Matt Markins
@Markins
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CEO @Awana & Child Discipleship Forum / Author Forming Faith: Discipling the NextGen in a Post-Christian Culture & @BarnaGroup Childrens Ministry in New Reality
Nashville & Chicago
Joined July 2008
@Boethius1100 @Awana George, I'd like to encourage you to please show me one child lesson, or one training manual, or one training video, or one handbook page...that is any sort of evidence of your claim of wokeness. If you find it, I'd like to see it for myself. Please share.
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@Boethius1100 @Awana George, you may remember during Covid, the federal govt deployed special funding known as the PPP loan and/or the ERC credit. We received those. Both were forgiven. Beyond that, which was a once in a lifetime crisis occurrence, we do not receive federal funding.
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Me looking at the names of people trending on X the week after the super bowl and not having a clue who they are because they are NBA players. Magic. Larry. Jordan. That's about the extend of my NBA jam.
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@D6Family Check out what my son @WarrenMarkins did. Love this young man and am honored to be his friend and dad.
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@MrsCMFrancis I think the most we ever paid (my sons are 20 and 22) was like $400? This seems over the top to me. Certainly out of reach for a high percentage of families.
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RT @mycritter: Any other @Awana alumni wonder how we got from hopper, jumper, skipper, hiker, climber to Sparky hang gliding? Dude really s…
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What a remarkable moment, Nate! Thanks for sharing...so encouraging and special! (Our family prefers the ESV as well)
Today I am grateful for the ESV. Our 12 year old daughter with autism is significantly behind in her reading abilities. Family worship has been a challenge for many years because she cannot read the Bible with us. Sometimes she will read a sentence or two, and struggles with much of it, but typically doesn’t make it much further. My wife purchased the ESV’s Dyslexia Version since there can be overlap with Dyslexia and Autism learning disabilities. Tonight for family worship we sat down and our daughter read 9 verses out loud. This is the most by far she has ever attempted. Not only did she read out loud, she was able to recite many of the words that normally would be a struggle for her. It was incredible to hear my child who for several years has struggled to read a Bible with us be able to sit down as a family and watch her joyfully attempt to read far more than she ever has. I am tremendously grateful to @crossway for producing this Bible and pray that many more people will be able to make use of the Dyslexia Bible.
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@Natasha_Crain @Awana Beginning in 2024, we will be commissioning one of these annually. 2025's will be available when we are together in September at the CDF.
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@CatherineMcNiel @Awana The "tyipcal" U.S. church is obsessed w/ the church growth model (numerical growth). This model dominates "staff members time" with admin tasks & there is little time for relational discipleship of parents who say, "I don't disciple my kids cuz no one has ever shown me how." Sad
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@CatherineMcNiel @Awana Well, you are a bit of a rock star (so to speak). In our research we've discovered 4 groups of "church parents" and you are in the "highly engaged" group. With...or without the help from the church...you are gonna love, mentor, disciple your kids. May your tribe increase.
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Wow. The moral clarity here is outstanding. Clarity is kindness.
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