On Monday I took the day off from work and spent the entire day with my kids. We went swimming in a neighbors backyard pool, we ate lunch at Taco Bell, I sprayed them with the water hose in the backyard, I watched them ride bikes up and down the street, we picked up a few groceries for dinner, and I taught them how to cut their own steaks at dinner.  It was a great day, and a day much different than I ever had before kids.

If you’ve not taken the time to listen to Andrew Peterson, let me be the first person to highly recommend him!

Way back in May, I’m reading an article that Wayne Stocks wrote at www.ministry-to-children.com where he speaks about the Sunday upcoming for our volunteers is anything but a normal Sunday.  It really spoke to me, and I thought about it for a few days.  I then took his idea (with his permission) and worked it into my volunteer Kidsplace Unscripted video series that goes out to all our volunteers.  It was a hit.

Thanks to Wayne for the idea, and for his writing genius!

I saw this commercial from the Embrace Life campaign, and thought that I would share it with all my readers!  Everything from the acting, the music, and the slow-motion video is fantastic.  I bet it will even pull some emotions out of you!

HT: BON

I’m a HUGE soccer fan, and have been following the World Cup as often as ABC TV and ESPN3.com will allow me.  I’ve totally tuned out the vuvuzela noise in my head, and am really enjoying the entire month of World Cup soccer.  On Wednesday I was at Summer Camp with our kids, and was only able to watch the first half of the big USA vs. Algeria game on television.  For the second half I constantly refreshed my ESPN mobile page with text updates.  I tweeted how I saw the winning goal HERE.

Today I’m wearing my Captain America t-shirt, and planning on watching the World Cup here in Oklahoma with my Dad and potentially my little brother.  Which is the only way to watch soccer!  I thought this video was a fantastic way to prove that watching soccer in a group is the only way to do it!

This is video #3 of our continuing effort to “get the word out” that we have Children’s Ministry available for families that attend Trinity Church.  These are NOT volunteer recruitment video’s, but rather just informational in format.  You can see the first video HERE, and see the #2 video HERE.

Kidsplace Promotion #3 from Jonathan Cliff on Vimeo.

We will be running these videos throughout the next few months.  They are only 30 seconds in length, and are designed to fit along with whatever video announcements the church is running in weekend services.  They are not designed to be stand-alone.  They will also be used over and over throughout the year.  Make sense?

We outsourced the work to a local place here in Lubbock.  All videos were filmed, created, and designed by Kevin Rhodes over at Dream Taxi.