No need to give much response here, other than it is easy to make a connection to what we do as educators and what Dr. / Pastor Randy is doing at Christ's Community Church. Enjoy the material below!
Approx time spent in email conversations = writing, reading, responding = 2 hours
Thanks Carter,
An interesting side note……
I was able to have numerous conversations with folks after the program. The guests I talked with were very affirming of our program. The interesting twist occurred when at some point in the conversation they “figured out” that my role here was larger than a crazy children’s program staff person. They would ask…..are you the pastor here? Somewhat incredulously. After I replied with a yes. They responded with a variation on “awesome, wow, that is really cool that you would do this for the kids’.
One staff person overheard two guests talking….these were non church types from the community…..”Did you know that the crazy professor guy is the lead pastor of this church?” “Really?? That is righteous!” (as in way cool …not as in he must be really holy) And then ……”imagine what church services hear must be like….we gotta come sometime!”
Truth be told it isn’t about getting folks into church…..it is about valuing kids. There is something about a lead pastor….or principal…..engaging in out of the box behavior for the sake of kids that communicated to parents “kids really matter here”. And frankly they do! Kids are not the future of the church, they are the present. I don’t want kids….or adults…to ever think that “someday when they grow up these kids could be assets to this church. The reality is that they are assets NOW and they need to be treated as such….even if it means donning a lab coat and dying ones hair!
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