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

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Plus How Divorce Affects Preschool Age Children

The signs that we should look for to see the effects of divorce on preschoolers.

Effects of Divorce on Preschoolers
Plus How Does A Church Family Night Work?

Discover the purpose of having a family night

Family, Events,
Plus How I Turned My Ministry into a Family Ministry

When the church and the home are working together, we will have more success in making disciples of our kids.

Family Ministry
Free How Is Your Getting?

In our pursuit of recruiting volunteers for our children’s ministries, many people would say that they are not getting volunteers. I think we need to look inward before we begin to talk about how people just don’t volunteer in our ministries.

Volunteer Recruitment
Plus How People Get Into KidMin

From my vantage point and experience of getting to know many children’s ministry leaders, I have concluded that there appears to be five typical ways or scenarios that people use to enter the profession of Children’s Ministry or Kidmin Jobs. Which one of these Entry Scenarios describes you?

Children's Ministry
Plus How StuMin and KidMin Can Partner Better

How can your church transition kids from the children's ministry to the student ministry?

Children's and Student Ministry Partnership
Plus How Things Work in Your Church

Every church culture requires a leader who can understand How Things Work. Here are few things to watch for that might assess How Things Work in your Church.

Church Systems
Free How to Approach Delegation

Too often delegation is poorly executed, frustrating both the person delegating and the person being delegated to. There should be a benefit for both parties, but often one or both parties feel dissatisfied.

Delegation
Plus How To Become An Effective Team Member

Use these tips to become a better team member that will benefit not only your team, but the kids in your ministry.

Team Work
Plus How to Build an Incredible Team

What makes a ministry team incredible? These five principles will help you build an incredible team for your children's ministry.

Team Building
Plus How to Catch a Vision

Stop battling with other leaders and ministries, instead catch the vision of your leaders and fight on the front lines together.

Leadership, Strategy
Free How to Choose What To Delegate in Your Children's Ministry

Steps to learn what to delegate and which team members to delegate to.

Delegation
Plus How to Confront a Team Member

Sometimes our team members make mistakes. When we address these times of failure, we can gain a benefit for the church, and most importantly, for the individual worker.

Confrontation, Resolution
Plus 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
Plus 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
Plus How to Get Your Message to Parents Every Time

6 great communication tatics that will help get your message to every parent

Communication, Email, Parents,
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
Plus How to Have a Creative Meeting

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

Creativity, Meetings, Volunteers
Plus 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
Plus 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
Plus 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
Plus 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
Plus How to Start a Puppet-Team Ministry

Learn the Basics of starting a puppet ministry

Puppets, Leadership
Plus How To Stop Going Around In Spiritual Circles

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

Contradiction
Plus 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
Plus How to Write a Philosophy of Ministry

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

Leadership, Strategy
Plus Impress Your Boss by Planning

Don't wait until you're asked to show your pastor your ministry plan!

Planning, Administration
Plus In the Trenches Leadership

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

Leadership
Plus 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
Plus Interviewing 101

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

Interviewing, Hiring, Job
Plus Interviewing 101

The interview is often the key event that determines whether a candidate moves on in the ministry calling process. This article will present several suggestions that can improve how you present yourself in an interview.

Suggestions to give your best interview.
Plus 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
Plus 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
Plus 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
Plus Jesus Isn't White

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

Leadership
Plus 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
Plus 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
Plus KidMin is Important... but you knew that!

Do you understand the value of Kidmin?

Value of Kidmin
Plus 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
Plus KidMin: The Navy Seals of Ministry

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

Ministry, Kidmin
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