Yes, I am still trying to find a template that fits me. I am a rather serious guy (in my mind) although others find me amusing. Odd Right? Anyways … so this template will allow me to get crazy at times and yet be serious. This is my serious time …. currently the photo above (in the template) is a photo I took last week downtown. Beautiful shot of the Museum on the edge of the beautiful lake.

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Tonight’s Meeting was great. Once a month all the staff in KidZone gets together and spends an hour in prayer for the children of the world. Tonight we specially prayed for parents and families to raise their children in homes that are Godly and sound. Kids hear that they are to walk in love and then go home to hear arguing and fighting for three days until the next church service and the kids get confused. People needs to not only preach it but live it too.

Anyways … continuing on.

After our hour of prayer we got together for what we call vision training except tonight there wasn’t a training but rather a heart to heart talk with all the staff. Asking them how we can serve them or how we can help them. Also we discussed ideas and such that they have for KidZone. Our staff knows we are very personal and knows that there voice matters so tonight was great because we were able to brain storm some great ideas and some changes we are going to incorporate into the KidZone ministry.

So excited about whats happening in Milwaukee, WI.

Check out this video. I was forwarded this from my mother today. I watched the video and need to do some further research but just watching the video concerned me a lot. Anyone know anything about this?

Oprah’s new online class covering Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth is exposed. They conducted the first mass trance. Over 2 Million participated in this new age class, a new book Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid uncovers shocking truths that must be shared.

Ok you all …. last night I learned a very valuable lesson. That lesson is to stay hydrated. I didn’t even realize I was dehydrated until I about passed out during kids praise and worship. We were giving God everything we had last night and as I was singing, jumping, shouting I suddenly got super dizzy and white and had to quickly sit down for a bit and pump some water in my system. I am so glad that I didn’t pass out in front of the kids. So glad as that would have been horrible.

Lesson learned though. DRINK LOTS OF WATER WHEN MINISTERING!!! I didn’t know I was dehydrated at all but because of the amount of activity that was going on I quickly dried up. lol So always keep a bottle of water near you when ministering and the day you are ministering drink a lot of liquids cause they can quickly diminish if you are truly giving God all you have.

So I got up yesterday only to find out that I had contracted ringworm …. and to make it worst it’s on my chin/neck. So … taking some medication for it … hope it clears fast. I don’t know where I got it from. The only thing we can think of is that a child in kidzone might have had it and hugged my neck. That’s the only place we can think it came from. None the less, parents are all getting a letter tonight explaining that there was an outbreak and to check their children. Sigh ….

Update: Sunday April 6th. The ringworm is pretty much gone. Praise God!

I want to urge you all to be your best at all times. I know that sounds cliche but I believe that some of us are missing the mark. We get so tied up programs that we don’t reach the heart of the child. The children need to be reached. I have ministered to thousands and thousands of children over the last 13 years and have had many leave service without being reached because I was to stuck on entertaining (or the program) and not on the voice of God.

Let me share a story with you. I was teaching a “PROGRAMED” lesson the fruits of the spirit one night and there was an eight year that had been coming for sometime. His parents recently joined the church and were on fire for God but this child just didn’t fit with the rest of the kids. He wanted skate board while the others wanted to play tag. He wanted to play while others wanted to hear the Word.

God spoke to me and told me not to be programed but I didn’t ask for understanding as I thought He was talking about my life … not the way I run the ministry. That night I ran the service like always. Basically a night of entertainment and the Word but not a night of personal communication.

The boy wasn’t there the next week nor the week after that. I went to his mom and ask if he was ok and she said, he feels he doesn’t fit and that God made him weird. He was caught this week with smoking. We tried to talk him into coming to service but he won’t come. He is mad at God and feels God doesn’t care.

I went home and cried out before God. My heart was broken. I listened but didn’t ask for understanding. I taught but didn’t reach. We had church but didn’t have a connection to the heart.

The next service I pulled all the staff together and told them the situation and I explained we will never run a program again without reaching the children. Every time they minister their job is to listen and understand what God wants to do through them that night … not what the program says has to be done. Our services changed that night and now that I have moved on and to a different location under different leadership I still pray that every time I get up to minister that I touch the hearts of the kids. EVERYONE of them. I understand that that service be the only service, the only time that they can feel and understand the presence of God.

I urge you … don’t be stuck on denomination … don’t be stuck on a program …. don’t be stuck on your own ways … get stuck on God’s voice. Plug in to the right source. No one ever comes by mistake but we can make a mistake by not supplying them with what they need when they come.

A few weeks later, I was still teaching on the fruits of the spirit. The kids were all to wear gold. I don’t even remember what the lesson was suppose to be on but I do remember that I was struggling to prepare for the lesson. It was a Wednesday night (the night I was suppose teach the program) and I was driving home praying that God would grant me the understanding of how to bring the set program to the kids. I had been praying all week for an understanding of how to minister the program to the kids but nothing was coming. I was getting frustrated. I went into the classroom and we did praise and worship. After praise and worship I went up to minister and I stared at the program. God said no, tell them …….. and He went on to speak through.

That night I taught the kids that they are golden to Him. That their praises are made perfect. That He wants an intimate relationship with each of them. He would never hurt them, would never touch them inappropriately, never lie to them, never swear at them. As I was teaching, the kids started praying, some kids stood with their hands raised towards heaven praying from their heart, while others just sat and wept. The presence of God was so strong the kids started falling on the their faces before God. Some couldn’t even stand up. That night many of the children accepted a PERSONAL relationship with God. Many were filled with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. I could have just taught the programmed lesson but I surrendered my heart and my mouth over to God and He was able to speak through me and minister.

I did not tell you all of this to build me up in any way. I feel that God wants me to tell you all don’t be stuck on the program … be stuck on His voice. Lives could be at stake and someday you will have to give an account.