---and sizing me up. ...
Jan 11, 2010 | Featured, Pop Culture, social networking, technology
The term social suicide is one that has been around for awhile. I looked up the most popular definition on The Urban Dictionary and this is the one that rose to the top:
SOCIAL SUICIDE: commiting an act or acts that alienates one from their social scene or social circle
to kill ...
Jan 11, 2010 | Featured, Girls Ministry, Girls Ministry Activities, Moms
I'm always looking for some creative activities to do with girls at our retreats or to pass on to lifegroup leaders. I stumbled across this recipe at skiptomylou.org Go there for the wonderful pictures. I cut and paste the recipe here. I think this would be a fun ...
Jan 8, 2010 | Dads, Featured, Girls Ministry, Moms, diets
I want to call our attention to something that is not surprising but perhaps may allow us to present a wake-up call to our daughters and those we mentor. I'm wary of posting this on girlsminister.com because I do not want to see this article create panic and then cause ...
Jan 8, 2010 | Featured, Freebies, Girls Ministry, Mentoring
I'm excited to be leading a conference for the Girls Ministry Forum at Lifeway in February 26-27. I would love to take some students and leaders from our church with me. If you are interested in attending, let me know. If you don't go to Brentwood Baptist and are interested---you ...