common grounds

Tiny Tots Website is now LIVE

2009-11-03T16:46:00.004-05:00

The Tiny Tots website is now LIVE. Check it out! It will always be a work in progress but it's up for the general public now. We had over 400 hits on the first day of the launch. I will have to keep checking to see what the stats are. How exciting! I praise the Lord for the opportunity to reach little ones. I can't wait until we can get the AUDIO Bible lessons on there.
Always looking for feedback so let me know what you all think!

Coming Soon.... TINY TOTS WEBSITE!

2009-10-24T18:39:00.003-04:00

Coming soon, hopefully this next week or so will be the new Tiny Tots website. I am praying the Lord will bless the endeavor and reach little souls for the kingdom, all to His glory. I am anxious to release it. Like the KIDS' TIME website it will ALWAYS be a work in progress, I will always be updating and always adding new stuff. One of the neat features to come will be AUDIO BIBLE STUDIES geared for kids 5 and under. Auntie Linda will be doing the voice over for them. FUN! I will post the link when It is ready for release.

Anyone familiar with TINY TOTS on 3ABN will notice (when the site is up) all the segements on the show are on the website, and more! How fun!

The initial index screen (homepage) below will have a flash animation with the tiny tots farm and house.

Story Time 2009

2009-10-24T18:21:00.006-04:00

Well It's October and we just got back from helping on the set of Story Time for Kids' Time down at 3ABN in Illinois. It was a ton of fun. Here are a few photos from the adventure. These photos here are a few "odd" ones that I liked really well. I posted a ton more (250+) on the KIDS' TIME website, check it out HERE.

I really liked this photo below, it really looks like it would make a good paintin, lots of grat colors, lighting and action. hmmmmmmm If only I had more time. Reminds me of a Nathan Green.

Pictures from the set.

The above printed street scene in the archway looks really neat from this angle, almost real!

Caught on camera, priceless!

furry boots on a trampoline

2009-09-22T21:57:00.006-04:00

I was going through some photos tonight and ran across this one I took this summer-from underneath a friend's trampoline. Their dog Micah is the coolest pup. Check out his "furry boots", as we like to call them.

For the national-talk like a pirate day this past week... He was our "first-mate-furry-boots".

Frog Sold!

2009-09-22T20:52:00.003-04:00

Well it's been a while since we have talked about the frog sculpture... I just wanted to post to let everyone know that the TONGUE TIED frog sold at Auction this week at the "H" hotel. It went to a private buyer for $1300! Boy I would have loved to see some of that cash, but not so.
Didn't win the judges contest or the peoples choice. Better luck next year!

Good news though, my friend Molly won for the People's Choice! Awesome! Happy for her! Her Lillian the Amphibian was cool!

More good news, the auction for all the frogs grossed over !22,000 for next years sculpture event! Woohoo, can't wait!

The 3ABN Booth Team!

2009-08-21T22:40:00.003-04:00

Working the 3ABN booth was quite the experience. Mellisa and I managed a lot of different tasks. A lo of the goal was to let people know about the KT4J website. We had over 400+ Sign ups for Bible lessons, 500 or more sign ups to win the free t-shirts we screen printed (see older posts) From about 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or late every day we spent on our feet. The massive amounts of people that cycled through there was staggering. I don't think we were prepared for that. Or the conditions; walking 5+ miles a day in the 90 degree heat carrying all out stuff. We traversed a lot of the camp ground too looking for winners. We found a lot but a lot we didn't, so this next week will be spent sending out shirts to the winners.

People might think, oh big deal, a shirt. But think about it for a moment. The shirt is advertising, it's a way to "share jesus" with others. You never know who might read it from anywhere in the country-pass it on or down to someone else. It's neat to think of all the "seeds" we will be sending out. And who doesn't "love" being a WINNER of something.
This is so much fun. That reminds me of the soon ending DRAW MAXWELL CONTEST that we have on the KT4J website too, check here and check the entries, its cool! We have some awesome entries. One of my favorites is from Saudi Arabia! Way fun to have kids from ALL OVER THE WORLD getting involved and using the site. Makes one "on fire" for the Lord and sharing.

We made some great life-long and eternal-long friends at Camporee 2009! Can't wait to meet in heaven! or the next Camporee, whichever comes first. :)

Sabbath Morning Pathfinders

2009-08-15T11:01:00.004-04:00

TROOP M.A.S.H.

Looking sharp!

Sometimes its just nice to get a little quiet reading time in. :)

Ready for marching!

late night fun!

2009-08-15T10:49:00.003-04:00

Do you recognize some of your children? I used my PHOTO BOOTH to take some goofy photos of the kids last night.
I think this looks like the Mr. Roboto dance...but actually I just caught her in mid movement.

All of the girls were having fun going around and singing to each person, asking them questions. I don't think there was one person in the camp that didn't get asked. Including Emily who was brushing her teeth at the time. (I kindly didn't put that photo up. :)

few pics (fri)

2009-08-14T22:17:00.002-04:00

getting ready in the morning... It's always good to have some help.

Our Maxwell pin at the booth, we trade them for pathfinder group, conference, and union pins. Brenda has a special show she collects them for.

Today was our busiest day at the booth! Oi, sorry for the lack of photos from today, we didn't get to the site until most everyone was leaving for the evening show.

Tomorrow morning, Sat, we have some free time. We will be at the booth tomorrow, (not selling) from 1-5 and then open for business at 9:30-12 a.m. or 1 a.m.
It's going to be a late night.

I will try to get some photos though tomorrow morning of people/groups. We will also be delivering all of our t-shirts, around 20+ to the various individuals in the camp ground. I think initially we thought it would be easier to find people (like MI camp meeting) but no, it is so hard to find groups/conferences, especially Rhode Island, Georgia, and Idaho. hmmmm
You THINK there would be a map... but nope.
So we will be packing on the miles tomorrow. I think most everyone else (kids) will be going to the meeting (about esther) not sure, we have been out of the loop.

random pics - camp life (thur eve)

2009-08-13T20:25:00.004-04:00

Sharing mushed bananas----is there anything better?

Does anyone need a picture for bribery?

SUMO WRESTLING... nuff said

2009-08-13T19:46:00.008-04:00

waiting in line

the eager fans

getting in the suit

The Sumo prep-scream

It's go time!

Um, my hair is getting in the way...

HAHAH! this is great fun to watch.

The final knockdown...NEXT!

Steven's turn to rumble.

Oh that can't be good!

Conference Signs

2009-08-13T10:48:00.003-04:00

This one is HUGE! Greater New York Conference

We will be taking more pictures the next few days of conference and camp signs, some of them are really cool. Keep checking back.

Since we have traversed nearly all of the camps, and there is a lot we have seen some pretty neat ones. Florida Conference is HUGE, so is NY, some we can't seem to find, Idaho, Rhode Island. We keep looking, but the campgrounds are HUGE... we probably walk between 5-10 mi a day.
whew!

Popeye

2009-08-13T10:45:00.003-04:00

Joshua T. won a shirt admist all the entries, he is from our camp. Here he is eating breakfast this morning. Kinda looks like popeye with cantaloupe. That sun is sure bright!

More Random Camporee Pics (thur)

2009-08-13T10:41:00.003-04:00

Our camp life revolves around food. It happens to be the only time we get a chance to get back to camp... so I snap a few pics when I can.

Kids' Time Camporee Booth pics (wed)

2009-08-13T10:08:00.003-04:00

These are some members fromthe Jamaica Crown Royal , NY Pathfinder group. Out of the hundreds of KT entries we have drawn 4 winners from their group! A friendly bunch. We deliver winner shirts in the mornings and told them we would be over for breakfast. :)

View outside from our booth

Me and my favorite Kids' Time Praise Singer, Ivana Ticar. Check her out at the KT4J website HERE. I just love her!

Pile-O-Maxwell Dogs! $10.00 and selling well, comes with a MAX pin too.

Mellisa manning the crowd.

Jill answering questions.

More Random Camporee Pics (wed)

2009-08-13T10:04:00.003-04:00

Outside activities! Fun for the brave!

Hannah G.

The M.A.S.H. pathfinder entrance.

Do you think this is posed?

Courage to Stand - Evening crowd

2009-08-11T21:50:00.003-04:00

Each evening they have some entertainment in the form of an reenactment of a story in the Bible. This years story is the story of Queen Esther. We didn't stay to watch it this time, as we were on the search for the delivery of the winners of the kids' time shirts. (yeah right)
But here are a few stage, crowd shots, MANY more will fill the area before the actual show would begin. People will stand in line 2 hours waiting for the gates to open so they can sit near the front. Crazy!

This was on our wanderings. Each Conference, Union will have their own "entrance" or signage stating the clubs/areas/districts. Some don't do much and others go to great lengths... this one is a shot of them constructing the New York conference .... WOAH, can you say big. And all this for 5 days at best.

the Booth! 3ABN and KIDS' TIME

2009-08-11T21:34:00.004-04:00

When the noon bell hit today thousands of people poured into the vendors area. From noon until 5:00 p.m. we manned the KT 3ABN booth along with Miss Brenda, Auntie Linda, Greg and Jill M. By the end of the day we were all worn out. The Maxwell stuffed dogs sold well.

Mellisa getting people interested in signing up for our free t-shirt drawing and trading pins.
We were trading the Maxwell, 3ABN kidstime4jesus.org website pins for any conference or pathfinder club pin. Miss Brenda collects all the pins then sets them up for a special segment on the kids' time show. (see our BIG bottle of hand sanitizer) I think by the end of the day I had a hundred layers of sanitizer on me.

Our friend David H. and Miss Brenda

Greg and Jill Morkone from 3ABN - working hard selling all the merchandise.

A couple more morning picts

2009-08-11T21:15:00.002-04:00

More pin trading

Breakfast at the M.A.S.H. group

The Christies!

2009-08-11T21:13:00.003-04:00

This is a picture of some of our friends that moved to the Florida area-2 years ago! We were happy to find them here! The Christies!

Tuesday- DAY ONE (a.m.)

2009-08-11T12:03:00.004-04:00

Random pictures from today...(so far)
People waiting to get into the booth, they still need to wait over an hour!

Pin Trading

PIN TRADING---huge business!

the setup

2009-08-10T22:21:00.004-04:00

Well this is the first afternoon at Oshkosh. Ok, these pictures don't do it justice they were taken early on today. As of right now 9:23 pm surrounded by thousands upon thousands of kids, teens and pathfinder leaders. I will take better pictures tomorrow.
We spent the afternoon at Hanger "A" unloading and setting up for the 3ABN kids' time booth and the Kt4J website promotion. There are over 150 vendors in the hanger, we have a prime spot right in front. It's going to be an incredible time. Our hours will be from about 8-5:00 p.m. in the hanger.

Hannah, has already made some friends, and traded some pins.

Oh by the way it was well into the 90's today with high humidity! Fun!

Keep posted this week and I will make sure to upload a ton of pictures!

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Just a side note. We had quite the experience today on our drive over. We tried to stop in Plainfield at the P.O. to mail out a package. Well after waiting in line and seeing no end to my wait I got impatient and decided to just go forward in our drive to hit another P.O.

We happened upon the P.O. in Redgranite, now normally I would have parked on the street but having pulled up past the PO a little I decided to pull in back of it and walk the long walk to the front. Again, standing in line - what seemed like forever due to a farmer at the window, a lady in front of me with a change of address form and a "trainee" learning how to do everything--I was antsy. After about 5 min of waiting in line all of the sudden we hear a loud CRASH outside. Looking out the window was a regular tractor trailer semi that had gone off the road and sideswiped completely the cars parked on the road-for no reason! Oh and did I mention the lady with the change of address in front of me... it was her vehicle! Had we parked on the street.. with me in the PO and Mellisa and Hannah in the jeep. It would have been disasterous! Praise the Lord no one was hurt and we were able to keep going...

the drive...Pathfinder Camporee 2009!

2009-08-09T12:21:00.005-04:00

Well today we left for the Pathfinder Camporee in Oshkosh. Our first stop will actually be my moms house which is only a little ways away from there. We left early this morning and we are so tightly packed, -like sardines in a in can- if it we wanted to I don't think we would have room for a mouse.

This should be a fun experience. There are 36,000 + people/kids that are attending.

We will be there helping to maintain the KIDS' TIME booth and promoting the KT4J Website.

We have give-aways, sign-ups, a computer to try out the website, and more.

Keep checking back and we will post pictures from the camporee!

I can't wait to meet all the kids!

This makes it all worth while...

2009-08-01T20:34:00.003-04:00

Here's a kidstime4jesus.org website update.
Some interesting things:
Total page views in the website - 176399+
Home page views - 74,651
Busiest website days - Fridays and Saturdays
Total kids/people signed up for online Bible Studies 381
Total people completed all 52 lessons and received a FREE Bible - 3
All of this since we launched in March!

Best of all are the emails we get like this one:

"Thank you for providing such a great website for those who do not have access to 3abn! My children really enjoy it. We will be joining your online Kids Club next!

Many blessings to you and your talented staff."

or this one

Name: Mary M.
Country: UK
Age: 12
Comments: I like this website it has helped me; I hope it helps other people to come closer to our Mighty God which art in Heaven; May he bless us all

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AWESOME... all the volunteer work put into the website by me and my friend Mellisa are made all worth while by these kinds of emails.

All Praise and Glory to Jesus. May many people come to know Him through this ministry.

More KT4J Shirts!

2009-08-01T20:29:00.002-04:00

The "Process"