Evan Courtney » Family Life/Parenting

Bill Cosby on Natural Birth

Evan Courtney — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:39:41 +0000

They showed these at our Baby class today.

{don’t see the videos? watch here.}

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It’s a boy!

Evan Courtney — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:02:00 +0000

airsoft guns and turkey

Evan Courtney — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:00:30 +0000

i’ve not been able to keep up with the blogs that i’ve wanted to post.
i wanted to get this out last week, but i didn’t, so act like i posted this right after thanksgiving.
ok?
here goes.

so, last night we had our youth family thanksgiving dinner for the pipeline students at first assembly.
this is probably one of the only events where all of our students and parents come together.
we have tons of food, and talk briefly about how our church wants to partner with families.

dress up
each table competed to see who could make the best turkey.
here is our winner.

airsoft
i had a small table in the center of the room and i showed two huge containers that had a total of 4000 air soft pellets in them.
this is the number of hours of influence that parents have in their child’s in a year.
between 3000-4000.

i then picked up this small bag and said.
this is the number of hours of influence the church has in your child’s life.
the bag contained roughly 40.

we as a church, want to join together with parents to influence your child.
parents, you have more influence in your child’s life, than the church does.

blood:water mission
we ended the night with sharing about the current emphasis we had been giving our students.
for the month of november, we challenged our students to give/collect money for blood:water mission.
we then showed this video.

{watch embedded video}

after party
after clean up.
we had left overs.
so we called the local homeless shelter, and took food there.
here is what one of our leaders had to say about his experience.
“As soon as we walked in the door we had everyone smiling. To see a smiling face, a face that provides hope. More than just food or just a roof over their head for the time being. This is in OUR city… and the words that come to my mind are impact and hope. A quote that come to my mind is from Mother Teresa I don’t know it word for word but it goes something like this… SEE a little bit of Jesus in everyone. I could write more… which is crazy because we were there for like 3 minutes.”

maybe next year we should take our firsts.

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Movies with a Cause pt. 1

Evan Courtney — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:43:00 +0000

Tonight at First Assembly we had our monthly Very Intentional Parenting workshop.
Tonight’s theme was “Spiritual Conversations with your Kids“.
I tackled the teenage years.
A couple great ways to have spiritual conversations with teenagers is thru situations and culture.

Here are 5 movies with a cause that can be used for spiritual discussion with teenagers.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
official site

Amazing Grace
official site

Hotel Rwanda
official site

Jesus Camp
official site

Invisible Children
official site

Have you seen these?
What do you think?
What are some other movies that are good for this?

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Internet Safety with Parents

Evan Courtney — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:48:00 +0000

Every month we do a parents gathering to help resource parents.
This week we did a hard topic of internet safety.

Three of us taught this week.

from left to right.aaron, yours truly & travis

Why do we need to have this talk?
TVs are filtered.
Radios are filtered.
Internet is not filtered.
You wouldn’t buy Showtime, Cinemax, HBO, and Playboy for your house, and put a tv in your kids room, and give them the remote and let them watch whatever they want.
But that is what we are doing with the internet.

Also tv is one directional. The tv to you.
The internet is bi-directional. The internet to you, and you back to the internet.

What are kids doing online?
(6-11yrs) games, homework, music
(teens) social networks, videos

Establish guidelines

Have the computer in an area where everyone can see the screen
Limit the amount of time on the computer
Be involved with your child/teens online

Internet Filters
net nanny – $39
k9 webprotection – free
x3 watch – free

Other resources
Net Smartz Kids – teaching your kids about the internet
Safe Kids – multiple pages on internet safety

Realize your child’s or teen’s future success with include technology.
Create with your child or teen. Post artwork, photos, videos with your child or teen.

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