A guest post by Larry Hillman One of the key components of having an effective children’s ministry, is to have dedicated, caring volunteers involved in the ministry. Having said that I am sure someone is saying, “That’s easy for you to say, but have you seen the group of volunteers I have?” Well if you…
Dear Children’s & Family Ministry Leader, You Matter! You are important! And what you do is important! You are important to kids in your church. Create environments that welcome and attract kids. Make sure God’s Word and, most importantly, the Gospel, is presented accurately and engagingly – don’t ever
I had the privilege of doing 3 training workshops at the Northwest Ministry Conference this weekend (fantastic conference…very much worth considering for next year!). In every one of them we talked about leadership. Why? Because leadership matters in children’s ministry (that was actually the title of my last workshop!). It matters to everything we do…
A guest post by John Tice God desires His Word to be etched upon our hearts. That’s where it does its best “forming” and “transforming” work. And without argument, the best opportunity to get writing is when the heart belongs to a child. For this reason, kids’ Bible memory cannot and should not remain on…
My good friend Roger Fields, founder of Blitz Mnistries, wrote something called The Calling many years ago. I’m sure many of you have seen it before, but in case you haven’t I thought I’d share it here. You can click here to download your free, printable version of it. I am a minister. I minister to…
A guest post by Karl Bastian You Don’t Have a Recruiting Problem. You Have a Relationship Problem. So You’d Like More Volunteers? I have some hard news for leaders. This may come as a shock to some. You may need to sit down. Get a coffee or tea or soda… whatever you enjoy. But you need…
We’re very pleased to announce the beginning of a new staff search (via our service, KidMin360 Search) for a Pastor of Family Ministry at a wonderful church in Vancouver, Washington - Crossroads Community Church. Visit our Candidate Page for details, including a downloadable Position Profile for this and other searches we are engaged with. If you or someone you know is…
A guest post by Ron Brooks Allow me to flashback about 4 years. It was a time before I was a part of the online kids ministry community. It was a time when orange was a color in the crayon box. It was a time I knew God wanted to do something different. I could…
There are a TON of great blogs out there – far more than the four mentioned here. In fact, our friends over at Ministry-To-Children put out a list of the Top 100 children’s ministry blogs every year. I would highly encourage you to go through the list and pick out your favorites, subscribe, and learn…
A guest post by Larry Hillman As a leader you are the one entrusted with coming up with new ideas for your ministry. It is your responsibility to think out of the box. One way to do this is to take a few minutes today and dream. In fact it is a good idea to…
Discipline in children’s ministry can be a challenging element of what we do. There is a fine line between being appropriate and inappropriate, and between “discipline” and “punishment. We’ve got a post about this coming up in the next few weeks, but today I thought I’d share this list found of punishments at List of…
Yesterday we introduced the book The Truth About Leadership & shared the guiding principles that the book introduced. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll briefly look at each principle as it applies to Children’s Ministry. The first principle is: You Make A Difference. Essentially, this principle carries the idea that it is you &…
I’ve been trying to re-establish a running regimen after about 20 years of NOT running, with a goal of running my first half-marathon in August. I’ve done a bunch of research online, read many articles and talked to other runners about the best way to go about it. The best piece of advice I’ve come…
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