Administration Zone

Articles and Resources for Leaders and Administrators

So, you're in charge of the Children's Ministry?! HELP IS HERE!

Whether you are a Children's Pastor, Director, Coordinator, or Hold-it-all-together-er, the fact is you need ideas, and you need them fast!! If you're looking for a sample policy manual, or permission slip, or other administrative help, this is the place!

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All Access How to CRUSH your Goals This Year

6 ways you can succeed in reaching your goals, any time of year!

Goals, New Year
Free How to Decorate a Sunday School Classroom

Learn how to decorate your Sunday School Classroom and leave a even bigger impact on your kids.

Decorations, Classroom
All Access How To Derail Your Ministry

What can you do when your pastor asks too much of you? When you feel like you’re overwhelmed with ministry work? When you’re not able to focus enough attention on important stuff? The challenges we face blanch in comparison to the one situation that will absolutely derail your ministry: dysfunction between you and your pastor.

Ministry Relationships
Free How to Develop a Volunteer-Training Program

Use your current volunteers to develop volunteers.

Volunteers, Training
Free How To Get Rest in the Busyness of Summer

How children's ministry leaders can enjoy their summer and find rest in busyness.

Rest for Leaders
Free How To Handle Discipline Problems in Children's Church

Review these tips for handling discipline problems in your classroom or kids church. Take control of your classroom and get back to the business of guiding your kids into a deeper understand of God and His Word.

Discipline in Kids Church
All Access How to Have a Creative Meeting

Creative meetings are great for any and every kids event you do.

Creativity, Meetings, Volunteers
All Access How to Have That Difficult Conversation

Having a tough or difficult conversation with someone is hard. It’s not for the faint of heart. If I need to have a tough conversation with someone I go through what I call “mental gymnastics.” I usually have a conversation with myself that goes something like this.

Difficult Conversations
Free How To Hear God's Voice

Why does listening matter so much?

Hearing God's Voice
All Access How To Hire a Children's Pastor

A great resource that guides you in the complicated process of hiring a Children's Pastor

Hiring, Recruiting, Job Search
All Access How to Influence Your Lead Pastor

Building relationship with your Lead Pastor and taking him from being an obstacle to your ministry to a partner in ministry.

Relationship, Leadership
Free How To Know When It Is Time To Leave

It’s one of the toughest decisions you will ever have to make: leaving a church you have been serving as a staff member. It’s a decision that should NEVER be made cavalierly and never without much prayer and consideration.

Know When to Leave
All Access How to Lead a Team to Excellence

Do you struggle with leading your team to excellence? What does that even look like? What should it look like?

Leadership, Excellence
Free How to Put Together Ready-to-go Emergency Lessons

Have you ever had a Sunday School or Kids Church leader call in sick last minute? If you're not prepared, you'll be left scrambling for ideas for your substitute teacher. To avoid this, have an emergency lesson ready to go.

Leadership, Preparation, Volunteers
All Access How to Start a Puppet-Team Ministry

Learn the Basics of starting a puppet ministry

Puppets, Leadership
All Access How To Stop Going Around In Spiritual Circles

Do we unintentionally contradict ourselves, leaving our kids confused and spinning in circles?

Contradiction
All Access How To Win Your Pastor's Support for the Kids Ministry

Learn to work with your Pastors and stop feeling like they don't get it.

Leadership, Pastors
All Access How to Write a Philosophy of Ministry

Begin creating your Philosophy of Ministry, with a simple format to follow and attached examples.

Leadership, Strategy
All Access In the Trenches Leadership

A brief essay about in the trenches leadership, where leaders labor alongside those they lead to execute ministry strategies.

Leadership
All Access Interview with Larry Fowler

An interview with Larry Fowler about developing a heart ministry and asking "How often do they come?"

Interview with Larry Fowler
All Access Interviewing 101

A few suggestions to help you make the most of your interview process

Interviewing, Hiring, Job
All Access Investing Your Time Wisely

Time. One of the most important resource you possess. How you invest it is critical, because unlike most other resources, you cannot recoup it once it’s gone. Is time investment a challenge for you?

Managing Time
All Access Invigorate Your Volunteers

Ebook resources for you to recruit and train volunteers

Volunteer Recruiting/Training
Free Is Excellence Killing the Church?

Why we need more good churches and fewer excellent ones.

Relationships, Discipleship, Leadership
All Access Is it Time to "Fire" That Volunteer?

Firing someone is not an easy job. But sometimes it IS necessary. 

Volunteers, Leaders
Free Is Your Kids Ministry Failing?

Is your kids ministry failing? Ask yourself these questions, and then make the changes needed to get your ministry back on track. 

Ministry Vision, Successful Ministry
Free It's All About Who You Know

Networking works wonders in ministry when we involve God in the process.

Networking
All Access Jesus Isn't White

Does race or skin color matter when it comes to Jesus?

Leadership
All Access Kicking It Into Gear

Discouraged? Start Kicking It Into Gear with these simple things you can do.

Encouragement, Motivation
Free Kid Volunteers: The Welcome Table

Are you looking for creative ways to get kids involved in serving in your ministry?

Getting Kids Involved in Serving
All Access KidCheck Series Part 3: Reducing the Risk of Juvenile Offenses in Children's Ministry

Thanks for joining us for the third and final post in our “Reducing the Risk of Juvenile Offenses in Children’s Ministry” series. In Part 3, we’ll share some key elements of the youth safety plan, including details on how to properly screen volunteers, the steps to take when managing an incident, ways to include those in your ministry who have past offenses, and as a final point, we’ll sum up the top action steps you can take immediately to reduce offenses in children’s ministry.

Abuse Prevention
All Access KidMin is Important... but you knew that!

Do you understand the value of Kidmin?

Value of Kidmin
All Access Kidmin Leadership by Santa Claus

Here are six things that I have learned from Santa about leading in children's ministry!

Leadership, Children's Ministry, Christmas
All Access KidMin: The Navy Seals of Ministry

A description of those in Kids Ministry and how they compare to the Navy Seals.

Ministry, Kidmin
Starter Kid's Pastor or Circus Master?

Take off your top hat and let someone else tame your ministry’s time-sucking “lions” so you can shepherd children. But how can we keep the main thing — shepherding young hearts —the main thing?

Leadership / Shepherding
Free Knowing God's Voice Comes from Knowing God's Word

How do we move from reverence for the Bible to actually reading the Bible?

Knowing God
All Access Leaders: Art of Restart

Does your leadership need a restart? Evaluate yourself in these ten areas.

Evaluation Tool
Free Leadership Lessons from Restaurant: Impossible

I love the show "Restaurant: Impossible" for many reasons, but what I love most are all of the leadership lessons that the owners learn. I learn a lot too. Aside from serving really bad food, the reasons why most of the restaurants are failing can be narrowed down to four areas.

Leadership Lessons
Free Leadership Priorities for Success

True confession…Leadership is hard work! Here are some actions that I use to stay in tune with my leadership priorities.

Leadership Priorities
All Access Leadership: Isolation

Understanding the leadership discipline of isolation.

Isolation, Leadership
All Access Leadership: Ownership

Learn to take ownership of your ministry and create an environment that welcomes it.

Leadership, Developing Programs
All Access Leadership: Self Correcting

Learn to adjust your game through trial and error

Leadership, Adjusting, Self Correcting,
Free Leading from the Middle

David wasn't always the top dog. Mark Harper shares five lessons from David's life on how to lead from the middle.

Leadership, Influence
All Access Leading Hummingbirds and Eagles

Are you an eagle or a hummingbird? Find out which category you, and your team members, fit into.

Leadership
All Access Leading Mockingjays

Are those you lead just mockingjays, mindlessly repeating what they hear you say? Or do they sufficiently understand and communicate your vision?

Leadership
Free Leading Your KidMin Volunteers Well

Many of you may have questions like: "What do I need to do to get more volunteers? What are some surefire, tried-and-true methods for keeping volunteers for the long term? How do I get volunteers to come to my training meetings?"

Leading Volunteers
All Access Learning Leadership On the Job

Here are some simple tips to help you learn and grow in your leaderships skills.

Leadership, Development
Free Learning Stations for Children's Ministry

Begin putting fun learning stations, that reinfoce the lesson, in place in your kids ministry.

Rotation, Stations,
All Access Let's Talk Training

Training involves more than just gathering a crowd; there are simple step you can take to make your training even more effective.

Training, Equipping
All Access Maintain Your Mission

For the Church to effectively utilize its resources and to fulfill its mandate to reach all nations, missions education must be integrated into the core of Christian education.

Missions, curriculum
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