Tag Archive - Adventure Week

Adventure Week 2010: Buccaneer Bay

July 6, 2010 in Family Ministry 0

So this week, I’m finally going to get to my “VBS” posts or as we like to call our VBS on steroids at Brookwood, Adventure Week. It’s always a blast and I can’t wait to cover some of the topics that are somewhat controversial in the church world. Especially talking about them on cmconnect.org. Just so you know a little bit about our program:

  • This is our third year of Adventure Week.
  • We had over 650 kids and 250 volunteers this year.
  • We have a program from 9am-2pm with options for before and after care.
  • We charge kids to attend.
  • We provide meals, crafts, t-shirts, and lots of other fun stuff
  • This year we raised money for Haiti.

And there are lots of other goodies as well. I love talking about this big win for us and this week I’ll tell you a little bit about what we do, but I’m really excited to hear about what your church does for VBS as well. So stay tuned for a super fun series on a big #kidmin topic.

Brookwood Church’s Adventure Week starts today!!

June 14, 2010 in Family Ministry 1

Our Week long Adventure Week/VBS/Day Camp for kids starts today! I’m pumped. We’ve got a few kids and volunteers that will be here this week.

I plan to post a little bit about our Adventure Week Philosophy and hope to talk about some of the things mentioned in a cmconnect forum mentioning VBS Alternatives, Paying for VBS, and Does VBS still work? I’m sure it will be an interesting discussion for sure.

But with all the fun things that we talk about I hope that you will join us in prayer this week. Pray that kids experience life in Christ as they go thru this week with a volunteer, and that for this week they will associate Church and fun together.

Those are the two goals that we have for this week. And we’ve done a lot to accomplish these goals, but nothing happens without God intervening. Pray that He does and the glory ONLY goes to Him.

Completely Exhausted

June 19, 2009 in Family Ministry, Life 2

I am completely exhausted right now. Incredibly awesome week but incredibly awesomely exhausted. Luckily I can relax for a few days with absolutely no work to do. It’s pretty awesome. I am pretty excited to get back into the blog world as well.

I’ve missed it and I’m sure ya missed me too ;)

Swamp Stomp Trailer

June 15, 2009 in Family Ministry, Tech 3

So we just finished the first day of BrookwoodKiDs Swamp Stomp. I wanted to post this in the morning but I got caught up doing other things. Imagine that on the day of your biggest summer event! Anyway here is a preview of what our kids will be experiencing this week!

Cluttered Desk

June 1, 2009 in Life 0

IMG_0264, originally uploaded by jcisonline.

Alright here is why I haven’t been blogging much over the last three or four weeks…

My desk is a mess. In about two weeks we will have had an 800 person Adventure Week event and a couple days to rest right before Summer Camp at Centri-Kid Ridgecrest, NC. Some of you might be thinking this is cleaner than your desk right now and that might be true but I generally keep a pretty sweet and clean workspace.

So I’ve got some stuff on the docket but I’m also developing some content for you guys…

  • Some edgy decorating tips for your children’s areas.
  • A before and after look at our Upper Elementary Worship Areas
  • A Motion 3 tutorial that will show you a write on technique for illustration

But I want to know from you all if there is anything out there that is on your mind? Is there something that I might be able to help you with in your area of expertise.

I know it’s like a deadly blogger sin to let readers dictate your content in any shape or form but I’m feeling spicy so gimme what ya got.

So I’m pretty excited a few things!

February 5, 2009 in Life 0

  • First day of filming for Adventure Week 2009. It will be incredible!
  • Orange Conference is coming! If you are going let me know what you are most excited about.
  • I’m excited to get to hang out with our CM staff and the SM staff at Brookwood and not be in a work environment (and worship together!)
  • Getting ready to write some stuff for our Easter Curriculum.
  • First Valentine’s Day with my wife as a married man! (Can’t wait Kristen!)

Searching for Props today….

January 15, 2009 in Family Ministry 0

We are going to a prop company today to begin some of our planning for Adventure Week 2009. I’m pretty excited about what we might find. We are looking for swamp related things, maybe a shed, spanish moss, boats stuff like that. We are pretty stinking excited about what God is going to do this year through our Adventure Week program and are looking forward to the impact it makes on these kids through worship and learning about God’s word.

Big things happening. I feel a little under the weather today so pray for me some while I try and get better for a little trip my wife and I are taking.

Things I’ve thought about over the past week

October 15, 2008 in Family Ministry, Lead 1

  • Not who is the best candidate for our President, but who is the least best for Prez (I can’t come up with the best.
  • How in the heck the Cowboys all got injured. (good thing I’m not a Cowboys fan.)
  • Millions of things running through my head about Catalyst.
  • How will Roy Willliams and T.O. work together? (Can you say pushups in the driveway?)
  • The Tampa Bay Rays are destroying the Red Sox. How?
  • Is there a question in Children’s Ministry that if answered would totally change how Children’s Ministry works? (maybe large group & small group isn’t the best format?)
  • My wife and I are thinking of a trip in Jan. and I can’t decide where to go. She won a trip in Feb.
  • Which book to read next? (Culture Making, Visioneering, Tribes, or 7 spiritual disciplines)
  • Ready for Adventure Week planning coming up in a couple of months.

Incredible night tonight

September 3, 2008 in Family Ministry, Lead 0

Tonight was the official opening of our student/recreation facility at Brookwood Church in Simpsonville, SC. There were more teens than I have seen at Brookwood ever. The worship was great and the message was awesome. It was cool to see the dream and vision that my student ministry have fleshed out at Brookwood.

Josh Bradley and Mike Hepola are doing amazing things and reaching teens for Christ. I can’t wait to see how God uses this facility in the lives of not only the teens but everyone that participates there. Awesome, Awesome time. Made me think of Adventure Week again. How big a step is this.

H   U   G   E

I’m out time to hang with my wifey!

A lot to learn

July 31, 2008 in Family Ministry, Lead 0

As Ned said to me earlier this week, “For all the times we get to slime kids and ride on a segway, we have to do things like this” He was talking about some of the things that you don’t hear about often. (of course it depends on who your pastor is, how often you hear about them).

The negative emails, the interesting phone calls, the people that don’t want to serve, and the people that could care less if you fell off of the face of the earth. It’s the side of ministry that I am just beginning to get accustomed to. I am learning to love difficult people and more than that learn that not everything is always so rosy for everyone.

I definitely couldn’t imagine before I started working in ministry how dejected you will fill after you put your life into something and someone couldn’t stand it for some reason. It is honestly a terrible feeling. But I say all of this in order to encourage and challenge you to do something.

This past week at Adventure Week I got numerous letters from children, thanking Hanz and Franz for the fun times and thanked us for exploding things. We had numerous encouraging emails from first time people, staff members, and parents expressing their thanks. How often do we do this for our staff? For all of the terrible, no-fun emails there should be a number of encouraging ones. I challenge you today, write an encouraging email to a staffer at your church. Tell them how thankful you are for their service.

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