Sarah's been helping two years now. Amazing with kids. Always shows up. Great ideas. But she still asks permission for everything. "Can I change this activity?" "Should I handle this differently?" "Is it okay if..." Driving me crazy. Want her take ownership

So I'm sitting in my car in the church parking lot last Sunday, frantically googling "Bible stories for kids" because I completely blanked when Sarah's mom cornered me after service. She wanted to know which stories her seven-year-old should really know, and I just

So I'm trying to teach about God creating the world and the kids are just staring at me like I'm speaking ancient Greek or something. Marcus is picking at his shoe. Emma's braiding her friend's hair. Tyler's making weird faces

So I'm standing in middle of our VBS disaster last summer and everything that could go wrong is going wrong. Craft supplies never got delivered. Sound system's making weird screeching noises. Three volunteers called in sick. Two kids are crying because they can't find

Been trying figure out how thank volunteers without spending money we don't have. Our budget's basically nothing. Maybe fifty bucks month if we're lucky. Can't do fancy dinners or expensive gifts like big churches. But volunteers work their butts off. Sarah shows

This puppet's been sitting our supply closet forever. Ugly orange thing someone donated years ago. Always thought puppets were dumb. Last month I'm totally bombing this honesty lesson. Kids picking noses staring ceiling. One fell asleep. Grabbed that stupid orange puppet out of desperation. Made up

Found myself refereeing a heated argument between two eight-year-olds about the "right" way to build a human pyramid yesterday. Apparently Tyler thought Emma was doing it wrong. Emma thought Tyler was being bossy. Neither of them wanted to compromise. So much for building teamwork through fun games. But

So I'm sitting in this planning meeting and someone goes "We should do game night for families!" Everyone's nodding like this is brilliant idea and I'm thinking oh great another event I gotta plan that nobody will come to. But then Sarah

Mark starts helping with our 5th graders last month. Really nice guy wants help. First Sunday hand him this packet. Like fifteen pages. Volunteer handbook safety policies behavior management curriculum overview emergency procedures. Everything. Next week shows up looking like I hit him with truck. Admits didn't read