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The Book of Hebrews: 13 Weeks of FREE Children’s Church Lessons

CMUO — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:05:15 +0000

Greetings Friends and Students!

Christmas is a busy time with church programs and family gatherings. Remember this year to take some time to relax with your loved ones. The elves here at our workshop have been busy this Christmas season creating more helps for you in your ministry to children. You will find at cmuo.com/resources a series of lessons we’ve prepared for use in children’s church. Check out our podcast at childrensministrytalk.com and have a great holiday. I found a fabulous item at onewaystreet.com called the Bible Story Bag. They have about a dozen to choose from including the Christmas Story and the Wordless Bag. I have used these both and always get good response form children and adult workers.

January is just around the bend. I hope that some of you will find me at CPC in Nashville. I’ll be the tall guy wearing red Chuck Taylors. (Those are shoes). I am also participating in the Assemblies of God Potomac and Penn-Del Districts children’s ministries retreats as well as the North American Children’s Ministries Conference. I look forward to meeting you in my travels.

God bless and quit putting off that continuing education. The cost has never been cheaper nor the information delivered more practical than what we offer at CMUO.com. Take a look and sign up for classes this new year.

Now to close in the words of Tiny Tim, “God bless us, everyone.”

His servant, your servant,

Evangel Art: FREE Reproducible Art for Children’s Ministries

CMUO — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:23:45 +0000

As a loyal subscriber to the CMUO e-News list, I wanted you to be among the first to learn of the reproducible children’s ministry art that I’ve created, compiled, and am making available as a FREE download! That’s right…this resource that includes years worth of my cartoon-style drawings is available for FREE!

Dick Gruber’s Evangel Art: Reproducible Art for Children’s Ministries is offered for FREE and includes:

over 40 evangel pages
385 picture words
124 scripture pictures

All artwork is provided in .jpg format and can be easily incorporated into any word processing, desktop publishing, or presentation software. To request a free download of Evangel Art, simply complete the download request form at www.cmuo.com/resources/evangelart. You will then receive an email with more details for downloading your free copy.

2008 promises to be one of the most exciting years yet for CMUO as we will be releasing the final remaining courses for the 1 year certificate program as well as several additional elective courses. Stay tuned to the CMUO e-News list for more details!

We’re also looking forward to our first-of-its kind Live Interational Training Experience that we are calling CMUO LITE. You can either join us on the campus of Valley Forge Christian College or online for this unique conference event to be held October 9-11, 2008. We’ve got a fabulous lineup of general session speakers scheduled, including David Boyd, Dale VonSeggen, and Jim Wideman and you’ll also be able to choose from over 30 other breakout sessions. For complete details, visit www.cmuolite.com. To take advantage of the early-bird registration discount, make sure to register before May 1st.

We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you online or in-person in 2008!

Evangel Art: FREE Reproducible Art for Children's Ministries

CMUO — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:12:18 +0000

Dick Gruber’s Evangel Art: Reproducible Art for Children’s Ministries is offered for FREE and includes:

over 40 evangel pages
385 picture words
124 scripture pictures

We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you online or in-person in 2008!

New FREE Children's Ministry Podcast

CMUO — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:03:58 +0000

Jason Rhode and I are excited to announce a new children’s ministry podcast that we are calling “Children’s Ministry Talk.” While still very much still in the formative stages, this podcast will be talkshow style in which we look forward to providing encouragement for children’s ministry leaders, by children’s ministry leaders, on all things children’s ministry.

So…how exactly will we accomplish this goal? Well…we really want this podcast to be very much listener-driven and reallly be interactive. Every episode will be totally FREE and be filled with practical ideas, advice, and encouragement for anyone ministering to children. We want you….the listener…to contact us with questions or comments on anything related to children’s ministry. Also, we’d love any suggestions that you’d have for the “ultimate children’s ministry podcast.”

There are lots of convenient ways for you to contact us, all of which are posted at childrensministrytalk.com.

We plan to regularly have guests join us on-air to discuss various children’s ministry topics. Who knows…maybe you’ll have opportunity to join us on the air! More details are sure to come as we continue fleshing things out. Right now, we’re planning for offering a new 15-20 minute episode every 2 weeks.

In the meantime, we want to hear from you! Specifically, what questions do you have that you’d like us to talk about? Is there a topic that has been addressed in one of the CMUO courses that you’d like us to expand upon? Or, is there a situation that you are facing in your children’s ministry that you’d like some advice on how to address? You name it…we want to hear from you on it. We look forward to hearing from you, either via email, phone, etc. Let your voice be heard and get in touch! Complete details for contacting us with your questions, comments, ideas, or suggestions are at childrensministrytalk.com.

You don’t need an iPod or any fancy device to enjoy podcasts. You can listen to them for free either online or on your computer. And, if you do happen to have a porable media player like an iPod, you can certainly also listen to podcasts wherever you want. The CMUO course “Advanced Web Communications” provides an opportunity to learn a lot more about podcasting and even the chance to learn how to create your own podcast. More details about this course and to sign-up are at http://www.cmuo.com/admissions®istration/coursedescriptions.htm

We look forward to receiving your emails and voice comments as well as bringing you the next episode soon. Also, consider helping us spread the word about this new podcast by sharing it with others. All the details for subscribing so you don’t miss a single episode are available at childrensministrytalk.com.

New FREE Children’s Ministry Podcast

CMUO — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:25:35 +0000

Jason Rhode and I are excited to announce a new children’s ministry podcast that we are calling “Children’s Ministry Talk.” While still very much still in the formative stages, this podcast will be talkshow style in which we look forward to providing encouragement for children’s ministry leaders, by children’s ministry leaders, on all things children’s ministry.

There are lots of convenient ways for you to contact us, all of which are posted at childrensministrytalk.com.

You don’t need an iPod or any fancy device to enjoy podcasts. You can listen to them for free either online or on your computer. And, if you do happen to have a porable media player like an iPod, you can certainly also listen to podcasts wherever you want. The CMUO course “Advanced Web Communications” provides an opportunity to learn a lot more about podcasting and even the chance to learn how to create your own podcast. More details about this course and to sign-up are at http://www.cmuo.com/admissions®istration/coursedescriptions.htm

Help is on the Way! Recruiting and Keeping Substitute Staff

CMUO — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:37:01 +0000

One of the biggest challenges in ministry for children’s pastors and leaders is finding enough workers. Without a good staff of teachers and assistants we can’t accomplish all that God has called us to do in our ministry to children. Yet, finding qualified people can be a real challenge.

One solution to this ongoing challenge is to develop a substitute staff of teachers and assistants. In this FREE workshop, veteran children’s pastor and CMUO instructor Verda Rubottom discusses how to recruit substitute teachers and workers and how to can keep them.

View this FREE workshop by clicking here or going to http://www.cmuo.com/workshops/help.

Are you interested in taking your children’s ministry to the next level? Consider enrolling in a CMUO course today! New CMUO courses begin monthly, so you can sign-up and begin your journey toward expanding your children’s ministry skills anytime, anywhere. Complete details are online at http://www.cmuo.com/details.

New Blogging and Social Networking Tool for CMUO Learners

CMUO — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:32:06 +0000

CMUO is proud to announce the beta release of CMUOnet, the new personal learning landscape for CMUO. CMUOnet is a hybrid of weblogging, e-portfolios and social networking, allowing distance education children’s ministry learners and instructors to meet both socially and academically. For the first time, CMUO learners are able to meet fellow students, either online or face-to-face, without invading their privacy through the formation of learning and ministry communities. Learners in self-paced CMUO courses are no longer limited to meeting and building networks with just the students within the course(s) they are enrolled in, but now have access to the entire CMUO community.

Users of CMUOnet have a blog and digital repository of files and RSS feeds that can be either private, shared within communities of other CMUOnet users, or made available to the public. No advanced technical skills are necessary! Users will have total control over what content they’d like to share with others and what communities they’d like to join or create. And…the best part of CMUOnet…it is FREE to past and present CMUO learners.

Interested in finding out more about CMUOnet? Complete details are provided at: http://www.cmuo.com/cmuonet. If you are currently enrolled in a CMUO course or you have completed a course in the past, you can sign-up for an account and get started using CMUOnet today!

Or, maybe you’ve considered taking a children’s ministry training course through CMUO but you’ve not yet taken the first step to getting started…there’s no better time than right now to apply to CMUO and try out a course! Applying is quick & easy at: http://www.cmuo.com/apply. And, once you begin your first course, you’ll be able to begin using CMUOnet to connect with other children’s ministry leaders as you sharpen your ministry skills.

CMUOnet is currently being offered in its beta format, so watch for continued improvements to the system in the future!

Keep Track of All Your Favorites

CMUO — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:30:40 +0000

Do you struggle to keep track of all your favorite children’s ministry websites and other online resources? Have you ever lost your folder of bookmarks in your Web browser or wished you could access them from ANY computer? Have you been looking for a free and easy-to-use tool for not only bookmarking your own children’s ministry favorite websites, but other online favorites? And, what if you could share your favorite children’s ministry bookmarks with others?

If your answer to any of the above questions is “Yes” then look no further than http://www.cmbookmarks.com!

Powered by the popular bookmarking tool del.icio.us, cmbookmarks.com is a brand new FREE resource site sponsored by CMUO that serves as a directory of children’s ministry websites and resources that have been bookmarked by others. Bookmarks can be easily searched by topic (aka: “tag”) or keyword. And, anyone can contribute to the collection of bookmarks provided by simply applying a specific tag when bookmarking the site in a del.icio.us account. Don’t worry about loosing another bookmark to a website ever again!

Stop by www.cmbookmarks.com to find out more details. Instructions are provided on how to setup a
href=”http://del.icio.us”>free del.icio.us account to begin bookmarking your favorites for access from any other computer with an Internet connection as well as to begin sharing your favorite CM bookmarks with others. If you happen to find this service helpful, please spread the word and consider adding a link from your website or blog to cmbookmarks.

God bless and happy bookmarking!