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E4:
To Encourage You
To Equip You
To Energize You
To Empower You

Empowering Kids
June 2008
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Greetings Everyone,

June is here and the beginning of Summer. Kids out of school, panic just around the corner. VBS, Summer Spectacular, camps and don't forget Christmas is just 6 months away (why did I say that?) With Summer quickly upon us make sure you spend time with your family. It's easy to spend all of our waking hours trying to "get through" summer with all the camps and various events that we have planned. Summer can be an opportune time to "drift" from family, from God and from friends. Take a moment today to schedule in those times with God. regular appointment times to meet with Him to develop that deeper and rich relationship.


Sit down with your spouse and schedule your vacation with the kids. Perhaps a couple of weekends away. Let's make sure our family relationships are strong at the beginning and at the end of summer. One last group we often forget, friends. Relationships take work and planned time so make sure you schedule some time with the friends in your life. One final thought for all the mom's out there.
Make sure that you have dad covered for Fathers day coming up in a few weeks. I have listed a few gift ideas for your convenience. Enjoy your June!

Craig


Bad Father's Day Gifts:
Tie (any tie)
Lawn tools
Oil Change for the car


Good Fathers Day Gifts:
Taylor Made R7 Golf clubs
Starbucks Card "loaded"
Scotty Cameron Newport Putter
(Actually these are my requests, my wife reads the E4 as well)




In This E4
:: LIQUID
:: HH Mission Trip
:: One Page Review
:: The Crescent Wrench
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Missions Trip
Team Leaves June 2oth



Follow our team as we serve in Taraz, Kazakhstan. We would appreciate your prayers during our travels!


One Page Book Review

Each month Craig does a review of a leadership book and writes a one page review here. This month Craig takes a look at Death By Meeting by Patrick Lencioni.

"Lencioni is one of my favorite authors. He writes in a parabolic story like way that brings his message and point to life." Craig


Death By Meeting


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Lencioni has a lot of meeting "tips" on his website. You can check it out here.

The Table Group
The Crescent Wrench
By: Craig Jutila

In light of Father's Day just around the corner I wanted to share some insights from a series I did a few years ago called BUILD. Within build we talked about tools that were useful for ministry, Leadership Tools. One of the tools I spent some time on was the Crescent Wrench. This is the Leadership Lesson notes I used.


The Crescent Wrench is an adjustable wrench which features a sliding jaw that changes the width of the wrench depending upon how wide your bolt is. It's called a "crescent" because of the shape of the head of the wrench is shaped like a crescent moon. The Crescent Wrench is a very useful and versatile tool that can be adapted to many situations and is a great substitute for having 100 wrenches in your took kit.



Attributes


1. It Tightens
Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you've got, be resolute,  1 Corinthians 16:13 MSG

What Can We Learn? Do you have an area of conviction that has recently become loose?
The Nuts And Bolts: Since beliefs fuel our behavior, convictions are key....

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Are you ready for FEAR KNOT? Or should I say, "Loosen The FEAR KNOT?" Check out this new series for your Nursery-Grade 6 children. This is an eight  week series with individual lessons for each age group in your Children's Ministry. Check out the Nursery-Age 3 DVD, the Pre-school DVD and the Elementary DVD. Each series comes with an electronic Family EnterAction Guide, a daily Activity Book, student and Leader lessons, games, crafts, an encouraging video lesson for your volunteer leaders from Craig and detailed instructions on how to use the curriculum.

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