February 2010
5 posts
Conversations at 3:00 A.M.
Back to my nervous breakdown , I did what anyone else does that thinks they are having one: I ignored it. The “ignore it plan”worked for awhile, but then the 3:00 a.m. wake up calls started. For two weeks I would wake up at 3:00 a.m. and think “non-profit foundation”. Now, I am a very sound sleeper and nothing wakes me up. The house could be ON FIRE and I would sleep through it. ...
A Kidz Zone Story
A Kidz Zone Story I need to go back about five years to explain how The Matthew Initiative came to be. Five years ago I found myself the new Children’s ministries director of a big white church in Roswell Ga. However, they had a problem. Their children’s program was tanking; 187 kids on a good Sunday in a church of 7000 is not good news. However, the new parents were excited about a new...
On a beautiful fall afternoon
I will never forget the exact spot I had gotten to on my afternoon walk through our neighborhood when the searing thought first came into my mind: A non-profit children’s ministries foundation. I will never forget the overwhelming surge of emotion that came with the thought, and I began to think, “I am having a nervous breakdown, and this is the start of it.”
Although I am in...
“Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,...”
– Matthew 19:14 