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Dots and Dashes Ministry VBS consulting, children’s ministry support, and Words Worth Giving - custom appreciation wording for anyone who deserves to feel truly seen.

Named after grandma Norma. 🌷

💡 Supplies That Save My Sanity (Children's Ministry Edition)If you serve kids at church, you know the struggle: the craf...
10/07/2026

💡 Supplies That Save My Sanity (Children's Ministry Edition)

If you serve kids at church, you know the struggle: the craft that needs "just a little glue" and somehow ends in a glitter crime scene. 😂 Over the years I've found a handful of supplies that make Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights SO much smoother. Here are my go-to's:

🖍️ Washable markers
Because someone WILL draw on their arm. Every time. https://link.amazon/B04oCK4s6

🧲 Velcro dots + a disposable tablecloth
My favorite wall-saving trick! Hang a plastic tablecloth with painter's tape or removable hooks, stick half a Velcro dot on the tablecloth and the other half on your poster or craft. Instant bulletin board, no holes, no peeling paint, and you can swap displays in seconds. https://link.amazon/B05hmyEs7
Bonus: pick a tablecloth color to match your lesson or season!
https://link.amazon/B0a3tVe95

🟡 Glue dots
No drips, no dry time, no sticky tables. Perfect for little hands and short lesson windows. https://link.amazon/B0iw9VXod

📄 Dry-erase pockets
Slip in any worksheet or Bible memory activity and reuse it week after week. A budget-saver! https://link.amazon/B0gNj7xjr

🪙 Play coins + prize box treasures
Kids earn coins for memory verses, bringing their Bible, good listening, and kindness, then save up to "shop" the prize box. It teaches patience and saving, and it's SO much more exciting than just handing out a prize!
(Coins) https://link.amazon/B09GTXc0b
(Treasure box prizes) https://link.amazon/B08CcXPGg

What's the one supply or trick YOU can't teach without? Drop it in the comments so we can all learn from each other! 💛

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Dottie’s tip for Fall festival season. Start your list now, not the week of.Three things folks always forget: extra tras...
10/07/2026

Dottie’s tip for Fall festival season.

Start your list now, not the week of.

Three things folks always forget: extra trash bags, a plan for rain, and one adult whose only job is standing at the door greeting people.

That last one does more for a first time family than any game booth 🍂

Ministry Motivation 💛"She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future." Proverbs 31:...
10/05/2026

Ministry Motivation 💛

"She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future." Proverbs 31:25

Laughs. In October. With a fall festival coming.

It's possible, friend.

October is about to get loud. Festivals, costumes, sign up sheets, extra everything.Before it starts, take this morning....
10/04/2026

October is about to get loud. Festivals, costumes, sign up sheets, extra everything.

Before it starts, take this morning. Just sit in it.

You cannot pour out of a cup you never let get filled.

Dottie's got her purse and she's standing at the door 🐔October is knocking. Fall festivals, trunk or treats, costumes, s...
10/02/2026

Dottie's got her purse and she's standing at the door 🐔

October is knocking. Fall festivals, trunk or treats, costumes, sign up sheets.
She's ready. I'm reasonably ready. The glue sticks are absolutely not ready.

How's your October looking, friends? 💛

Volunteer tip nobody tells you. Ask people for one specific Sunday, not "we need help.""Can you take snack on the 12th?"...
10/01/2026

Volunteer tip nobody tells you. Ask people for one specific Sunday, not "we need help."

"Can you take snack on the 12th?" gets a yes. "We're short on volunteers" gets scrolled past.

Ask small and ask specific ✨

Ministry Motivation 💛"Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me." Matthew 18:5The wiggly one. The loud one....
09/28/2026

Ministry Motivation 💛

"Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me." Matthew 18:5

The wiggly one. The loud one. The one nobody else wants in their group.

Him.

Somebody's kid is going to test you today. In your room, in your house, maybe both.Being patient with them is not separa...
09/27/2026

Somebody's kid is going to test you today. In your room, in your house, maybe both.

Being patient with them is not separate from the ministry. It is the ministry.

Praying for y'all this morning.

💌 Dottie's Mailbag: Norma's Round Robin 💌Long before Facebook, my Grandma Norma was part of a round robin with a group o...
09/26/2026

💌 Dottie's Mailbag: Norma's Round Robin 💌

Long before Facebook, my Grandma Norma was part of a round robin with a group of ladies. A big envelope would arrive in her mailbox full of notes and little treasures the others had tucked inside. She'd take one, add her own, and send it on to the next lady on the list. 📬

That envelope always fascinated me. And I think we could all use a little more of that kind of connection today. 💜

So let's bring it back! 🐔✨

Here's how it works:
📝 Sign up and you'll be placed in a circle
✉️ When the envelope arrives, read the notes and take one item
🎁 Add a note plus one small flat item (recipe card, bookmark, prayer card, favorite scripture, craft idea)
📮 Mail it to the next person on the list within 5 days
🔁 When it comes back to you, swap your old note for a new one and send it around again!

Dottie will be keeping an eye on the mail and cheering us on along the way. Share photos of what you find inside! 📸

🔒 You'll only receive the address of the next person in your circle.

If lots of you want in, we'll start more than one circle! 🎉

Sign up by Saturday, October 3, 2026 👉

https://forms.gle/EQs51jJ82toAPcxG8

09/25/2026

For the ministry leader who had one kid show up.

Wednesday night I had one Legacy Little walk through the door. One.

And I was already running on empty. Tired, achy, nothing left from the day. I had a whole lesson built and ready and I did not have it in me to deliver it to a class of one.

So we joined the youth group instead.

Their lesson was about serving like Jesus. I wasn't teaching it. I wasn't running anything. I just sat there and received it. And I needed every single word.

Then this morning a message landed in my inbox that I did not ask for:

"You may not see the full picture right now, but every effort you make is part of something greater. Keep showing up, keep giving your best. What you're doing matters more than you know."

Here is what I want you to hear, whoever you are out there prepping a lesson nobody might show up for.

Attendance is not the scoreboard. 📖

You are not failing because the room was small. You are not failing because you were too tired to do it the way you planned. Sometimes the most faithful thing you can do is stop, sit down, and let somebody pour into you for a change.

Jesus got tired too. He slept through a storm. He sat down at a well. He pulled away from the crowds.

Rest is not quitting. Showing up is not always teaching.

Keep going. It matters more than you know. 💛

Make Heaven Crowded.

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