July’s Operation Family Blueprint

I almost forgot to post the new Operation Family Blueprint! But here it is!

July OFB Instructions

This would be an especially good OFB to do with your family because it’s one of several application tools about Service that we have for you to use! Not only are we learning about Service in CLUB 252, we’re doing our own service project of collecting school supplies for families who can’t afford to buy them, and we also have Kidology Live this Sunday, July 11th, and will be learning even more about Service as a family.

What a cool way to spend your summer! I would love nothing more than to have our kids at Crossroads go back to school and tell their class that they spent their summer serving others!

“God’s ideas are so big, that they can use little families to do big things to change the world. We just have to be willing to serve.”

New Month=New Operation Family Blueprint

If you aren’t sure what our Operation Family Blueprint is, check out this post.

Well it’s June, a new month, so that means it’s time for a new Operation Family Blueprint assignment! Yay! I hope you guys have done or plan to do these!! We have them on a board right beside the check-in table on Sunday mornings so either print them out here or grab one there!! AND make sure you send me pics of your family participating in your OFB, I would LOVE to see them 🙂

June OFB Instructions

::Operation Family Blueprint::

Alright families, April is over. It’s time for a new Operation Family Blueprint Family Night!! I’m a little disappointed at the lack of ‘Fort Night’ stories I received. To my knowledge the Longs were the only ones to have a ‘Fort Night’ but for your knowledge they said it was “Awesome!”

For those of you who were just really busy in April but still really want a fun way to connect with your family it is not too late! At the check in table I have blueprints for ‘Fort Night’ and for ‘Family Holiday’ which is our Family Night Theme for May. ‘Family Holiday’ is focused around the idea of celebrating with your families. You can find the blueprints for it here or you can take one from our Blueprint Board on Sunday morning.

Don’t miss out on this creative and fun resource to help you connect with your family!

What Happens @ Home is More Important Than What Happens @ Church

I was paroozing (sp?) around the North Point Community Church Childrens Ministry’s webpage and came across this cool idea…It’s called ‘Operation Family Blueprint’ and it’s all about helping families incorporate God’s idea of family into their families. They actually did this last Summer, but it’s still up on their website, which is cool because then I found it and I think it’s an awesome idea. Every two weeks they had a different night planned out from beginning to end, but I’m going to give you all month to have a Fort Night with your family. I thought the idea of a Fort Night sounded like so much fun! It’s centered around the idea that when you’re a part of a family you should be able to talk to each other about anything. So long story short, you build a fort with your kids and climb on in for family talk time. You can find more in depth ‘blueprints’ by clicking on ‘Fort Night’ above or ‘instructions’ below. Normally they have a ‘Parents Secret’ video for each OFB night but for some reason the one for ‘Fort Night’ is not there. I looked and looked and thought about emailing the Children’s Minister at North Point but then kinda figured that you could do without a ‘Parents Secret’ video this one time. Seriously though, this looks so awesome! I want you to make it your goal to have a Fort Night sometime in the month of April. I know it makes me want to have my nieces and nephew come stay with us just so we can have a Fort Night 🙂

So read over the instructions and plan a night for Fort Night! And make sure to take pictures so that you can email them to me. Then I can share them on the blog and other families will want to have Fort Night 🙂 I may even print these ‘blueprints’ out to give to your kids! I know that once they get the idea to have a Fort Night you most likely won’t stop hearing about it until you do it 🙂