Sunday Resources

I’m Neil MacQueen, a Presbyterian minister. I created this blog to share my experience, knowledge, …and occasionally bold & ridiculous ideas & resources for Christian education, church needs & problems, and church tech topics. I’ve been working in and with churches and church staffs for 30+ yrs, done some writing & speaking, and been engaged in some inventive ministry efforts along the way.  Most people know me from my work with Sunday Software and the Workshop Rotation Model for Sunday School.  Both of these ministries grew out of my dissatisfaction with the “same old approaches = same old results.” (See more “about me” below…)

Here are a few of my latest posts:

• Worship: What the People Experience vs. What the Pastor Experiences
• The Empty News
• Jesus the April Fool
• My (Brief) Return to Traditional Worship
• 15 Church Website Pet Peeves
• Where is God in the world?
• “Religion” as a Glimpse  -another Atheism and Faith Project article
• Palm Sunday for Believers and Un-Believers
• Free Online Bible Videos for Children… a real treasure trove
• Bounded by Rationality and “Satisficers”
• The Importance of Visitor/New Member Speed Bumps
• “Responsive Design” and Why Your Church Site Needs It
• A Response to Atheists
• 7 Things Not to Do to Your Pastor on Sunday
• What a Pastor Really Does

• Sunday School (is not) In Decline
• When Young Adults Don’t Come Back to Church
• Top Ten Reasons to Teach Sunday School
• Boys (and Men) in Church (or not in church, as the case often is)
• “Special Needs” Kids and Computers
• Visual Memory and Retention Rates, Obesity and Screen Time
  
• List of Ideas for Attracting Visitors
• Evidence-Based Practice in the Church

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The “About Me” section

• Husband to a very patient and amazing wife.
• Father of 3 awesome young adults.
• Poopaw to two grandkids who light up my life.
• Ordained Presbyterian minister specializing in Christian education & software.
• Previously served as an Associate Pastor in two Presbyterian churches.
• Served as the Parish Assistant in a Reformed Church on the island of St Croix.
• Served as Interim Pastor for Children, Youth and Family in a Presbyterian Church in Bradenton.
• Christian software developer …www.sundaysoftware.com.
• Author of several church-related books and magazine articles.
• Founder and now webmaster and lead writer at www.rotation.org, a non-profit Sunday School ministry.
• Ohio State (’81), Louisville Presbyterian Seminary (’85)
• Back in Central Ohio near the grandkids after living in Florida since 2012, and St Croix USVI before that, and…  Yep. we have enjoyed some nice moves.
• NHL hockey fan …just so you know. Go Blue Jackets!

Click here to read “I was born in a hospital because I wanted to be close to my mother” …and more scintillating info about me.

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“Bongo Loves the Bible” is one of 18 Kid Bible CDs I’ve developed
because I love the Bible and want our kids to know its basics.
Check it out at www.sundaysoftware.com/bongo