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Sitting here at 11:47 PM on Saturday night frantically googling "Bible lesson plans for kindergarteners" because I completely forgot to prep anything for tomorrow morning. This is my life apparently. Professional children's ministry leader who can't remember to plan lessons until the last

Last Christmas I made huge mistake. Planned this elaborate party with all these activities I found on Pinterest. Looked amazing online. Took me hours to prep everything. Kids show up and they're basically bored out of their minds within fifteen minutes. Games were too complicated. Instructions took forever.

So I'm telling the story of David and Goliath last month and I can see kids' eyes glazing over. Same old same old. Standing there talking while they sit there trying not to fidget. Then Emma raises her hand goes "Can we act it out instead?

So committee meeting last month and someone goes "We should do family movie night! Families love watching movies together!" I'm sitting there thinking sure sounds simple enough. Show movie. People watch. How hard could it be? Turns out way harder than just pressing play and hoping

Marcus threw his rainbow at my face yesterday and told me God sucks. Just stood there with paint dripping off my glasses thinking what the hell am I even doing with my life. Kid's seven. His rainbow looked like someone barfed crayons but honestly most second grader art

I'm looking at our volunteer group text and it's literally just me barking orders at people. "VBS meeting Tuesday." "Someone grab construction paper." "Who's covering for Jessica?" Like I'm their boss or something. No wonder nobody

So I'm watching kids during prayer time last Sunday and half of them are fidgeting. Quarter of them staring at ceiling. Rest look like they're planning their escape. Made me realize traditional "bow your heads close your eyes" prayer isn't working for

So I'm sitting in staff meeting and pastor goes "Kids need to learn about serving others. Let's plan service project for them." I'm nodding along thinking sounds great in theory until realize he's looking at me like I'm

Staring at my computer screen right now wondering how I created this monster. It's supposed to be a volunteer schedule. Started as simple spreadsheet with names and dates. Now it has seventeen tabs, color coding I can't remember the meaning of, and formulas that break if