Faith@Home
This category is devoted to ideas and strategies focused on how faith is lived out in the home.
Instagram for Parents
This is an excellent article for parents about Instagram: Parents: A Word about Instagram by Sarah Brooks One of the volunteers at my church who works with our middle and high school girls sent me an article by her friend Sarah Brooks about Instagram. It is a well-written, insightful piece highlighting the spiritual, psychological and social dynamics at work in the lives of teenagers. Parents: A Word about Instagram by Sarah Brooks Share the link with your parents and teenagers. Related Posts Keeping Kids Safe Online Prescription Drugs and Teens Parent Resources Category
Intern Taxes
Do you pay taxes on the interns you hire for the summer or do you pay them as contract labor? One year I spent nearly $700 in taxes for one summer intern. The same amount we would pay an intern for two weeks of work is sent to the federal government simply because our interns are employees and not contract labor. It is attractive to treat interns as contract labor, but it is unlikely that you can do so legally. Ignorance of the legal distinctions may be bliss, but that bliss will only last until you get an IRS audit. The difference between an ...
Protecting Kids Online
My local police department is overwhelmed with predator cases involving minors. Predators are setting up dummy Facebook accounts, gaining access to hundreds of teens, luring them into chat rooms, scaring them into sharing videos and pictures and threatening them into silence. Children are victimized while parents and guardians are only feet away, under the same roof. Today is Internet Safety Day and Google has produced a number of videos for parents on their Tips from Parents at Google page. Here is the first video by Google Engineer, Vic Gundotra. We partnered with our local police department to present an Internet Safety Class ...
Youth Ministry Résumé
You need a résumé or you need a job, but not both. A résumé is a case for why you should have what you don't have. If you want a youth ministry job you need a résumé that demonstrates why you should have it. If a church wants a particular kind of youth minister they need a résumé and job description that is attractive to that kind of person. Advice for Youth Ministers Don't float your résumé unless you are looking for a job. Your résumé can help you find the job you want and lose the job you have. If you ...
Small Groups Cover a Multitude of Styles
"The sermons are relevant and I love my small group." Each year when I interview Abilene Christian University students for our intern position I hear some version of that phrase from the one's that attend the Beltway Park Baptist Church. While ten years ago I may have had 5% of the students I interviewed say that they attend Beltway, now I assume they attend Beltway unless otherwise specified. The small town of Abilene is littered with Church of Christ options for the Church of Christ college crowd. And yet, they have been increasingly choosing to attend this particular Baptist church. But ...
Best Practices
This area is devoted to creating excellence in every area of professional work with students in the church.
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