Administration Zone

Some advice on how to manage your classroom at all age levels. 

What a difference a week makes when you are coaching elementary small group leaders! Here's what I did to coach a small group leader.

Quotes from “Co-Active Coaching,” a book written by the founders of The Coaches Training Institute

Ideas for communication with leaders and volunteers

A comprehensive screening process includes several steps, with the written application laying the foundation. Learn more on what it is and why it is important.

Learn why background checks are an important piece of the overall safety puzzle, how they work, what to look for in a service provider, and the information not included.  

Let’s explore the benefits and some of the ethical and legal considerations when using a social media background check as part of a comprehensive candidate screen.

References often bubble up need-to-know information about the character, commitment, and a person’s history of working with children. 

Having a face-to-face discussion yields valuable information and allows a candidate to be reviewed from different angles.

The final step in the candidate screening process: motor vehicle check and waiting period.

Amid the hectic world of kidmin, how do you stay connected with God on a daily basis?

The case for choosing curriculum carefully and staying with it consistently

Co-parenting is becoming the norm for divorcing couples and couples who are involved in cohabitation situations. But what exactly is co-parenting?

Learn to counsel kids effectively regarding the most important decision of their life.

Here are seven ideas to help you identify your unique brand of ministry to children.

Great tips on how creating a resource place and ideas on what store there.

Here is a personal note that I wrote to encourage a student leader for their service.

Delegation is a must in Children's Ministry! Here are some great tips for how to delegate effectively in your ministry.

Here are ten things I’ve learned over the years about how to put together quality content for a 45-minute stage show.

Everywhere around us, we are hearing a growing call: The spiritual formation of children must be done by parents, not for parents. The church’s role is shifting from one of serving and supporting parents to one of empowering, equipping, and encouraging parents. How can children's ministry leaders respond to this call?

The Acts 6 Model makes it possible for a local Family of God to provide a ministry to children that meets each child’s individual needs.

“Two are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 NLT

Learn 4 mistakes many Children's Pastors make with their volunteers and how to avoid making them

Do you have tunnel vision when it comes to your kidmin? Follow these tips on how to stay connected with the rest of the ministry teams!

Do you want a better children's ministry? Create a process for capturing everything.

When does curriculum for children's ministry become outdated?

Advice on how to jump start your new ministry position.

When looking at your ministry make sure you evaluate everything. The 3 easy elements are friendliness, cleanliness, and follow-up.

Taking control of our expectations and responses, by not putting expectations on God.

There are many single parents in our world today. How do we, the church, help those parents to raise their kids? We can do these two things.

Read these tips on how to protect you and your kids as they go back to school. 

Time is precious. Sadly, too many leaders waste MUCH of the time they are given. When you waste time, it can have a negative impact on your leadership and your relationships. I challenge you to adopt the five habits of the On-Time Leader.

In this article I have shared my opinion about five common myths concerning coaching. Don't be fooled by these commons mistakes!

Everytime someone teaches, there are questions they must answer as they prepare their lesson. To those who teach children, these questions are even more crucial, because children will readily believe what you teach them.

Creativity is an elusive thing. For most people, it doesn’t just happen. Although every one of us has enormous creative potential, there are definitely times when creativity just doesn’t seem to flow. Here are some helpful tips.

Ideas on how to make your kidmin space fun for kids!

What can you do to help with child abuse prevention?

Five Ways to Save Money When Improving Child Safety

Take these 4 steps to help run an effective kids ministry service. 

If you’re like me, you know how important volunteers are to Children’s Ministry. It is a true partnership: we cannot accomplish the work of our ministry without our dedicated volunteers; they cannot effectively accomplish the work of our ministry without a leader at the helm. How can we show them we truly appreciate them?

Excessive use of video games can become a trap (an addiction) kids get caught in as they try to escape their emotional turmoil.

An easy form for getting to know your Middle Schoolers.

When you stress over your ministry, you have taken the ministry away from God and have made it your responsibility to solve its problems.

Once children accept Christ, what does your ministry do in order to keep them growing in their newfound faith?

Discover the root problem that the Church is experiencing and find your children's ministries identity.

Allow me to offer up some of the things that I see in common between the most successful ministries.

Learn to live with brokenness, not in it. 

As children's ministers, we must help kids honor their fathers. Here are some ways that kids can honor their dads, and ways that they don't honor their dads.

Fun ways to help your volunteers get connected with each other

You can put together a plain 'ol résumé, or you can create one that demonstrates the creativity and effort and zeal that you will put into your ministry once you are hired!