Events & Activities

Sitting here with mud still caked under my fingernails from yesterday's outdoor disaster. Well, not disaster exactly. Kids had fun. But I'm questioning some life choices. Three months ago our outdoor worship night was this magical thing everyone's still talking about. Yesterday's

I used to think event success was simple. Count how many people showed up, subtract the number of major disasters, and if more good things happened than bad things, call it a win. Turns out measuring success is way more complicated than that. Also way more interesting. Last spring we

I'm sitting here looking at this pile of leftover flyers from our Halloween event. Spent probably two hours making them perfect. Nice colors, cute fonts, all the details lined up just right. Used maybe ten of them. The rest are going in the recycling bin with all my

So I'm sitting in my car in the church parking lot at 11 PM on a Thursday, picking dried glue stick residue off my jeans and wondering what on earth possessed me to think organizing a kids ministry talent show was a good idea. Three months ago, it

So I'm sitting in my office after another VBS disaster trying figure out where everything went wrong and Tom walks in goes "You know there's actual tools that help with this stuff right?" I'm like what do you mean tools? I got

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

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

So September hits and I'm already getting that sinking feeling because Halloween's coming and that means trunk-or-treat planning and I swear this event gonna kill me one year. Last year was complete disaster. Rain turned parking lot into mud pit. Half volunteers didn't show

November and I'm staring at calendar having mini panic attack because Christmas pageant is six weeks away and I got nothing. Actually that's lie. I got same tired Mary Joseph donkey wise men thing we been doing since church started. Kids rolling their eyes parents expecting