Tag Archives: Letting Go of the Bike

I Have a Voice

You have likely heard Adele belt out her recent hit, Rolling in the Deep. But have you heard a ten-year-old sing it like this before? I work with preteens every week, yet I never expect them to break out into song, sounding like this. (And if the ten-year-old vocalist wasn’t enough, the other two musicians [...]

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9.5 Theses of Preteen Ministry

In honor of Reformation Day and Martin Luther’s iconic 95 Theses, below are my 9.5 Theses of Preteen Ministry: 1 – Have fun. When you teach, when you sing, when you do anything. Because they all want to. 2 – Be serious. When you teach, when you sing, when you do anything. Because they are all [...]

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How Do You Encourage Preteens to Grow and Develop [Guest Post by @Pastor_MattMo]

This post was originally published at mattmo.org. Ever since I came to Fellowship Bible Church to work with preteens, one of the things I’ve focused on is our strategy for letting go of the bike. If you haven’t heard the phrase “letting go of the bike”, I strongly encourage you to explore FourFiveSix.org a bit deeper and [...]

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Growing Up, Letting Go

If you’re reading this blog, you probably either work with kids/preteens/students, or have some of your own.  (Or else someone simply suckered you into clicking on a link on twitter/facebook.) Whatever the case, we all realize that life happens.  And we all realize that it happens quickly.  The whole “thousand years are like a day” [...]

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