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What our Kids are Searching

// March 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Thanks to Matthew Guevava for this post…

As a children’s pastor, I am always looking for resources related to the way kids interact in the digital world. Recently OnlineFamily.Norton, a background computer program that shows that your children are doing online, released a fascinating report on the most popular search terms for kids 13-18, 8-12, and 7 & under.

Here are the top four search terms for ages 8-12:
1) Youtube
2) Google
3) Facebook
4) Sex

Here are the top four search terms for ages 7&under:
1) Youtube
2) Google
3) Facebook
4) Porn

Highlights from the research (quoted from the report):

Kids under the age of seven spend most of their search time online on games (23%).*
Kids under the age of seven are conducting searches for P2P sites like Limewire and Mininova.
Boys’ top 25 search terms were mainly comprised of social networking sites, various websites, shopping sites, inappropriate terms, and games.
Girls’ top 25 search terms were main comprised of social networking sites, as well as music and entertainment/celebrity terms.
Top celebs on kids’ list of searches include Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Lil Wayne, Megan Fox, Eminem, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Black Eyed Peas, Jonas Brothers, Rihanna, and Chris Brown.

What do you think? Are you surprised?

Legacy Video

// February 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Check out the video to the right of our Legacy video

Getting the Word Out

// February 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

After talking with our Kingwood Kids leaders this past week about new direction and goals for this year I came across this cool post from a guy named Seth Godin.

Here is Seth’s post and I quote:

“In the face of significant change and opportunity, people are often one of the three. If you’re going to be of assistance, it helps to know which one.

Uninformed people need information and insight in order to figure out what to do next. They are approaching the problem with optimism and calm, but they need to be taught. Uninformed is not a pejorative term, it’s a temporary state.

Clueless people don’t know what to do and they don’t know that they don’t know what to do. They don’t know the right questions to ask. Giving them instructions is insufficient. First, they need to be sold on what the platform even looks like.

And frightened people will resist any help you can give them, and they will blame you for the stress the change is causing. Scared people like to shoot the messenger. Duck.

The worst kind of frightened person is one with power. Someone in a mob of other frightened people, someone with a gun, someone who is the CEO. When confronted with a scared CEO, time to run. Before someone can change, they have to learn, and before they learn, they have to cease being scared.

One reason so many big ideas come from small organizations is that there is far less fear of change at the top. One mistake board members and shareholders make is that they reward the scared but hyper-confident CEO, instead of calling him on the carpet as he rages at change.

When I first encountered surfing, I was scared of it. It looks cool, but an old guy like me can get hurt. A patient instructor allayed my fears until I was willing to get started. When you first start out, the things you think are important are actually irrelevant, and it’s the stuff you don’t know is important that gets you thrown into the ocean. Finally, and only then, was I smart enough to actually learn.

I’m bad at surfing now, but at least I know why.

Comfort the frightened, coach the clueless and teach the uninformed.”

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So what do you think?

Do you see this in your area of ministry??