I am loving the World Cup this year. Listening to matches in the morning, while doing some office work (Thank You www.espn3.com), following along on some great iPhone apps, and forcing my wife to accept the vuvezela noise! I played soccer (football) all my life, and miss it terribly. If only it hadn’t rendered my knees and ankles useless in my 30′s then I’d still be playing…
But a guy can dream, right?
Every Friday we have what we call “Daddy Day” in our house. It’s the one day of the week, that their mother is off to work; and the one day of the week that Daddy is home all alone with the kids. We fill it with trips to the library, wrestling matches, episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants, and PB&J sandwhiches. The summer months are particularly fun, because I have all three kids the entire time. During the school year, it’s just my daughter and I; which is its own brand of awesomeness!
I’ve been a parent going on 8 years, and one of the most tragic things I’ve experienced is the speed with which the world now moves. With kids, life becomes a blur that you cannot help slow down. That’s just the way it is, and I’ve learned to stop and just take in what I have now. I’ve been quite proud of myself for taking time to just watch my kids jump on a trampoline, or listen to them slowly read through story books out loud, or laugh with them while playing Mario Cart on the Wii. It’s not a natural thing to just enjoy the ordinary days, it takes a deliberate move to put yourself in a frame of mind to work at remembering. We tend to build our memories around the “big events,” but it’s the ordinary days that hold the most power. It’s the ordinary days that I cherish so much.
Last week I saw this video over at www.strategicdads.com and it resonated with me in so many ways. Yes, it really is over 7 minutes long, and it is written from a Mother’s perspective…but it’s worth the time.
This is the most recent Kidsplace service video announcement at Trinity Church, in Lubbock, TX. It’s edition #1 of a project to get the word out to our congregation that we have age-specific programming for kids every weekend! Gina spoke about this here, but sometimes people fail to even know we have programming for kids every weekend. Or if they know, they tend to think of what they may have experienced when they were kids. More than once I’ve heard someone that visits our areas say, “I had no idea you guys had so much fun here with the kids!”, or I’ve heard “I wish we did things like then when I was a kid!”
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.
We are weeks into the BEYOND project here at Trinity Church in Lubbock, TX. (I wrote about it a few weeks ago, you should go catch up HERE.) A big part of the plan has been to get the Vision, Mission, and Core Values of our church out there for everyone to hear. However, it’s been said a few 100 times over the past few weeks. I was looking for a creative way to get the word out without actually using any words.
If you follow this blog at all, then you should be aware that I periodically send video updates out to my volunteer team for training purposes. This video is one of my Unscripted videos, but I used it to creatively express our Vision, Mission, and Values at Trinity.
Well, what do you think? Does it express our Mission, Vision, and Core Values?
I love this entry from the Jesus Storybook Bible. May we remember God’s Big Surprise for us this weekend and beyond.
Matthew 28:6 “He is not here; for he is risen, even as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
Ephesians 1:7 “in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,”
