This post was written by Crystal Mazzuca, a member of the INCM Blog team. Can I be honest with you? Outreach overwhelms me. It often feels like I’m giving everything I have to help Sundays run smoothly, encourage and equip my volunteers, and partner with families to be intentional with discipleship at home. Add to […]
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This post was written by Kim Hudson, a member of the INCM Blog team. Connection. Community. Discipleship. We know how to make those connections when we welcome kids and their grownups in our buildings, but are we taking full advantage of discipling those same people Jesus entrusts us with outside of the four walls? Are
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This post was written by Mercedes Hayes, a member of the INCM Blog team. One of the beauties of ministry to children is the tapestry it creates from the loving people around them – grandparents, parents, foster parents, aunts, uncles, children, friends, and volunteers. From the beginning of creation, it has been God’s design for
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This post was written by Marta Cortez, a member of the INCM Blog team. Many of us went into ministry with the idea that a job serving Jesus on a church staff would be the ultimate utopia. We dreamed of ministering with people we could call “best friends” and ministering to people who were fully
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This post was written by Jeremy O’Neill, a member of the INCM Blog team. Last month I had the opportunity to teach a breakout at CPC called Stepping Into A Turnaround Situation. When we got to the topic of getting buy-in, I could tell that it resonated with the leaders in the room. I believe
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This post was written by Angie Hooie, a member of the INCM Blog team. Are there any other Type A personalities out there like me who want all the control? I didn’t think so… (Eyeroll.) I think I can do all the things and that I don’t need any help. I regularly think, “It will
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This blog was written by Crystal Mazzuca as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. It’s hard to imagine the conference center at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort as dark, quiet, and empty
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This blog was written by Cera Talamantes as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. I was in the confetti-filled conference room with happy and sad tears streaming
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This blog was written by Melissa Hendrickson as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. You can listen to the whole CPC22 playlist here on Spotify. Read these opening lyrics of the song
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This blog was written by Leann Woelk as part of the CPC22 Undivided Series. Our hope through these reflections by ministry leaders is that they would prepare your hearts to hear from God while you’re at CPC in person or CPC+ online. You can listen to the whole CPC22 playlist here on Spotify. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary one definition
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