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Your Guide to Hosting a Successful Adult Coloring Night at Your Church
Do you want to host a successful adult coloring night at your church? In this post, we’ll profile a church that has used Illustrated Ministry’s coloring posters and hosted two successful adult coloring nights. EXCLUSIVE CONTENT: Don’t have time to read this post right now? Want to download a resource guide that you can read later or share at your next staff meeting? Interested in three free coloring sheets? Click here to download your FREE resource guide and three coloring sheets. I think it’s safe to say that the adult coloring craze is still a thing. Bookstores and publishers had predicted it would…
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A Fun Children’s Activity for a Mexico Mission Trip
Are you looking for a fun children’s activity for a Mexico mission trip? Not quite feeling like packing a huge amount of craft supplies; you know, all those googly eyes, pipe cleaners and glitter? Side note: can we just go on record and say that Illustrated Ministry is not a fan of glitter? Well, at least Adam isn’t. Why not take down some large coloring posters that your youth group can color with the children you’ll be ministering to? We shared before about how the Hope Lutheran Church (Fresno, CA) used their coloring posters on their mission trip to Mexicali, and we wanted…
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Luke 14:1, 7-14 Illustrated Children’s Moment & Worship Activity Sheet
This item is no longer available to be purchased individually. We are in the process of putting these Illustrated Worship Resources up onto our store, and when the process is complete, we will link to where you can purchase this as part of a complete set of illustrations and worship bulletins from texts that line up with the Revised Common Lectionary for the summer of 2016. Until then, you can browse our other Illustrated Worship Resources here.
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Jeremiah 1:4-10 Illustrated Children’s Moment & Worship Activity Sheet
This item is no longer available to be purchased individually. We are in the process of putting these Illustrated Worship Resources up onto our store, and when the process is complete, we will link to where you can purchase this as part of a complete set of illustrations and worship bulletins from texts that line up with the Revised Common Lectionary for the summer of 2016. Until then, you can browse our other Illustrated Worship Resources here.
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Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Illustrated Children’s Moment & Worship Activity Sheet
This item is no longer available to be purchased individually. We are in the process of putting these Illustrated Worship Resources up onto our store, and when the process is complete, we will link to where you can purchase this as part of a complete set of illustrations and worship bulletins from texts that line up with the Revised Common Lectionary for the summer of 2016. Until then, you can browse our other Illustrated Worship Resources here.
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Luke 12:32-40 Illustrated Children’s Moment & Worship Activity Sheet
This item is no longer available to be purchased individually. We are in the process of putting these Illustrated Worship Resources up onto our store, and when the process is complete, we will link to where you can purchase this as part of a complete set of illustrations and worship bulletins from texts that line up with the Revised Common Lectionary for the summer of 2016. Until then, you can browse our other Illustrated Worship Resources here.
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Luke 12:13-21 Illustrated Children’s Moment & Worship Activity Sheet
This item is no longer available to be purchased individually. We are in the process of putting these Illustrated Worship Resources up onto our store, and when the process is complete, we will link to where you can purchase this as part of a complete set of illustrations and worship bulletins from texts that line up with the Revised Common Lectionary for the summer of 2016. Until then, you can browse our other Illustrated Worship Resources here.
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Luke 11:1-13 Illustrated Children’s Moment & Worship Activity Sheet
This item is no longer available to be purchased individually. We are in the process of putting these Illustrated Worship Resources up onto our store, and when the process is complete, we will link to where you can purchase this as part of a complete set of illustrations and worship bulletins from texts that line up with the Revised Common Lectionary for the summer of 2016. Until then, you can browse our other Illustrated Worship Resources here.
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Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Your Church is a PokeStop
“Our church is a PokeStop? What?!” Before we go any further, let me be upfront and tell you that I know next to nothing about Pokémon. I never traded Pokémon cards, played the game or watched the show…nothing. Until now. So as I’ve been running around town the past couple days, throwing Poké Balls at Pokémon and trying to CATCH THEM ALL, walking to PokeStops and losing badly at Gyms…I’ve had no idea what I was doing. If you haven’t heard of Pokémon GO, I’m honestly not sure what to say to you. Perhaps you’ve been off the grid for the…
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Rule #2: Don’t Be an Asshat: An Official Handbook for Raising Parents and Children
Rule #2: Don’t Be an Asshat: An Official Handbook for Raising Parents and Children is a new parenting book written by Bruce Reyes-Chow and Robin Pugh. Robin is an instructor at City College of San Francisco and Bruce is a pastor and author. If you’re looking for a fun book about raising kids, written by two parents who have raised three wonderful daughters, this is a good book to pick up. As they will mention below, Rule #2: Don’t Be an Asshat is not a Christian book on parenting and not one that you’d find in a Christian bookstore (store owners probably wouldn’t…
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Announcing the Illustrated Ministry Video Contest
Today, we are excited to announce the Illustrated Ministry Video Contest! Over 145 people have purchased our Illustrated Earth curriculum, and over 175 orders came in for our Illustrated Earth posters. We’ve seen some of the photos you’ve all been sharing, and we are so excited that both the posters and the curriculum have been received so well. But we know there are many others out there who have yet to share about their experiences with our products, whether they are using our new Illustrated Earth resources, or they used something from Lent or Advent. We are also interested in creating some…
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Illustrated Ministry believes #blacklivesmatter
It’s been an incredibly difficult past week. First the killing of Alton Sterling, then Philando Castile, and then the killing of Dallas police officers during a Black Lives Matter peaceful protest. As I’m sure many of you have experienced, it’s easy to feel paralyzed with fear and a sense of a total loss of control. What is happening to our world? I’m sure that many children’s moments yesterday were filled with conversations about what was happening in the world. If you addressed #blacklivesmatter or any of the recent shootings, I’d love to hear how you did it and what you…